The Quakers, Past and Present

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The bulk of Quaker literature falls into two main groups: (1) The voluminous writings of the early Quakers—journals, epistles, doctrinal works, and controversial matter—most of which were issued under the censorship of a body of Friends meeting in London, while a large mass of unprinted manuscripts and transcripts of manuscripts, admirably classified and indexed, is available at the headquarters of the Society, Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, whose library contains also the largest collection of books relating to the Society; (2) the modern output of history, commentary, expository, apology, and evangelistic writing.

Most of the printed works of George Fox have been collected in the eight volumes of the Philadelphia edition. A considerable quantity is still in manuscript. The Cambridge edition of his Journal is particularly interesting in having been printed unaltered from the original manuscript. It is incomplete, and is best supplemented by the bi-centenary edition (see Bibliography).

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Note 1 · The Brownists; now represented in the Congregational Union.Note 2 · Bunyan was born in 1628, four years later than Fox.Note 3 · In 1624, at Drayton-in-the-Clay, in Leicestershire.Note 4 · His father, a weaver by trade, and known as “Righteous Christer,” is described by Fox as a man “with a seed of God in him”; his mother, Mary Note 5 · William C. Braithwaite: The Beginnings of Quakerism. (Macmillan, 1912.)Note 6 · If we except the doomed Port Royalists.Note 7 · Toleration Act passed 1689. Fox died two years later.Note 8 · The bulk of the “Fell” correspondence is preserved at the headquarters of the Society of Friends, Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, E.C.Note 9 · Part of which was spent in a dungeon reserved for witches and murderers, and left uncleansed year after year.Note 10 · Nicholas Hermann.Note 11 · 1870.Note 12 · See chapter on Quakerism and Women.Note 13 · An Apology for the True Christian Divinity. 1678.Note 14 · W. Bromfield: The Faith of the True Christian and the Primitive Quaker’s Faith. 1725.Note 15 · The biographies of Quakers and ex-Quakers amount to about 3 per cent. of the whole of the entries in the Dictionary of National Biography (1 Note 16 · Ackworth was founded in 1779, Sidcot remodelled on Quaker lines in 1808, the present Saffron Walden School opened in Islington in 1811, and Note 17 · As early as 1657, and before he had come in contact with slavery, Fox addressed a letter of advice from England to all slave-holding Friends Note 18 · The first Quakers to reach America were two women, Anne Austin and Mary Fisher. When they arrived at Boston, their luggage was searched, the Note 19 · It is interesting that Penn did his utmost—even to attempting to bribe the secretaries when the charter was drawn up—to abolish the Penn pre Note 20 · In 1683.Note 21 · “According to recent statistics, the membership of the fourteen orthodox bodies is upward of 90,000; of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 4,400; Note 22 · The Perrot Schism, 1661.Note 23 · The Friend, March, 1912: “Woman in the Church.”Note 24 · The Beacon Controversy, so named from Isaac Crewdson’s publication in 1835, expressing Evangelical views of an advanced type.Note 25 · The Friends’ Retreat at York, established in 1796, was the beginning of humane treatment of the insane in this country.Note 26 · In 1845 by Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham.Note 27 · Authority and the Light Within.Note 28 · Swarthmoor Lecture. Headley Bros., 1909.Note 29 · In the work, for example, of Miss Evelyn Underhill, author of Mysticism (Macmillan, 1911), The Mystic Way (Macmillan, 1913).