...of John Woolman; and Part II., Other Writings." A London edition appeared in the following year. " I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints...experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work." So begins the "Journal; which leaves some hints in...

...Youth—His first Appearance in the Ministry—And his Considerations, while Young, on the Keeping of Slaves. I HAVE often felt a motion of love to leave some hints...experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West...

...cause and led many souls to accept his own Quaker doctrines. In a characteristic sentence he says, "I have often felt a motion of love to leave some...writing of my experience of the goodness of God," and so, early in his career, he began to record his spiritual and temporal experiences in his Journal....

...spirit of the old monks, who worked or wrote or taught their fellow men alone for the glory of God : " I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints...experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work." Both books hold the mirror up to human nature ; both...

...appeared in 1762. This man was a minister among Friends, a simple man, not well educated, but one who felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God.u Throughout the journal we see love shining above all else. Woolman had a keen social sense and...

...resolution of conflict, an approach that is striking in its contemporary relevance. 162 CHAPTER I 1720-1742 I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints...experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County in...

...in 1772. The first three chapters depict his life until the year 1756, when he began to respond to "a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God" (23). Despite some adolescent straying from the path of virtue and some vacillation in following a...

...which significantly he describes in terms of his own experience in the opening sentence of his Journal: 'I have often felt a motion of love to leave some...experience of the goodness of God, and now in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work' (p. 23). He shared the belief that God was acting in...

...passages and meditations on the religious truths Woolman sought in the world and in his heart. He begins, "I have often felt a motion of love to leave some...writing of my experience of the goodness of God." From his early conviction that love of God included love for all his "manifestations in the visible...