come up in spirit, through the flaming sword, into the
Paradise of God. All things were made new, and all the creation gave
another smell to me beyond what words can utter. I knew nothing but
pureness, innocency, and righteousness, being renewed up to the image
of God by Christ Jesus.... Great things did the Lord lead me into, and
wonderful depths were opened to me, beyond what can by words be
declared; but as people come into subjection by the Spirit of God, and
grow up in the Image and Power of the Almighty they may receive the
word of wisdom that opens all things, and come to know the hidden
unity in the Eternal Being.'

'Thus travelled I in the Lord's service, as He led me.'

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The 7th month would be September, because the years then began
with March.

III. THE ANGEL OF BEVERLEY

_'To instruct young lasses and
maidens in whatever things was
useful in the creation.'--R.
ABRAHAM._

_'It was the age of long
discourses and ecstatic
exercises.'--MORLEY'S CROMWELL._

_'George Fox's preaching, in those
early years, chiefly consisted of
some few, but powerful and
piercing words, to those whose
hearts were already in some
measure prepared to be capable of
receiving this doctrine.'--SEWEL'S
HISTORY._

_'But at the first convincement
when friends could not put off
their hats to people, nor say you
to a particular but thee and thou;
and could not bowe nor use the
world's fashions nor customs ...
people would not trade with them
nor trust them ... but afterwards
people came to see friends honesty
and truthfulness.'--G. FOX._

_'The light which shows us our
sins is that which heals us.'--G.
FOX._

_'GOD works slowly.'--BISHOP
WESTCOTT._

III. THE ANGEL OF BEVERLEY

Among all the children of Drayton village who watched eagerly for the
door to open into the Purefoy Chapel on Sundays, when the Squire's
family were at home, none watched for it more intently than blue-eyed
Cecily, the old huntsman's granddaughter. Cecily's