A History of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in CanadaMacmillan Company of Canada limited, 1927 - 343 pages |
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Adolphustown appointed Bay of Quinte Bloomfield branch of Friends Canada Half Year's Canada Yearly Meeting Canadian Friends Church Cold Creek committee David Willson Discipline disowned district doctrine Dorland Doukhobors Elias Hicks England established evangelical evidence families favour Friends in America Friends in Canada Genesee Yearly Meeting Haight Half Year's Meeting held Hicksite branch Hicksite Friends Indians indulged meeting influence Joseph John Gurney Joshua Evans Journal Kingston labour Lake Monthly Meeting leaders Loyalist meeting for worship meeting house Meeting of Friends minister ministry Minutes Norwich Monthly Meeting Ontario organized Orthodox Branch Peace Pelham Monthly Meeting Periods of Quakerism Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Pickering College pioneer Prep Preparative Meeting Prince Edward County Quaker Quietism Scriptures Separation of 1828 Society of Friends spirit Stephen Grellet Street Monthly Meeting Thomas Shillitoe Timothy Rogers tion Toronto Township Upper Canada West Lake Monthly William Yarmouth Yonge Street Monthly York Yearly Meeting
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Page 94 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 140 - For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Page 24 - I saw that the grace of God, which brings salvation, had appeared to all men, and that the manifestation of the Spirit of God was given to every man, to profit withal.
Page 331 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 19 - FG by the hand, did on this solemn occasion declare, that he took her to be his wife ; promising, through Divine assistance, to be unto her a faithful and loving husband, until separated by death, or words to that effect...
Page 325 - Act— (a) on the ground that it is expedient in the national interests that he should, instead of being employed in military service, be engaged in other work in which he is habitually engaged...
Page 21 - it shall be lawful for the minister of any congregation or religious community of persons, professing to be members of the Church of Scotland, or Lutherans, or Calvanists" to marry according to the rights of such church, and it was necessary that one of the persons to be married should have been a member of the particular church six months before the marriage.
Page 43 - We are therefore incited, by a sincere concern for the peace and welfare of our country, publicly to declare against every usurpation of power and authority in opposition to the laws and government, and against all combinations, insurrections, conspiracies, and illegal assemblies; and as we are restrained from them by the conscientious discharge of our duty to Almighty God, '-by whom kings reign and princes decree justice...
Page 13 - I told them I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.
Page 13 - It is not consistent for anyone to claim that his Christianity as a way of life stops him from war unless he is prepared to adjust his entire life — in its personal aspirations, in its relations with his fellows, in its pursuit of truth, in its economic and social bearings, in its political obligations, in its religious fellowships, in its intercourse with God — to the tremendous demands of Christ's way.