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Truth Advocated; In Letters Addressed to the Presbyterians
Truth Advocated In Letters Addressed to the Presbyterians Author:William Gibbons General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: Printed by Joseph Rakestraw Subjects: Presbyterian Church Society of Friends Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this ... more »book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER II. MISSIONARY AND BIBLE SOCIETIES. AFTER proving in the foregoing letter, your minister's , entire disregard to truth and candour, I am very sure that every impartial reader, on the maxim expede Herculem, would , v consider it as wholly superfluous to take any further notice of a writer who has thus forfeited all legitimate claim to the cre- dence, and even to the forbearance of his readers. There is yet one charge, however, the grounds of which I propose to examine at some length, because it is brought forward with a degree Of plausibility, and on a subject too, in which a large portion of the Christian community has taken a deep and lively interest. I allude to our alleged opposition to Missionary and J N Bible Societies. "Hfcf " gitv That the Quakers are opposed to any means likely to advance, in their view, the Redeemer's kingdom in the earth, is aAharge not less groudless than absurd. That they are enemies to gospel missions, and the proper distribution of Bibles and other suitable religious books, is sufficiently contradicted by their own efforts in that way from their first origin as a Society. That they have made any opposition in a collective capacity, to Missionary and Bible Societies as they are at present constituted, is also a charge equally destitute of foundation. But it is a fact and one which J feel no reluctance publicly to avow, that the Quakers in an individual capacity, have very generally declined to associate with, and some members of that Society have pu...« less