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" to that part of the earth where they were 

 ' free to worship God according to the dictates 

 64 of their conscience." In other words (I sup 

 pose), he had long- beheld and experienced the 

 slavery and misery of his country, and, feeling 

 ia his conscience that he was born more for a 

 ruler than for a slave, found himself imperiously 

 called upon to collect together a body of his 

 poor countrymen and to lead them into a land 

 of liberty and abundance. However, allowing 

 him to have had no other than his professed 

 views, he, after he had got a considerable num 

 ber of proselytes, amounting to seven or eight 

 hundred persons, among whom were a suf 

 ficiency of good labourers and artizans in all 

 the essential branches of workmanship and 

 trade, besides farmers, he embodied them into 

 a Society, and then came himself to America 

 (not trusting to Providence to lead the way) to 

 seek out the land destined for these chosen 

 children. Having done so, and laid the plan 

 for his route to the land of peace and Christian 

 love, with a foresight which shows him to have 

 been by no means unmindful to the temporal 

 prosperity of the Society, he then landed his 

 followers in separate bodies, and prudently led 

 them in that order to a resting place within 

 Pennsylvania, choosing rather to retard their 

 progress through the wilderness than to hazard 



