CONTENTS. 1. Minutes and Proceedings of the Green-Plain Yearly Meeting of Friends, who have adopted the Congrega- tional Order of Church Government. 1849-1851. 2. Address to Friends of Genesee Yearly Meeting. 3. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Congregational Friends, Waterloo, New York. 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, Waterloo, New York. 1854 and 5. Proceedings of Pennsylvania Yearly Meetings of 126 The publishers of the CHRISTIAN EXAMINER will forward the work free of postage to all subscribers who remit their payments in advance. Those in arrears will please remit in full. The volumes of the "Examiner," neatly bound in cloth, will be given to subscribers in exchange for their numbers, at twenty-five cents a volume. THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. JULY, 1856. ART. I. THE PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS.* THE secession from the Friends which has taken the above name in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, has become sufficiently important to deserve notice. There is also something interesting in the fact of this development of Quakerism on its reformatory and progressive side. The early Quaker movement was an extraordinary one. Consider how much it included in itself. It was the most radical enterprise ever yet undertaken, — a rebellion without parallel against Church and State. It was at once a spiritual movement, aiming at a loftier piety, - a theological movement, seeking a broader creed, a reform movement, aiming at the overthrow of war, slavery, and public evils, a social movement, seeking to inaugurate a better mode of life. It would be easy, were it necessary, to justify this 1. Minutes and Proceedings of the Green-Plain Yearly Meeting of Friends, who have adopted the Congregational Order of Church Government. 1849-1851. 2. Address to Friends of Genesee Yearly Meeting. 1848. 3. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Congregational Friends, Waterloo, N. Y. 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853. 4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, Waterloo, N. Y. 1854 and 1855. 5. Proceedings of Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends. 1854 and 1855. VOL. LX. -4TH S. VOL. XXVI. NO. I. 1 |