Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-01-21

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most was the chaste simplicity and exceeding
purity of the WHOLE
Now this report is all very pleasant, and
believe it is true, fot agrees substantially with
an account had of this community, from a
friend of mine who visited it about a year ago.
Yet it is difficult to comprehend how such a
civilized and peaceful Arcadia, so near an ap-
proach to an unexceptonable monastery, could
have been the work of such people as the
White Quakers were but few short years ago.
The leading members of the sect were, without
Exception rigidly strict, and consistent, strait
laced members of the Society of Friends, severe
against all departures from the testimonies"
stern uphoders of the disciplne-very worthy
good people-kind to the poor, and wishing
well to all, but chiefly interested for the pros
perity and purity of their own little corner Of
| Mount Zion. Among them was the most val
ued of the society's minister's female Boan-
erges, who denounced mixed marriages with
such awful warnings as must often have made
the blood Of "young women Friends curdle
within them," and she enforced plainness of
dress with terrible energy. There was an elder
and an oyerseer among them, apd all the rest
were steady Friends, pillars in the society, with
the profoundest faith in all stories of Quaker
miracles, dreams, potents, revelations and
prophecies. They were, in short, the very las,
of its members from whom the society could
have apprehended an insurrection. But they
revolted nevertheless, and on this wise:
Joshua Jacob, their leader, who was at that
| time q prosperous trader, a Friend in good
| standing, regular attender of meetings for
worship and discipline, good neighbor,
kind to the poor, and greatly respected
began to "appear in the ministry" or, in plain
terms began to preach. An uninitiated person.
| like you and me, would not have been able to
perceive much difference between his commu-
nications and those of the most approved min
listers. Suffice il to say that they were marked
by all the pecularities of the Quaker gallery
equally free from the text-taking, Connected
ness, and other trammels of pulpit eloquence.
But his preaching did not satisfy the elders,
the appointed judges among Friends, of the
acceptableness and right mission of the eandi-
date for the ministry. Joshua was advised to
withhold his communications he was coun-
sellcd and labored with, and degree of pa
'ience was eAh'oiteu toward him' such as
Verily peleVe wouiu not nave Deeh extended 10
refractory priest III any o'her community III
Ohris.endom. ne kept on never need'ng' ana
preaeheu all the more, 'he more hewas "u'iseu
to be silent. At length the elders brought the
matter before the monthly meeting But tie
mon,bl, mna,;no bod ,o torrors eor Josh,o.
iie 'e'useu " "i'n'i"" ""e" i's '"se was u"-
der consideration; and when they sent mes
sengers to him he denied their jurisdiction.
A. lono,,I, ho u,oo f,-,,oI,,, d;sownea nm,
,1,, ,o''s 'a'.,., -,
US ne heiu s'out'y 70 .hc uoc'rihe OF theihWarq
light and did not look on himself as n "man'
made Minister or as amenable TO mans indy
r,o,, a.. ,h,, o,auo;sa 20 h;..,o Ia s..oao,,aa
w. 50 So ="
WITHOUT ihterihissiohi ana "heh the friehus'
wearied with his obstinacy, kept him out OF the
meeting house. he preached in thepassape. He
hod fna r;no,no vo;co and n tro,nendous
-.
sing-sohg, whlch wouid nave thought very
holy when was a little boy.
The disapproyal of his course was pretty
r.norai IN ia soo;o,,. h., ,ha.o ,voro ;r,nor-
se"s'"' ~ '"' s'''s''' 'u' '"s'' "'.o ''"P
eohe ePtiOho "hohb 'hN i4oiS iASiu pAOieo-
sors, in many of the monthly meetings. They
looked on him. as he looked ON himsele-that
!. ,o,. ,,aa ,,;,.,, 90 H..
? - sas' my "au 'e'9 a,sn op'''ion - n''h'
they espoused his cause, talked Of "a perseeu-
ted recusant,' prophesied an evil day TO the
societv nreacbed like him were eonajlv re-
froctory and were ii ,its manner disowned
,vsre tent ont of Tho noee,;ng l;ls him and held
eor,h IN ,ho r,asso,res as ha IA
- w. ~ ,i,p,, a"s,,,,,a5 It, a.
- n,,, '"en vi u unf
IN nis
III ~ ueai
,nssI"u pu,leu n,s yens, 1e , io,
.Io-Na ',,u tsi .is ,
s,asses anu p.ne mem ~ , p'eees in sne opea
~. streS. ~, 'es',,nos ~ sne Psop,e, ",
ms ,'ns y. i..' G , s ;h anu T,',. =. los.
"nu as iens'n ~ pas s""' n,s mile JUS - .asS
eA'res ,,s & no .';., eeaus1 sui sse.neu
1,'"oie ~ Neee w "i' nl. ~ .ne iapiu Pr: piv
sress oi his Ieioils ~ assu uehouhceu' WIN
uhsparlhg hueli.y, ~ i,s io,lowers wn1 lai-
'ereu Ny .nu way, Mho eiuhe W uarA olotnes or
ihanoganyi Ut 'ne,i husp"nus NJ anu WIVES "neh ~
.nese aisple"ssu hiih. : ss1ulu ~, say, 10 gNe
nun ms uue, .na. ne auoweu nis own psrueu-
iar rip 10 return 10 .ne eoillnlunl.y as an nun
pio companion, ~ ner e",nsss eh'ieny' guy
10 .ne nio,nsi Vi MS s'N '"'u'eHi "no "'e MI
n lN.ne Wi,n nm; ,,..,
II Me"nwhlv az tne "n'o Sn,,l SunA.is % , p,'leiG
leDporreu anu uehouiceu w lne plack Quakers,
ana refused 10 noiu any intercourse WIN them
GuFily terms-iooklhg on them as apostates