Excerpt from Quaker Quiddities; Or Friends in Council: A Colloquy What is contained in the following pages has nothing to do with prize-essayism. After it was written, I was surprised to learn that the hundred-guinea offer had produced a baker's dozen of books, each one of which was considered by the writer conclusive as an answer to the question, Why is Quakerism declining 9 As near as I can find out by a cursory examination of these essays to do the hundred-guinea job successfully, Qua kerism is declining because it is Quakerism, and not E pis copalianism, Methodism, or Mormonism. Most lame and impotent conclusion one is prompted to exclaim, in View of the result of this speculative Operation in the article of Quakerism. There is a decrease of the num ber of names on the rolls of the monthly meetings; and why? Why? Because Quakerism is not Mormonism if it were, the number would increase. 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.