Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1856, or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1855
Among the various institutions subsequently established to promote the moral and physical welfare of mankind, few appealed to his sym pathics in vain; but those which claimed his especial attention, and received the largest share of his labours and support, were the Societies which have long and earnestly struggled against Slavery, War, and Drunkenness-evils which he has often adverted to as the most fearful anom alies in professing Christendom, presenting in surmountable obstacles to the spread of truth and righteousness on the earth, and bringing reproach on the name of religion itself.
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