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where we dined, to have me brought into
their Mo. Meeting, and that they should fetch
me occasionally six or seven miles to at-
tend meetings with [underline]them[/underline]; but this I discouraged,
as I might not be either able or ready when
they should come. Besides as much as I
enjoyed being with them that day, I could
not now be bound to any religious society
tho' if I were near a regular meeting of
liberal Friends, it would be desirable to
attend it when able; and she must have in-
formed you that she & Lloyd went to the
meeting, and that George called upon us
a day or two afterwards, and with all his
usual artlesness gave us a description of
one instance of his spirit mediumship - one perhaps
out of many of his own experience, for he said more
than a hundred of similar cases had come under
his knowledge; yet he did not speak of himself as
a medium but as one singularly required and qual-
ified to perform a remarkable thing. You doubt-
less learnt all the circumstance from Ann. I of
course wanted to know more of the power, and
as he and his wife were to set off homeward
next morning, I sent him three or four queries
by letter, such as whether this power was a
continual favor or one only occasionally dispen-
ed for the benefit of those who were not past
cure; whether he did not think it was [deleted]not[/deleted] the same that actuated
the faithful healing mediums throghout the coun-
try; whether he thought the Spirits of the departed
are qualified to aid us in our earthly progress;
and if so, whether he believed it more difficult

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I wish not to trouble thee with this it is for Rowland.