1822 ELIAS HICKS. Original Quaker Manuscript Re: Hicks & Hicksite Controversy, etc.,

A very fine, original 1822 manuscript with an extensive poem regarding the visit of Quaker radical mystic revivalist, Elias Hicks [1748-1830]. This written previous to the Hicksite-Orthodox split of 1827/28. 

The four page folio MSs includes

"Written on hearing a sermon preached by Elias Hicks, 12 mo, 12th day, 1822.

Yes we saw thee stand before us
Heard the words thy lips impart
Felt that heavenly love was o'er us
For each sentence touched the heart

To the work by Heave appointed
Thou the light of truth hast shed
Coming as the Lord's anointed
Knowledge of His will to spread

As on Sinai's holy mountain
Shown the prophet's face divine
Effluent thus from heavenly fountain 
Rays of truth illuminated thine

Like some angel sent from heaven
To instruct the human race
Were thy admonitions given
From the source of truth and grace

Thou no untaught doctrine teachest
But that which was erst received
God's eternal truth thou preachest
Which his saints have all believed

From that hour the star of glory
Shown on Judah's hallowed ground
Then the shepherd's sang the story
When the infant King was found

Thro the gloom of darkest ages
Truth has shown with piercing ray
And the balm that pain assuages 
Shed on hearts that owned its sway

To the light of grace inshining
Through the darkness of our souls
We must bow with heart inclining
To His will that ours control

Thus we see by Revelation
What the will of God makes known
Thus we bow in adoration
Humbly at the Savior's throne

Need we then the Long narration
As the means our Heaven to win
No we purchase our salvation
By the light of Christ within

By the eternal word of power
Manifest when the mind
Acting on the silent hour
On the thoughts of humankind

For this holy truth professing
Long our fathers suffered sore
Long contended for the blessing
Given to the saints before

Now again the way thou showest
That the Apostles ever trod
Heaven renew thee as thou goest
On the errand of thy God

Persecutions here attend thee
Which the saints here ever known
But the eternal shall defend thee
From the shafts that hate has thrown

And may'st thou when hence retiring
When this tour of toil shall cease
Feel thy soul to God aspiring
And enjoy his holy peace.

A version of the above was published in The Monthly Repository for April 1823 as part of an extensive article on Elias Hicks and the "Hicksite" heresy. Apparently printed elsewhere previously or the author had access to the present document. Our document also contains an incomplete variant of stanza 7, not present in the printed form. There are other minor textual variants in our manuscript as well. 

This is then followed by a first hand account of his visit in 1822, signed "A Citizen." 

Then there is a final review of a preacher written for a paper in Baltimore in 1797 regarding a traveling preacher to the Friends' meeting there. It is inscribed by the author that it was written when he was quite young. 

All in the same hand. Some damage as shown, but text all legible. It seems to me the final piece was written on the bifolium first, the tears occurred, and the other pieces were written later, working around the paper losses.