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The Quakers, Past and Present

By Dorothy M. Richardson

2019-04-19 19:08:36

The following chapters are primarily an attempt at showing the position of the Quakers in the family to which they belong—the family of the mystics. In the second place comes a consideration of the method of worship and of corporate living laid ... Read more
The following chapters are primarily an attempt at showing the position of the Quakers in the family to which they belong—the family of the mystics. In the second place comes a consideration of the method of worship and of corporate living laid down by the founder of Quakerism, as best calculated to foster mystical gifts and to strengthen in the community as a whole that sense of the Divine, indwelling and accessible, to which some few of his followers had already attained, and of which all those he had gathered round him had a dawning apprehension. The famous “peculiarities” of the Quakers fall into place as following inevitably from their central belief. The ebb and flow of that belief, as it is found embodied in the history of the Society of Friends, has been dealt with as fully as space has allowed. ** Less

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PublisherPublic Domain Books
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ISBN1725988488
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Dorothy M. Richardson
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Richardson was born in Abingdon in 1873. Her family moved to Worthing, West Sussex in 1880 and then Putney, London in 1883. At seventeen, because of her father's financial difficulties she went to wor...

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