Excerpt from Quaker Strongholds
A deep-rooted trust in the all penetrating power of Divine Light, also naturally tends in some degree to check that impatience to teach every man his neigh bour, which is intelligible enough in those who regard human teaching as the only means whereby a knowledge supposed to be necessary to salvation can be diffused. The immediate result of the reception of light in one's own heart is indeed the impulse to communicate it by bearing witness to it - to kindle (so far as heart can kindle heart) - an answering flame in others - and thus.
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