A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE

OF

WILLIAM EDMUNDSON

A SERVANT OF THE LIVING GOD

AND

A FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright,

for the end of that man is peace. Psalm 37: 37

Revised and Printed

by

FRIENDS OF JESUS CHRIST

168 Croswell Road

Farmington Falls, Maine 04940

THE EDITOR'S FOREWORD

It pleased God to reveal his most precious truth to thousands of men and women in the 17^th century through the ministry of George Fox. This most eminent man of God directed men and women everywhere to the light of Christ in their hearts so that they might find forgiveness of sins and deliverance from sins bondage and so be led thereby to a cleansing of their hearts from the old man of sin and the carnal mind by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. It was this baptism that brought unequaled spiritual power to the people of God called Quakers.

The Friends of Jesus Christ have from their beginning been strongly influenced by and felt fellowship with those early Quakers, recognizing that they are the quintessential example of what God can do for men and women that truly hunger and thirst after righteousness and holiness. And it is because of the spiritual benefit that we have received from their biographies that we have decided to reprint many of the most moving and instructive of them.

The volumes of this series are all taken from the 14 volume set of the Friend's Library published from about 1837 to 1850 in Philadelphia by members of the Society of Friends. Needless to say, we owe more than we can express to the editors and compilers of that publication. However, we have taken much editorial liberty in the production of these volumes. We have been most free to modernize the grammar by the removal of the great profusion of commas and semicolons that were much in vogue in past times. We have also made the necessary changes so that we could shorten the very lengthy sentences much used in that period. And, finally, we took the liberty of changing all of the British spellings into the American forms since most of our readers will reside on the western side of the Atlantic.

It is my most fervent desire that these volumes will be a deserving memorial of these almost forgotten worthies who labored so assiduously for their great Savior Jesus Christ and for the propagation of his most blessed Truth. Above all it is hoped that these accounts of the powerful ministries of these men and women will bring glory and honor to him who raised them up as it were from death and endued them with such life and power that they were able to go forward victoriously under the banner of divine love.

Farmington Falls, Maine

January 24, 2002