were generally bitterly set
against the people called Quakers,
when Presbytery and Independency
swimmed and floated in possession,
and with their long Lectures
against us cried out, "These are
the Antichrists come in the last
times"'--G. WHITEHEAD._

_'For in all things he acquitted
himself like a man, yea, a strong
man, a new and heavenly-minded
man.'--W. PENN of George Fox._

XII. 'STRIKE AGAIN!'

'Love, Wisdom, and Patience will overcome all that is not of
God.'--G. FOX.

By the side of even a low mountain the tallest tower looks small. The
fells that shelter the old market town of Ulverston from northerly
winds are not lofty compared with the range of giants that lies behind
them in the distance, Coniston Old Man, Sca Fell, Skiddaw, Helvellyn,
and their brethren. But the fells are high enough to make the tall old
Church tower of Ulverston look small and toy-like as it rises under
their shadow above the thatched roofs of the old town.

Swarthmoor Hall stands on a level plateau on the other side of
Ulverston; and it was from Swarthmoor Hall, through a wooded glen by
the side of the stream, that George Fox came down to Ulverston Church,
one 'Lecture Day' at the end of September 1652.

On a 'Lecture Day' a sermon lasting for several hours was delivered by
an appointed teacher; and when that was finished, anyone who had
listened to it was free to rise and deliver a message in his turn if
he wished to do so. In those days, as there were no clocks or watches
in churches, the length of the sermon was measured by turning an
hour-glass, until all the sand had run out, a certain number of times.
Children, and perhaps grown-up people too, must often have watched the
sand with longing eyes when a sermon of several hours' length was in
process. On this particular day, Priest Lampitt was the appointed
preacher. Lampitt had never forgiven Fox for having persuaded so many
of his hearers, and especially the important ladies of Swarthmoor, to
forsake their Parish Church, and assemble for their own service at
home. His feelings may be imagined, therefore, when, his own sermon
ended, he saw George Fox get up and begin to preach in his turn.

George Fox says, 'On a Lecture Day I was moved to go to Ulverston
steeple-house, where there was an abu