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I believe my dear Master has been pleased to try my faith and obedience, by teaching me that I ought no longer to partake of any thing that had life.

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My spirit was often bowed in awful reverence before the Most High, and covered with feelings of humility and tenderness; under which I had to believe that we ought to attend to Divine instruction, even in disposing of and governing the inferior part of his creation.

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I considered that life was sweet in all living creatures, and the taking it away became a very tender point with me. The creatures, or many of them, were given, or as I take it, rather lent us to be governed in the great Creator's fear.

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Joshua Evans

Joshua Evans

Born: September 23, 1731
Died: July 6, 1798 (aged 66)
Bio: Joshua Evans was an American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist.

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