Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
Lawsuits were brought in various parts of the country. What a bitter state of animosity existed may be conjectured from the fact that the "Orthodox" in Philadelphia refused to allow "Hicksites" to bury their dead in the ground belonging to the undivided Society of Friends.
On the occasion of funerals, they refused to deliver up the key; and after their opponents had remonstrated in vain, they forced the lock. I believe in almost every instance, where the "Hicksites" were a majority, and thus had a claim to the larger share of property, they offered to divide in proportion to the relative numbers of the two parties.
The opponents of Elias Hicks called themselves "Orthodox Friends," and named his adherents "Hicksites." The latter repudiated the title, because they did not acknowledge him as their standard of belief, though they loved and reverenced his character, and stood by him as the representative of liberty of conscience. They called themselves "Friends," and the others "the Orthodox."
This division into two opposing camps, known as the Hicksites and the Orthodox, continues and is likely to remain. Quaker government in Pennsylvania was put to still severer tests by the difficulties and disasters that followed Braddock's defeat.
After the separation in New-York, they renewed this offer, which had once been rejected; and the "Orthodox" finally agreed to accept a stipulated sum for their interest in the property. The Friends called "Hicksites" numbered in the whole more than seventy thousand. Quakers in England generally took part against Elias Hicks and his friends.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking