Admonitions from the Depths of the Earth; Or the Fall of Ray Potter in Twenty Four Letters - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... time precisely alike. I will give you my interpretation: The evil looking man, heating the iron to touch offthe powder,was a certain person or rather persons, trying to inflame the mob to drive me out of the place; for you will recollect that the whole drift of this mobbing was to get me to move. The powder not going off, when touched so many times with a red hot iron, shewed how wonderfully, and I might say miraculously, God preserved me unhurt, while this storm was bursting upon me in such torrents. The Elephant approaching the door was the mob coming up to the door on the evening I have described--and his being blown to pieces, was its dispersion in all directions, by the fighting already mentioned; for you observed that they were assailed in the very same manner that I was threatened to be treated if 1 did not move! Never did I see any thing more literally fulfilled. I could but be struck when one of the brethren was giving me the account of their approach to the house led on by two gigantic men. He said they come as if they would tear every thing to pieces, and looked like Elephants--that is, he meant metaphorically. Now I confess thai when I first heard this dream, it made a deep impression on my mind, and was a great means of supporting me through all this scene, until deliverance came. God be praised: "It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in Princes." In my next I shall commence an account of the transactions of the Church in relation to my unhappy case. In the mean time I remain Your Affectionate Brother. RAY POTTER. LETTER IX. Pawtucket, Oct. 1st, 1837. My dear Brother:--I can but remind you again, that in speaking lf the faults of others, in the transactions connected with my dreadful fall, I do not lose sight of my own sin...