truer psychological conceptions. That work of
reexamination and reinterpretation, especially of the Quaker movement and
the Quaker message, is a part of the task undertaken in the historical
volumes which follow this one in this series. It must suffice for the
present to have reviewed here the story and the struggles of these brave,
sincere men and their heroic endeavours to proclaim a spiritual
Christianity. It has been a privilege to live for a little while with
this succession of high-minded men, to review for our time their type of
spiritual religion, and to retrace their apostolic efforts to bring the
world, with its sins and its tragedies and its inner hungers, back to the
Father's Love and to the real presence of the eternal Christ. They may
have failed in their intellectual formulation, but at least they
succeeded in finding a living God, warm and tender and near at hand, the
Life of their lives, the Day Star in their hearts; and their travail of
soul, their brave endurance, and their loyal obedience to vision have
helped to make our modern world.

[1] This document, though, as stated above, not written by Fox, had his
approval, and may be taken as exactly expressing his views and his
position. Many of the early Quaker books show how remarkable was the
corporate character and the group-spirit of the "Society" at this period.
Whatever any individual could contribute was given for the common cause
and went into the life of the whole. I have given the passages, which I
have quoted from this "Epistle," in modern English.

[2] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_ (London, 1659), p. B1. Jacob
Boehme had already set Fox the example of calling the existing Church by
this opprobrious name. See _The Threefold Life of Man_, vii., 56-58.

[3] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_, p. B3.

[4] _Ibid._ p. A6.

[5] _Ibid._ pp. A5-A7.

[6] _Ibid._ p. B4. This is almost word for word Boehme's view.

[7] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_, p. C3.

[8] _Ibid._ p. B1.

[9] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_, p. B2. I have taken some
liberty in correcting the grammatical form of the passage quoted, but the
original sense is preserved.

[10] _Ibid._ p. C2.

[11] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_, p. B.

[12] For evidence of Seeker-groups in America, see my _Quakers in the
American Colonies_.

[13] _The Great Mystery of the Great Whore_, pp. B1-B2.

[14] Preface to _A Catechism and Confe