EOF05A The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 5 Part A, The Flowering of Wilburite Culture

A turning point in 1874 becomes a season of rebuilding, wider correspondence, and confident witness among conservative Friends, culminating in shared fundamentals and a stronger print and school culture. We trace how harmony, service, and publishing shaped a subculture that held firm as modern pressures rose.

• relocation to Barnesville and renewed harmony
• conservative separations forming new yearly meetings
• circle of correspondence and tendered epistles
• Philadelphia ties in funds, visitors and publications
• tract associations, libraries and home reading
• Indian concerns and service at Tunesassa
• expanding memorials, journals and peace pamphlets
• 1911–1913 synopsis of conservative principles
• the Great War’s pressure on a rural subculture