Give me that old time religion

     "When [Elias Hicks] had finished, the meeting stirred, and elder Jonathan Evans, at sixty-seven nearly thirteen years Hicks's junior, rose to his feet.  Some in the brimming room made derisive sounds, but the silence then deepened, the assembled body fully aware that this occasion would be long remembered.  Here now were the founts from which two different streams of theological thought flowed, the older one looking back to articulate an ancient view long cherished by Friends, the other, aged but still junior, representing equally venerable doctrine with roots reaching even further back but new to the Society to which they both belonged."

     H. Larry Ingle, Quakers in conflict:  the Hicksite reformation (Knoxville, TN:  The University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 169, italics mine.
     "equally venerable doctrine with roots reaching even further back" is just right, but surely not "new to the Society to which they both belonged"!
     I stumbled upon this while skimming with the help of the index.  I have not actually read the book.