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1912-09-05 Page 40
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-40- and was stopped. This was a judgment from Heaven on that wicked city: though they had many times before been faithfully warned to desist from their wicked persecution for religion.--At the burial of George Fox there were over ten thousand people, nearly all Friends, from all parts of England. It took more than five hours for the procession to pass by and view the corpse at the grave in a steady move forward. He was burried at Bunhillfields in 1691. We had a meeting here this evening, near the grave yard in London where George Fox and those, who, died in the jails as martyrs lay. This was a powerful meeting. And many came that were not Friends; and as we parted expressed their satisfaction in having been there. We went to the library in Devonshire house in London where there was a great supply of Friends' books; all of them founded on the inward light of Christ opperating in the hearts of men. On the 5th. day of ninth month, William Land, a Friend from Birmingham; came to London to go with us to different places here in the British Isles. We had many invitations from the Friends of Birmingham to give them another call as we returned. The way
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-40- and was stopped. This was a judgment from Heaven on that wicked city: though they had many times before been faithfully warned to desist from their wicked persecution for religion.--At the burial of George Fox there were over ten thousand people, nearly all Friends, from all parts of England. It took more than five hours for the procession to pass by and view the corpse at the grave in a steady move forward. He was burried at Bunhillfields in 1691. We had a meeting here this evening, near the grave yard in London where George Fox and those, who, died in the jails as martyrs lay. This was a powerful meeting. And many came that were not Friends; and as we parted expressed their satisfaction in having been there. We went to the library in Devonshire house in London where there was a great supply of Friends' books; all of them founded on the inward light of Christ opperating in the hearts of men. On the 5th. day of ninth month, William Land, a Friend from Birmingham; came to London to go with us to different places here in the British Isles. We had many invitations from the Friends of Birmingham to give them another call as we returned. The way
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