on of God's power, was effectually
opened, reached and convinced, with many more who are seals of that
powerful ministry that attended this faithful minister of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and by which we were convinced, and turned from darkness
to light and from Satan's power to the power of God. After which
Meeting at Preston Chapel, G.F. came to the house of John Camm at
Cammsgill. Next day travelled to Kendal where he had a meeting, where
many were convinced and received his testimony with joy.'

The 'wonderful fortnight' was drawing to a close. The vision on Pendle
Hill, when George Fox beheld a people 'as thick as motes in the sun
that should in time be brought home to the Lord,' had already begun to
form around it a Society of Friends who were pledged to carry it out.

Remember always, it was not the Society that beheld the vision; it was
the vision that created and creates the Society.

The vision is the important thing; for it is still unfulfilled.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] Ernest E. Taylor, _A Great People to be gathered._

[7] Sewel's _History of the Quakers._

[8] E.E. Taylor, _Faithful Servants of God._

[9] E.E. Taylor, _Faithful Servants of God._

IX. UNDER THE YEW-TREES

_'George Fox was a born leader of
souls. The flame of religious
ardour which burned in him, and
the intense conviction and
spiritual power with which he
spoke, would in any age have made
him great. He was born in a
generation of revolutions and
upheavals, both political and
spiritual. Confusion and unrest,
war and reformations, give to
great spirits a power which, when
life is calmer, they might not
attain. Fox drew to himself a
multitude of noble souls,
attracted to him by that which
they shared with him, the sense of
spiritual realities, and the
consciousness of the guiding
Spirit. The age of George Fox
thirsted for spiritual reality. He
had found it. Men on all sides
were ready to find it as he had.
The dales of Yorkshire, and the
hills of lakeland, not less than
the towns of the Midlands, had men
in them ready to rej