Chapter VII第七章
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Visit, in Company with Samuel Eastburn, to Long Island, Rhode Island, Boston, etc.— Remarks on the Slave-Trade at New-port; also on Lotteries— Some Observations on the Island of Nantucket.与塞缪尔·伊斯特本结伴探访长岛、罗得岛、波士顿等地；关于新港奴隶贸易的评论，也论彩票；关于楠塔基特岛的若干观察。
Fourth month, 1760.— Having for some time past felt a sympathy in my mind with Friends eastward, I opened my concern in our Monthly Meeting, and, obtaining a certificate, set forward on the 17th of this month, in company with my beloved friend Samuel Eastburn. We had meetings at Woodbridge, Rahway, and Plainfield, and were at their Monthly Meeting of ministers and elders in Rahway. We labored under some discouragement, but through the invisible power of truth our visit was made reviving to the lowly-minded, with whom I felt a near unity of spirit, being much reduced in my mind. We passed on and visited most of the meetings on Long Island. It was my concern from day to day to say neither more nor less than what the spirit of truth opened in me, being jealous over myself lest I should say anything to make my testimony look agreeable to that mind in people which is not in pure obedience to the cross of Christ.一七六〇年第四月。过去一段时间，我心中一直感到与东部教友有同情；我在我们的月会中打开自己的关切，取得证明书后，于本月十七日同亲爱的朋友塞缪尔·伊斯特本结伴出发。我们在伍德布里奇、拉威和平原镇举行聚会，并参加了拉威的传道人和长老月会。我们在一些灰心之下劳苦，但借着真理不可见的能力，我们的探访使低微之心得更新；我与他们感到灵里亲近合一，自己心中也极其降卑。 我们继续前行，探访了长岛大多数聚会。我每天所关切的是，不多说也不少说，只说真理之灵在我里面所开启的；我警醒自己，恐怕说出什么话，使我的见证显得迎合人里面那种并不纯粹顺服基督十字架的心思。
The spring of the ministry was often low, and through the subjecting power of truth we were kept low with it; from place to place they whose hearts were truly concerned for the cause of Christ appeared to be comforted in our labors, and though it was in general a time of abasement of the creature, yet through his goodness who is a helper of the poor we had some truly edifying seasons both in meetings and in families where we tarried; sometimes we found strength to labor earnestly with the unfaithful, especially with those whose station in families or in the Society was such that their example had a powerful tendency to open the way for others to go aside from the purity and soundness of the blessed truth.职事的泉源常常很低；借着真理使人降服的能力，我们也与它一同保持低位。各处凡真心为基督事业挂心的人，在我们的劳苦中似乎得着安慰；虽然总体上那是受造者降卑的时期，但借着那帮助贫穷者之主的良善，我们在聚会中，以及在我们停留的家庭中，都有一些真正使人得造就的时刻。 有时我们得着力量，同不忠信者恳切劳苦，尤其是那些在家庭或本会中所处地位使其榜样有强大倾向、会为别人偏离蒙福真理的纯洁和健全打开道路的人。
At Jericho, on Long Island, I wrote home as follows:—在长岛杰里科，我写信回家如下：
24th of the fourth month, 1760.一七六〇年第四月二十四日。
Dearly beloved Wife!至亲爱的妻子：
We are favored with health; have been at sundry meetings in East Jersey and on this island. My mind hath been much in an inward, watchful frame since I left thee, greatly desiring that our proceedings may be singly in the will of our Heavenly Father.我们蒙恩身体健康；已经参加了东泽西和本岛上的若干聚会。自从离开你以后，我的心多处在内在警醒的状态中，极其渴望我们的行动能单一地在天父旨意中进行。
As the present appearance of things is not joyous, I have been much shut up from outward cheerfulness, remembering that promise, “Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord”; as this from day to day has been revived in my memory, I have considered that his internal presence in our minds is a delight of all others the most pure, and that the honest-hearted not only delight in this, but in the effect of it upon them. He regards the helpless and distressed, and reveals his love to his children under affliction, who delight in beholding his benevolence, and in feeling Divine charity moving in them. Of this I may speak a little, for though since I left you I have often an engaging love and affection towards thee and my daughter, and friends about home, and going out at this time, when sickness is so great amongst you, is a trial upon me; yet I often remember there are many widows and fatherless, many who have poor tutors, many who have evil examples before them, and many whose minds are in captivity; for whose sake my heart is at times moved with compassion, so that I feel my mind resigned to leave you for a season, to exercise that gift which the Lord hath bestowed on me, which though small compared with some, yet in this I rejoice, that I feel love unfeigned towards my fellow-creatures. I recommend you to the Almighty, who I trust, cares for you, and under a sense of his heavenly love remain,由于目前事物的景象并不喜乐，我多被关闭在外在欢愉之外，记起那应许：“那时你必以主为乐。”这话一天天在我记忆中更新时，我想到，他在我们心中的内在同在，是一切喜乐中最纯洁的；心地诚实的人不仅以此为乐，也以它在自己身上的果效为乐。他顾念无助和困苦者，并向受苦中的儿女显明他的爱；他们以看见他的仁慈、并感到神圣仁爱在自己里面运行而喜乐。 对此我可以稍说一点：自从离开你们以后，我常常对你和女儿，以及家附近的朋友有一种吸引人的爱和情感；在你们中间疾病如此严重的时候出门，对我也是试炼。然而我常常记起，有许多寡妇和孤儿，有许多人受贫乏的教师教导，有许多人面前有恶劣榜样，还有许多人的心处于囚禁之中。为他们的缘故，我的心有时被怜悯感动，以致我感到自己的心顺服，愿意暂时离开你们，去运用主赐给我的恩赐。它虽比起一些人的恩赐为小，但我在这事上喜乐：我感到对同类有无伪的爱。我把你们托付给全能者；我信靠他照管你们，并在感受他的属天之爱中仍然是，
Thy loving husband,你亲爱的丈夫，
J. W.J. W.
We crossed from the east end of Long Island to New London, about thirty miles, in a large open boat; while we were out, the wind rising high, the waves several times beat over us, so that to me it appeared dangerous, but my mind was at that time turned to Him who made and governs the deep, and my life was resigned to him; as he was mercifully pleased to preserve us I had fresh occasion to consider every day as a day lent to me, and felt a renewed engagement to devote my time, and all I had, to him who gave it.我们从长岛东端乘一只大型敞船渡到新伦敦，约三十英里。我们在海上时，风势转强，浪好几次打过船身；在我看来这很危险。但那时我的心转向那创造并治理深海的主，我的生命也交托给他。他既怜悯地乐意保守我们，我就重新有机会把每一天看作借给我的一天，并感到新的负担，要把我的时间和一切所有奉献给那赐下它们的主。
We had five meetings in Narraganset, and went thence to Newport on Rhode Island. Our gracious Father preserved us in an humble dependence on him through deep exercises that were mortifying to the creaturely will. In several families in the country where we lodged, I felt an engagement on my mind to have a conference with them in private, concerning their slaves; and through Divine aid I was favored to give up thereto. Though in this concern I differ from many whose service in travelling is, I believe, greater than mine, yet I do not think hardly of them for omitting it; I do not repine at having so unpleasant a task assigned me, but look with awfulness to him who appoints to his servants their respective employments, and is good to all who serve him sincerely.我们在纳拉甘西特举行了五次聚会，然后从那里前往罗得岛的新港。我们恩慈的父保守我们，在使受造意志受治死的深重操练中，谦卑依靠他。在乡间几家我们住宿的人家中，我心中感到有负担，要同他们私下谈谈关于他们奴隶的事；借着神圣帮助，我蒙恩能顺服这事。 虽然在这项关切上，我同许多旅行服事比我更大的人有所不同，但我并不因他们略过此事而苛责他们；我也不因被指派这样不愉快的任务而抱怨，而是带着敬畏仰望那位给仆人分别指定职分、并善待一切真诚事奉他者的主。
We got to Newport in the evening, and on the next day visited two sick persons, with whom we had comfortable sittings, and in the afternoon attended the burial of a Friend. The next day we were at meetings at Newport, in the fore-noon and afternoon; the spring of the ministry was opened, and strength was given to declare the Word of Life to the people.我们傍晚到达新港，第二天探访两位病人，同他们有安慰人的静坐；下午参加一位教友的葬礼。次日，我们在新港参加上午和下午的聚会；职事的泉源被开启，也有力量赐下，使我们向众人宣告生命之道。
The day following we went on our journey, but the great number of slaves in these parts, and the continuance of that trade from thence to Guinea, made a deep impression on me, and my cries were often put up to my Heavenly Father in secret, that he would enable me to discharge my duty faithfully in such way as he might be pleased to point out to me.再下一天我们继续旅程；但这些地方奴隶人数众多，并且从那里到几内亚的贸易仍在继续，这给我留下深刻印象。我的呼求常常在暗中向天父献上，求他使我能照着他乐意指给我的方式忠心尽责。
We took Swansea, Freetown, and Taunton in our way to Boston, where also we had a meeting; our exercise was deep, and the love of truth prevailed, for which I bless the Lord. We went eastward about eighty miles beyond Boston, taking meetings, and were in a good degree preserved in an humble dependence on that arm which drew us out; and though we had some hard labor with the disobedient, by laying things home and close to such as were stout against the truth, yet through the goodness of God we had at times to partake of heavenly comfort with those who were meek, and were often favored to part with Friends in the nearness of true gospel fellowship. We returned to Boston and had another comfortable opportunity with Friends there, and thence rode back a day’s journey eastward of Boston. Our guide being a heavy man, and the weather hot, my companion and I expressed our freedom to go on without him, to which he consented, and we respectfully took our leave of him; this we did as believing the journey would have been hard to him and his horse.我们经斯旺西、弗里敦和汤顿前往波士顿，在那里也举行了一次聚会；我们的操练很深，真理之爱占了上风，为此我称颂主。我们向东行到波士顿以外约八十英里，沿途参加聚会，并在相当程度上蒙保守，谦卑依靠那引我们出来的膀臂。虽然我们同不顺服的人有些艰难劳苦，把事情贴近那些刚硬抵挡真理的人，但借着上帝的良善，我们有时得以同温柔的人分享属天安慰，并常常蒙恩在真实福音相交的亲近中同教友分别。 我们回到波士顿，在那里同教友又有一次安慰人的机会；随后又向波士顿以东骑行一天路程。我们的向导身体沉重，天气又热，我的同伴和我表示可以不用他继续前行，他同意了，我们便恭敬地同他告别。我们这样做，是因为相信这段旅程对他和他的马都会很辛苦。
In visiting the meetings in those parts we were measurably baptized into a feeling of the state of the Society, and in bowedness of spirit went to the Yearly Meeting at Newport, where we met with John Storer from England, Elizabeth Shipley, Ann Gaunt, Hannah Foster, and Mercy Redman, from our parts, all ministers of the gospel, of whose company I was glad. Understanding that a large number of slaves had been imported from Africa into that town and were then on sale by a member of our Society, my appetite failed, and I grew outwardly weak, and had a feeling of the condition of Habakkuk, as thus expressed, “When I heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered, I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble.” I had many cogitations, and was sorely distressed. I was desirous that Friends might petition the Legislature to use their endeavors to discourage the future importation of slaves, for I saw that this trade was a great evil, and tended to multiply troubles, and to bring distresses on the people for whose welfare my heart was deeply concerned. But I perceived several difficulties in regard to petitioning, and such was the exercise of my mind that I thought of endeavoring to get an opportunity to speak a few words in the House of Assembly, then sitting in town.在探访那些地方的聚会时，我们在一定程度上受洗进入对本会状态的感受，并以灵里屈身前往新港年会。在那里我们遇见来自英国的约翰·斯托勒，以及来自我们这边的伊丽莎白·希普利、安·冈特、汉娜·福斯特和默西·雷德曼，他们都是福音传道人；我为能与他们同在而高兴。 得知有大量奴隶从非洲被输入该镇，并且当时由本会一名成员出售，我便失去食欲，外在身体也软弱起来，并感到哈巴谷所表达的那种境况：“我听见，身体战兢，嘴唇发颤，我在所立之处战兢，好在患难之日得安息。”我有许多思虑，极为痛苦。我渴望教友能请愿立法机关，尽力阻止将来继续输入奴隶；因为我看见这项贸易是大恶，趋向于增多困扰，并把痛苦带给那些其福祉深深牵动我心的人。 但我看见请愿方面有若干困难；我心中操练如此强烈，以致想到要设法找机会在当时正在城中开会的议会中说几句话。
This exercise came upon me in the afternoon on the second day of the Yearly Meeting, and on going to bed I got no sleep till my mind was wholly resigned thereto. In the morning I inquired of a Friend how long the Assembly was likely to continue sitting, who told me it was expected to be prorogued that day or the next. As I was desirous to attend the business of the meeting, and perceived the Assembly was likely to separate before the business was over, after considerable exercise, humbly seeking to the Lord for instruction, my mind settled to attend on the business of the meeting; on the last day of which I had prepared a short essay of a petition to be presented to the Legislature, if way opened. And being informed that there were some appointed by that Yearly Meeting to speak with those in authority on cases relating to the Society, I opened my mind to several of them, and showed them the essay I had made, and afterwards I opened the case in the meeting for business, in substance as follows:—这个操练在年会第二天下午临到我；到了睡觉时，我一直不能入睡，直到我的心完全顺服此事。早晨我询问一位教友，议会大概还会开多久；他告诉我，预计当天或次日休会。由于我渴望参加会议事务，又看出议会很可能在事务结束以前散会，经过相当操练，并谦卑寻求主的教导之后，我的心安定下来，决定专心参加会议事务。 会议最后一天，我预备了一篇短短的请愿草稿，若道路打开，就呈交立法机关。又得知该年会任命了一些人与掌权者谈论有关本会的事务，我便向他们几位打开我的心，并给他们看我所写的草稿；后来我在事务会议中打开此案，大意如下：
“I have been under a concern for some time on account of the great number of slaves which are imported into this colony. I am aware that it is a tender point to speak to, but apprehend I am not clear in the sight of Heaven without doing so. I have prepared an essay of a petition to be presented to the Legislature, if way open; and what I have to propose to this meeting is that some Friends may be named to withdraw and look over it, and report whether they believe it suitable to be read in the meeting. If they should think well of reading it, it will remain for the meeting to consider whether to take any further notice of it, as a meeting, or not.” After a short conference some Friends went out, and, looking over it, expressed their willingness to have it read, which being done, many expressed their unity with the proposal, and some signified that to have the subjects of the petition enlarged upon, and signed out of meeting by such as were free, would be more suitable than to do it there. Though I expected at first that if it was done it would be in that way, yet such was the exercise of my mind that to move it in the hearing of Friends when assembled appeared to me as a duty, for my heart yearned towards the inhabitants of these parts, believing that by this trade there had been an increase of inquietude amongst them, and way had been made for the spreading of a spirit opposite to that meekness and humility which is a sure resting-place for the soul; and that the continuance of this trade would not only render their healing more difficult, but would increase their malady.“一段时间以来，我因大量奴隶被输入本殖民地而处在关切之下。我知道这是一个敏感点，但我觉得若不说出来，在上天眼前我不能清白。我已经预备了一篇请愿草稿，若道路打开，就呈交立法机关；我现在要向本会提议的是，是否可指名几位教友退席查看，并报告他们是否相信这适合在会议中宣读。若他们认为宣读合宜，接下来便由会议考虑，作为一个会议，是否对此进一步注意。” 经过短暂商议，有几位教友出去查看；看后表示愿意宣读。宣读以后，许多人表达了与此提议合一；有些人表示，把请愿主题扩展开来，并由自由愿意的人在会外签署，比在会议中这样做更合适。虽然我起初预期，若此事进行，大概会用那种方式；然而我心中操练如此强烈，以致在教友聚集时把它提出，在我看来是一项责任。因为我的心向这些地方的居民深深挂念；我相信，因这项贸易，他们中间不安已经增加，也为一种同温柔和谦卑相反的灵扩展开路，而温柔和谦卑才是灵魂可靠的安息之所。我也相信，这项贸易若继续，不但会使他们的医治更困难，还会增加他们的病症。
Having proceeded thus far, I felt easy to leave the essay amongst Friends, for them to proceed in it as they believed best. And now an exercise revived in my mind in relation to lotteries, which were common in those parts. I had mentioned the subject in a former sitting of this meeting, when arguments were used in favor of Friends being held excused who were only concerned in such lotteries as were agreeable to law. And now, on moving it again, it was opposed as before; but the hearts of some solid Friends appeared to be united to discourage the practice amongst their members, and the matter was zealously handled by some on both sides. In this debate it appeared very clear to me that the spirit of lotteries was a spirit of selfishness, which tended to confuse and darken the understanding, and that pleading for it in our meetings, which were set apart for the Lord’s work, was not right. In the heat of zeal, I made reply to what an ancient Friend said, and when I sat down I saw that my words were not enough seasoned with charity. After this I spoke no more on the subject. At length a minute was made, a copy of which was to be sent to their several Quarterly Meetings, inciting Friends to labor to discourage the practice amongst all professing with us.事情进展到这一步，我感到可以安心把草稿留在教友中间，让他们照着自己认为最好的方式处理。如今，关于彩票的操练又在我心中更新；彩票在那些地方很常见。我曾在本会前一次会议中提到这个主题，当时有人提出论据，支持只参与符合法律的彩票的教友应被视为可免责。现在我再次提出时，仍像先前一样遭到反对；但一些稳重教友的心似乎联合起来，愿在成员中间阻止这种做法。双方有些人都热切处理此事。 在这场辩论中，我非常清楚地看见，彩票的精神是一种自私之灵，趋向于混乱并遮暗理解；而在我们分别出来为主工作而设的会议中为它辩护，是不正当的。在热心激烈时，我回应了一位年长教友所说的话；坐下以后，我看见自己的言语没有足够用仁爱调和。此后我不再就此主题发言。最后作成一条记录，其副本将送往他们各季会，激励教友在所有同我们一起承认信仰的人中间劳力阻止这种做法。
Some time after this minute was made I remained uneasy with the manner of my speaking to the ancient Friend, and could not see my way clear to conceal my uneasiness, though I was concerned that I might say nothing to weaken the cause in which I had labored. After some close exercise and hearty repentence for not having attended closely to the safe guide, I stood up, and, reciting the passage, acquainted Friends that though I durst not go from what I had said as to the matter, yet I was uneasy with the manner of my speaking, believing milder language would have been better. As this was uttered in some degree of creaturely abasement after a warm debate, it appeared to have a good savor amongst us.这条记录作成以后过了一段时间，我仍因自己对那位年长教友说话的方式而不安，也看不清可以把自己的不安隐藏起来；虽然我也关切，自己不要说什么削弱我所劳苦的事业。经过一些紧密操练，并为没有紧紧留心安全的向导而真诚悔改之后，我站起来，重述那段经过，并告诉教友们：虽然就事情本身而言，我不敢离开自己所说的话，但我对自己的说话方式感到不安，相信更温和的言语本会更好。这话是在一场热烈辩论之后、带着某种程度的受造者降卑说出的，在我们中间似乎有好的香气。
The Yearly Meeting being now over, there yet remained on my mind a secret though heavy exercise, in regard to some leading active members about Newport, who were in the practice of keeping slaves. This I mentioned to two ancient Friends who came out of the country, and proposed to them, if way opened, to have some conversation with those members. One of them and I, having consulted one of the most noted elders who had slaves, he, in a respectful manner, encouraged me to proceed to clear myself of what lay upon me. Near the beginning of the Yearly Meeting, I had had a private conference with this said elder and his wife, concerning their slaves, so that the way seemed clear to me to advise with him about the manner of proceeding. I told him I was free to have a conference with them all together in a private house; or if he thought they would take it unkind to be asked to come together, and to be spoken with in the hearing of one another, I was free to spend some time amongst them, and to visit them all in their own houses. He expressed his liking to the first proposal, not doubting their willingness to come together; and, as I proposed a visit to only ministers, elders, and overseers, he named some others whom he desired might also be present. A careful messenger being wanted to acquaint them in a proper manner, he offered to go to all their houses, to open the matter to them,— and did so. About the eighth hour the next morning we met in the meeting-house chamber, the last-mentioned country Friend, my companion, and John Storer being with us. After a short time of retirement, I acquainted them with the steps I had taken in procuring that meeting, and opened the concern I was under, and we then proceeded to a free conference upon the subject. My exercise was heavy, and I was deeply bowed in spirit before the Lord, who was pleased to favor with the seasoning virtue of truth, which wrought a tenderness amongst us; and the subject was mutually handled in a calm and peaceable spirit. At length, feeling my mind released from the burden which I had been under, I took my leave of them in a good degree of satisfaction; and by the tenderness they manifested in regard to the practice, and the concern several of them expressed in relation to the manner of disposing of their negroes after their decease, I believed that a good exercise was spreading amongst them; and I am humbly thankful to God, who supported my mind and preserved me in a good degree of resignation through these trials.年会如今结束了，但我心中仍有一种隐秘而沉重的操练，关乎新港一带一些带头而活跃、实行蓄奴的成员。我把这事告诉两位从乡间来的年长教友，并向他们提议，若道路打开，就同那些成员作些交谈。其中一位和我商量了一位最有名望且有奴隶的长老；他以恭敬的方式鼓励我继续清理压在我心上的事。 年会开始不久，我曾同这位长老和他的妻子私下谈过关于他们奴隶的事，因此我觉得可以清楚地同他商量如何进行。我告诉他，我愿意同他们众人在一所私人房子里一起商谈；或者如果他认为请他们聚在一起、在彼此听见的情况下同他们说话，会被他们视为不友善，我也愿意花些时间在他们中间，到他们各自家中逐一探访。他表示喜欢第一项提议，并不怀疑他们愿意聚集；我本来只提议探访传道人、长老和监督，他又点名了几位希望也在场的人。 需要一位谨慎的传信者，以适当方式通知他们；他提出愿意到他们各家去，把这事向他们打开，并且照做了。第二天早晨约八点，我们在聚会所楼上房间会合；前面提到的那位乡间教友、我的同伴和约翰·斯托勒同我们在一起。短暂退隐以后，我告诉他们自己为促成这次聚会所采取的步骤，并打开我所处的关切；随后我们就这个主题进行了自由交谈。 我的操练沉重，灵里在主面前深深屈身；他乐意赐下真理调和的德能，在我们中间造成温柔，这个主题便在平静和平的灵中彼此处理。最后，我感到自己的心从所背负的担子中得释放，便带着相当程度的满足同他们告别。因他们在这做法上所显出的温柔，以及其中几位表达的、关于他们死后如何处置黑人之事的关切，我相信一种好的操练正在他们中间扩展；我谦卑感谢上帝，他扶持我的心，并在这些试炼中保守我有相当程度的顺服。
Thou who sometimes travellest in the work of the ministry, and art made very welcome by thy friends, seest many tokens of their satisfaction in having thee for their guest. It is good for thee to dwell deep, that thou mayest feel and understand the spirits of people. If we believe truth points towards a conference on some subjects in a private way, it is needful for us to take heed that their kindness, their freedom, and affability do not hinder us from the Lord’s work. I have experienced that, in the midst of kindness and smooth conduct, to speak close and home to them who entertain us, on points that relate to outward interest, is hard labor. Sometimes, when I have felt truth lead towards it, I have found myself disqualified by a superficial friendship; and as the sense thereof hath abased me, and my cries have been to the Lord, so I have been humbled and made content to appear weak, or as a fool for his sake; and thus a door hath been opened to enter upon it. To attempt to do the Lord’s work in our own way, and to speak of that which is the burden of the Word, in a way easy to the natural part, doth not reach the bottom of the disorder. To see the failings of our friends, and think hard of them, without opening that which we ought to open, and still carry a face of friendship, tends to undermine the foundation of true unity. The office of a minister of Christ is weighty. And they who now go forth as watchmen have need to be steadily on their guard against the snares of prosperity and an outside friendship.你这有时在职事工作中旅行的人，并且受到朋友们热诚欢迎，见到许多他们因你作客而满意的迹象。你需要住得深，好使你能感受并理解人的灵。若我们相信真理指向要在私下方式中就某些主题交谈，我们就需要留心，免得他们的好意、坦率和和蔼妨碍我们作主的工。 我经历过，在善意和圆融举止中，就关乎外在利益的点，对接待我们的人说贴近而中肯的话，是艰难劳苦。有时，当我感到真理引向这事，却发现自己被一种表面的友谊弄得不合格；当对此的感受使我降卑，我向主呼求时，我就被谦卑下来，并愿意为他的缘故显得软弱，或像愚拙人；这样，门便被打开，可以进入这事。 试图按我们自己的方式作主的工，并以一种使天然部分容易接受的方式谈论那作为圣言负担的事，并不能触及病症的根底。看见朋友的失败，却难以接纳他们，而不打开我们应当打开的事，同时仍带着友谊的面容，这会破坏真实合一的根基。基督执事的职分是沉重的。如今作为守望者出去的人，需要稳定警醒，防备兴盛和外表友谊的网罗。
After the Yearly Meeting we were at meetings at New-town, Cushnet, Long Plain, Rochester, and Dartmouth. From thence we sailed for Nantucket, in company with Ann Gaunt, Mercy Redman, and several other Friends. The wind being slack we only reached Tarpawling Cove the first day; where, going on shore, we found room in a public-house, and beds for a few of us,— the rest slept on the floor. We went on board again about break of day, and though the wind was small, we were favored to come within about four miles of Nantucket; and then about ten of us got into our boat and rowed to the harbor before dark; a large boat went off and brought in the rest of the passengers about midnight. The next day but one was their Yearly Meeting, which held four days, the last of which was their Monthly Meeting for business. We had a laborious time amongst them; our minds were closely exercised, and I believe it was a time of great searching of heart. The longer I was on the Island the more I became sensible that there was a considerable number of valuable Friends there, though an evil spirit, tending to strife, had been at work amongst them. I was cautious of making any visits except as my mind was particularly drawn to them; and in that way we had some sittings in Friends’ houses, where the heavenly wing was at times spread over us, to our mutual comfort. My beloved companion had very acceptable service on this island.年会以后，我们参加了新城、库什内特、长平原、罗切斯特和达特茅斯各处聚会。随后我们同安·冈特、默西·雷德曼和其他几位教友一起乘船前往楠塔基特。因风小，第一天只到达塔波林湾；我们上岸后，在一家公店找到地方，其中几个人有床，其余人睡在地板上。天破晓时我们再次上船；虽然风小，仍蒙恩来到距楠塔基特约四英里的地方。随后我们约十个人上了小船，在天黑前划到港口；一只大船出去，约午夜把其余旅客带进来。 隔一天就是他们的年会，持续四天，最后一天是他们办理事务的月会。我们在他们中间有一段劳苦的时间；我们的心受到紧密操练，我相信那是深深省察内心的时期。我在岛上越久，就越感觉那里有相当多有价值的教友，虽然一种趋向纷争的恶灵曾在他们中间工作。我谨慎不作任何探访，除非我的心特别被吸引；按这种方式，我们在教友家中有几次静坐，属天的翅膀有时展开在我们之上，使我们彼此得安慰。我亲爱的同伴在这个岛上有非常蒙悦纳的服事。
When meeting was over we all agreed to sail the next day if the weather was suitable and we were well; and being called up the latter part of the night, about fifty of us went on board a vessel; but, the wind changing, the seamen thought best to stay in the harbor till it altered, so we returned on shore. Feeling clear as to any further visits, I spent my time in my chamber, chiefly alone; and after some hours, my heart being filled with the spirit of supplication, my prayers and tears were poured out before my Heavenly Father for his help and instruction in the manifold difficulties which attended me in life. While I was waiting upon the Lord, there came a messenger from the women Friends who lodged at another house, desiring to confer with us about appointing a meeting, which to me appeared weighty, as we had been at so many before; but after a short conference, and advising with some elderly Friends, a meeting was appointed, in which the Friend who first moved it, and who had been much shut up before, was largely opened in the love of the gospel. The next morning about break of day going again on board the vessel, we reached Falmouth on the Main before night, where our horses being brought, we proceeded towards Sandwich Quarterly Meeting.聚会结束后，我们都同意若天气合适且身体无碍，第二天便开船；夜后半被叫醒后，我们约五十人上了一条船。但风向改变，水手认为最好留在港中等风转变，于是我们回到岸上。我既感到无需再作探访，便把时间花在房间里，多半独自一人。几小时后，我的心充满恳求之灵，祈祷和眼泪在天父面前倾流，求他在我生命中伴随我的诸多困难里赐帮助和教导。 我等候主时，有一位来自住在另一所房子的女教友们的使者来，请求同我们商量指定一场聚会；在我看来这事很沉重，因为我们此前已参加许多聚会。但经过短暂商议，并同几位年长教友商量后，聚会被指定了。在这次聚会中，最先提出此事、此前一直很受关闭的那位女教友，在福音之爱中大大被开启。第二天早晨天破晓时，我们再次上船，当晚以前到达大陆的法尔茅斯；我们的马被带来后，我们继续前往桑威奇季会。
Being two days in going to Nantucket, and having been there once before, I observed many shoals in their bay, which make sailing more dangerous, especially in stormy nights; also, that a great shoal, which encloses their harbor, prevents the entrance of sloops except when the tide is up. Waiting without for the rising of the tide is sometimes hazardous in storms, and by waiting within they sometimes miss a fair wind. I took notice that there was on that small island a great number of inhabitants, and the soil not very fertile, the timber being so gone that for vessels, fences, and firewood, they depend chiefly on buying from the Main, for the cost whereof, with most of their other expenses, they depend principally upon the whale fishery. I considered that as towns grew larger, and lands near navigable waters were more cleared, it would require more labor to get timber and wood. I understood that the whales, being much hunted and sometimes wounded and not killed, grow more shy and difficult to come at. I considered that the formation of the earth, the seas, the islands, bays, and rivers, the motions of the winds, and great waters, which cause bars and shoals in particular places, were all the works of Him who is perfect wisdom and goodness; and as people attend to his heavenly instruction, and put their trust in him, he provides for them in all parts where he gives them a being; and as in this visit to these people I felt a strong desire for their firm establishment on the sure foundation, besides what was said more publicly, I was concerned to speak with the women Friends in their Monthly Meeting of business, many being present, and in the fresh spring of pure love to open before them the advantage, both inwardly and outwardly, of attending singly to the pure guidance of the Holy Spirit, and therein to educate their children in true humility and the disuse of all superfluities. I reminded them of the difficulties their husbands and sons were frequently exposed to at sea, and that the more plain and simple their way of living was the less need there would be of running great hazards to support them. I also encouraged the young women to continue their neat, decent way of attending themselves on the affairs of the house; showing, as the way opened, that where people were truly humble, used themselves to business, and were content with a plain way of life, they had ever had more true peace and calmness of mind than they who, aspiring to greatness and outward show, have grasped hard for an income to support themselves therein. And as I observed they had so few or no slaves, I had to encourage them to be content without them, making mention of the numerous troubles and vexations which frequently attended the minds of the people who depend on slaves to do their labor.去楠塔基特用了两天，而我从前也去过一次；我注意到他们海湾中有许多浅滩，使航行更危险，尤其在风暴夜里。又注意到，有一大片浅滩围住他们的港口，阻止单桅帆船进入，除非涨潮。在外面等候涨潮，在风暴中有时很危险；而在里面等候时，他们有时又错过顺风。我注意到，那个小岛上居民很多，土壤并不肥沃，木材又如此消耗殆尽，以致船只、围栏和柴火主要依靠从大陆购买；这些费用以及大多数其他开支，主要依靠捕鲸业来支付。 我想到，随着城镇变大，通航水域附近土地更多被清理，取得木材和柴火将需要更多劳动。我了解到，鲸鱼因被大量猎捕，有时受伤而未死，变得更警觉，也更难接近。我思想大地、海洋、岛屿、海湾和河流的形成，风和大水的运动，在特定地方造成沙洲和浅滩，这一切都是那完全智慧和良善者的作为。人们若留心他的属天教导，并信靠他，他就在他赐给他们存在的各处供养他们。 在这次探访这些人时，我强烈渴望他们能坚定建立在可靠根基上；除了更公开所说的话以外，我还感到关切，要在她们办理事务的月会中同女教友们说话；当时许多人在场。在纯洁之爱新鲜的泉源中，我向她们打开单一留心圣灵纯洁引导、并在其中教育儿女进入真实谦卑和弃绝一切多余之物，在内在和外在两方面的益处。 我提醒她们，她们的丈夫和儿子常常在海上暴露于各种困难；她们生活方式越朴素简单，就越少需要为维持生活而冒巨大危险。我也鼓励年轻妇女继续以整洁、端庄的方式亲自照管家务；照着道路开启，说明若人真正谦卑，习惯于事务，并满足于朴素生活方式，他们一直比那些追求显达和外在排场、艰难抓取收入来维持这种生活的人，有更多真正平安和心灵安静。又因我看见她们很少或没有奴隶，我便鼓励她们满足于没有奴隶的生活，并提到依靠奴隶劳动之人心中常常伴随的许多麻烦和烦恼。
We attended the Quarterly Meeting at Sandwich, in company with Ann Gaunt and Mercy Redman, which was preceded by a Monthly Meeting, and in the whole held three days. We were in various ways exercised amongst them, in gospel love, according to the several gifts bestowed on us, and were at times overshadowed with the virtue of truth, to the comfort of the sincere and stirring up of the negligent. Here we parted with Ann and Mercy, and went to Rhode Island, taking one meeting in our way, which was a satisfactory time. Reaching Newport the evening before their Quarterly Meeting, we attended it, and after that had a meeting with our young people, separated from those of other societies. We went through much labor in this town; and now, in taking leave of it, though I felt close inward exercise to the last, I found inward peace, and was in some degree comforted in a belief that a good number remain in that place who retain a sense of truth, and that there are some young people attentive to the voice of the Heavenly Shepherd. The last meeting, in which Friends from the several parts of the quarter came together, was a select meeting, and through the renewed manifestation of the Father’s love the hearts of the sincere were united together.我们同安·冈特和默西·雷德曼一起参加桑威奇季会；此前有一次月会，整个会议持续三天。我们照着所赐给我们的不同恩赐，在福音之爱中，以各种方式在他们中间受操练；有时也被真理的德能遮蔽，使真诚者得安慰，疏忽者被激动。我们在这里同安和默西分别，去了罗得岛，途中参加一次聚会，那是一段令人满意的时间。 我们在他们季会前一晚到达新港，参加了该会；此后又同我们的年轻人举行一次聚会，与其他宗派的年轻人分开。我们在这个镇中经过许多劳苦；如今离开它时，虽然直到最后我仍感到紧密的内在操练，却找到了内在平安，并在某种程度上因相信那里仍有相当多人保留对真理的感受，也有一些年轻人留心属天牧者的声音而得安慰。最后一次聚会是由该季会各处教友聚集而成的特别聚会；借着父爱重新显明，真诚者的心联合在一起。
The poverty of spirit and inward weakness, with which I was much tried the fore part of this journey, has of late appeared to me a dispensation of kindness. Appointing meetings never appeared more weighty to me, and I was led into a deep search, whether in all things my mind was resigned to the will of God; often querying with myself what should be the cause of such inward poverty, and greatly desiring that no secret reserve in my heart might hinder my access to the Divine fountain. In these humbling times I was made watchful, and excited to attend to the secret movings of the heavenly principle in my mind, which prepared the way to some duties that in more easy and prosperous times as to the outward, I believe I should have been in danger of omitting.这次旅程前半段，我多受灵里贫穷和内在软弱试炼；近来在我看来，这是一种仁慈的安排。指定聚会在我看来从未如此沉重；我被引入深深省察，查看自己的心是否在一切事上顺服上帝旨意。我常常问自己，这样的内在贫穷原因是什么，并极其渴望心中没有任何隐秘保留，阻碍我接近神圣泉源。 在这些使人谦卑的时期，我被带到警醒中，并受激励留心我心中属天原则隐秘的运行；这为一些责任预备了道路。若在外在方面更轻松顺遂的时候，我相信自己会有忽略这些责任的危险。
From Newport we went to Greenwich, Shanticut, and Warwick, and were helped to labor amongst Friends in the love of our gracious Redeemer. Afterwards, accompanied by our friend John Casey from Newport, we rode through Connecticut to Oblong, visited the meetings in those parts, and thence proceeded to the Quarterly Meeting at Ryewoods. Through the gracious extendings of Divine help, we had some seasoning opportunities in those places. We also visited Friends at New York and Flushing, and thence to Rahway. Here our roads parting, I took leave of my beloved companion and true yokemate Samuel Eastburn, and reached home the 10th of eighth month, where I found my family well. For the favors and protection of the Lord, both inward and outward, extended to me in this journey, my heart is humbled in grateful acknowledgments, and I find renewed desires to dwell and walk in resignedness before him.我们从新港去了格林尼治、尚蒂卡特和沃里克，并蒙帮助，在我们恩慈救赎主的爱中在教友中间劳苦。后来，在来自新港的朋友约翰·凯西陪同下，我们骑马穿过康涅狄格到奥布朗，探访那些地方的聚会；随后前往赖伍兹季会。借着神圣帮助恩慈地扩展，我们在那些地方有一些受调和的机会。 我们也探访了纽约和法拉盛的教友，然后到拉威。在这里道路分开，我向亲爱的同伴和真正同负一轭者塞缪尔·伊斯特本告别，于第八月十日到家，发现家人安好。主在这次旅程中向我所施内在和外在的恩惠与保护，使我的心在感恩承认中降卑；我也发现新的愿望，要在他面前住在顺服中并行在顺服中。