Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1881: Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1880
IT is with regret that I issue the Annual Monitor this year with an Obituary so scantily furnished with memoirs, and containing the names of, some whose lives would have supplied material for much interesting and instructive record, unaccompanied by any memorial. I trust that a future volume may supply the deficiency in some of these cases.
There appears to be a growing disposition to question the wisdom and utility of making public the spiritual experience of departed friends and if the pages of this little work aimed only at recording the excellencies of those who have passed away, without recalling their frailties and failures, and telling how they found a way of deliverance from them, and of entrance into the glorious liberty Of the children of God, its story would be told to little purpose, if indeed it did not tend to discourage the wayfarer on the road to Zion, who often finds himself compassed withinfirmity. But in proportion as its pages paint those footprints on the sands of time which past lives have left there, and tell of the way by whi ch those gone before travelled out of dark ness into light, and out of the power of sin and Satan unto God, will it help its readers to take heart again in the renewed assurance that there is a way of certain hope for every fallen son and daughter of Adam, and that’that way is christ.
With a View to supplying the deficiency in other matter, I have prepared sketches which will be found at the end of the volume, of two lives whose records are full of practical illustra tion of Divine truth, and of encouragement to such as desire to live a life of faithful trust in the Lord.
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