Righteous Commandments and slight His offered mercy.
After meeting, I rode eight miles, and slept very little
in the night, by
reason of poor accommodations, for we
all lodged in one room, where I could
see the firmament
from a breach which had been made by fire. They sky
at-
tracted my notice, and prevented my sleeping, as I had
not before
met with such poor lodgings, yet I had the best
this miserable log house
afforded, being welcome there.
A large number assembled on the 17th for
worship,
who had come, from two miles to ten round this neigh-
bourhood;
but having no other place better than a school-
house, when it was full, the
people came and requested
me to Go out into the open air, to
accommodate them
who had come so far. I therefore got into a car,
and
lift up my voice with authority, and said in the words of
my Lord
and Master, Let your light so shine before
men that
they may see your good works, and glorify your
father which is in
Heaven. I was much favoured with
the Presence of God; for this
opportunity required great
fortitude, as I never was before called to stand
out i nthe
air, exposed to the burning sun, though I screened my-
self
as well as I could. There is great courage also ne-
cessary for such a
calling as this, which females are not
in general possessed of; because a
false delicacy prevails
over the mind that is termed refinement, which
shudders
at the very idea of standing a gazing stock to men of
the
basset passions; unless they have been betrayed, and de-
sire to
insnare their fellow-mortals, which is now become
so common, that a prudent
woman must be very guarded
to sun the censure of the vulgar, if she wish to
maintain
her character, as a virtuous woman, among mankind.
When I had opened the passage, and stood a consider-
able time, I gave over,
and was succeeded by one of my
sisters, who appeared astonished at me, and
longed for a
vacant moment to testify, that, The spirit of
prophecy
was not to continue always within the narrow limits of
our
brotherhood, as male and female, are one in our Lord