Quaker Testimonies on the Plain Language Witness

Quaker Spirituality and the Use of Plain Speech

Excerpt on Peculiar Customs of Quakers - Chapter Three - Language from Thomas Clarkson's A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I
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.

"In him ye have Rest"

FOR he is the Bread of Life . . . in him stand and sit down in the heavenly Places in Christ Jesus, who was with the Father before the World began, who is your Way to God; which Way was set up about Sixteen Hundred Years since, before all these got up, among the Papists and Protestants, who is the New and Living Way to all who are made a-live by him, and drink his Blood. The Dead make dead Ways for the Dead to walk in; but mind you Christ's Worship, which was set up above Sixteen Hundred years since, ...

Quaker Testimonies on the Plain Language Witness

Quaker Spirituality and the Use of Plain Speech

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"In him ye have Rest"

Epistle 279
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