"George Fox": An Address Delivered to the Society of Friends

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AN ADDRESS

DELIVERED TO THE SIKUETY OK FRIENDS, j

BY C. H. SPtTEOEON,

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HENRY LONGSTKETH,

133B Ohestnat Street, Fhikddphia,

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No. 1. WljatisTmtli?

Nil. 2. Tho CliristittD Priesthonil,

No. 3. PrimilitB Christianity Rnjiveii.

No 4. Gospel Principles.

No, 5. Life, and Its Diaciplinf!,

No, 6. Josopii Sturge, the Ohristian Citizen.

Do. 7. Christian Baptism.

No. 8. The Lord’s Suppsr.

No. 9, The Ohristian’a Heritage.

No. 10. Biniel Wheeler, thoOhristiMi Missionaifr

No. 11. Ooagregational Worship.

No. 12. TbeconstrainiQglnHuenceof thoHolySpirit

No. 13. The Piirposoa of the Oomiug of Clirit,

No 14. Qtospel Miniatry.

I’riM (Wa uuiiu pur uopy, itnti ..tw dollar bomuj. I’iiey wit] ba fiunt P6!iT’t.lt» ou OMcipE of ch« UWMt.V. eorgc iax.”

AN ADDRESS

DELIVERED TO THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,

BY O. H. SFURGEOjSr,

BEVONSHIEE HOUSE MEETING HOUSE, BISHOPSGATE STREET,

LONDON,

Ok Tuesday Evening, November 6th, 1866.

CHARLES GILPm, Esq., M. P., in the Chair.

When first it waa in my heart to address you, I did nst-At all suppose that it would le in the form of a lecture.. T thought it possible, if God so ordered it, that I might have spoken to jou for about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour,. upon a apiritual subject which for two or three years has pressed very heavily upon my mind. It seemed to me that yon, esteemed Friends, were a picked body of men, peculiarly set apart. to be the advocates of spiritual religion, that you had suffered long for it, that your history had been highly honorable to yourselves in years past, that you atill loved the spirituality- of godliness, and were not to be bewitcd by the formalism of this age; but I thought that your testimony was hardly loud enough, that though it was clear as a bell, it was not shrill as a clarion; and I hoped also that if God should put it into yaux hearts to permit me to say a few earnest words to you. there might be young mon amongst you who might be stirred up to lift up their voice like a trumpet, to cry aloud and spare not, and to tell to this age its sins and iniquities.

This has not happened, but I have been asked to deliver a. lecture instead, and the topic chosen is George Fox, Now, to. lecture Friends upon George Fox is an extraordinary, proposition, and I do not at present see that I was prudent in my choice.. You must all of you know much more about that honored man than I could possibly tell you, and I can only aay that if you do not you should, for his “Life” well repays the earnest student.

* It is a rich mine. Every page of it is precious as solid gold. Books now-a-days are hammered out, and you get but little metal in acres of leaf; but the ‘’Journal’* of George Fox contains ingots of gold, truths which require to be thought of month by month before you can get to the bottom of them. To talk to you about George Fox is bringing coals to Newcastle, and doing a work of supererogation; but nevertheless, as I am to do it — though it is not what I wanted to do — we must try to make a cross between what we wished and what is announced. We must have something like an address, and yet it must be a lecture; well then, I should not wonder if it be most like a sermon after all. I have heard of a man, a Harp Alley sign painter, who was in the habit of painting red lions, and had painted so many red lions, that when one day an innkeeper asked him to paint an angel, he said, “Well, I will paint you an angel, but it will be very much like a red lion.*’ So, this “lecture,** as it is to be called, will be very like a sermon, and yet not altogether very widely apart from an address or a lecture. I am amongst those who bear the name of “Friends.** I have no doubt that you will honestly wear that title to night, and that I shall find you friends in listening to what I want to say. If I should find any fault with you, you will remember that you did not ask me to come here to flatter you, and I know you do not desire that I should do so. If I say anything that is wrong, you will put it down to my ignorance of the matter; but, at all events, you will not suspect me of unfriendliness, for I have no object in standing here to night but, in the fear of the Lord, to say some things which, by the Holy Spirit*8 power, may be useful to this audience, to your Society, and to the world.

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