Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1858, or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1857
The memorial of our late dear friend, Samuel Tuke, whose decease todk place subsequently to the close of our year, will be dwelt upon With deep inter est by the readers of the annual monitor. They will remember the part he took in remodelling this little periodical, and. How much they owe to him for the instructive tone of the work, in the first ten num bers of the New Series. Deeming it desirable that some record should be preserved of the steps in life of Friends well known and esteemed in the Society, he felt at the same time, to use his own words, more than willing to give the right place to the character of those steady pilgrims who have walked in their Lord’s steps, though they may have been but little known, and. Have had but few talents. Far from wishing to limit the freedom of divine mercy at the latest moment of life, he felt a godly jealousy, in connection with these records, lest our estimate of Christian attainments should be at all lowered by anything which has a tendency to make the getting to Heaven too much a death-bed affair. Those who are anxious that the annual monitor should exer cise no other than a healthy influence in the Society, will fully appreciate the practical bearing and value of these sentiments, and unite in the desire that they may be steadily kept in view.
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