Call Number:

SC.216

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (1 folder.))

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox)Representative Meeting session concerning Luke Woodard, SC/216, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Date:

1881

Creator:

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Representative Meeting

Abstract:

This collection contains correspondence and notes concerning the special session of New York Yearly Meeting, Representative Meeting, held 4 mo. 28, 1881.

Luke Woodard (1832-1925) was a Gurneyite Friend and a leader of the Great Revival movement in the second half of the 19th century. He was an active evangelist in New York Yearly Meeting in the 1870s and one of the first Quaker pastors. In 1881 his apparent tolerance of water baptism resulted in a special session of the Representative Meeting for New York Yearly Meeting. Woodard maintained that he was in accord with Quaker Discipline, and the Meeting accepted his statement.