entatiously, in order to see
if Fox would preach a sermon against such gewgaws, since the Quakers
were well known to disapprove of jewellery and other vanities.

'I took no notice of it,' says Fox, 'but declared Truth to her, and
she was reached.' What a picture it makes! The fine lady, with her
chains and brooches and rings of smooth, rose-coloured coral heaped up
on the table before her, her eyes cast down as she pretended to let
the pretty trifles slip idly through her fingers, yet glancing up now
and then, under her eyelashes, to see if she had managed to attract
the great preacher's attention; and Fox, noticing the baubles well
enough, but paying no attention to them. Fixing his piercing eyes not
on the coral but on its owner, he spoke to Mrs. Billing with such
power that her whole life was changed. Once more Fox had found 'that
of God' within this seemingly frivolous woman.

Before he left Scotland he had the happiness of persuading Mrs.
Billing to send for her husband, and of helping to make up the quarrel
between them. They agreed eventually to live in unity together once
more as man and wife.

Fox journeyed on, in this way, year after year, always sowing the seed
wherever he went, and sometimes having the joy of seeing it spring up
above the clods and bring forth fruit an hundredfold. Even during the
long weary intervals of captivity this service still continued.
'Indeed, Fox and his fellow-sufferers never looked upon prison as an
interruption in their life service, but used the new surroundings in a
fresh campaign.'[17] Thus, the historian tells us: 'Though George Fox
found good entertainment, yet he did not settle there but kept in a
continual motion, going from one place to another, to beget souls unto
God.'[18]

The rest of the 'Valiant Sixty,' meanwhile, were likewise busy, going
up and down the country, working in different places and with
different methods, but all intent on the one enterprise of 'Publishing
Truth.' 'And so when the churches were settled in the North,' says the
Journal, 'and the Lord had raised up many and sent forth many into His
Vineyard to preach His everlasting Gospel, as Francis Howgill and
Edward Burrough to London, John Camm and John Audland to Bristol
through the countries, Richard Hubberthorne and George Whitehead
towards Norwich, and Thomas Holme unto Wales, that a matter of sixty
ministers did the Lord raise up and send abroad out of the North
Countries.'

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