iends" in that city did
not suffer so good an opportunity of disclaiming them to pass, and
accordingly had the following communication published in the papers:

_To the Editor of the Glasgow Gazette:_

RESPECTED FRIEND:--Intimation having been given on the 8th,
current, by means of placards extensively posted throughout the
city, that "On Sabbath first, the 9th instant, Mrs. Lucretia
Mott, a minister of the Society of Friends, Philadelphia, would
hold a meeting in the Christian Unitarian Chapel"; and that the
meeting was held and numerously attended by our fellow-citizens,
we deem it right on behalf of the Society of Friends residing in
Glasgow, to inform the public that we hold no religious
fellowship with Lueretia Mott, nor with the body in the United
States called Hicksites, to which she belongs, they not being
recognized by the Society of Friends in the United Kingdom, nor
by those "Friends" with whom we are in connection in America; and
that we do not wish to be in any way identified with, or
considered responsible for any sentiments that Lucretia Mott may
have uttered at the meeting above referred to.

We are, respectfully, thy friends,

WILLIAM SMEAL, WILLIAM WHITE, JOHN MAXWELL,
JAMES SMEAL, EDWARD WHITE.

GLASGOW, _12th of 8th mo., 1840_.

To us who knew, loved, and honored Lucretia Mott for her many virtues,
these manifestations of bigotry, so narrowing and embittering in their
effect on the mind, should be an added warning against that evil
spirit of persecution that has brought such sorrow to mankind. We
sincerely hope these few examples we have endeavored to place in their
true light, may awaken thought in the minds of our readers, and
incline them to renewed charity and a wiser appreciation of what is
and what is not vital in religion. Surely life must ever stand for
more than faith.

FOOTNOTES:

[75] In the midst of our first volume the announcement of the death of
Lucretia Mott, Nov. 11th, 1880, reached us. As she was identified with
so many of the historical events of Pennsylvania, where nearly seventy
years of her life were passed, it is fitting that this sketch should
follow the State in which she resided for so long a period.

CHAPTER XII.

NEW JERSEY.

In 1682, William Penn purchased Eastern Jersey, and