Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . and dutyto God, he was in his soul from that night a Quaker. It is hard in these days of tolerance and indifferentismto even imagine the confiict, inward and outward, thatfollowed. Attending meetings, he was almost imme-diately arrested, refused the oflered parole, and wouldhave taken trial with the rest had not an order c(»mefor his discharge. The thunderstruck Admiral ordcntlhim liack to London, and for a few days, as no changewas perceptible in dress and speech, persuaded himselfhe had been mistaken. But the i
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . and dutyto God, he was in his soul from that night a Quaker. It is hard in these days of tolerance and indifferentismto even imagine the confiict, inward and outward, thatfollowed. Attending meetings, he was almost imme-diately arrested, refused the oflered parole, and wouldhave taken trial with the rest had not an order c(»mefor his discharge. The thunderstruck Admiral ordcntlhim liack to London, and for a few days, as no changewas perceptible in dress and speech, persuaded himselfhe had been mistaken. But the issue came ; Penn, aftersolenni consideration, refused to uncover before father orking, and the furious Admiral turned him out of doors. Scoff as one may at outward peculiarities and puerifi-ties, into (his time of anarchy and revohition had conic,in Quakerism, the first intellectual Itasis of true demo- A QUAKER SOLDIER. 29 cracy. To the founder of this system, philosophies,arts, rehgions, legislations, Avere as nothing. Everyman was eomplete in himself; each human being, man.
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