Dear Friend
Subtitle: letters & essays of Elias Hicks
By: edited by Paul Buckley
Contributors: Buckley, Paul, 1949-
Publisher: Inner Light Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780983498001; 9780983498018
Subjects: Correspondence; Hicksites; Clergy; Sources; Society of Friends; History
Description: In the course of his life, Elias Hicks (1748-1830) penned hundreds of letters, while writing only one book. The Journal of Elias Hicks is a record of service to the Religious Society of Friends, revealing a man repeatedly called by God to travel among and minister to Quakers in North America. In the Journal, he describes the hundreds of Quaker meetings he visited, scores of public meetings he conducted, and gives some account of his life as a Long Island farmer. Complementing the framework in the Journal, Hicks' letters flesh out the details of his life and his beliefs. They reveal a thoughtful man of deep devotion -- a man devoted to his wife and family, to his neighbors and friends, to the Religious Society of Friends, but more than anything else, a man simply, humbly, and steadfastly devoted to God. Some of his letters recount the trials of a traveling minister in the early 19th century. Others lay out his understanding of what it means to live faithfully as a Quaker in those times of conflict and change. Most controversially, some put forward his theological beliefs and the scriptural basis for them. Paul Buckley has compiled and transcribed a selection of Elias Hicks' letters and essays from the original manuscripts. To aid the reader, he has added footnotes and scriptural citations to the text, as well as appendices explaining Quaker terms and structures, definitions of archaic and unfamiliar words and phrases, and biographical sketches. -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes texts of brief and/or fragmentary essays by Hicks: Lamentation and Weeping and Great Mourning; Christ is the Word of God, not the Scriptures (fragment); An Essay on the Birth and Offices of Christ; Observations and Remarks on the Present State of Christendom (fragment).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.