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Tuesday, April 1
Ezekiel 47:1-12
John 5:1-16

Wednesday, April 2
Isaiah 49:8-15
John 5:17-30

Thursday, April 3
Exodus 32:7-14
John 5:31-47

Friday, April 4
Micah 7:7-9
John 7:10-30

Saturday, April 5
Jeremiah 11:18-20
John 7:40-52

Sunday, April 6 [Lent 5] Psalm 22:22-29
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hebrews 9:11-14
Matthew 4:1-11

Monday, April 7
Numbers 21:4-9
John 8:21-30

Tuesday, April 8
Susanna [Apocrypha] John 8:12-20

Wednesday, April 9
Daniel 3:14-28
John 8:31-42

Thursday, April 10
Genesis 17:3-9
John 8:51-59

Friday, April 11
Jeremiah 20:10-13
John 10:31-42

Saturday, April 12
Ezekiel 37:21-28
John 11:45-57

Sunday, April 13 [Palm Sunday] Psalm 24
Zechariah 9:9-12
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Matthew 21:1-13

Monday, April 14
Isaiah 42:1-7
John 12:1-11

Tuesday, April 15
Isaiah 49:1-6
John 13:21-38

Wednesday, April 16
Isaiah 50:4-9
Matthew 26:14-25

Thursday, April 17 [Maundy Thursday] Exodus 12:1-14
John 13:1-15

Evening Tenebrae

Friday, April 18 Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12[Good Friday] John 18:1-40

Service at 1

Saturday, April 19 [Holy Saturday] 1 Peter 3:17-22
Matthew 27:57-66

Evening Anticipation

Sunday, April 20 [Easter] Psalm 47
Isaiah 12
Colossians 3:1-11
Mark 16:1-8

Monday, April 21
Acts 2:14-32
Matthew 28:8-15

Tuesday, April 22
Acts 2:36-41
John 20:11-18

Wednesday, April 23
Acts 3:1-10
Luke 24:13-35

Thursday, April 24
Acts 3:11-26
Luke 24:35-48

Friday, April 25
Acts 4:1-12
John 21:1-14

Saturday, April 26
Acts 4:13-21
Mark 16:9-15

Sunday, April 27 [Easter 1] Psalm 34:1-10
Exodus 16:2-15
1 Corinthians 15:53-58
John 6:32-40

Monday, April 28
Ecclesiasticus 38:31-34
Matthew 5:33-42

Tuesday, April 29
Ecclesiasticus 39:1-6
Matthew 5:43-48

Wednesday, April 30
Ecclesiasticus 39:7-11
Matthew 6:1-6

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

April 1

They also saw that when some gained a gift in meeting they would go out and talk it all away.

April 2

Mother saw it would take some twenty years after they set out in the gospel to travel up to the order of nature or yet where some were when they first set out in the gospel. Father James saw when we did wrong, we could repent and be sorry for the wrong we had done but would go and do the same thing again and again, but true repentance was to leave off doing wrong.

April 3

I heard John Perry say that Father William came where he was one time and saw some children standing idle. He asked him if he had nothing for them to do. “If you have not, said he, you had better set them to picking up pebble stones, for if you suffer them to be idle, the Devil will set them to work.”

April 4

I heard Henry Gordon say the first time he saw Father James, the first words he heard him speak were, “Mother, here is a man that wants to open his mind.” “I had said nothing about it,” said Henry,” but he told the truth, for I did want to open my mind.” Mother said to Father James, “Cannot you hear him open his mind?” “He said he could and took me by the hand, and led me into another room, where we sat down and I opened my mind to him and it was easy, because I felt such love to him and I have never lost it to this day, I feel him near many times.”

April 5

I heard Elizabeth Babbitt say when she asked Mother and the Elders to remember her, they would say, “We shall not forget you, if you do not forget God.”
April 6

I heard Joseph Wythe say that Father William was a very charitable man. “He told me,” said Joseph, “that I should be saved, and that I must go to heaven with him, for he could not go to heaven without me and since he had left this world he comes to see me in my sleep. He does not leave me long at a time for he does not think it best.”

April 7

Father James said, “If any man finds himself on a high precipice, he is in a dangerous place to stay there long, he had better creep down carefully by degrees, than to fall; for if he should fall it would be his ruin.”

April 8

I heard Delighteth Dodge say, one time the Elders called upon her to wake up and look about her for the Devil was out with his flank guards to catch her and would catch all who were not upon the look out.

April 9

I heard Sarah Crouch say that the first Elders said that the Devil was in the flesh and we should all find it so.

April 10

I head Eunice Wythe say that she had gone to meeting many times from Cambridge to Woburn on foot, carrying her infant in her arms and returned the same day, making more than twenty miles. She did not stop for foul weather or bad walking.

April 11

I heard one of the first Believers say that Mother Ann said, “If the wicked should pull down your places of worship, you must not neglect to assemble yourselves together for the worship of God; not if you have to meet together out doors or in the barn.”

April 12

I heard Mother Sarah Kendall say that Mother Ann said that lust would so increase in the earth that men and women would be seen coupling in the streets with no more shame than the beasts and that the time would come when the Sisters would be glad to get into the arms of their Brethren for safety and protection.

April 13

I heard Elder John say that Father James said no one would find fault with the way of God that was really in it, but some will find fault with and complain of it who have never trod one step in the way.

April 14

Father James said, “When souls are brought to feel that they must be born again, they will never sleep again.” [Related by Brother Nathan Kendall who says it had such and awaking effect on his spirit that he never slept very sound afterwards, was very easy to be wakened.]

April 15

I heard John Perry say that Mother said we should not say that the weather was vastly cold; we might say it was cold or very cold and that was enough.

April 16

Brother Nathan said he had heard Father James say that the hardest thing he ever had to bear was living with false hearted brethren that would betray him.

April 17

I have heard Brother Oliver Robinson repeat some of Father James’ words in meeting, which he had heard Father repeat in meeting when he was a youth. “Brethren love your Sisters and keep them pure. Sisters love your Brethren and lay no temptations before them. I love my Brethren all as one. I love my Sisters all as one. We have a lovely altar whereon no one has a right to partake, but those who have confessed and forsaken their sins.”
April 18

I heard Brother Abijah Wooster say that the first Elders say we should be temperate in all things, that we should not eat too much, or drink too much, or sleep too much and that the gospel does not require us to go beyond our ability or strength in any exercise of soul or body.

April 19

I heard Jemima [Blanchard] say that Mother Ann said that we should not compare ourselves by ourselves for in so doing we were not wise. For God deals with his creatures as he sees fit in his own wisdom.

April 20

I have often heard Brother Oliver Robinson repeat these words of Father William’s in meeting, “Your own ways will carry you to hell.”

April 21

Sister Anna Laithe told me that the first Elders used to tell them it was the flesh in them to make any unnecessary noise when they were sitting at the table.

April 22

I heard Sister Abigail Allen say that she had a son who believed and afterwards turned away. – Father James told him that if he left the way of God he would turn to rags and lust and would be a vagabond upon the earth. Some of the Believers saw him after he went away – He was ragged and lousy; they saw the lice crawling upon him. He said Father’s words had come to pass, that he had turned to rags, lice, and lust.

April 23

“I have often heard Father James say he wanted everyone to try the way of God before they found fault with it.” At one time he said, “We have offered you our way and invite you to partake of the heavenly food which we partake of, but some will say before they have tasted that they do not like it and so turn away.”

April 24

Patience Crouch was 15 years of age when I received faith in the Testimony of Mother and the Elders. The first time that I went to meeting at the Square House, Father James said to me, “You must love God with all your heart, might, mind and strength.”

April 25

At one time I was in meeting under a good degree of mortification and in so much pain in my limbs that I could hardly move. Mother took hold of me, under my arms and labored with me twice across the floor. She took my bodily pain all away.

April 26

One time in conversation with Mother, she told me that when she lived in the wilderness at Watervliet before the gospel was opened that she helped the brethren clear the land. I think she said she helped clear every acre that was cleared before the gospel was opened. She said they had provision enough to last two years when the opening began.

She told me that the first time she saw Mother, she asked her if she wanted to confess her sins – She was bashful and knew not what to say, but Mother took her to one of the laborers and told him to hear her open her mind and she did it as well as she knew how.

April 27

The next time when she went to meeting Mother asked her if she loved her – she answered that she did. “Then hug me and kiss me, said Mother, and don’t be so strange.”

It was several months before any of the rest of her father’s family set out, except one who did not live at home and she used to wear a cap, kneel before and after eating, and use Believer’s language all that time. Finally, all the family set out.

April 28

Brother Nathan Kendall spoke and said, “I feel very thankful for this peculiar notice and blessing. It was in this room that I first saw Mother and the Elders and received my first faith. The house was surrounded by the wicked who were enraged against the work of God. I was a stranger and did not know whether the work was of God or not, but I wondered that people could show such a spirit as the wicked showed towards them. Before I left this place, I received faith.”

April 29

I heard Sarah Jewett say that before she embraced the gospel, she was in a very low state of health; that she was so weak she was unable to perform any labor with her hands, but that of the lightest kind and could scarcely lift a quart of water; that after Mother came and she received and obeyed the gospel, she received a healing gift. She put her hands to work at hand labor and her heart to God and went on in the strength of Mother and was able to perform any hard work that she was required to do. At one time being to work in the kitchen, there was an eight-pail brass kettle hanging over the fire filled with water. It being necessary to remove it and no one near, she took it off alone and felt no inconvenience from so doing.

April 30

Mother Sarah Kendall related, “At one time when Mother was at our house under extreme sufferings, she stripped up her sleeve and showed me her arm. It was covered with spots like bruises. This was the effect of suffering of spirit which she was called to pass through for a lost world.”