THE QUAKERS DIMINISHING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 278, 14 March 1877, Page 3

THE QUAKERS DIMINISHING.

< (Uhhluii "Cithulit- tw-isti-r. ") I "o ari! snny to sue that tmr Ad t'riemtst. i 'I 1 " Quakers, an- saill-V tttmhibhiiiy iu i numlioi'B. ttUsaid that there art? Wily -tMHHhn Ku-la.iul, blie fourth pact nf thy i nuiubiu- wliiy , rt' ( .upi»!u-:il in thia enuntu-y ,atl >«iliiy.-»(.t'*taurge Fox,, their foamier. si't'ins that so sTidu iis the gentleman ainmdonu.l t| lu wide siv wl , of their hat*.; j lt >'ltlu! ladies thy ssiuufc severity of their wnm-fc., the popularity of the sect •jriwtn,l"y thuiinishcl. foe there wau tltfcloleft, of aiU'fjil tn_ mia-y vanity.. these good ■"' : ami jii:-.r, r have deserved a '■ r ; i;•[(" i>f' heresies : for b«- ; " ! i " «-'i.u nd," unit soiut'' ;: • ■ ■■ ; •-.-',7' ie <Jnet't»'s English. .;• ,y H'>thinjf that emtUt he f.'i.-'5 theiu. They Were 151 tit- , ■ ; ■•> ■ .v? ;wul iu speech, but certainty i

[ not so in doctrine ; and ptrhaps they ! were the only sect in which the laymen | and tht* lay women wore? a o^iasi-eeeleshi- : ticat gnrf>. It is an amtwur,' and ttisimc- ! tive little fact that th>- o'.jri-t of their i founder ifa* to a ; k;u to be cotupkbdy witho-t- .. ;vi.;untfS and fori us ; and yet that -rci iuts.st"od out from alt otlic n-t in tiie ♦>:»'-• peeuliarity of *lr. sa. It is* further curiotw that tfieir faiiaUriam took tiie form of csj traofdenary yentfeitt av; so that the very I txpce».tion of the cotmft-nance of a Quaker was soothin.'X aa a »ttU, shaHow s*ttvam. They eanoiuired calin. 3lany of their uiPtt IvA «datuia to intet'eet. m:c*i :.s renti, Liarcl'ay, and ivtyh'i-; ;uul of their women pivaebtd well, both in this? country and America. Howvvei\ the sect b dri'd »{►; and with tiie hate and the bottnets and the aprons, their peculiarities, of creed have vanished.