sell, it fell through for nearly four years, and we continued our meetings as before.

One day, while I was speaking, the power of the Lord laid hold on a quaker woman, and as she was about to escape, she fell on her hands and knees. Some of her friends helped her up, got her into a waggon, and carried her off. I was afterwards informed that it took them two weeks to kill her convictions. The work of the Lord went on among the people, and I continued to impress the necessity of sanctification upon believers. We had at that time, twelve children who were converted to God. One of our sisters got deeply convinced, that she must be holy in heart; and one night the Spirit of God came upon her, so that she arose out of her bed, went on her knees, and prayed to God to give her a clean heart, and to sanctify her nature; her mother ran and caught her about the neck, and told her to go to bed, for there was no occasion for so much ado about religion. She went to bed, but without the blessing: though her distress was so great, that she could not rest. Soon she was up on the floor again, crying earnestly to God; her mother hauled her on the bed again; she then rose again and entreated her mother to let her alone, and she then forbore. While she continued wrestling with God-for the blessing, the power of the Lord came upon her, so that she lost the use of her bodily powers for some time. When she came to again, she knew that God had sanctified her soul.

It is about fifteen years since she received this inestimable blessing: and, from that time to this, her life and conduct has adorned the gospel.

Next evening, at class-meeting, she came and rehearsed the matter, and told us that God had sanctified her soul: this gave a fresh spring to ma

ny. A few days after, one of our sisters was engaged with God for a clean heart; she went five times on her knees to prayer, and then concluded that she was going to die. O, said she, that daddy Abbott was here to see me die! Then she went to prayer again; but still grew worse. She went to the door to call some near neighbours; but could not utter one word: she then shut the door, and went to prayer the seventh time; and the power of the Lord came wonderfully upon her, and she fell to the floor as one dead. When she came to, she knew that God had sanctified her soul; she then arose, and at that instant I came in at the door, and she cried out, "Daddy Abbott, God has given me a clean heart!" At that moment, God sealed it so to my heart, that I cried out, and could not forbear; we rejoiced together in a glorious hope of immortality. This alarmed several, and set them all on fire for sanctification.

The next meeting-day, in time of preaching, we had a powerful time, and a number fell to the floor; one man attempted to run off, but God laid him down at the door. A woman made the same attempt, but the Spirit of the eternal God arrested her, and she fell back into the house just as she was going out of the door. After preaching, we had a blessed time in class: while claiming the promises, several were soon down, both on the right and left; some found peace, and others professed sanctification. One very wicked woman was arrested by the mighty power of God, and scrabbled out at the door, and laid hold of a cheese-press to prevent herself from falling. After a while, she set off for home, and when about half way, she began to conclude that it was only a fright, occasioned by seeing, others so agitated; and as she was passing thro' a skirt of wood, she was again arrested by the

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Spirit of God, which convinced her of omnipo tent power; and trembling, she went home and threw herself on the bed, and there lost the usual power of her body and limbs, and shook to that degree, that the bed on which she lay, trembled under her. The alarm ran through the neighbourhood with as great surprise as if one had been murdered.

In the evening I went to see her, where I found about forty of the neighbours assembled to see what was the matter, She then lay shaking as heretofore in a very strange manner. I then exhorted the people, and told them that this was the wonderful work of God, and that if they would not believe it, they would not believe if God Almighty was to stand by them as he stood by Moses in a flame of fire. The people looked as if they were under sentence of death, while an awful terror was stamped on every face. She then broke out in exhortation, exhorting them all not to live as she had done. You see, said she, what sin has brought me to; she spake near one hour, and many wept under her exhortation. Whenever an opportunity offered, I threw in a word for Jesus. She continued in this strange posture two days and nights, and then the Lord gave her strength to get out of bed: but as yet she had not found peace. In the evening of the third day, she came to my house to family duty, and the Lord set her soul at liberty. She returned home, rejoicing in God her Saviour, joined society, and continued a faithful member about six months. Her case afterward was singular. A dispute between her husband and one of our members, being left to men, was decided against him; this gave her such umbrage that she came no more to meeting, soon she returned to her old practices again, and became a two-fold worse child of hell than at

the beginning, cursing, swearing, and blaspheming in a most horrid manner.

In about eighteen months after, God sent the grim monster death, to arrest her. In her sickness she sent for me. I went, and exhorted her to try to turn to God; but she said she could not see how God could have mercy on her, as she had sinned so grievously against such light and knowledge. There being several backsliders present, she exhorted them to turn to God before it was eternally too late. I endeavoured to apply all the promises for back-sliders from Genesis to Revelations, but without faith. I then called the people together, and went to prayer, but it seemed as if my mouth was stopped, and my prayers were without access. I arose from prayer and exhorted her to try to pray, but she replied, I have no heart or power to pray: but, said I, keep begging of God to give you a heart to pray; for the spirit of prayer is the gift of God, and you have your senses, and who knows what God may do for you. So I bid her farewell, and went home. They sent for me again; but I told the messenger that my temporal affairs were in such a situation that I could not then go. In the afternoon, her son came for me again; I told him I could not well go. Oh, do go! (said he, and burst into a flood of tears) for she frightens us so, that we are afraid to stay in the house. I told him to go by the house and ask my daughter Rebecca, (intending to go myself in the evening) he did so, and she went. She found a number of the neighbours gathered, expecting the woman was dying. When she went in, the sick woman was pointing with her hand, saying to the by-standers, "Do not you see the devils there ready to sieze my soul and drag it to hell?" Some of them said, There are no devils here, she is out

of her senses; but she replied, I have my senses as well as ever I had in my life. She then cried out, "I am in hell! I am in hell! I am in hell!" but said they, You are not in hell, you are out of your senses. She replied, "I am not out of my senses; but I feel as much of the torturing torments of the damned as a mortal can feel in the body!" Her flesh rotted on her bones, and fell from one of her sides, so that her entrails might be seen. In this awful terrible situation she left this stage of action. Alas! Alas! We to back-sliders! Surely if there be one place of greater punishment than another, among the torments of the damned, that will be their portion. That God may alarm their guilty fears, before iniquity prove their eternal ruin and their souls are centered among devils and damned ghosts, is the desire of my soul !

I had often urged on the people the necessity of building a meeting-house, for the space of about four years, in lower Penns-neck, during which period we had frequently held our meet-< ings under the trees, when the weather admitted. One day meeting with a carpenter, I agreed with him to build one. He came at the time appointed. I told him that we had got no tim ber for the building, and therefore I must go a begging. Accordingly we set out and went to a neighbour, and told him we were going to build a house for God, and asked him what he would give us towards it; he answered, two sticks of timber for sills. We then went to the widow M'C's, a professing quaker, and she gave us two more, and sent her team to haul them to the place. We then went to Mr. Wm. Philpot, and he gave us sufficient for the house, though not even a professor with us; may the Lord reward him accordingly. I then went among our friends, and told them that they must come and