Benjamin Lay comes back home from yearly meeting.

Respectability and frivolity collide with a call to service.

When the patriots came to seize the weapons.

Simon’s mobile sounded as he finished breakfast. His wife answered, “Lambert residence, June speaking. Oh, hello Mrs. Thompson. . ."

The sun trumpeted morning to the sleeping stranger, but Mark Jacobs didn’t return the greeting.

Over and over they were born, those brothers, always catching at each other’s heels.

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our 

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29

Margaret Fell for modern Friends.

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