and my tender mother was a partner with him in the same exercise, and she died in like peace; the last words I heard her speak, were, 'I long to be dissolved.' And as to my tender father, I would record a little briefly in memory of him, that he was,

"1st. A true and faithful servant of Christ.

"2nd. A tender and affectionate husband: I lived at home with my parents about twenty years, and I never heard, that I remember, an angry expression between them, only once something had troubled them, and they both wept, my father saying, 'I have been an indulgent husband unto thee,' and my mother answered, 'I have not been one of the worst of wives to thee;' which were the harshest words, and the greatest difference that I observed between them ; for their life was a life of peace and love, and they were an excellent example to us their children.

therein to the end.

Oh! may we follow them

3rd. He had a fatherly care for his children, in tender prayers for us, and in good advice to us, and in giving us learning, according to his ability, and teaching us, by his example, as well as precept, industry, humility, and the true religion of our blessed Saviour; endeavouring to plant it in us betimes, and to destroy the evil root of sin in us, while young.

"4th. I was his servant, as well as his son, and I can truly say, his service was delightful, and his company pleasing and profitable to me; and he was also beloved much by his other

servants.

"5th. He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and I do not remember any difference between him and them, in the many years I lived with him; but all was peace and love.

"6th. He was very loving to his relations, and true to his friends, and a hearty well-wisher and lover of his king and country.

"T. CHALKLEY."

CHAPTER VII.

1726-1728.

Further religious service chiefly near home— Voyage to Barbadoes on business-Several Meetings on the Island-Occurrences after his return-Two other Voyages to Barbadoes, &c.

OUR general-meeting at Frankfort, the 30th of the fourth month, was large, our friend William Piggot, from London, being there (in the course of his visit to Friends in America) and had close work and good service in this meeting.

In the fifth month, 1726, I visited the meetings of Friends at Philadelphia, German Town, and Bybury, in some of which meetings, as also at our own at Frankfort, I had very comfortable satisfaction: my tistimony was pretty sharp sometimes to transgressors, and therefore some of them hate me, as the Jews did my great Master; because I was concerned to testify, that their deeds were evil, and to excite my friends to manifest a Christian zeal, by openly denying ungodly men, while they continue in their ungodly works; but when they become truly penitent, and reform their lives,

the arms of Christ, and his church, will be open to receive them.

Being under some melancholy thoughts, because some persons, for whom I wished well, and to whom I had been of service, were SO envious and malicious as to tell false stories of me, tending to defame me; as I was riding to our meeting, it opened with satisfaction to my mind, The more my enemies hate me, the more I will love, if that can be; and I had hearty desires to come up in the practice of this resolution and I then thought I should come up with them all, for if a man loves and prays for his enemies, if they are gained, he is instrumental to their good, and so hath cause of rejoicing; and if they are not gained, he heaps coals of fire on their heads; so that every true Christian, by keeping under the cross of Christ, and in the practice of his doctrine, gets the better of his enemies.

In the beginning of the sixth month, I was at the burial of Robert Fletcher, a worthy man, and one universally beloved by all sorts of people, as far as ever I heard. There was a large meeting at his funeral, wherein several testimonies, suitable to the occasion, were borne: some of his last words were mentioned, which were, that he had lived according to the measure of grace given him. And the doctrine of the resurrection was maintained according to the

Scripture, and the people were exhorted to prepare for their final change. The death of this Friend was a loss to the country, to our society, and to his neighbours, as well as to his family and friends.

After meeting I travelled towards Uwchland, had a meeting there on first-day, and on secondday another meeting at Lewis Walker's, and on third-day was at the general-meeting at Harverford: Friends were exhorted to dwell in the love of God, one towards another; for if they lost their love, they would lose their religion, their peace, and their God; for God is love, and those that dwell in God, dwell in love.

My neighbour, Daniel Worthington, accompa❤ nied me in this rough travel, some part of the way being hilly, and very stony and bushy, and the weather wet. We had four meetings, and rode about fourscore miles; and though I had travelled much in this province, I had never been at some of those places before: but a few nights before I set out, I had a plain prospect of them in a dream, or night vision, as I saw them afterwards, which I thought somewhat remarkable.

The people inhabiting this province, are now become numerous, and make many settlements in the woods, more than I have observed in my travels in any of the British plantations; and there hath long been a desire in my mind that