Rebecca Young letter to Charity Rotch, 10th of 9th mo 1790

              B-322-1   
	            10th of 9th mo  1795
Dear Fds
T & C. Rotch
		You have been so frequently the
companions of my mind in the renewed feeling of that
Love which on our first acquaintance in a peculiar
manner flowed in my heart towards you- that I
seem as tho I could not leave these ports without
manifesting by a few lines how tenderly I am interes-
-ted in your steady advancement towards  Zion the
city of our Solemnities - for tho  you have
given up much, -sacrificed things near &
Dear- there yet remains an unsubjected part-
something is yet called for, & obedience only
will secure that  peace which posseth under-
-standing - the Clay is not to day unto the
Potter why formest thou me thus - oh! That
we may be given up to be what the
great & Heavenly Potter may seemest to make
us- let not my Dear Frds & Sister CR- shut her
Eyes against the light for  truly light is in it
and it is a pleasant thing to the Eyes to behold
the Sun - and the Sun of Righteousness will
never arise in Glory upon our dwellings-unless
we make way for his first arisings-   If the