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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922
1913-04-14 Page 66
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-66- 'if he had known he was going, they would have fixed for me to go with him.' At this period all of my plans were overthrown and brought to an end. And to add to my suffering mind; about one year ago I received a letter from one of the overseers at Cedargrove, I think he is one mixed with anger, discouraging me in the whole thing, etc. as if I had no discernment. Poor, weak human mortal: who, dares to defy the Almighty; and set bounds to His work? They who act thus declare their ignorance and blindness in divine things. I pity them who set themselves up as judge between God and man. On the 20th. day of the fifth month I received a letter from E.J. Bye; written in Dublin, Ireland saying to me, 'the friends told him to write me; if I had a concern to visit their nation, to come on; with a minute or without a minute; companion, or no companion; and they would help me all they could. This was an opening unexpectedly to me as I had no passage engaged to cross the ocean; neither did any one have any for me. I left home in simple faith; and on the invitation from the Friends in Europe. I told Joseph, (my son) I would go to Philadelphia as some of my clothes were there. And I would probably go as far as New York. I had a catalogue of the times of sailing from New York to Liverpool. But no arrangements were made for me.
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-66- 'if he had known he was going, they would have fixed for me to go with him.' At this period all of my plans were overthrown and brought to an end. And to add to my suffering mind; about one year ago I received a letter from one of the overseers at Cedargrove, I think he is one mixed with anger, discouraging me in the whole thing, etc. as if I had no discernment. Poor, weak human mortal: who, dares to defy the Almighty; and set bounds to His work? They who act thus declare their ignorance and blindness in divine things. I pity them who set themselves up as judge between God and man. On the 20th. day of the fifth month I received a letter from E.J. Bye; written in Dublin, Ireland saying to me, 'the friends told him to write me; if I had a concern to visit their nation, to come on; with a minute or without a minute; companion, or no companion; and they would help me all they could. This was an opening unexpectedly to me as I had no passage engaged to cross the ocean; neither did any one have any for me. I left home in simple faith; and on the invitation from the Friends in Europe. I told Joseph, (my son) I would go to Philadelphia as some of my clothes were there. And I would probably go as far as New York. I had a catalogue of the times of sailing from New York to Liverpool. But no arrangements were made for me.
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