Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-06-19
The Society ofFrIcnds In Engiand.
The following extracts are taken from the
rth British Daily Mail, under the head

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:. Society of Friends The peculiar dress anc
- manners, which were the Distinguishing
marks of every Friend off former genera
It tion. are now regarded by many of the sect
n as things of the past There may still bt
o seen here and there those types of an earlier
err. but for the most part ''Frends" have
= changed with the changing manners of the
h times, and, on the surface at least. there is
nothing now to distinguish them from other
e men. Doubtless many of them think these
: changes for the better, though it is perhaps
r equally true that the apostrophe of Cicero
+ would more really express the sentiment OF
i others-'O Temporal o Mores o Dii i'm
c mortales - Whatever changes have taken
/ place in those matters which most people
3, deem accidental, there has been no modiiica-
4 tion, % nor, so far as We know, any wish for
modification, in any of those essential prin-
l ciples and habits of virtue for which the
Friends have been so long and so honorably
e distinguished The stern simplicity and un-
, bending integrity of George Fox and VIII
} liam Penn are still regarded as characteris-
r ties to be admired and initiated and any
deviation from their high standard of beha-
vior Is held Is deviation frcrn moral reeti-
tude The history of the Society is the his
tory OF a State within a State The body is
a little Republic, having its own government
: and its own laws. Whenever those laws
have conceded with the laws of the State in
which individual Friends have happened to
be living, there has been no war of clements :;
but when the laws of the Society have clash
ed with imperial laws. the Friends have al
ways unhcsitatingly obeyed their own gov
ernment, be the consequences what they
might
1T cannot be doubted that the founder of
the Society of Friends was a man of extra
ordinary courage and virtue 1t would lie
difficult to find, in all history, another case
OF mans exercising 50 thorough and COM
liete an influence over number of people
rs he has done for 50 many years That his
principles should be admired and adopted
may not be surprising, but that his very pc
culmrltleS OF manner, and speech. and dress
should be copied minutely for many genera
lions Is more than strange. $500.
"Ihc Friends are among the Oldest Dis
senterS from the Established Church of Scot
land, and were one of the earliest sccts who
had place oil meeting Of their own in Gla>-
gov. Ii seems that 80 early aS the year l1lG
they had Westinghouse in the city About
Il 10 they had Westinghouse and separate
burying g-ground near the end of Stirling
Street This ground was afterwards disposed
ol by the Society on the express condition
that the bones Of their friends should not be
disturbed for all time coming About the
end of the last century the Friends met in
hired house, and continued 20 TO meet un-
| I'll the year 1915, in which year their pres
ent Westinghouse in Portland Street. off
George Street. was built Tie building
then nhadaccommodation for four hundred peo-
pie. Although the Friends have never been
numerous, they are not. like some Of their
minor sects, diminishing in numbers. some
years ago the number Of their number. in |
Glasgow, and those in profession, was about
sixty Ii Is now upwards OF hundred and |
forty.
some of the early preachers of the Socic-
y who visited Glasgow shared the fate of all /
lnnoyatorS. Their sacred errand, and their /
quiet manners, were alike disrcgarded by |
the populace who treated them very rudely. /
Conspicuous among these petty prosecutors |
were the men of the gown and trencher. |
who doubtless thought the tormenting Of |
Quaker preacher an agreeable diversion from |
be study Of Greek roots and chemical equa-
lions. In Edinburgh and some other Scotch
towns. but especially in Aberdeen. the
tpostles ofGeorge Fox were deemed fl objects
aGr practical jokes In the last-named place
fthe persecution went farther than practical
joking. some of them being cast into prison,
more than one OF whom even died in goal.
y late As the beginning ol the present centu-
y the FRIENDS IN ulaSgow had their shops
closed by the police on the Kings fast days
anu oli urliiiAry n'cramehiaI ilNtS. TN one
o'Il,''l' 'he MAGISTRATES having summoned
rr'ehi nSIofe theh ior keepng ms shop
open ON Il IaSt gay, proposed Inning HIM Tor
Ielu9iils 70 'aAe OH ms ha'' and' 1t Is sad,
'0lull'y y coiiilil''T' MN 10 prison lor con
y. eo'.'' III o,'uISe col time a more
- rliIl fII'a'vH' ana no" IN 'aSso"'
.I'..--Hi - iI'i1' 'le rI1vllS nave won Tor
III "ono'"''' pace IN j., tne eS"-
-.i '',' ''l 'oiii''iull'S Inc teril
III I'.H'lN " ll.'Sn,'''r "N az
fi'eI 10 'Ic '1'Iety oI trienu-. Even IN
scotland theiT theology would hardly be pro
i'puheed anytnihs nut sound. 1t Is not
.l'eIeIlrc III inc regions oi abstract dogma
'''at 'heT lecuiilriueS are 10 be looked ior
-, 80 ilpc ''S IN 'Ilc uonalhoi practical morals
ne 'ereeu oi 'ng ,, society may De stated ina ;
le" seh'elce>- AHcy ptiltNe IN 'ou, the
! a'hcI AIinleh'y And IN ill> son
Je."s uIlNI our Lofd ana IN the lioiy
; pirt tne comforter; lhcy believe that
Jesus 'nrl9l 'aN'Sd ucath lor every man.
lhey nehe'e' ana mere rigid orthodoxy
ih'9nt l'puour'T tneh wanting tlat Il
measure VI li1ti. mas neSh gwen 10 az hy ,
the operation o' the holy SPIRIT on their
hearts ana coisclenccS and that there Is not
n human belns IN the world who has not !
been VISITED by tins light, or who has not, IN {
4 measure, TOD law written on his heart. |
Inc FRIENDS neileVe IN the Divine lnspira- ,
ton ana authority ol the Old and New les /
Ihey regard the public worship |
OF Almighty tod as an ineStimable privilege,
~ well as bounden duty. They therefore, ,
meet publicly on the tirst day of the week,
and also on some day IN the middle ol the r
week; lhey believe that when assembled a
1, losGrnSn, !" = nor necessary tnat any form c
,,, - IT., tr5,l l,"9'i' " P.gltnin5 snouiu DC
7n5 in sD;rt ,nj 9nu ,,. inae .nG "olsip ol
IL. -. al M. IL. ta,S ni"S uo ri'nDuI a
-. -; ..i"' III Il
w ~, r.. H. .'u' s'o fIelonInS "a 'ne
" 1.', 7Il VI oiIuSu q. S'i'ou '',ii'S'
H. H. H. ~. v'.S ~ 'ilc i''lil,euHi'e
ie,P ~ .I;e ioS 9l,ir'- lney also oeiie'e t
Ill - ~ "o.I" ,S wen aS men may
- ~ " tIe I Soln VI 're ministry. Inc
III g. .ta;:y .'io 1e'y Vi r[,cnus "ic NOT
',a ~ IT, ,r, .u'. neNeI.helesS' Wheh
oaro tbn;r bo,nos .,uJ nuJ ,elisloaS Us Gu'y 70
e. :; tLa;n anu ~ lIeacli tle "oSPei,
,f ehonrt aC n VI III lTreign I lh'ius .ngir
.a.Ic,.i 49, supEi9 'lei" "i'n 'ne W
-, Ln ~ J;iS Iii,S ~ put lney nave !;
- "stihony "aaiu'. n
p.e1o aJIarn o' .hn as no ui'ilns lor money
~ ~ '' Soci''i,,,i,' a,.l, iieeiy h
- - tho .L''' two Su moo,y sne' sn resaru r.
NIL wv ,to. parts y, I,ie ip'e.''"'
he Friends consider that these are non-essen- !!
als. and they therefore do not practise RI
hem believing that as there is but one Lord o
md one faith. so there is only one Inntism-- o