A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LABOURS OF ✓ RICHARD JORDAN, A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN THE Society of Friends, Late of Newton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma- Philadelphia: Printed and Published by THOMAS KITE-64 WALNUT STREET. Day TESTIMONY OF HADDONFIELD MONTHLY MEETING CONCERNING OUR BELOVED FRIEND RICHARD JORDAN, DECEASED. IT appears from memorandums which he has left, that his parents, Joseph and Patience Jordan, were members of our religious society. His father being much from home on business, and his mother dying whilst he was quite young, his education was so far neglected, that he was but a few times at a religious meeting of Friends, until he was twelve years old. But the watchful care and unspeakable mercy of the Lord, was manifested in the tendering visitations of his holy spirit, exciting awful impressions on his mind respecting a future state, and raising at times fervent desires after an inheritance among the spirits of the sanctified in heaven, when time to him should be no longer. But not keeping close to this religious exercise, the tendering sense of divine goodness became much effaced, his mind alienated from the source of all true comfort, and his feet with avidity were tracing the paths of temptation and lying vanities. In this condition it pleased the Shep |