Chapter XIX: The Children of Reading Meeting

_'And all must be meeke, sober and
jentell and quiet and loving, and
not give one another bad word noe
time in the skouell, nor out of it
... all is to mind their lessons
and be digelent in their
rightings, and to lay up their
boukes when they go from the
skouell and ther pens and
inkonerns and to keep them sow,
else they must be louk'd upon as
carles and slovenes; and soe you
must keep all things clean, suet
and neat and hanson.'--G. FOX.
Advice to Schoolmasters._

_'Dear and tender little Babes, as
well as strong men, ... let not
anything straiten you, when God
moves: And thou, faithful Babe,
though thou stutter and stammer
forth a few words in the dread of
the Lord, they are accepted, and
all that are strong, serve the
weak in strengthening them and
wait in wisdom to give place to
the motion of the Spirit in them,
that it may have time to bring
forth what God hath given ... that
... you maybe a well spring of
Life to one another in the power
of the endless love of God.'--W.
DEWSBURY._

_'When the Justices threatened
Friend John Boult and told him
that he and other Reading Friends
should be sent to prison, he
replied: "That's the weakest thing
thou canst do. If thou canst
convince me of anything that is
evil, I will hear thee and let the
prisons alone."'--W.C. BRAITHWAITE._