THOUGHTS

ON THE

TOLERATION OF IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES
OF OPINION IN THE SAME RELIGIOUS

COMMUNITY.

RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO

THE LANCASHIRE COMMITTEE

BY

TRUST-TO-TRUTH.

"How often, under the mask of religious zeal, has Evil been as busily at
work as in its most obvious manifestations! Satan has hardly more effectually
established his cruel kingdom amongst men by the worship of Moloch in Heathen
Countries, than in what is called Christendom by setting up the idol of uniformity."
—SAMUEL TUKE, Introd. to Whitehead, p. xxv.

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February 3, 1972

NOTICE.

In the following remarks I shall imagine myself to be addressing a Committee appointed to assist the Lancashire Quarterly Meeting in reference to what is usually spoken of as "the Manchester difficulty;" for although it has not while I write been actually appointed, there appears to be no doubt as to the course which will be pursued; and I am desirous to avail myself of the opportunity which the Yearly Meeting affords of a wider inculcation of views, which to me appear important, than would be possible at another time. Although, however, committed to paper within a few days, and therefore exhibiting marks of haste, the ideas themselves have been long in the writer's mind, and are something more than the result of a week's reflection.