favourable visitation we blessed the great name of the Almighty, and parted tenderly in Christian love and good-will, The Friend we went to visit died the next day. He was a helper of the poor, and a maker of peace in the neighbourhood of such, Christ said, "Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God."

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On the 10th of the fourth month, 1724, I had a concern to write the following epistle to Friends in the island of Barbadoes.

"Frankfort, the 10th of the 4th mo. 1724.

"DEAR FRIENDS,

"In the tender love of God, our heavenly Father, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, do I, your brother, at this time greet you, and wish you health and salvation. Understanding by a concerned Friend, that of late several of our Friends are taken away from you by death, a concern came on my mind to put you in remembrance of your latter end, and of the cause of Christ; and also, of the prosperity of his blessed light and truth in your (in that respect poor, though in some others, rich and luxurious) island: the posterity of many that have been taken away there, as well as in divers other places, having gone astray; and that it may not be so with those who are left behind, let a weighty concern come upon you. O dear Friends! let your practices and expressions,

manifest to the rising generation, that the welfare of their souls, more than of their bodies, is at heart with you; and do not indulge them in that which you in yourselves were convinced to be of an evil tendency, when your hearts were first reached by the power of truth. How many youths have been lost, through the looseness of the example of their elders, and through an undue indulgence of them in vanity, folly, pride, and idleness! Woful experience doth but too much declare that they are many-O they are many indeed, who have been lost by so doing! Wherefore dear Friends, clear yourselves of your children; and, if they will obstinately go astray, faithfully bear your testimony against them, in life, doctrine, or expressions, and conversation, which will witness for you when you are dead and gone, and your heads laid in the silent grave. Thus will your youth, through the blessing of God, and your endeavours, come up in your places, or at least you will be clear, and their blood will be upon their own heads. A pure strict watch is required of you in conversation, in all those relations; First, That God may be glorified. Secondly, That your children may be exampled. Thirdly, That your neighbours may be edified, or built up in pure religion: and fourthly, That you may die in peace with Him that created you, and died for you; remembering the blessed doctrine of Christ Jesus, Let your light so shine before men, that others seeing your good works, may glorify your

Father which is in heaven. And again, You are as a city set on a hill, which cannot be hid. And as you thus train up your children in the way which they should go, when they are young, you may have reason to hope they will not depart from it when they are old; for many have been convinced of the truth, as it is in Jesus Christ, through the good conversation of his followers. And how can we expect to die well, if we do not live well? Or can we expect the answer of "Well done," if we are not in the practice of doing well?

"And I do desire and earnestly exhort Friends to read the holy Scriptures, and wait to feel the power from which they sprung, through the holy writers, and also to teach them to their children. And, dear Friends, let me prevail with you in the love of God and his dear Son, to keep close to your meetings for the worship of Almighty God, and for the well-ordering of your society; and do it in the meek spirit, for that is of great price with the Lord; and, when in your meetings, get into a religious exercise, and lively concern for God's glory, and your souls' peace and prosperity. I pray the holy Lord of Sabbath, to open your hearts to him in the reading of this epistle, as mine is open to you, my beloved Friends, that you and may be edified, (though outwardly separated), as we were when together; and if we should never meet more in this world, that we may meet in the kingdom of God, where we may

never part more. Amen. Hallelujah, saith my

soul.

"I desire this may be copied and read at the close of one of each of your particular meetings, and, if it could be readily, in every family of Friends; to all whom is my very dear love in Jesus Christ, whose servant I am, and hope to be to the end, and I am an entire lover of souls, and a well-wisher of Sion's prosperity.

"T. CHALKLEY."

On the 11th of the fourth month I left home on a journey to Long-Island, in order to visit Friends meetings, and also to negociate some business I had there; the first meeting 1 had was at Burlington, where I had occasion to advise them to keep in remembrance that ancient love which first united our society together, and in which, in times of cruel persecution, some freely offered to suffer the imprisonment of their bodies to obtain the liberty of their friends in confinement. From thence we travelled to Amboy, and so over to Staten-Island. The day being very hot, and the evening cold, I got a severe cold, which I did not get clear of for about two weeks, notwithstanding which, I went to meetings, though ill in body. The first meeting I had on Long-Island, was at Flushing, on a first-day: a comfortable meeting it was! in which was closely pressed, the taking up the cross of Christ, by all who desire to be his disciples, and that without it we could not be true

Christians. From Flushing we went to MuskettoCove, and had a meeting there on third-day, which was large, and to general satisfaction, and some were there that were newly convinced. I seeing the openness of the, meeting, advised Friends to build a meeting-house there, which they approved of. On fourth-day we had a meeting at Westbury, and on fifth-day at Cowneck. From Cowneck I went to the south-side of the island, and had a meeting at Captain Hicks's. The neighbours who were not of our society, came generally to this meeting, and they were pressingly exhorted to come to Christ, and the way opened unto them. It was a good time, and I thought a time of love to us all; though before the meeting I was exceedingly shut up in myself, so that the meeting was very beneficial to me, among the rest, to see how the Lord could work by his power, and unlock the soul, as in a moment, as he did for my poor soul at times. O, may I, with Christ's followers and ministers, ever depend upon him, is my petition! From Rockway, for so is the place called, we went to Westbury, and had a very large meeting on a first-day; and, as I was informed, some were convinced there that day. From hence I went to a place called Foster's meadows, where we had a large meeting in one Duesbury's barn. After this I went over to the main land, and had a meeting at a place called Westchester. From thence we went to Flushing, and had a large meeting on a fifth-day of the