Author: James Pinkney Pleasant Bell

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Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781331869498

Excerpt from Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time: Being in Part a Transcript of the Minute Books of Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and the South River Meeting, Campbell County, Va My maternal ancestors, the Terrell family, were Quakers, and sometimes in my early childhood I attended their meetings for worship held in the old Meetinghouse at Golansville in Caroline County, Va., and still retaining a love for these good people, I have for some time past contemplated publishing a book giving an account of their religious belief, and manner of conducting their meetings. Through a member of the Society of Friends, in Richmond, Va., I have obtained extracts from some of their old Minute books, which I hope will be of interest to my readers; I also make extracts from The Southern Friend (a religious journal published in Richmond during the Civil War). "Southern Heroes," a book published since the war, setting forth the stand taken by Friends, who would endure persecution rather than go forth to slay their fellow man. I also have a little tract issued by the New York Yearly Meeting, entitled: "A Brief View of the Doctrines of Friends," which I shall use. The Quakers have done much for the Christian world in preaching that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is essential to salvation, and that at all times, and under all circumstances, they should seek to be guided by the Holy Spirit; hence, when they assemble for worship, they wait in silence before the Lord until they shall feel that he has given them a message to deliver to the people. It was this belief in the guidance of the Holy Spirit and this silent waiting before the Lord that gave rise to the saying that the "Quakers are waiting for the Spirit to move them." There is a depth of meaning to this waiting before the Lord that only the true spiritually minded can comprehend. True worship is the communion of the soul with its Maker. 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.