Excerpt from Journal of the Life of John Wilbur: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends; With Selections From His Correspondence, &C The attentive reader of his Journal may easily perceive, that John Wilbur-was slow to realize the factofso greatand complete a defection aswasforced uponhisbelief in thecourseofsuccessive events. The reality came upon him gradually, though unexpectedly, and with awful and grievous weight, while travelling in the ministry in Great Britain and his and forebodings were afterwards amply confirmed, in witnessing the schism which occurred in the Society there a very few years later, and subsequently in feeling and experiencing, in his own trials, such conduct on the partofthe prominent members, could onlybe ac countedforon the groundoftheirdegenminprinciplefiom the faith of their forefathers. 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.