Liberal Quakerism In America In The Long Nineteenth Century 1790 1920 PDF Download

Excerpt from Quaker Hill in the Nineteenth Century The world changed in passing from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, and Quaker Hill changed with the world. It could not remain apart and it did not stand still. From a religious center the Hill became a focus of business. In the eighteenth the saint and the soldier, in the nineteenth the saint and the capitalist give color to the story. Instead of the united meeting of the earlier years there is now to be considered a divided Society of Friends. The leaven of modern thought was at Work, inducing some to make bold and daring ventures in philosophy and religion; the practical spirit had come into the quiet devotions of the saints, leading others to desire to be like the vigorous, successful Christians of other sects. Every influence tended to rob the Hill of its peculiar relig ious character, and to take the Quakers farther away from George Fox. Divided and separated by these two forces, the rationalist and the pietistic, the worship pers in this house were perplexed and fear ful what these world - forces might mean, and at last in a time of contagious panic forgot the principles for which they thought they were contending and did many things unworthy of their grave and gentle character. 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.