And so kept along when I feel my mind in simpathy with any, I try some
way to go & see them, began to think I was geting along Prety well, soone Day I was
thinking I should go to meeting 3 or 4 Days hence, I began to think what I should say
when I should come there, so I thought It over, I got something fixed in my mind, I
thought it would Do Prety well, I hung it up, & by & by I took it looked at it again
I thought it would Do very well, I hung it up so I Did good many times before meeting Day come
I went to meeting & after the Priest got through, I stood up & said it off as well as I could
and I thought I said it off Prety well, but Oh how I was Distress & so I Passed along a long
time, Did not know what the matter was Then something come & talked to me & says, Did
you ever know a Great man if he want Great Business Done away to Congress, or to
Philadelphia to send a Poore ignorant unlerned man to Do it No I say I Did not,
No more wont Great Spirit take you well I thought sure Enough I have been mista
ken I never have known what good is, And Oh, how I was Distress, but Did not
know where to find good (This he supposed to be the bad spirit coming at a time
when he had mised it at the Endeavouring to Persuade him, that he never had kno
wn what good was, Then says somthing & he come & talked me, which he sup
posed was the good spirit, and says Great One knows all things, he can Do all
things, he knows what is Best, And if a King want great business Done, & he has
servents under him, if he wants to send one to Do business for him, if he is a wise
Learned man, he ought to say what the King tell him to say, if he is an ignorant
unlerned man, if he can talk, he can say over after the King, just what the
King tell him to say, if it 2, 3 or 4 words more or less just as the King says
just so he ought to say Then it says to one supose one of your neighbour
have a Piece of to him, a very got when it was give
to him, he takes it, feels of it, looks at it; handles it; hangs it up, then by & by
he takes it Down, he feels of it, handles it, looks at it; hangs it up, so he Do a
great many times, & keep it 3 or 4 Days, til it begins to stink, then he take
it, cook it & set before you, to Eat, would you Eat it no I say I would not
Eat it well it says just so your Preaching was the other Day The Great
spirit wont have it folk wont have it Then it came in to my
mind the Passage when there was a Piece of money brought to our savious
I Don't remember he asked them whose Image & Inscription was on it
They told him well he told them to render to ceasars the things that
are cesars, & to God things that are God I see my Parking had
Cesar inserption on it Because it was something of any own Prepareing
it Did not come from the Great Spirit, therefore it had not his superscripti
on on it, & he would not have it, & that was the reason I was so troubled; I see
that Every thing of mans contrivance had cesar superscription on it
and only that, that comes Immediately from the Great Spirit, that would return
to him, or that would be food for his True sheep, my says christ know any
& they follow but the Voice of a stranger they will not follow
I thought some time heard a strange Voice, Puting his hand to his Breast
says Did not feel I love to feel it here then