Excerpt from Memoirs of Thomas Scattergood: Late of Philadelphia, a Minister of the Gospel of Christ About the fourteenth year of his age, he was placed apprentice in the city of Philadelphia, with a Friend in mercantile business; but the occu patiou not suiting him, he remained in it but a short time. He after wards went to learn the trade of a hatter, and continued at' it until about nineteen years old, when his master dying, he quit the employ ment and learned to be a tanner, in which business he continued during the remainder of his life. The temptations to which he was exposed in the city, and the facility there afforded for gratifying the inclinations of the carnal mind, led him still further from' the way of holiness; but amid all his deviations he appears to have been watched over and cared for by that compassionate Being who is a father to the father less, and whose gracious visitations were at times powerfully extended, in order to rescue him from the pit of pollution, and make him a chosen vessel in his house. He was sometimes in the practice of spending First-day afternoon with his companions in sailing on the Delaware an amusement in which he took much delight; and on one occasion when employed this manner, his mind became so deeply impressed with the sinful ness of thus spending the day, that he induced his comrades to set him ashore before they reached the place of their destination, nor did he ever afterwards spend that day in a similar manner. He was often heard to speak of this incident, as a remarkable instance of the secret pleadings of the Divine witness in the breasts of even the young, and there is reason to believe that soon after it, he was made willing to bow to the tendering visitations of Divine love and mercy to his soul, and taking up his daily cross, to follow J esus in the regeneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.