The Life of Thomas Story - 1 Author:Thomas Story Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: W. Alexander Subjects: Quakers Society of Friends United States Religion / Christianity / Quaker Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ther... more »e may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: F5 His concern to visit America. -- Goes with Roger Gill, 9th mo. 1698. -- Their voyage. -- Travels in America, 1698 and 1699. -- Dispute on predestination -- water baptism. I now turn my face towards America, and think proper to go back in point of time, in order to relate how my concern for that part of the world began in me and increased. In the year 1693, as I was riding alone one evening in Cumberland, the power of Divine Truth moved upon my mind, and my heart was greatly tendered before the Lord ; and the word of the Lord opened in me, saying : " Behold my visitation cometh over the western parts of the world, towards the sun-setting in the time of winter." And I was greatly comforted in the words of his holiness. From henceforward I was often tendered in spirit, in remembrance of the western world, in a sense of the love and visitation of God to a people there whom I had never seen ; which was more and more renewed and settled upon ray mind, in frequent tenderiugs and brokenness of heart, under the influence of the Divine pre- 1698. i 6 scnce; but hitherto I knew not that the call of the Lord was to me to visit those parts. And in the time of the Yearly Meeting at London, in 1695, Aaron Atkinson being concerned in prayer, among other petitions to the Lord, prayed for the western countries and places beyond the seas, " that the Lord would please to send forth his ministers, in the power of his Word, to publish the day of g...« less