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Identifier: annualmonitororo102alex (find matches)
Title: The Annual monitor... or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Alexander, William, 1768-1841, ed Backhouse, Sarah, 1803-1877, ed Tuke, Samuel, 1784-1857, ed. cn Seebohm, Benjamin, 1798-1871, ed Seebohm, Esther Wheeler, 1798-1864, ed Sewell, Joseph Stickney, 1819-1900, ed Newby, John, 1806-1877, ed Robinson, William, 1832-1908, ed Knight, Francish Arnold, ed
Subjects: Quakers
Publisher: York, W. Alexander (etc., etc.,)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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tatement ; his lectures on the Human Body,Geology, Political Economy, Biology, withintheir limits, were models of presentation andillustration, (d) An infectious enthusiasm forthe subject taught, which developed the keennessin the pupil, (c) Reverence for Truth, shown bymoderation of statement and exactitude inthought. (f) Self-effacement ; teacher andtaught became absorbed in the lesson. The Teacher was the outcome of the Man.With a singularly modest estimate of himself,the onlooker never knew Edward Garnett falseto his ideals. His recognition of the good inevery one made him tender and wise in dealingwith offenders, and his scholars thankfully recallwords of counsel and of hope fitly spoken. He was deeply concerned to hold thebalance even between faith and practice, andwas equally removed from the formality of ritualor no-ritual, orthodoxy divorced from life, ormorality from religion : his sympathetic dis-cernment saw the good in every creed, and dor-mant in the apparently hopeless.
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Emily Frances Gilkes EMILY Ft; \N< ES GILK BBS 81 ( AKOLINE GlBBlNS . . ..78 7 1 1913 Neath. An Elder. Widow of Fred. W.liibbins. Emily FbaNCBS QlLKES .. fS4 27 5 1013Qrange-over-Sanda. A Minister and Elder. Emily Prances Gilkes, the eldest daughter ofEdgar and Emma Gilkes, was born at Middles-brough-on-Tees on the 22nd of 8th month,L848. Alt r being educated at home till she was14. sh,* went to Wilton House School, Birmingham,for two and a half years, and afterwards tothe school of Emily Sanders at Brighton. Herint< rest in minimi work was first aroused by herteachers at Birmingham, and deepened as theyears passed. After her school life had ended,and she had returned home, she still continuedher studies under masters, and became activelyinterested in the schools and other institutionsof Middlesbrough. She was the leader of alarge womens class at the Friends SundaySchool, and for some years was on the Committeeof Ay ton School. She also became Clerk of thePreparative Meeting. In

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