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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922
1913-04-14 Page 69
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-69- they would not have had him either. And if they could, I could not. Josiah, thou said thou did not want to lose any of your members; that signifies you will disown me if I do not make some acknowledgements to the meeting. Do you want to disown me because I did not, and could not take Solomon Barker on my extensive visit to Europe as my companion? I felt in my heart that he was not the right one for me. And I refused him from the first. And other people told me he was not the right one. The last time I was at Woodland he called me aside; and began to talk as in a dispute with me. He soon passed the lie to me. I told him he was imposing and overbearing, etc. He soon left me. I could only pity him in his dark and evil state. I said, now if you disown me, you will have to stand responsible for the act; it will fall on your own shoulders. At the last yearly meeting at Cedargrove it was often repeated by some of them saying, 'they were plain,--I am as plain as they are.' When ministers used to go there, Ida Chamness, Mary Stokes and other persons. They used to go after them; and appear glad to have them, and led them to the gallery, etc., and now you shun them; and will not speak to them. Some of you have shunned me because I have helped
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-69- they would not have had him either. And if they could, I could not. Josiah, thou said thou did not want to lose any of your members; that signifies you will disown me if I do not make some acknowledgements to the meeting. Do you want to disown me because I did not, and could not take Solomon Barker on my extensive visit to Europe as my companion? I felt in my heart that he was not the right one for me. And I refused him from the first. And other people told me he was not the right one. The last time I was at Woodland he called me aside; and began to talk as in a dispute with me. He soon passed the lie to me. I told him he was imposing and overbearing, etc. He soon left me. I could only pity him in his dark and evil state. I said, now if you disown me, you will have to stand responsible for the act; it will fall on your own shoulders. At the last yearly meeting at Cedargrove it was often repeated by some of them saying, 'they were plain,--I am as plain as they are.' When ministers used to go there, Ida Chamness, Mary Stokes and other persons. They used to go after them; and appear glad to have them, and led them to the gallery, etc., and now you shun them; and will not speak to them. Some of you have shunned me because I have helped
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