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Byberry 1st mo 28th 1794
Beloved friend
I recieved thy accaptable lines on the day after the arrival of our dear Friends from your land, and felt a degree of gladening Comfort to be thus remembered by them and may acknowledge, that Duty as well as Inclination would prompt me to visit thy beloved Daughter, and indeed it was Cordial to my Spirit to find that a calm acquiesence to the divine Will seemed evinced by his Deportment. yet no doubt at Seasons, may drop the silent tear as the affect of pure sympathy in retrospecting what is past, which adorned with the same Garment of precious Innocence in which dear Sarah lived and a Heart that flows with Love to all. Oh dear Freind the united sentiments of oyour Esteem and affection for me hath quickened to solicitations that I may walk worthy thereof, for like other poor Pilgrims, I have often fears concerning myself and admire truly that I have been ever thought of to move on the Gospel Errand, having been long among the Pots and indeed should have fainted under the many Conflicts alloted, ahd not the Holy Arm been made bear which is stron to save and mighty to deliver. I fervently wish thy Encouragement, having no doubt but that the Lord is on thy Side, and will become thy staff towards a declining period, having refreshed thy Spirit when living only by Faith with the Bread of his own Table, and affording a Taste of the pure Brook for the allaying that Spiritual
