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THE LIFE AND LABORS

OF

ELIAS HICKS


BY

Henry W. Wilbur


Introduction by

ELIZABETH POWELL BOND


PHILADELPHIA

Published by Friends' General Conference Advancement Committee

1910


COPYRIGHTED 1910 BY
HENRY W. WILBUR




CONTENTS.


  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                                       5

  AUTHOR'S PREFACE                                            7

  INTRODUCTION                                               11

  CHAPTER I, Ancestry and Boyhood                            17

  CHAPTER II, His Young Manhood                              22

  CHAPTER III, First Appearance in the Ministry              28

  CHAPTER IV, Early Labors in the Ministry                   32

  CHAPTER V, Later Ministerial Labors                        38

  CHAPTER VI, Religious Journeys in 1828                     46

  CHAPTER VII, Ideas About the Ministry                      57

  CHAPTER VIII, The Home at Jericho                          66

  CHAPTER IX, The Hicks Family                               71

  CHAPTER X, Letters to His Wife                             76

  CHAPTER XI, The Slavery Question                           84

  CHAPTER XII, Various Opinions                              95

  CHAPTER XIII, Some Points of Doctrine                     107

  CHAPTER XIV, Before the Division                          121

  CHAPTER XV, First Trouble in Philadelphia                 126

  CHAPTER XVI, The Time of Unsettlement                     139

  CHAPTER XVII, Three Sermons Reviewed                      152

  CHAPTER XVIII, The Braithwaite Controversy                161

  CHAPTER XIX, Ann Jones in Dutchess County                 171

  CHAPTER XX, The Experience with T. Shillitoe              181

  CHAPTER XXI, Disownment and Doctrine                      188

  CHAPTER XXII, After the "Separation"                      195

  CHAPTER XXIII, Friendly and Unfriendly Critics             202

  CHAPTER XXIV, Recollections, Reminiscences and Testimonies 211

  CHAPTER XXV, Putting off the Harness                       218

  APPENDIX                                                   226

  TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


  ELIAS HICKS (from bust, by Partridge)       Frontispiece

  HICKS HOUSE AND JERICHO MEETING HOUSE, facing         57

  CHILDREN OF ELIAS HICKS, facing                       97

  FACSIMILE OF LETTER, facing                          105

  ELIAS HICKS (from painting, by Ketcham), facing      121

  SURVEYOR'S PLOTTING, BY ELIAS HICKS, facing          144

