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gone to Brooklyn then to Roberts found a number of our Orthodox friends there but they soon went to their evening meeting Cousin Maria remained at home with head ache At our meeting we had James & Lucretia Saul Townsend from Bal & Saul & Levi John J Menite very soon walked up to the gallery steps and gave a long discourse his text was "Where the Spirit of the Lord is thine is liberty he spoke very correctly and the greatest [?] part will some ideas that we should be amenable to no decisive [?] naming [?] many things which was against the rule of the sect but which he believed all should judge for themselves that of bearing arms should not be an offence he saw he was educated a traditional Quaker and in his zeal [?] he became a presentor [?] and he not only held the garments of those who stoned them but he cast the stones he spoke of the bible as being applicable to the time in wh[ich] it was written and not as a rule for us we must judge men by their works instead of belief that he would as willingly remembe[r] good from Mahomet [?] [Mohamed?] as from a Jesus or expert salvation from [struck from text] as soon from one as the other Such ideas shocked some who are strengthening in the bible and orthodox view of salvation atonement & S Levie was very personal illustrating his idea that he [?] saw things very dimly men as trees walking etc etc [?] Saul Townsend said he had been greatified [?] during the M to witness the great attention to views wh[ich] might seem somewhat conflicting was very good Then Lucretia spoke and soon said now at the close