Meetings daily amongst the Quakers, in order, if possible, to defeat the
pacific proceedings of the Continental Congress, calling upon their members not
to meet the county committees, but entirely to withdraw from them, under the
penalty of excommunication. * * * This day was also a paper published, called a
Testimony of the People called Quakers, in which is contained such gross abuse
against all persons that oppose their fallacious schemes, and stuffed with such
false contradictions, that it will be a lasting memento of the truth of what
Robert Walker, one of their public preachers, now here, often told them, and
warned them to take care, because, says he, the Lord is departed from you, as
he did from Saul, and has given you over to your own devices.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, pp. 14-5
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