Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Minute of Counsel and Encouragement Addressed to Its Members: Held in Philadelphia, Fourth Month, 1867
Thus, there are in?uences Operating in the present day, both within and without the pale of our Society, the tendency of which is to draw the members from the simplicity and spirituality of our Christian profession, and from a faithful and consistent support of the principles and tes timonies of the gospel as always held by us, into a nearer conformity to the religion, the worship, and ways of the world. These in?uences are apparent in the same disposition to shun the daily self-denial and cross-bearing belonging to the Christian; in the effort to reduce religion very much to a formal and intellectual work, which the unaided powers of man may originate or promote; to smooth and widen the path to salvation, so as to make it more easy and at tractive to the tastes and inclinations of the nu regenerate mind; and to substitute works of a benevolent or ostensibly religious character, for lowly watchful waiting, in silent introversion, at the feet of Jesus, to be taught of Him, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and know ledge, and who only can savingly instruct in the things which belong to the soul's peace.
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