Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Potter, Nathaniel Jr

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

1843-10-07

Description

Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Jr Potter to Amy Kirby Post, October 7, 1843.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

604

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

Packet – Rochester. 10..7..43
I still continue to mingle with my Rochester
friends. Why should I not mingle in spirit with those who
follow the same spirit and mind the same things.” – not
that we are all shoemakers or farmers but we “mind the light.”
God is light and he is love. – His love is universal. – Hence
if any say they love God and hate a brother –
(whether that brother be white or black) all such
are liars. – For those who really love God, they love
his government – which is a government of attraction, and
not of mere force without love. – “He that hateth his
brother is a murderer” – he murders the son of God,
the principle of Divine love begotten in the soul. –
O! how many they are who shut up the kingdom
of God against men, they neither enter into the
kingdom of Christ themselves, and those who gladly
would enter they hinder”. – I once felt constrained
to say at a small weekday meeting of Friends – “Ye
generation of vipers &c. This I thought was plain
language, yet they dealt with me for appear-
ing out of plainness – and as I was honest and faithful
to manifested duty – my name was cast out as evil. –
and when I saw the raging elements; – like Peter
when commanded to walk on the water, I began
to sink and was afraid. May the Lord forgive
both them and me. And may our trust in
the God of the whole Earth be firm. – For he
is mighty and able to save.
I have written this far without knowing for whom
But the language of the Spirit now is – Dear Sister be
faithful. – Yea let the weak say I am strong, for
strong is the Lord God who hath called thee; –
and his “banner over thee will be love.”
Open thy mouth in the cause of this dumb, and
those appointed to destruction. – “Endure the cross and
despise the shame”: – for some will be ready to say,
“it is a shame for a woman to act the part which
the Lord will require at thy hands. – “I believe therefore
I have spoken. – – – – As to the vision of Mrs. Cornell, (I
forget her name,) it was no doubt a dream. Ideality awake; but
the reasoning faculties causality and comparison asleep. Well

(Page 2)

“he that hath a dream, let him tell his dream. and
he that hath the word of the Lord – let him
declare it faithfully.” “Male & female are one in
Christ Jesus,” our head. – Now do not begin to make
excuses, for I feel there is danger of it – What shall I say?
I was thinking of those who were invited to the marriage
supper of the King. – and made excuses until they were
rejected – and the call extended to those in the highway
& hedges. but as I was about to write the spirit said
“forbear threatning [sic].” So I must believe thou wilt be
saved any how; for the Lord hath redeemed thee, &
thou art his. Those who only give a cup of cold
water to a poor despised outcast from humanity, who is a
joint heir with Jesus Christ are sure of a rich reward. –
Christ was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.
and voluntarily suffered for us – the just for the unjust.
This is no fiction as those who know the fellowship of
his sufferings verry [sic] well know. It was real suffering
when “he sweat great drops of blood,” and said “if it be
possible let this cup pass from me; – nevertheless not as
I will but as thou wilt.” and again – “If this cup may
not pass from me except I drink it thy will be done.”
Remember this was voluntary on his part – for he might
have escaped He might have prayed to his Father, who would
have given him more than twelve legions of angels”.
i.e. he might have become so lovely by a visable [sic] display
of all his Divine and heavenly graces, as to completely over-
power and break down all the malice of his enemies the Jews.
Who can withhold what the Lord requires when they
think of these things. – When the eye is fixed on him
who is altogether lovely – When the Spirit and the
Bride say come – who there can say – “I pray thee have
me excused? Rather let the language be; –
“Lord here am I send [me?].”
Tho’ I feel poor and needy in every sense of the term.
Yet in view of the degradation and suffering of
the majority of the human family – I am constrained
to cast in the “widows mite”, least while I preach to
others I myself become a cast away. – And while I
do it with fear and trembling – I know there is one who
is touched with the feelings of my infirmities.” under a sense
of which I am melted into tears. “With the Salutation of love

(Page 3)

unfeigned I am       Thy friend & Brother
Amy Post                                         N. Potter
                                             Hamburg 10..12..
I send this by brother Isaac Potter who is going
to New York ^to buy goods^ – Fanny Brown was verry [sic] sick and
had been failing for several days when I saw her
on first day her recovery verry [sic] doubtful. My health
good –         Write – and direct to East-Hamburg
I have no time to add more – and thou wilt
perhaps say as Bloss did – “Thank the Lord for that.”
                                                      N.

(Page 4)

Amy Post
Rochester City
care of Isaac Post – Druggist opposite
the Packet-Office – second door from Buffalo St.

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Personal

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Potter, Nathaniel Jr, “Potter, Nathaniel Jr. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/2896.

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