some excitement & things are working about right now in the potteries
to have the people hear the word whether they embrace it or not, the priest
are quite mad because we are getting a hold in Hanly we have
a good house to preach in & we have a worthy brother who has rece
ived the work & his doors are opened unto us constantly. he is a Merc-
hant in the place his wife & servent are also members of the Church
We shall have warm opposition in Hanly for it is the seat of
iniquity & pristcraft but the Lord is with us. I preach on the mor
row Sunday in Stoke & Lane End Elder Corden in Hanly. I receved
a letter from Elder Turley on Thursday he was in Birmingham
preaching to his relatives in the family circle. but was soon expecting
to preach in public. he foud hard work to preach to his parents who
had been professors of Godliness 40 years & had great confidence in
their ministers. Brother H. Glover has just returned on a visit to
his friends about 50 miles & some rage & fight otherers want the word
& some wish to be Baptzed. But I will close about matters with
us
Now Dear Brother with respect to your Difficulty that you spoke of
I will acknowledge I have not had time to meditate upon it & pray about it
as much as I could wish but yet the spirit of God knows all things I
am sensible you have many difficulty things to encounter. I do not
know what better you could have done than the course you have persued con
sidering all circumstances, but one thing is certain sumbody is much
out of the way. In the first place I ask in the name of reason & Revelation
that if Sister D is sick what business Sister C or any other person has to accuse
her of feigning herself sick, the principle is of the Devil & the spirit of God bears
record against it. If Sister C had charity & the Love of God in her soul & was
in the way of her Duty she would go & sympathise with Sister D instead
of speaking against her & that to behind her back such things are agaist
the law of God & iniquity cannot be retained in the church of christ or
at least it should not. The church did right in withdrawing the hand of fel-
lowship from Sister C, & she ought not to be restored unless she will make
an humble acknowledgement of her sins & repent of them before God. if others
had sined ever so much it is no place for Sister C to make a bulwark of
some excitement & things are working about right now in the potteries
to have the people hear the word whether they embrace it or not, the priest
are quite mad because we are getting a hold in Hanly we have
a good house to preach in & we have a worthy brother who has rece
ived the work & his doors are opened unto us constantly. he is a Merchant in the place his wife & servent are also members of the Church
We shall have warm opposition in Hanly for it is the seat of
iniquity & pristcraft but the Lord is with us. I preach on the mor
row Sunday in Stoke & Lane End Elder Corden in Hanly. I receved
a letter from Elder Turley on Thursday he was in Birmingham
preaching to his relatives in the family circle. but was soon expecting
to preach in public. he foud hard work to preach to his parents who
had been professors of Godliness 40 years & had great confidence in
their ministers. Brother H. Glover has just returned on a visit to
his friends about 50 miles & some rage & fight otherers want the word
& some wish to be Baptzed. But I will close about matters with
us
Now Dear Brother with respect to your Difficulty that you spoke of
I will acknowledge I have not had time to meditate upon it & pray about it
as much as I could wish but yet the spirit of God knows all things I
am sensible you have many difficult things to encounter. I do not
know what better you could have done than the course you have persued con
sidering all circumstances, but one thing is certain sumbody is much
out of the way. In the first place I ask in the name of reason & Revelation
that if Sister D is sick what business Sister C or any other person has to accuse
her of feigning herself sick, the principle is of the Devil & the spirit of God bears
record against it. If Sister C had charity & the Love of God in her soul & was
in the way of her Duty she would go & sympathise with Sister D instead
of speaking against her & that to behind her back such things are agaist
the law of God & iniquity cannot be retained in the church of christ or
at least it should not. The church did right in withdrawing the hand of fellowship from Sister C, & she ought not to be restored unless she will make
an humble acknowledgement of her sins & repent of them before God. if others
had sined ever so much it is no place for Sister C to make a bulwark of