 | American literature - 1894 - 880 pages
...exception to the rule. Toward morning the voice of the Almighty sounded in the little chamber, saying : " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all." Thus, he writes,... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - Pennsylvania - 1899 - 614 pages
...walked up and down," and "sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord." Finally the divine message came. " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all." This was in... | |
 | George Fox - Quakers - 1903 - 556 pages
...sleep, but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord, who said unto me, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be a stranger unto all." Then... | |
 | George Fox - 1903 - 326 pages
...but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord, who said unto me : " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all." Then, at the... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1903 - 416 pages
...Bunyan's prolonged struggle against temptation. " Thou seest," was the voice sounding in his ears, " how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth; thou must forsake all and be a stranger unto all." Fox's mind was agitated by a craving for truth and... | |
 | John Stephenson Rowntree - Society of Friends - 1908 - 496 pages
...hard lot of the poor, the oppressed, and the ignorant. A heavenly voice seemed to whisper to him — " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and be as a stranger unto all."f So in the summer days... | |
 | Cornelia Mitchell Parsons - Quakers - 1911 - 380 pages
...narrative." " One night," continued John Bowne, " they said Master Fox heard the following words : " ' Thou seest how young people go together into vanity and old people into the earth; therefore thou must forsake all young and old and be a stranger to them.' The boy believed it to be... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Church history - 1912 - 702 pages
...crying to the Lord, and heard a voice speaking to him: ' Thou seest how young people go together unto vanity, and old people into the earth, and thou must...and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.' ' Then,' says Fox, ' at the command of God, on the ninth day of the seventh month 1643, I left my relations... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - Mysticism - 1921 - 326 pages
...degree of sham, in the world around him, and he heard, as though through an audition, the command, " Thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all and be as a stranger unto all." Therefore 6 Journal I, p. 2. 7 Journal I, Preface p. xliv. 8 Journal I, p. 3. 3 Journal I, p. 3. he... | |
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Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all. 
