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saying that if they had my sense they would not serve any master in the
world. And about this time I had a vision--and I saw white spirits and
black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened--the thunder
rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams--and I heard a voice
saying, "Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come
rough or smooth, you must surely bare it." I now withdrew myself as much
as my situation would permit, from the intercourse of my fellow
servants, for the avowed purpose of serving the Spirit more fully--and
it appeared to me, and reminded me of the things it had already shown
me, and that it would then reveal to me the knowledge of the elements,
the revolution of the planets, the operation of tides, and changes of
the seasons. After this revelation in the year 1825, and the knowledge
of the elements being made known to me, I sought more than ever to
obtain true holiness before the great day of judgment should appear, and
then I began to receive the true knowledge of faith. And from the first
steps of righteousness until the last, was I made perfect; and the Holy
Ghost was with me, and said, "Behold me as I stand in the Heavens"--and
I looked and saw the forms of men in different attitudes--and there were
lights in the sky to which the children of darkness gave other names
than what they really were--for they were the lights of the Saviour's
hands, stretched forth from east to west, even as they were extended on
the cross on Calvary for the redemption of sinners. And I wondered
greatly at these miracles, and prayed to be informed of a certainty of
the meaning thereof--and shortly afterwards, while laboring in the
field, I discovered drops of blood on the corn as though it were dew
from heaven--and I communicated it to many, both white and black, in the
neighborhood--and I then found on the leaves in the woods hieroglyphic
characters, and numbers, with the forms of men in different attitudes,
portrayed in blood, and representing the figures I had seen before in
the heavens. And now the Holy Ghost had revealed itself to me, and made
plain the miracles it had shown me--For as the blood of Christ had been
shed on this earth, and had ascended to heaven for the salvation of
sinners, and was now returning to earth again in the form of dew--and as
the leaves on the trees bore the impression of the figures I had seen in
the heavens, it was plain to me that the Saviour was about to lay down
the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and the great day of judgment
was at hand. About this time I told these things to a white man,
(Etheldred T. Brantley) on whom it had a wonderful effect--and he ceased
from his wickedness, and was attacked immediately with a cutaneous
eruption, and blood ozed from the pores of his skin, and after praying
and fasting nine days, he was healed, and the Spirit appeared to me
again, and said, as the Saviour had been baptised so should we be
also--and when the white people would not let us be baptised by the
church, we went down into the water together, in the sight of many who
reviled us, and were baptised by the Spirit--After this I rejoiced
greatly, and gave thanks to God. And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a
loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and
said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had
borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight
against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first
should be last and the last should be first. _Ques._ Do you not find
yourself mistaken now? _Ans._ Was not Christ crucified. And by signs in
the heavens that it would make known to me when I should commence the
great work--and until the first sign appeared, I should conceal it from
the knowledge of men--And on the appearance of the sign, (the eclipse of
the sun last February) I should arise and prepare myself, and slay my
enemies with their own weapons. And immediately on the sign appearing in
the heavens, the seal was removed from my lips, and I communicated the
great work laid out for me to do, to four in whom I had the greatest
confidence, (Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam)--It was intended by us to
have begun the work of death on the 4th July last--Many were the plans
formed and rejected by us, and it affected my mind to such a degree,
that I fell sick, and the time passed without our coming to any
determination how to commence--Still forming new schemes and rejecting
them, when the sign appeared again, which determined me not to wait
longer.
Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph
Travis, who was to me a kind master, and placed the greatest confidence
in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment to me. On
Saturday evening, the 20th of August, it was agreed between Henry, Hark
and myself, to prepare a dinner the next day for the men we expected,
and then to concert a plan, as we had not yet determined on any. Hark,
on the following morning, brought a pig, and Henry brandy, and being
joined by Sam, Nelson, Will and Jack, they prepared in the woods a
dinner, where, about three o'clock, I joined them.
_Q._ Why were you so backward in joining them.
_A._ The same reason that had caused me not to mix with them for years
before.
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