. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hen it was settled thatour William Penn should set sail on the fourth day, inthe sixth month of 1684, in the ketch Endeavor. To many it seemed as if the building of our city hadcome to an end at the very time when it was most 164 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA full of promise, and even those who believed the workwould go on as well in his absence, had bitter fearsregarding what might come to us Friends, wrho were so despised and per-secuted in other col-onies of America,when he was gonefrom among us. To enter into oursorrows at this time,one must
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hen it was settled thatour William Penn should set sail on the fourth day, inthe sixth month of 1684, in the ketch Endeavor. To many it seemed as if the building of our city hadcome to an end at the very time when it was most 164 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA full of promise, and even those who believed the workwould go on as well in his absence, had bitter fearsregarding what might come to us Friends, wrho were so despised and per-secuted in other col-onies of America,when he was gonefrom among us. To enter into oursorrows at this time,one must have beendriven from town totown, imprisoned,whipped, or beenpunished by havinghis tongue piercedwith a hot iron, allbecause of his faith,for such was theportion of us Quak-ers in this newworld where so many had come in order to worshipGod after their own manner, but who would not allowothers to do the same. We of Philadelphia had not been loud-voiced re-garding our religion. We did not claim to be heardbecause of much speaking. We had made for our-. WILLIAM PENN GOES BACK TO LONDON 165 selves a city, and tried to hold possession of a countrywhere we might go our way, molesting no man evenwhen he injured us, doing unto others as we would bedone by, and living such lives as we believed wouldbe pleasing in the sight of God. In striving to keep ourselves clean from sin we hadas a model and friend, our William Penn, he who hadsuffered persecution for the faith; and when one wasgrown weary with battling against wrongful inclina-tion, it was only needed we should go to our governor,whose ears were ever open and whose heart was aswarm toward us as his advice was kindly and was the worldly arm on which all our people ofPhiladelphia leaned. And now our leader was gone from us,—the last wordson his lips as he stepped from the shore, where we weregathered with tearful eyes, to the boat that was tocarry him from our sight, being: Thou Philadelphia, the settlement named beforeit
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