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See also:HICKS, See also:ELIAS (1748-1830) , See also:American Quaker, was See also:born in Hempstead township, See also:Long See also:Island, on the 19th of See also:March 1748. His parents were See also:Friends, but he took little See also:interest in See also:religion until he was about twenty; soon after that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he gave up the See also:carpenter's See also:trade, to which he had been apprenticed when seventeen, and became a See also:farmer. By 1775 he had " openings leading to the See also:ministry " and was " deeply engaged for the right See also:administration of discipline and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church," and in 1779 he first set out on his itinerant See also:preaching See also:tours between See also:Vermont and See also:Maryland. He attacked See also:slavery, even when preaching in Maryland; wrote Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and their Descendants (1811); and was influential in procuring the passage (in 1817) of the See also:act declaring See also:free after 1827 all negroes born in New See also:York and not freed by the Act of 1799.. He died at See also:Jericho, Long Island, on the 27th of See also:February 1830. His preaching was See also:practical rather than doctrinal and he was heartily opposed to any set creed; hence his successful opposition at the See also:Baltimore yearly See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of 1817 to the proposed creed which would make the Society in See also:America approach the position of the See also:English Friends by definite doctrinal statements. His Doctrinal See also:Epistle (1824) stated his position, and a break ensued in 1827-1828, Hicks's followers, who See also:call themselves the " Liberal See also:Branch," being called " Hicksites " by the " Orthodox " party, which they for a time outnumbered. The See also:village of Hicksville, in See also:Nassau See also:County, New York, 15 m. E. of See also:Jamaica, lies in the centre of the Quaker See also:district of Long Island and was named in See also:honour of Elias Hicks.
See A See also:Series of Extemporaneous Discourses ... by Elias Hicks (See also:Philadelphia, 1825) ; The See also:Journal of the See also:Life and Labors of Elias Hicks (Philadelphia, 1828), and his Letters (Philadelphia, 1834).
End of Article: HICKS, ELIAS (1748-1830)
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