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Title: Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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wise uneventful life. I should say that the quaint, plain Quaker meeting-house on the historicelevation near Portsmouth, R. I., is the most interesting church in all America.It stands for the old Rhode Island principle of soul-liberty, as set forth inRoger Williamss day — and what could stand for more ? It is now very muchwhat it was two hundred years ago, when a rich Rhode Islander proposedto offer George Fox a salary to remain on the Island as preacher, — whichcaused the good man to flee. They do not do so now, to be sure, but times have a little changed, evenamong the hillside farmers on the Garden Island of the New World. I recently attended a Friends meeting at the quaint, roomy church onQuaker Hill. The Narragansett Bay rolled in the distance as clear and blueas when George Fox himself must have beheld it in 1671, or more than twohundred years ago. The Hill is still the Mecca of the Societies of Friends,and may be found on the Old Colony Railroad near Portsmouth, R. I., some
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THE FUNNIEST THING AT THE FAIR. 149 eight miles from Newport, and a few miles from the Barton-Prescott house, ofhistoric fame. The island was Aquidneck when George Fox came there, a voice cryingin the wilderness of the world, and when Bishop Berkeley became propheticat Newport, and voiced his inspiration in the immortal line, Westward thecourse of empire takes its way. There are few spots on the earth more serene and lovely than Quaker Hill.There is an ethereal beauty over the blue waterways and bountiful farms, a Gulf Stream influence it is called, that seems almost spiritual, and we do notwonder that the good old Quaker spirit should have found its sympatheticatmosphere here. After the long past, the Gospel of the Inner Light anduniversal Love is still preached on the self-same serene hill of Portsmouthlooking over to Mount Hope, — the ancient burying-ground of the Indian race,— the Narragansett Bay, and the sinking sails of the far sea. It is worth apilgrimage to spend a Sabbat

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