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Extracts From the Memorandums of Jane Bettle: With a Short Memoir Respecting Her
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORANDUM O
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Extracts From the Memorandums of Jane Bettle
Excerpt from Extracts From the Memorandums of Jane Bettle: With a Short Memoir Respecting Her The writer of the subjoined memorandums was well known to many persons in the religious Society of Friends, as a useful and consistent member, and an elder whose example was instructive and edifying. It is not intended by the present publication to eulogise her character, but to magnify the power of Divine grace, which made her what she was, and to hold up to view the blessed effects of humble, unre served submission to its heavenly visitations, as an encouragement to others, to pursue the same path, which led her safely through all the dangers and temptations of this chequered life, to a peaceful a...
Letter
ALS. Grimke writes a thoughtful and deeply spiritual letter to Jane Bettle, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker. Grimke, making reference to her difficult decision to leave South Carolina in 1820 and to pursue her Quaker beliefs in Philadelphia, begins her letter: "My beloved Friend--who ... inclined thy mind towards me when I felt very desolate having left all that was near and dear in this World behind me and about to engage in an arduous embassy." She also mentions the case of Joseph Hunton, an English Quaker accused of forgery. "Whilst the act cannot be considered otherwise than one that deserved punishment, we cannot but deeply regret our sanguinary laws that go to the greatest extremity in depriving man of life for an offence that by no means warrants it, if indeed it is right to take the life of man in any case which I doubt even for murder of the first magnitude."
