(Works, VII., p. 343.)
Care of the Aged.
Have an alms-house or hospital for all poor friends that are past work.
(Ibid.)
Care of the Mentally Deranged.
Friends to have and provide a house for them that be distempered and not to go to the world.
(Ibid.)
Dangers of Ease and Plenty.
And so, now you that are settled in those parts, who have had a testimony from the Lord to bear to people of the truth, you should spread abroad God’s eternal truth; and have meetings (as I said before) with the Indian Kings and people; so that all the earth may come to look unto the Lord for salvation. For if ye should settle down in the earth and have plenty and be full, and at ease for a time and not keep in the power and service and spirit of God, you would quickly come to lose your condition, as some did in Rhode Island when settled down in the earth after a while, and then turned to jangling about it, and some ran out one way and some another.
(Works, VIII., p. 306.)