ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS

OF

THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

BY JOSEPH EDGERTON.

DUBLIN:

WEBB AND CHAPMAN, GREAT BRUNSWICK STREET.

MDCCCXLII.

At a Meeting for Sufferings of Ohio Yearly Meeting, held at Mount Pleasant, 4th of Third Month, 1842.

The clerk was directed to forward a copy of Joseph Edgerton's address, recently printed by order of this meeting, to the Meetings for Sufferings of the several Yearly Meetings with which we correspond.

Extracted from the Minutes,

BENJAMIN W. LADD,

Clerk for the day.

YEARLY MEETING'S COMMITTEE,

Dublin, 29th of 8th Month, 1842.

The following address to the members of the Society of Friends, forwarded to us by the Meeting for Sufferings of Ohio Yearly Meeting, is reprinted here for general circulation amongst our members, and its contents are recommended to their serious perusal.

ADDRESS, &c.

DEAR FRIENDS AND BRETHREN :

In that love and life wherein is our union and fellowship in Christ Jesus our Lord, I salute you, desiring that he may enrich you with his heavenly blessings, and enable you to stand fast in that liberty wherewith his disciples are made free. So will ye answer the end for which our religious society was gathered together in the beginning, by bearing as an ensign before the nations, a testimony to the peaceable reign of the Messiah, and to the spiritual nature of his glorious gospel.

As a living upright zeal is daily maintained for our own growth in grace, for the promotion of the cause of truth and righteousness on the earth, and for the glory of God, we shall feel that we have abundant cause to bless and praise His holy name, for accounting us worthy to receive such tokens of his gracious regard, as have been extended to us as a people, from one generation to another. When our forefathers, through a powerful visitation from on high to their souls, were drawn from the lifeless forms and ceremonies, that had crept into the church during a long night of apostacy, and in a true hunger and thirst after righteousness, met together in small assemblies, reverently to wait upon Christ Jesus, the true teacher of

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