1745 JOSEPH WHEELER. A Quaker Father Shares His Hopes for True Godliness in His Children. Bible Suicide from Religious Excitement

Suicide from Religious Excitement

Selected and Arranged with an Introduction by Alexander Whyte

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1745 JOSEPH WHEELER. A Quaker Father Shares His Hopes for True Godliness in His Children. Bible Suicide from Religious ExcitementA wonderful piece of parental devotion from the revivalist era of 18th century Quakerism. During this period, Quakers were experiencing something of a crisis. The elders, who remembered the intensity of the earlier movement were concerned. Increasing financial prosperity and civic acceptability, combined with the normal challenges of youth, made the previous generation wonder whether the movement could endure with its original prophetic and deeply