Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-05
NO. 262.
Mistellanepms.
From the Salem Observer.
A REVIEW OF The PAST FROM THE QUAK.
Err STANDPOINT. ..t
Continued from Yesterday

| believe in the Light. that you may be
the children of the light; for as you love Il
and obey it, it will lead yon to r. pentence,
bring you to know Him in whom IL remis.
sion Of sins, in whom God is we'll pleased;
who will give you an entrance into the
kingdom Of God, an inheritance amongst
them that are sanctifed." But the Gov
ernors would not allow any such asser-
| tion TO alter their opinion that Quakerism
was dangerous heresy, and terribly rig
orous as was the law against its promul-
| gators il was not Sufficiently so to satisfy
ihem for Eudicott and Bellingham gave
orders that all the Friends then In prison
should he severely whipped twice week.
But the humanity OF the Inhabitants OF BOs-
ton revolted at this decree. and the sympa-
| thv thus aroused led to the release Of the
sufferers. who were at once banished from
| the colony Soon afterwards, John Cope
| land and his friend, William Brend, we're
| sentenced to q severe scourging while
passing through New Plymouth. The
age of the latter awoke no compassion
in the hearts of the prosecutors. The fol-
lowing year. after holding several meet
ings with William Ledra> of Barbados,
he was imprisoned at Boston, and re-
ceived such brutal beatings, inflicted with
u pttUtu TOpt. Dy u SdOlcI WIZ piC-
viously kept him without food for five
days, and most cruelty fettered him for
many hours. that he appeared to be dying;
Endicott being alarmed at this. sent
physician to him, who thought his recov-
cry impossible. But the hand of an un-
seen Healer was laid on him. and he must
have been at least ninety when, eighteen
years later, the following burial note was
made ont :-"Wlliam Brend, of the Lib
er'v of Kaherne's. near the tower. q min
lister, died Seventh mo-, Seventh, 1876,
and was buried at Bunhill Fields" Be-
fore returning to England he labored In
Rhode Island and the West Indies. In 1862
he was one OF the many hundred Friends
confined in Newgate, fifty-two of whom
died in consequence of diseases caused by
| the loathsome state of that prison. We
may form some idea of the heavenly cous0-
lation granted to this venerable pilgrim in
| his hour of nee1, by his beautiful "saluta-
| ton to all Friends" from which brief
extract follows 1t hath been upon my
heart. when in the sweet repose Of the
streams of my Fathers love and life, by
which my heart hath been overcome, to
visit you with loving salutati0n from the
place of nv outward bonds" After bid
ding them 'flock together into our Faith
er's fold to get into His tent of safety,
| and lie down in the arms of His dear
love-" &C.. he adds "Oh. in tha love and
| life of the Lamb, look over all weakness
| in one another, as God doth look over all
the weakness in every one of us, and doth
| love us for His own Sons sake--in so
doing peace will abound in our borders, it
will flow forth amongst us like q river,
and it will keep out Jars, strifes and con-
| tentions" As the Governors Of Massa-
chusetts were regardless of old age. so
were they of the weakness of women.
We read of the astonishment of the peo-
pie of Boston at hearing Sarah Gibbons
and her young friend Dorothy Waugh.
offering praise and thanksgiving for the
gracious support granted them during .
cruel scourgiDg, three days before and
three days after which they were kept
without food.
A little later. Endicott sentenced Hored
Gardner of Rhode Island, to the punish
| ment of the knotted scourge. She had
left her home at Newport, from the belief
| that her Lord had called her to labor for
Him at Weymouth. in Massachusetts,
where her ministry was cordially re-
ceived The maid who had accompanied
her on this perilous journey, to assist in
taking charge Of her infant, was the VIC
tim of similar sentence. and the only
protection granted the baby was that af-
forded by its mothers arms, who when the
executioner stayed his hand, prayed that
her prosecutors might be forgiven, because
",hev knew not what they did" At . lat
er date. Alice Ambrose, Mary Tomkins and
Ann Coleman, who was apparently young.
and in delicate health, were sentenced to
be whipped through eleven towns,
covering distance of nearly eighty miles.
Although they were themselves enabled
| to praise the Lord for the marvellous help
He granted them, the sight of their ''torn
bodies and weary steps" in the third
town through which they passed, excited
so much pity that one Of the inhabitants
induced the constable to commit the pris-
oners and the warrant to his care, and at
once set them at liberty. Taking advan-
tage of their unlocked for release they
went to New QuechawaDah, where they
had meeting. Subsequently it was for
time feared that Ann Coleman would die
| from the effects of other barbarOus scourg-
| ngs TO George Fox she writes "Oh,
the love of the Lord, who hath kept His
| handmade that put her trust In Him; what
| shall | say unto thee of the love Of my
| Father; none can make me AFRAID; much
service tor the Lord in this land. and ii
hath not been in vain. and 80, let thy
prayers be unto the Lord for me. In that
| life and love which is Interchangeable art
thou near me-" Good cause indeed had
that patient historian. Sewel. for exclaim.
ing but when should have done. If l
| would describe all the whippings inflicted
on Quakers in those parts r Sarah Glib
hons and Dorothy Waugh, soon after leav-
ing Boston. returned to Rhode Island.
where they had previously been engaged
in religious service, aud we now find their
names associated with that Of Mary Dyer.
About this time Humphrey Norton was
finding a short respite from persecution in
the same colony. A few months earlier
his ministerial labors had been interrupted
| bv an imprisonment at New Haven. Conn,
where his right hand was deeply branded
with the letter II. as sign that he was
condemned hereto. and he Was noggsd Ia
such manner as to make some Of the
crowd. gathered BY the beat Of drum, sx'
:, IContinuod on fpuxth nolo.I IL