Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks

The author records his spiritual experiences and life, recalling early visitations of divine grace, family background, apprenticeship, moral struggles, marriage, and eventual emergence into public ministry. Much of the text consists of chronological journal entries describing extensive travels to meetings, visits with fellow Friends, committee work with ministers and elders, and religious engagements both near home and across distant meetings, including journeys into bordering regions. Interwoven are personal reflections, accounts of illness and domestic duties, and practical details of pastoral labor, producing a sustained first‑person chronicle of devotion, itinerant ministry, and communal religious practice.