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I was not more than ten years old when I first heard mention of the Quakers. The grown-ups of my family were talking among themselves, speaking of an uncle of mine who lived in Philadelphia and operated a pharmacy near the university. I had never seen this uncle and was curious about him, so my ears were open. Presently a reference to the Quakers caught my attention. I wanted to know who the Quakers were. What was told me then I have remembered ever since. The Quakers, I was told, are people who

Worship is the action of the spirit. It springs up from our depths, as love does. It is a form of love, and just as desirable, and just as necessary to human life at its fullest and highest. To worship is an innate need of man. It is not imposed upon us from the outside, though the way we sometimes go about it may make it seem an imposition. Suppose you are hungry. No one has to tell you to eat. No one has to force you to take food. Suppose you are in love. Must you be told to think of the perso

Some people believe that whereas God's nature is divine, man's nature is depraved. God is good, but men are evil. God, according to this view, exists in heaven, remote from us. We exist in sin, remote from Him, in hell or next door to it. Human beings are completely separated from the Divine Being. The only possible connection between men and God is that brought about by the mediation of the church and its authorized officials. Friends have never held this view. Friends, beginning with George Fo

Definite periods for worship should be established because, constituted as we are, worship does not occur as naturally as it might, and at all times. Unless we set aside regularly recurring times, many of us are not likely to worship at any time. We appoint times and places so that we may do what something deep in us yearns to do, yet which we all too rarely engage in because most often we are caught up in the current of contrary or irrelevant events. Set times of worship not only aid us to wors

What moves us to pray and worship? Sometimes we are moved by a quickened sense of a sacred Presence. Prayer and worship are our spontaneous responses as we awaken to God's unutterable radiance and wonder. Sometimes we are moved by a realization that, left to ourselves, we are inadequate, that apart from God we are insufficient. Realizing that our knowledge is insufficient, we turn to God's light and wisdom. And there are those who pray and worship as a conscious means of growing up to God and be

An Apology for the True Christian Divinity by Robert Barclay The Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends Creative Worship by Howard H. Brinton The Faith and Practice of the Quakers by Rufus M. Jones The Journal of George Fox The Letters of Isaac Penington Prayer and Worship by Douglas V. Steere The Quaker Ministry by John William Graham The Quaker Way of Life by William Wistar Comfort The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn Silent Worship, the Way of Won

Penn's Advice to His Children The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence The Quaker Meeting by Howard E. Collier...

The Gathered Meeting by Thomas R. Kelly Going to Meeting by Leonard S. Kenworthy A Quaker Meeting for Worship by Douglas V. Steere...