This has long been a deeply impressive condition and expression of the prophet, showing his entire reliance on his Master, and God honored this attitude, for there followed discoveries of the Divine will, as follows:
"And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." [Habakkuk 2:2-4]
We have confidence in the prophets and their records. Many things we may not fully understand, yet we believe they waited to know the Divine will, they were inspired, and yet they were men as we are, they were honored.
The great diversity of views, and all from one source, is evidence there is something wrong, "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" [James 3:11]
Those whom God truly calls, can find no other position than that of the prophet, as above, and then to be sure must wait as he says, "Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."
We cannot believe as this care is practised there would be confusion, or diversity of view, for the Scriptures would be correctly interpreted and not of human construction.
Is it not time a people arose who sought the Truth in its purity? People whom God could trust, as he did the prophets? For we cannot find they contradicted each other. God does not contradict himself, for it is written, "God is light and in him is no darkness at all." [1 John 1:5]
He by his Almighty power, raised up the early Friends, who were united as they were kept in this power, and through them He spread the pure Gospel, which continued as long as they entirely trusted Him and leaned not to their own understanding, but there is evidence that when they departed from their first love, error crept in.
We can find evidence of this error as we move about this country, where God called us to be a people to his praise, finding so much that is contradictory, and this we know is not the fruits of the pure light, but must be from misguidance.
Beloved Friends everywhere, as I have been raised up from my bed of affliction, and as I seek to be resigned to my great loss of a most precious companion, in a response of great love, for the impartial and unselfish love shown to me, an unworthy creature, I would kindly plead for an ear to hear, as from a child of dear Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, from whence we removed in 1902, the deep concern which I have for a return of Primitive Christianity, revived in its ancient simplicity.
I have such an abounding faith in the pure Truth, and believe it must surely be, and a conviction besets me, that God's visitation is over the earth, and He would gather us Himself, not by any human parts, that He may have all the honor and glory which so richly belongs to Him.
This is somewhat my conclusion from my more recent travels in this country and Canada, confirmed by prophecies. Read the remarkable vision of Francis Howgill, Mary Peisley's sight, and later Thomas B Gould's last hours, an humble man, surprised at his own remarkable disclosures.
God will be clear, His servants must be clean and clear, convinced, and the results will lay with us, His beloved children, coming as He intends into the household and beloved family of God, loving one another, and bearing one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.