THE

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY:

A HISTORICAL VIEW

OF THE SUCCESSIVE CONVULSIONS AND SCHISMS THEREIN

DURING THAT PERIOD.

BY WILLIAM HODGSON.

"I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer, O vine of Sibmah! The spoiler
is fallen upon thy summer fruit, and upon thy vintage."-JEREM., xlviii, 32.
"Yet the blessed Truth shall outlive it all, and emerge out of the very ruins, if it
must come to that."-JOHN BARCLAY.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

FOR SALE BY SMITH, ENGLISH & CO.,

710 ARCH STREET:

AND BY THE AUTHOR, 103 N. TENTH ST., OR 1411 N. ELEVENTH ST.

1875.