The Missing Cross to Purity

Advice to And Regarding Children

As the Site Editor and a father to grown men, I have created this page to index several writings of the Early Quakers to their children. Each writer was a totally regenerated, entirely new creature, dwelling in the Kingdom of God. Each writer was a giant in the Early Quaker movement, whose writings live to posterity.

After our wife, children are a man's greatest treasure in this world. So, when we can see how these worthies of the Lord instructed and advised their children, we know it is their best; and the best advice available from anyone in the world, because all of these men lived in close counsel with our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Francis Howgill and Isaac wrote to their children when long imprisoned. As William Penn was departing for the colonial wilderness of Pennsylvania, he wrote to his wife and children, not knowing if he would see his wife or children again. So their advice was somewhat of a last will.

No, their knowledge and wisdom was not earthly - their wisdom was from above, for they were the oracles of God, convincing thousands of the Truth, and then counseling them as the convinced worked out their salvation.

The writings indexed on the left side bar are treasures. May they be helpful to you in ordering your life, and then to your children afterwards.