THE LIFE AND LABORS OF ELIAS HICKS BY Henry W. Wilbur Introduction by ELIZABETH POWELL BOND PHILADELPHIA Published by Friends' General Conference Advancement Committee 1910 COPYRIGHTED 1910 BY HENRY W. WILBUR CONTENTS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 5 AUTHOR'S PREFACE 7 INTRODUCTION 11 CHAPTER I, Ancestry and Boyhood 17 CHAPTER II, His Young Manhood 22 CHAPTER III, First Appearance in the Ministry 28 CHAPTER IV, Early Labors in the Ministry 32 CHAPTER V, Later Ministerial Labors 38 CHAPTER VI, Religious Journeys in 1828 46 CHAPTER VII, Ideas About the Ministry 57 CHAPTER VIII, The Home at Jericho 66 CHAPTER IX, The Hicks Family 71 CHAPTER X, Letters to His Wife 76 CHAPTER XI, The Slavery Question 84 CHAPTER XII, Various Opinions 95 CHAPTER XIII, Some Points of Doctrine 107 CHAPTER XIV, Before the Division 121 CHAPTER XV, First Trouble in Philadelphia 126 CHAPTER XVI, The Time of Unsettlement 139 CHAPTER XVII, Three Sermons Reviewed 152 CHAPTER XVIII, The Braithwaite Controversy 161 CHAPTER XIX, Ann Jones in Dutchess County 171 CHAPTER XX, The Experience with T. Shillitoe 181 CHAPTER XXI, Disownment and Doctrine 188 CHAPTER XXII, After the "Separation" 195 CHAPTER XXIII, Friendly and Unfriendly Critics 202 CHAPTER XXIV, Recollections, Reminiscences and Testimonies 211 CHAPTER XXV, Putting off the Harness 218 APPENDIX 226 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ELIAS HICKS (from bust, by Partridge) Frontispiece HICKS HOUSE AND JERICHO MEETING HOUSE, facing 57 CHILDREN OF ELIAS HICKS, facing 97 FACSIMILE OF LETTER, facing 105 ELIAS HICKS (from painting, by Ketcham), facing 121 SURVEYOR'S PLOTTING, BY ELIAS HICKS, facing 144 BURYING GROUND AT JERICHO, facing 216 AUTHOR'S PREFACE.