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1913-04-14 Page 68
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-68- Ephriam has mixed himself; and strangers hath devoured his strength. Is this not the case at Woodland? It looks so to me as to coming to full unity. As thou says 'will there not have to be a revolution to have that brought about at Cedargrove; where the confusion and great uproar, and great downfall have been? I have desired it; and may it not be well for us all to see that the beam is out of our own eyes before we try to cast out the mote out of our brother's eye? Yes, Josiah, George Parker told me near two years ago; the school there, as being a Friends' school was gone; and the meeting was gone with it too. You are a fallen church like Sardis was. And to her God said He would spew her out of His mouth, etc. I never knew any discipline that condemned a minister for not accepting a companion that imposed himself; and was not felt by the minister to be a suitable one for such an important concern and undertaking. If you can prove such an act as that; not being equally yoked in the truth, to be right and congeniel to travel together as one; you will show me something I have never seen. I have been told by three different ministers of North Carolina yearly meeting, since last yearly meeting that I was right in refusing to take Solomon Barker as my companion to Europe. They said
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-68- Ephriam has mixed himself; and strangers hath devoured his strength. Is this not the case at Woodland? It looks so to me as to coming to full unity. As thou says 'will there not have to be a revolution to have that brought about at Cedargrove; where the confusion and great uproar, and great downfall have been? I have desired it; and may it not be well for us all to see that the beam is out of our own eyes before we try to cast out the mote out of our brother's eye? Yes, Josiah, George Parker told me near two years ago; the school there, as being a Friends' school was gone; and the meeting was gone with it too. You are a fallen church like Sardis was. And to her God said He would spew her out of His mouth, etc. I never knew any discipline that condemned a minister for not accepting a companion that imposed himself; and was not felt by the minister to be a suitable one for such an important concern and undertaking. If you can prove such an act as that; not being equally yoked in the truth, to be right and congeniel to travel together as one; you will show me something I have never seen. I have been told by three different ministers of North Carolina yearly meeting, since last yearly meeting that I was right in refusing to take Solomon Barker as my companion to Europe. They said
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