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The principal stoves are of Godstone stone only, no iron or metal work being used. The architects are Messrs. Wadmore & Baker, of 35 Great St. Helens, E.C.; the builders, Messrs. Penn Brothers, of Pembury, Kent. Building News.
But though George Fox introduced no new dress into the society, he was not indifferent on the subject he recommended simplicity and plainness and declaimed against the fashions of the times supported by Barclay and Penn these explained the objects of dress the influence of these explanations dress at length incorporated into the discipline but no standard fixed either of shape or colour the objects of dress only recognized, and simplicity recommended a new Era great variety allowable by the discipline Quakers have deviated less from the dress of their ancestors than other people.
Ford retain it, but she sued Penn for three thousand pounds rent, which was due, she said, from the property of which William was once owner, but which he now held as tenant of the Fords. So far was this iniquitous business pursued, that Penn was arrested as he was at a religious meeting in Gracechurch Street, and was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet, or its precincts.
We have, as far as I can now remember, but one instance, upon record, of an amicable coalition of interests between public bodies; I mean that of William Penn, the excellent and justly celebrated Quaker, with the Inhabitants of the Country, now, after his Name called Pensylvania, a little before the Revolution in 1668. The peace of that Colony has been less disturbed than that of any other.
The dinner that evening at the Penn was a very pleasant affair indeed, at all events for Courtenay and myself; for on that occasion we reaped the first-fruits of all the toil and peril which we had recently encountered in the shape of that ungrudging and unstinted praise and commendation which is so welcome and so encouraging to the young aspirant for fame.
It would require powerful influence at Court; nothing could then be done about it; and Pennsylvania had to wait until William Penn became a man with influence enough in 1681 to win it from the Crown. But here was West Jersey, no longer owned directly by the Crown and bought in cheap by two Quakers. It was an unexpected opportunity.
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, and when Penn made his treaty with the Indians, the new-comers had to build their houses, to cultivate the earth, and to take care of their souls. In such a community science, in its more abstract forms, was not to be thought of.
His submission was not required, for on looking out, two men and three or four boys were seen coming towards the penn, bearing bowls of water, and dishes filled with barley-gruel. Jim had conquered in the strife between master and man. The old sheik had given orders for the white slaves to be fed. Jim's frenzy immediately subsided into an excitement of a different nature.
Then, too, the satisfaction is by no means inconsiderable of throwing aside the worn and soiled habiliments of labor and appearing in neat and comfortable attire. The moral influence of dress has not been overrated even by Carlyle's Professor in his Sartor Resartus. William Penn says that cleanliness is akin to godliness.
The Quaker City of the dove, That fain would call a land to fling Its spites away, and 'neath thy wing Renew the treaty made by Penn In the wildwood with wilder men; Yet true men still! Be this the token loyal faith, a pledge unbroken! O year that wear'st thy aloe-flower So proudly! may thy touch have power Of healing!
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