Quaker Meeting Essay

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Quakers, also called Religious Society of Friends, it is a branch of Protestantism which was founded by George Fox in the 17th century in the United Kingdom. At the beginning of the Quakers established, some believers are too exciting to stop trembling in the meeting, so they are called Quakers. (Barbour and J. William) The key doctrines among Quaker are: God is love; the light of God is in every single person; a person who lets their life be guided by that light will achieve a full relationship with God; everyone can have a direct, personal relationship with God without involving a priest or minister; redemption and the Kingdom of Heaven are to be experienced now, in this world. (BBC News)
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They pay attention to equality and forgiveness, so they call others thee or thou instant of you to show the equality of each other. Quakers emphasize that the members should living a simple life, should not participate in any recreational activities, they also advocate peace, but it is not mandatory for members, so here are many Quakers in the Civil War.
The Quakers’ meeting are also different from other religion meeting, they do not sing the Hymn, the meeting is also silent, everyone follows their Inner Light and deep thinking in their mind, if they get any inspiration from the Inner Light, they can freely speak it out.
Because of those reasons, they had being persecuted and banished from British with, and in America (it is not U.S in that time) Puritanism also persecuted them, they have to move out from the main city of America, and under William Penn’s leading, they moved to his territory in the Eastern Americas, which was given by King Charles II, they called it Pennsylvania (Ke,
Xinping, Yutian, Xiumei, Xiyao and Jianlong). Nowadays, the Quaker have 358923

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