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Tuesday, July 1
Ecclesiasticus 48:12-16
Matthew 16:1-12

Wednesday, July 2
Ecclesiasticus 48:17-25
Matthew 16:13-20

Thursday, July 3
Ecclesiasticus 49:1-3
Matthew 16:21-23

Friday, July 4
Ecclesiasticus 49:4-7
Matthew 16:24-28

Saturday, July 5
Ecclesiasticus 49:8-10
Matthew 17:1-8

Sunday, July 6 [Pentecost 4] Psalm 63:1-9
Deuteronomy 7:6-11
Galatians 3:23-4:7
John 15:12-17

Monday, July 7
Ecclesiasticus 49:11-13
Matthew 17:9-18

Tuesday, July 8
Ecclesiasticus 49:14-16
Matthew 17:19-23

Wednesday, July 9
Ecclesiasticus 50:1-11
Matthew 17:24-27

Thursday, July 10
Ecclesiasticus 50:12-16
Matthew 18:1-7

Friday, July 11
Ecclesiasticus 50:17-21
Matthew 18:8-14

Saturday, July 12
Ecclesiasticus 50:22-24
Matthew 18:15-17

Sunday, July 13 [Pentecost 5] Psalm 119:57-64
Exodus 20:1-17
Ephesians 5:1-10
Matthew 19:16-26

Monday, July 14
Ecclesiasticus 50:25-29
Matthew 18:18-22

Tuesday, July 15
Ecclesiasticus 51:1-6
Matthew 18:23-35

Wednesday, July 16
Ecclesiasticus 51:7-12
Matthew 19:1-12

Thursday, July 17
Ecclesiasticus 51:13-16
Matthew 19:13-22

Friday, July 18
Ecclesiasticus 51:17-22
Matthew 19:23-30

Saturday, July 19
Ecclesiasticus 51:23-30
Matthew 20:1-16

Sunday, July 20 [Pentecost 6] Psalm 1
Micah 6:1-8
Ephesians 4:17-32
Mark 10:46-52

Monday, July 21
1 Kings 16:29-34
Matthew 20:17-23

Tuesday, July 22
1 Kings 17:1-16
Matthew 20:24-34

Wednesday, July 23
1 Kings 17:17-24
Matthew 21:14-17

Thursday, July 24
1 Kings 18:1-6
Matthew 21:18-22

Friday, July 25
1 Kings 18:7-16
Matthew 21:23-27

Saturday, July 26
1 Kings 18:17-24
Matthew 21:28-32

Sunday, July 27 [Pentecost 7] Psalm 62
Hosea 11:1-9
1 Corinthians 12:27 – 13:13
Matthew 18:21-35

Monday, July 28
1 Kings 18:25-29
Matthew 21:33-46

Tuesday, July 29
1 Kings 18:30-40
Matthew 22:1-14

Wednesday, July 30
1 Kings 18:41-46
Matthew 22:15-22

Thursday, July 31
1 Kings 19:1-9
Matthew 22:23-33

Tuesday, July 1 Psalms 4, 146
Wednesday, July 2 Psalms 133, 147
Thursday, July 3 Psalms 131, 148
Friday, July 4 Psalms 100, 149
Saturday, July 5 Psalms 84, 150
Monday, July 7 Psalms 23, 145
Tuesday, July 8 Psalms 67, 146
Wednesday, July 9 Psalms 93, 147
Thursday, July 10 Psalms 47, 148
Friday, July 11 Psalms 87, 149
Saturday, July 12 Psalms 8, 150
Monday, July 14 Psalms 127, 145
Tuesday, July 15 Psalms 99, 146
Wednesday, July 16 Psalms 95, 147
Thursday, July 17 Psalms 91, 148
Friday, July 18 Psalms 1, 149
Saturday, July 19 Psalms 122, 150
Monday, July 21 Psalms 114, 145
Tuesday, July 22 Psalms 15, 146
Wednesday, July 23 Psalms 113, 147
Thursday, July 24 Psalms 121, 148
Friday, July 25 Psalms 123, 149
Saturday, July 26 Psalms 124, 150
Monday, July 28 Psalms 24, 145
Tuesday, July 29 Psalms 29, 146
Wednesday, July 30 Psalms 20, 147
Thursday, July 31 Psalms 96, 148

July 1

Father James. The time will come when you will have Elders who do not know more than you do, I think, he said & then you will have trouble enough.

July 2

Mother Ann said it is the requirement of God to (those) souls who have been instrumental in bringing souls (children) into this world, that they bring those (their) souls to God.

July 3

The believers being in meeting on a Sabbath, during a pause in the exercise, Suza Pease being under operations of the power of God, moved in the alley between the brethren & sisters & said Elder James was the Son of God. Father James said I will not deny what she says, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God. Romans 8:14. Then the whole assembly was filled with joy.

July 4

Mother Ann said there is every instrument in Eternity to punish souls there, that there is in this world to punish people for crime.

July 5

Father James being enquired of whether the Books of Apocrypha was as good Bible as the other records it contained said it was as much Bible as any other part & was written by inspiration & revelation & must be attended to. He said this in reply to brethren not agreed in their views.

July 6

Joseph Markham being at Ashfield & standing outdoors one day, Father William came out of the dwelling house & walked a short distance north seeing Joseph, he halted & said Joseph the darkest time is just before day – then [he] turned & walked on.

July 7

I heard Father James say that the Judgments of God would as certainly follow this gospel as night follows day, or day follows night.

July 8

When the gospel opened at Watervliet in May 1780, Mother said to her family one day, that the greatest man that has been born for six hundred years will be here today & you [we] must clean up & make ready to receive him. That day, Father Joseph came to see them & was greatly satisfied with his visit.

July 9

While at Brother David’s in the fall of the year I went to see [visit] the Chh. On the sabbath, there was a full assembly & but few of the world there. During an intermission Father James had a gift to speak to John Booth, who then lived where the North Family now stands. It feels to me that I cannot communicate all that Father James said, but I will try to relate something of the substance that I heard him say to John.

Father James came into the room & said John Booth, I have something to say to you. As you are convicted that this is the way of God & this has been your faith sometime & instead of heeding your conscience & coming forward & obeying your faith & confessing your sins, you have rejected & withstood the spirit of conviction where God is at work with you.

If you do not immediately set out & obey your conviction, God will withdraw his Holy Spirit from you & then you will sink down to endless perdition, loss & woe, & be forever sinking down, down, there to remain in outward darkness for one eternity & forever be sinking in loss from God.

It feels to me that I have not recorded his doom so fully as Father spake it. I have not added to what Faith said. It is rather under than over drawn (thinks Jehiel, the reporter.)

July 10

Father James, in conversation with some of the brethren at Enfield, said Capt. Ephraim Pease had faith enough to save him. Someone asked him why he did not gather him. Father said If one picks fruit before it is ripe, it will wither & if fruit be not picked with it is ripe, it will waste. There is a time for all things.

July 11

Mother Ann said, never a gift of God came forth but what was suffered for or would be.

This information has been taught thus. No gift of God is ever brought forth without someone has had to suffer for it, i.e., earned it. A.G.H.

July 12

I heard Edward Wood say that Father said there were in those parts three living among the people of this world, who live as believers live. Nathan Billings was one.

July 13

Mother Ann said to Samuel Fitch – Samuel I cannot see as you have gathered your posterity on Mt. Zion. I am afraid they will be lost. After some time, Mother said to Samuel, I see they have come, for I see them on Mt.Zion – this filled Mother with comfort & joy.

July 14

Mother Ann said – Where souls are bound together, viz. Ministers & their church people, if they leave this world in their sensations & go into the world of spirits, their union will be the same in Eternity as it was in this world.

July 15

Mother Ann entered a room where were a number of brethren & said Did any of you ever see the Devil? No one answered. Then Mother said You never did, for it would take your natural life if you should see him.

July 16

Mother Ann said she saw Queen Mary as hot as a red-hot heater, suffering for her sins. [Queens Mary & Elizabeth have since been gathered to Mother’s gospel. A.G.H.]

July 17

Father James said The last thing that will fall will be Priestcraft & when that falls there will be nothing to hinder many souls from embracing the gospel. I think that time is nigh.

July 18

Father James. When in England, the Church held their meetings on the second loft of their house. A neighbor often came while they were in meeting & stood under their window to hear the meeting & then go away. Whenever he saw any of them, he would say to them I think you take a hard way to serve God. [The man died & Father James saw him in hell but walking about on his farm. Both being in his own mind. A.G.H.]

July 19

Mother Ann said If the people are not faithful to improve the gifts which have been given them, I have prayed to God that those gifts may return to me and I do believe they will.

July 20

Mother Ann said Brother William traveled for the blacks, i.e., the Negroes.

July 21

When I lived in Enfield under Father James ministration, Father spoke to the brethren & sisters in a full meeting, saying If you do not attend to every order of God you are taught, you will come to the end of your travel, as though you came to a solid rock, a hundred feet square & you cannot proceed a step further.

July 22

Shadrack Ireland died at Harvard a few months before Believers arrived there in June 1781. He had been the subject of great illuminations & a large number gathered to him from towns adjoining. When the Church arrived there, they went & lived in the Square house [built for Shadrack by his followers.]

Ireland came to see Mother & the Elders & Mother labored with him to induce him to confess his sins, but he would not & went away. After a while he came again & great labor was made with him by the Elders to induce him to confess his sins. Mother saw his time was short, but he would not comply & went away the second time.

The third time he came & Mother saw that if he did not confess his sins, he would have tribulation beyond power of communication & spake to the brethren to be faithful in their labor with him. And great labor was made with him, but he still retained his former mind & went away in it.

Then Mother said he would go to hell & never come out till one of his people had found redemption. He went off screaming in such horror & tribulation the dammed in hell were frightened at him.

July 23

In Father James’ Ministry the brethren & sisters being assembled in full meeting, Father being filled with the gifts of God said, David was his father & I am his son. A wise son maketh a glad father. Benjamin must have care in the Chh. & feed the poor. Jehiel is a scribe. These sayings filled the brethren & sisters with laughter & joy.

July 24

A number of brethren discoursing together as to who were the Two Witnesses, did not agree. Mother came into the room & the question was referred to her. Father Joseph had previously given his judgment which was that Christ was the first & Mother was the 2nd. Mother Said I am one of the Witnesses & the other is in the Church.

July 25

Father James said to believers in meeting at Enfield, you ought always to say what you mean & mean what you say, so as to give a correct understanding of what you mean to convey.

July 26

I once heard Father James discourse on the State of mankind. He said that man was created pure & innocent & so might have remained if he had kept the order he first received. For breaking the order of God, God withdrew His Spirit from him & he lost all his protection & became depraved.

His whole nature became corrupted & in order to regain his union to God, he much be redeemed from that nature. That nature is extended through every part of the body like a thread in a piece of cloth & he must be redeemed from it before he can be happy.

July 27

Mother Ann taught believers to strictly attend to her counsel, or the counsel & orders of God & said if you will do so, God will bless you in your outgoing & incoming, in your basket & and in your store & in your fields & every way God will bless you.

July 28

Father James said – You may bring up children so that they may never know what sin is. But if the Devil once lays his paw on them, they will find it hard getting redeemed from it.

July 29

Father James said a person may labor in the works of God & gather a good degree of [substance] & go & indulge in idle conversation & in a short time feel lean & barren of everything he had gained in his labor a little while before.

July 30

I heard Father James say a certain place in the Kingdom of heaven is allotted to each soul & it must have that or none.

July 31

Father James said remove the cause & the effects will cease.