Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

Pehr Kalm

Date:: 1892

Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Triticum, 105. [T. Repens.'] Senecio, ögo. Scandio, 241. \_Anthriscus Viclgaris.] Cerastium, 39g. [C. Viscosum.] The 12tli jfune, 1748. Quäkarenas GrUdstjenst. The Quaker’s Service. In the afternoon I was in one of the Quaker's churches to see their ceremonies at God’s-service. They had neither pulpit, predikstol, nor altar, but only benches. The men sat mostly separately by themselves, and the women on their side also separate, and they did not mix with each other, as is done in other churches. Nearly all the men had their hats on their heads, and they only took them off while prayers were being read. Here there were no regular priests, but any one of them, be it-man or woman, was a spiritual priest, en andelig Präst, who began to speak and preach in the church, as the spirit, according to their belief, gave them the inspiration, alt som Andan, efter deras tro, gaf dem uppen- barelsen in. To-day there preached two old men, of whom the one who spoke last, delivered a very beautiful sermon. He scarcely said anything wbich he did not at the same time prove from the Holy Scripture. It all pointed to this, that men [T. I. p. 455] ought more and more to put off their sins, and seek to enter into fellow- ship with God. This people is a very paiseworthy body, because they are commonly more temperate and sober- minded, saktmodigare, more peaceable, stillare, more charitable, hjelpsammare, and betake themselves more to guarding against all resentment, and outwardly sinful life, than a great part of the Presbyterian as well as of the English Church, in both of wliich latter they do not commit the great fault of neglecting the Sacraments$