who offer it.
A kind Quaker, who heard me in Augusta, gave
me
one dollar, which is the second I have received during five
weeks,
and I have relieved three or four with it. This
friend attended a meeting
before, and spoke admirably,
from the Dry bones in
Ezekiel, which after he had done,
I arose and sanctioned it, as
life and power were in the
testimony. When I sat down, he got up, and told
that
people, his concern of this day had impressed his mind
twenty
years, which he had believed it his duty to come
and pay them a visit: but
the way never opened until that
time, which had relieved his spirit much. he
again sat
down, and I resumed my place, feeling great love and
faith,
with an ardent solicitude to benefit all present:
which stirred up the Gift
of my aged brother, whom the
Lord sent after me to help in His vineyard:
therefore,
our meeting continued long, and the people were favoured
to
hear the sound of his voice the third time, which quick-
ened the fire of
Celestial Love in my heart, so that I was
induced to supplicate the Throne
of Mercy for preserva-
tion, and an increase of faith and love for each,
when he
had closed his message, and then endeavoured to conclude
the
meeting: but, a Methodist preacher requested I would
permit him to say
something to the people, which I was
free to do, and he with tears told all
present, to Trea-
sure up what they had heard; for Jesus Christ male
and
female were one. When you go home, don’t you say as I
said last
week, It is only a woman. My brethren and
sisters, I went
to hear this woman in a barn, and the Word
reached me powerfully, and
followed me home, and has
brought me miles to-day, to testify this among
you; for
before this, I did not think a woman ought to preach:
but
now I am convinced God has sent her to preach Jesus
Christ’s
Gospel. This person sat down, and an Indian
sister rose
immediately, and testified thus, If I was to
hold my tongue, and not
tell that it is thirty-three years
since I became a Christian, those
beams would speak