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| Ada Bottesfordian, 1951. 18 Winter Street. |
"And Friends, though you may have tasted of the power
and been convinced and have felt the light, yet afterwards you may feel winter
storms, tempests, and hail, and be frozen, in frost and cold and a wilderness
and temptations. Be patient and still in the power and still in the light that
doth convince you, to keep your minds to God; in that be quiet, that you may
come to the summer, that your flight be not in the winter. For if you sit still
in the patience which overcomes in the power of God, there will be no flying.
For the husbandman, after he hath sown his seed, he is patient. For by the
power and by the light you will come to see through and feel over winter
storms, tempests, and all the coldness, barrenness, emptyness. And the same
light and power will go over the tempter’s head, which power and light were
before he was. And so in the light standing still you will see your salvation,
you will see the Lord’s strength, you will feel the small rain, you will feel
the fresh springs . . ."
Thanks to the Hay
Quaker blog by Ray Lovegrove, for this lovely quote and provision of the
artwork.
George
Fox, 1624-1691, was founder of the movement Society of Friends, which came
to be called Quakers. Mary Dyer was "convinced" of their beliefs in the
1650s, and gave her life to stop the deadly persecution of Quakers in New England.
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