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

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Mission with Prophetic Power: The Journal of John Woolman

“peaceable government of Christ.” Upon landing, Woolman begins to attend meetings and visit individuals. He reflects on the economics of stagecoaches and silver utensils. This section of his Journal ends with an account of some experiences while in his earlier struggle with pleurisy (see the end of the previous chapter). The account of his final sickness and death was penned by one of the Friends who cared for him in his last days, Woolman ever conscious to live consistent with his values, even to the point of evaluating which medicines he would receive. T he T ext Decision to Journey to England in the Sailor’s Quarters (April 1772) Having been some time under a religious concern* to prepare for crossing the seas, in order to visit Friends in the northern parts of England, and more particularly in Yorkshire, after consideration I thought it expedient to inform Friends of it at our Monthly Meeting at Burlington, who, having unity with me therein, gave me a certificate. I afterward communicated the same to our Quarterly Meeting, and they likewise certified their concurrence. Sometime after, at the General Spring Meeting of ministers and elders, I thought it my duty to acquaint them with the religious exercise* which attended my mind; and they likewise signified their unity therewith by a certificate, dated the twenty-fourth of Third Month, 1772, directed to Friends in Great Britain. In the Fourth Month following, I thought the time was come for me to make some inquiry for a suitable conveyance; and as my concern* was principally toward