Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tion in business rWhen war with England broke out what did he do ? Once when ourtreasury was very low how did he help our Government ? What did hedo after the war ? What can you say of his last days ? WILLIAM PEISTN FOTJKDER OF PE]Sr:NSYLYA]SriA. EARLY half a century after the settlement of James-town, in Virginia, and about twenty years after thePilgrims landed, said Uncle Frank, there arose inEngland a class of people called Quakers. The doc-trines which they believed were so
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tion in business rWhen war with England broke out what did he do ? Once when ourtreasury was very low how did he help our Government ? What did hedo after the war ? What can you say of his last days ? WILLIAM PEISTN FOTJKDER OF PE]Sr:NSYLYA]SriA. EARLY half a century after the settlement of James-town, in Virginia, and about twenty years after thePilgrims landed, said Uncle Frank, there arose inEngland a class of people called Quakers. The doc-trines which they believed were so forcibly preachedby their leader that many people began to join theirsociety. Among these was William Penn, the son of adistinguished admiral in the British Navy. Thisman—the father—stood in great favor with the King and the Court, andwhen he heard that his son William—whom he had sent to college and ofwhom he had expected great things—was turning Quaker, his rage knewno bounds. He declared that no son of his should leave the good andregular Church of England and join a despised sect. Finding that argu-. 118 WII/I/IAM PENN. ment had no effect, lie tried a sound thrashing, and when this, too, failedto change the opinions of the willful son, he turned him out-of-doors. William was then eighteen years old. He had been finely educated,was well built and robust, and with a mind strongly inclined to religiousthoughts. He already believed so firmly that the doctrines of the Qua-kers were right in the sight of God that nothing could induce him torenounce them. Seeing this, and being begged by his wife to take back liis harsh words, Admiral Pennsent to his son to come home,where he would be protected fromthe general Quaker persecution byhis fathers high standing. But his friends in the new re-ligion did not fare so well. All therest of the society were sorely ill-treated by the rulers. Bven he wasarrested while preaching in thestreets and imprisoned on a chargeof disturbing the
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