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The bright morning star

George Fox was born in seventeenth-century Puritan England and became the founder of the Quakers. Although sometimes viewed as a fiery public figure, his letters reveal him as a loving pastor calling people to a confident and full Christian life.

All dear Friends everywhere, who have no helper but the

Lord, who is your strength and your life, let your cries and

prayers be to him, who with his eternal power has kept your

heads above all waters and storms. Let none go out of their

habitations in the stormy time of the night, those whose

habitation is the Lord, the Seed, Christ Jesus.

In this Seed you will see the bright and morning Star appear

which will expel the night of darkness, by which morning Star

you will come to the everlasting Day which was before night was.

So, everyone feel this bright morning Star in your hearts,

there to expel the darkness.

George Fox (1624–1691)