The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . on the Sixth-day after the fourth First-dayin the Fifth month. The Yearly Meeting of Rhode Island, for New England, beginswith the meeting of ministers and elders at Newport, on the Seventh-day following the second Sixth-day in the Sixth month. The meetingof discipline convenes the following Second-day. Baltimore Yearly Meeting, which takes in the Western Shore ofMaryland, Virginia and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania, is held at B
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . on the Sixth-day after the fourth First-dayin the Fifth month. The Yearly Meeting of Rhode Island, for New England, beginswith the meeting of ministers and elders at Newport, on the Seventh-day following the second Sixth-day in the Sixth month. The meetingof discipline convenes the following Second-day. Baltimore Yearly Meeting, which takes in the Western Shore ofMaryland, Virginia and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania, is held at Bal-timore, the last Second-day but one in the Tenth month. The meet-ing of Ministers and Elders is held on the Seventh-day previous. Ohio Yearly Meeting which takes in the western parts of Penn-sylvania, is held at Mount-Pleasant, on the Second-day following thefirst First-day in the Ninth month. The Yearly Meeting for North and South Carolina, and Tennes-see, is held at New Garden, the Second-day after the first First-day inthe Eleventh month. Indiana Yearly Meeting is held at White Water, the Fifth-day pre-ceding the first-day in the Tenth month.# HICKSITES. ^| H I S portion of the Body ofFriends can not for a longtime to come, boast of an-tiquity. Its history and pe-culiarities may be soon is a fact well known thatfor nearly half a centurypast, the body, both in Eu-rope and America has con-tained many members who cherished the leading doctrines of Unita-rianism, blending them as far as possible with the faith and practicesof the Friends with whom they were united by birth-membership. These differences of opinion began widely to extend themselves inthis country some thirty years ago. A popular minister of the body,named EJias Hicks, warmly advocated a denial of the Divine authorityof the Holy Scriptures, and the miraculous conception, deity, and atone-ment of Jesus Christ. Decided opposition to these views was express-ed by the majority of the Friends, and in 1827 a l
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