Can I ever be one?" asks Elizabeth Gurney in her Journal.

We spent a few days with John Joseph Gurney at his beautiful home in Norwich.

John Gurney of Earlham, born in 1749, was educated in the principles of the Society of Friends, but as he advanced in life, and associated with persons of various Christian denominations, the strictness of his religious opinions was much relaxed, and he showed liberality of sentiment towards others, even if they were indifferent to all spiritual concerns.