A Report of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Friends: During the Month of May, 1835I.T. Hopper, 1835 - 22 pages |
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Page 10 - Quakers had 700 liberated slaves under their care, in defence of whose freedom they had expended 20,000 dollars, and whom they found it necessary either to pass into the free states, or to ship to Liberia. The Quakers, in the other slave states, were represented as similarly occupied and circumstanced. It deserves to be known, that the English Quakers have remitted large sums of money to their American brethren, in aid of their benevolent exertions. The afternoon sitting, with several subsequent...
Page 4 - ... those testimonies, under the false and malicious charge, " that there is scarcely a doctrine of revelation, which their fundamental principles do not discard or explain away.
Page 18 - Mr. Howard, and many others. Striking allusions were made to the exertions of other Christian bodies in the missionary cause ; but it was ultimately decided that, in consequence of the present want of unity in the society on a point of doctrine, the time was not yet come for the Society of Friends to form a specific society in aid of missionary exertions, but its members generally were encouraged to render efficient aid to those missionary societies already in existence. One feature in the discussion...
Page 17 - ... the West Indies, and that the numerous associations in all parts of the country formerly connected with the Anti-Slavery Society should be resuscitated and set in vigorous and efficient operation. On Monday afternoon, the subject of a Quakers' Missionary Society was introduced by the Clerk's reading a minute from the Bristol and Somersetshire Friends, expressing a deep concern for the spiritual condition of the Heathen world, and recommending the Society of Friends, as a section of the Christian...
Page 22 - ... portion of their time to prayer and communion with Him, and encourage and practise social prayer in their families ; that they should make it a point of conscience to attend all meetings of the Society for religious worship, whether great or small, and whether held in silence or otherwise ; and, finally, that it might please the Great Head of the Church to bless these means to the salvation of their souls, and to the promotion of the glory of Him who died that they might have life through His...
Page 7 - This Conference, or, as it is termed by the Friends themselves, this " Annual Meeting," is held in a large chapel in Bishopsgatestreet, fitted up for the express purpose, and well adapted for containing a popular assembly of about a thousand. We were much struck with the grave and demure appearance of those present, whom we found to be from every part of Great Britain, and to be composed of four classes of persons...
Page 6 - Paul thus describes the Unity of the Church : — " There is One Body, and One Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling ; One Lord ; One Faith ; One Baptism ; One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Page 16 - Friends had felt respecting the dreadful evil of intemperance ; and proceeded to enjoin, that all its members who were influenced by the love of God and of their neighbour, should endeavour to stem this torrent of evil, by abstaining from the use of distilled spirits, except for medicinal purposes, and that, considering the numerous evils of trading in spirituous liquors, no member about to commence business, should on any account adopt that trade, it being deemed utterly inconsistent for any member...
Page 18 - Society's ancient testimonies" should be encroached upon ; and several seemed to intimate an opinion that Quaker ministers alone were sent out by the Lord, whilst those missionaries who have been instrumental in converting whole nations were spoken of as if they had been sent out by the mere will of man. On the other hand, it was argued, that the...
Page 20 - In the course o£ one of the discussions, a considerable sensation was produced by the discovery, that the ministers and elders of the Society had refused to give Mr. Elisha Bates (an American Friend who had been in England on a religious visit) the usual certificate or testimonial of good conduct and sound doctrine on his return. It appeared, that, whilst in this country, Mr. Bates, had been of extensive service...