The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Society of Friends beganto be distinguished in England aboutthe middle of the seventeenth doctrines were first promulgatedby George Fox, about the year 1647,for which he was imprisoned at Noting-ham in 1649, and the year following atDerby. The appellation of Quakers wasgiven them by way of contempt; some say on account of their trem-blings under the impression of divine things ; but they themselves sayit was first g
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Society of Friends beganto be distinguished in England aboutthe middle of the seventeenth doctrines were first promulgatedby George Fox, about the year 1647,for which he was imprisoned at Noting-ham in 1649, and the year following atDerby. The appellation of Quakers wasgiven them by way of contempt; some say on account of their trem-blings under the impression of divine things ; but they themselves sayit was first given them by one of the magistrates who committedGeorge Fox to prison, because the moral hero had told him and thoseabout him to tremble at the word of the Lord. Who George Fox was, and what was his character, and whatwere his objects, are questions of deeper meaning and importance thanreaders generally believe. We regard Fox as one of the most extraor-dinary men of one of the most extraordinary periods of the worlds his-tory. He was most decidedly a man of genius, with marvellous intui-tion and insight into the profoundest depths of the human heart, and a814. Friends or Quakers. 815 faculty for the comprehension of spiritual matters which has rarely beenequalled. He was not a well educated man, and yet no man under-stood better than he all the relations subsisting between man and hisMaker, and man and society, or could better or more forcibly or clearlyexpound them. He had acuteness of intellect united with profund-ity, and his power of utterance covered all the field lying between ex-treme gravity and the sharpness of controversial repartee. He wasone of the most simple hearted men that ever lived, full of humility,glorious in faith, and always obedient to every manifestation of the di-vine will. What he conceived to be his duty, he could not be deterredfrom doing, and in that unconquerable and iron energy of will, whichhas conducted thousands to the stake and sustained them
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