Excerpt from A Review of the General and Particular Causes Which Have Produced the Late Disorders and Divisions in the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia: With Introductory Remarks on the State of the Primitive Churches, Their Gradual Declension, and Subsequent Advancement in Reformation, to the Rise of the Society of Friends The late disorders that have taken place within the limits of the yearly.meeting, of Friends held in Philadelphia, deeply affected the writer of this Review. In early life he was 'con vinced of the fundamental ipnncnple professed by Friends, pre vious to much knowledge respecting the practical testimonies of the society. Being born in Scotland he was educated in the doctrines of the established church of that country. Arriv ing in Philadelphia in the Spring of 1801, his former impressions had prepared him readily to unite with the practical) habits of Friends, and to your in christian communion with them. I For twenty-five years he has taken a feeling interest in the ad'airs' o the society, and could not remain indifferent to the progress of those measures and proceedings; the development of which has produced so much painful exercise and trial to Friends of this Yearly Meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.