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away by worldly prosperity, and being afraid of
losing by any means that happiness, which
was then and has been ever since of the last im-
portance to me, I gave my shopkeeping in the
midst of prosperity, and these words of our savior
followed me continutally, "What shall it profit
a man, tho' he gains the whole world and loves
his own soul." And I think it would because
for many, even members of the Brethren church,
of this was barely considered. I can say with
truth, that from that day to this, our savior,
and fellowship with his people have been more
important to me than anything else in
the world.
In August 1756. I moved to Dukenfield, as
a member of that ?. Here I found it very
difficult to through. I had not only to go
twenty miles for the work, by which I earned a
livelihood, but the necesities of life, ?
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