I am an innocent man, free from plots, and deny all such work. For what? What have I done? Whom have I wronged? I was bred and born in this country, and who can accuse me of any evil, from childhood up? If I should promise you this, it would manifest that I was guilty of something to make my home a prison; and if I then went to meetings, you would say I broke your order. Therefore I told I will go to meetings as the Lord should order me, and will not submit to your requirings; I must have my liberty to serve God