Quaker heroines in prison
“The English Fryar [in the prison] was wrath, and shewed us his Crucifix, and bid us look there. We said, ‘The Lord saith, “Thou shalt not make to thyself the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow to them nor worship them, but I the Lord thy God only.”‘
He was so mad, he called for the irons to chain Sarah [Cheevers], because she spake so boldly to him: She bowed her head, and said to him, ‘Not only my feet, but my hands and my neck also for the Testimony of Jesus.’
His wrath was soon appeased, and he said he would do us any good he could; he did see what we did was not in malice, the power had broken him down for that present.”
— Katherine Evans, 1662
Quaker minister
Today’s Invitation
Remain faithful in the face of wrath.
This Week’s Query
When have you made sacrifices to follow the will of God, as early Quakers did?
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