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He was one of the twelve Quakers who acquired East New Jersey, of which he was appointed nominal Governor. His latter years were spent at his estate of Ury, where he d. The essential view which B. maintained was, that Christians are illuminated by an inner light superseding even the Scriptures as the guide of life. His works have often been reprinted.
And hot tears dribbled down onto my sheep's-head night-caps. "Oh, Samantha!" sez he, takin' out his bandanna and weepin' in consort, "what is money or ambition compared to the idol of my heart? I'll write to Ury to change the law agin." "Dear Josiah!" sez I, "I knew, I knew you couldn't be so wicked as to continue what you had begun. But can you do it?" sez I.
"I believe, if I had been there, and had a string round Adam's leg, I could kep' him from fallin' off; and say, where was the Lord? Couldn't He have kept him? say, couldn't He?" "Yes: He can do any thing." "Wall, then, why didn't He?" Josiah groaned, low. "If Adam hadn't fell, I wouldn't have fell, would I? nor you nor Ury nor anybody?" "No: I s'pose not."
Says I, "What ever put it into your head to do such a thing as this?" "Why," says he, "I got to thinkin' of it on the way to the cars. Philury said she would love to go and see her sister in Buffalo; and Ury, of course, wanted to go and see his sister in Rochester.
You'll have to carry the responsibility of all the evil it duz, and it will be a lastin' disgrace to you and the hull Methodist meetin-house if you let it go on." Agin he sez, "Ury fixed it all right." "How did Ury fix it?" sez I, in the cold axents of woman's skorn and curiosity. "Well, Ury said, make Bardeen stop sellin' whiskey out of the cupboard, make him sell it out of the chist.
"Yes," sez I, "half a cent would go a good ways in buyin' family stores." "Well, it would have a rich look, Samantha, and I mean to make some when I git home. Why, Ury and I could make hundreds of 'em out of our old copper kettle that has got a hole in it, and I shouldn't wonder if I could pass 'em."
Josiah sez to me admirin'ly, "How such a costoom would brighten up our cornfield if I and Ury appeared in 'em." Sez I, "Ury would git his sash and hat ribbons all twisted up in his hoe handle the first thing." "They might be looped up," sez Josiah, "with rosettes."
And I had all the things got, and took 'em up in one of our chambers, so folks could see 'em. And I beset Josiah Allen to give 'em for his present, a nice bedroom carpet. But no: he had got his mind made up to give Ury a yearlin' calf, and calf it must be.
His name is Urias; but we always call him Ury, spelt U-r-y, Ury, with the emphasis on the U. Wall, that day Elder Minkly preached. It wus a powerful sermon, about the creation of the world, and how man was made, and the fall of Adam, and about Noah and the ark, and how the wicked wus destroyed.
Captain Barclay of Ury and Mr Innes laid a heavy bet with Finzean that they would produce six better men in Durris than Finzean could do in all his estates. The men were selected, and the day was fixed; a long and strong rope was procured, which crossed the Dee, and twelve yards to each side extra, to allow the men to be tied in at regular distances from each other.
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