Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . Evan Evans came to take Mr. Clay-tons place, and entered upon his duties with keen-sighted and steady enthusiasm, the young Friends wereforl)idden to attend the services. They had flockedthere full of curiosity, and the broad-brims had comeoft in church as they never did in nucting. Xow whenthe edict went out that they should not enter the doors,they were not pleased. Anuiscments were not plenty•in Philadelphia, and it was hard to be deprived of thisserious, if vain form. So then, V)eing used to obeyingthe letter
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . Evan Evans came to take Mr. Clay-tons place, and entered upon his duties with keen-sighted and steady enthusiasm, the young Friends wereforl)idden to attend the services. They had flockedthere full of curiosity, and the broad-brims had comeoft in church as they never did in nucting. Xow whenthe edict went out that they should not enter the doors,they were not pleased. Anuiscments were not plenty•in Philadelphia, and it was hard to be deprived of thisserious, if vain form. So then, V)eing used to obeyingthe letter of the law, if not the spirit, they stood underthe wind(iws and listened, and by-and-])y, convictiongiving courage, how many nuist have entered the doorand forever left the broad-brim hat behind ! The coun-try Friends coming in to the market had their owncuriosity about this new vanity, and were moved to go ^^^ V-^ < ff*\ - — - ^-. ^ rf » / • • tag • y . » C I \ v^ fftHrLltf^ii^^ .,V!,^ i:^^/:-^^-.^ ^....?M•,..?.;,_.«, (..vJ .M«3J*... CASPIPmAy 85 and see what it was like, and, l)eliold, it was nothingnew! What they heard was simply tlie old servicefamiliar to so many of them, and they liked it. Itbrought back memories of their childhood, of England,and of the mothers who had died content in the oldfaith; and, as they listened to the prayers and chantsthey knew so well, l)ut in which they now dared notjoin, old affections fought with new doctrines, and man}went home disturbed and discontented, to return againand again to the little brick church and at last to comefor baptism. This went on until new members werenumbered by the hundreds, and Dr. Evans zeal grewstronger and stronger. He held service on Sunday andon holy da3^s, on Wednesday and Friday, on marketdays, and at last, all through the week of Yearl} iSIeet-ing when the Quakers from all around the country werein town. He wore a surplice, and William Penn wroteto James Logan that Governo
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