THE ANNUAL MONITOR FOR 1882, OR OBITUARY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS In Great Britain and Ireland, FOR THE YEAR 1881. LONDON: SOLD BY SAMUEL HARRIS & Co., 5, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT; AND BY WILLIAM SESSIONS, 15, Low OUSEGATE, YORK; ALSO BY JOHN GOUGH, 12, EUSTACE STREET, Dublin. 1881. PREFACE. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen." In an age which assails in so many ways the Christian faith, shaking it in the experience of some to its very foundations, there is especial value in the living testimony of those who could say, "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen of the truth as it is in Jesus; and such a witness is once more borne by the pages of this little volume; a witness that there is a power-and this Power is the Holy quickening Spirit of our God-which works unbidden of self in the hearts of His children from their earliest years onwards, convincing of sin, drawing the sinner to Christ as his Redeemer and Sanctifier, and through Him working out a blessed atonement and reconciliation not only of God the Father to His children, but of the children to their Father also, and thus bringing them into a humble subjection to, and a sweetly confiding trust in Him; and by the force of a gentle but mighty love constraining them to |