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We extend a warm welcome to you and hope that you will find strength and
peace while sharing in our meeting for worship.We gather in silence to
seek communion with God and to search for divine will and guidance for
ourselves, the group, and society.
The hour of
worship may be entirely silent or there may be spoken messages. Those
who worship with us should not come with a determination either to speak
or not to speak, but rather to be responsive to the inner light. When
the worshiper feels called upon to speak, he or she rises and shares the
message as simply and briefly as its nature permits. When others feel
in unity with the message, it may become seed for further meditation.
Worship begins as Friends enter
the meeting room and are seated in quiet. We feel that there is need for
a considerable period of unbroken silence at the beginning of the meeting
for worship. A somewhat briefer period of silence at the end is customary.
After the meeting ends with a shaking of hands, we hope that you will
linger with us, and take part in our fellowship.
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Friends' way of life ideally emphasizes simplicity, humility, loving kindness
toward all people, recognizing no boundaries of occupation, race or creed.
We are particularly concerned with the avoidance of war, and seek those
ways of life that will remove the causes of conflict.
George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, expressed his discovery
of the way of our Quaker worship with the following words:
When
all my hopes in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to
help me, oh then, I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ
Jesus, that can speak to thy condition." And when I heard it, my heart
did leap for joy.
John Woolman, the most influential early American Quaker, wrote :
There
is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different
places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure and proceeds
from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor
excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever
this takes root and grows, they become brethren.
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