Mission with Prophetic Power: The Journal of John Woolman (SRSC 12)

Chapter 7: Discerning the Way Forward (1769–1770)

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Near a week after this, feeling my mind livingly opened,* I sent for a neighbor, who, at my request, wrote as follows: The place of prayer is a precious habitation; for I now saw that the prayers of the saints were precious incense (Rev 5:8); and a trumpet was given to me that I might sound forth this language; that the children might hear it and be invited together to this precious habitation, where the prayers of the saints, as sweet incense, arise before the throne of God and the Lamb. I saw this habitation to be safe—to be inwardly quiet when there were great stirrings and commotions in the world. Prayer, at this day, in pure resignation, is a precious place: the trumpet is sounded; the call goes forth to the Church that she gather to the place of pure inward prayer; and her habitation is safe.