BEING A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND FRAGMENTS, BIOGRAPHICAL, RELIGIOUS, EPISTOLARY, NARRATIVE DESIGNED FOR THE PROMOTION OF PIETY AND VIRTUE, TO PRESERVE IN THOSE MANUSCRIPTS LEFT BY THEM, WHICH MAY BE USEFUL TO SURVIVORS. The memory of the just is blessed.-Solomon, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. John vi. 12. EDITED BY JOHN & ISAAC COMLY, BYBERRY, VOL. VI. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR THE EDITORS BY J. RICHARDS, No. 129 North Third Street. 1835. CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. Memoirs of Elisha Kirk, of York, Pennsylvania, Elisha Kirk's Journal of a religious visit southward, Testimony of York monthly meeting concerning Elisha Kirk, 73 Recollections of some of the last expressions of Elisha Kirk, 72 Epistle from Friends at Congenies, to Friends in London, Answer to said Epistle, by Friends of London, Sarah Grubb's account of her visit to Congenies, Richard Jordan's visit to Friends of Congenies, Account of William Hunt, of Carolina, Elizabeth Coates's account of William Hunt's last expressions, 176 Letters of W. Hunt to James and Ann Mitchell, John Hunt, &c. 180 Phebe Speakman's Travels in England, Ireland, &c. Letters to Phebe Speakman-from Thomas Carleton, Samuel Smith, Deborah Darby, Rebecca Young, John Parrish, Lind- FRIENDS' MISCELLANY. No. 1.] EIGHTH MONTH, 1834. [VOL. VI. MEMOIRS Of the Life of Elisha Kirk. The subject of the following Memoirs was born in the township of East Caln, county of Chester, and State of Pennsylvania, on the 25th of the 12th mo. 1757. His parents, Caleb and Elizabeth Kirk, were members of the religious Society of Friends; and by their piety and consistent conduct as such, were an ornament to their profession. Under their care the mind of their son was prepared, in very early life, to receive the seed of the heavenly kingdom, and, like the good ground, to bring forth fruit to the praise of the great Husbandman. It appears, by a brief memorandum in his own handwriting, that so early as the fifth year of his age, his mind was susceptible of "the reproofs of instruction." On one occasion, having been guilty of disobedience to his father, he says, "Afterwards, walking out alone, I was led into a state of deep thoughtfulness about my situation, attended with an anxious desire that I might so live, in future, as to obtain a state of happiness, when time to me should be no more; being at that time convinced that I could not inherit such a state without obedience to my parents, and a cross to my own inclinations." Such early fruits of religious care, and evident manifestation of the Divine Gift, afford great encourageVOL. VI.-1 |