Quaker Spirituality and the Use of Plain Speech

No Need to be Ashamed of the Plain Language by Kenneth Morse
Elizabeth Stirredge's exhortation to her children to adhere to plain speech and plain dress.
No. 12. Worldly Customs by Kenneth Morse
George Fox on "Thee and Thou"
A Letter to the Truly Concerned by Kenneth Morse
Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Quaker humanitarian (1780-1845)
I used to think and do now how little dress matters. But I find it almost impossible to keep to the principles of Friends without altering my dress and speech. . . . They appear to me a sort of protector to the principles of Christianity in the present state of the world.

"The pure Religion"

(To Friends in the County of Oxford)

DEAR Friends, Keep in the Lord's Power, that his Kingdom stands in, and in Righteousness, and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost, which the Devil and all his Instruments of Strife and Debate, and Sowers of Discord among Brethren, are out of. And keep that Spirit out with the Power of God, which was before it was; in which Gospel (the Power of God) is your Holy and Heavenly Order; . . . walking in the New and Living Way, over all the dead Ways . ...

Quaker Spirituality and the Use of Plain Speech

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"The pure Religion"

Epistle 349
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