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Quakers ' original refusal to bear arms has been broadened to embrace protests and demonstrations in opposition to government policies of war and confrontations with others who bear arms, whatever the reason, in the support of peace and active nonviolence.
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The original settlers in the first two settlements were Quakers and Anglicans ; and both groups continued to grow from ongoing immigration from the northern portions of Virginia colony.
* Perry City – A hamlet founded by The Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), and still home to the original Quaker Meeting House.
The orange and black remained when the Pirates moved across the state to become the Quakers, Philadelphia's first NHL team, adopting script lettering like the original Pirates ' uniforms.
Several of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by settlers who wished to practice their own religion within a community of like-minded people: the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by English Puritans ( Congregationalists ), Pennsylvania by British Quakers, Maryland by English Catholics, and Virginia by English Anglicans.
Upon playing his last NHL game in 1946, Howe was the last active player who played for the Philadelphia Quakers and the original era of the Ottawa Senators.
Later, as " thee " and " thou " disappeared from everyday English usage, many Quakers continued to use these words as a form of " plain speech ", though the original reason for this usage had disappeared.
The original Black Ball Line was founded by a group of New York Quakers, but later a rival service founded by James Baines of Liverpool also styled itself the Black Ball Line, despite the protests of the original company of that name.
( The Quakers would not return ) The players went to other teams, but their contracts were intended to revert to the original clubs.
Quakers and refusal
Quakers were frequently imprisoned because of their refusal to swear loyalty oaths.
A 1672 letter from Bowne and other Quakers to the Governor of New York explaining their conscientious refusal to contribute funds for the repair of the fort of New York is one of the earliest examples of American Quaker war tax resistance.
Friends ' attitude towards egalitarianism is also demonstrated by their refusal to practice " hat honour " ( Quakers refused to take their hats off or bow to anyone regardless of title or rank ), and their rejection of styles and titles ( such as Mr, Mrs, Lord, Dr, etc.
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The testimony of simplicity is a shorthand description of the actions generally taken by members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) to testify or bear witness to their beliefs that a person ought to live a simple life in order to focus on what is most important and ignore or play down what is least important.
Testimony to integrity and truth, refers to the way many members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) testify or bear witness to their belief that one should live a life that is true to God, true to oneself, and true to others.
Quakers and arms
They held that no man should be put to death for his opinions, and apparently, like the later Quakers, they objected to the carrying of arms and to anything like an oath ; and they were quite impartial in their repudiation of all other churches and sects, including Brownists and Barrowists.
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Fox commissioned two Friends to travel around the country collecting the testimonies of imprisoned Quakers, as evidence of their persecution ; this led to the establishment in 1675 of Meeting for Sufferings, which has continued to the present day.
Although the sale or consumption of commercial alcohol has never been prohibited by law, historically various groups in the UK have campaigned for the prohibition of alcohol, including the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), The Methodist Church and other non-conformist Christians, as well as temperance movements such as Band of Hope and temperance Chartist movements of the 19th century.
Loker has changed as the result of being healed by the Quakers.
It has been argued that the suppression of the English monasteries and nunneries contributed as well to the spreading decline of that contemplative spirituality which once thrived in Europe, with the occasional exception found only in groups such as the Society of Friends (" Quakers ").
It has been speculated that his zeal in attending to military duty led to his expulsion from the Quakers in 1773.
Because the membership of the FoR included many members of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), who reject any form of written creed, it has always been stressed that the Basis is a statement of general agreement rather than a fixed form of words.
While the emergence of abolitionist thought derived from many sources, the work of David Brion Davis, among others, has established that one source was the rapid, internal evolution of moral theory among certain sectors of these societies, notably the Quakers.
The company has no formal ties with the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).
* Early 19th century: A fundamental belief of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has always been the existence of an element of God's spirit in every human soul.
" In the United States, in contrast with almost every other organized denomination, the Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has allowed women to serve as ministers since the early 19th century.
Founded as a school for Quakers in 1885, the private school has more than 3, 500 students combined between its main campus in Newberg and its centers in Portland, Salem, Redmond and Boise.
The Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) has a long connection with China and Hong Kong.
The Religious Society of Friends began as a Christian movement ( though a few contemporary Quakers in some meetings do not consider themselves Christian, while some consider themselves as part of a Universal religion, that for historical reasons is rooted in Christianity ), founded in 17th Century England ; it has around 350, 000 members.
It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1, 200 students.
Legend has it that George Fox ( 1624 – 1691 ), founder of the Society of Friends ( commonly known as Quakers ), preached in the area in 1672.
The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches — Church of the Brethren ; Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ); and Mennonites, including the Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Conservative Mennonites — and has been used since the first conference of the peace churches in Kansas in 1935.
This has often aroused controversy, as when the Quakers sent large shipments of food and medicine to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and to U. S .- embargoed Cuba.
FCNL has a General Committee of about 220 Quakers from across the United States.
Agriculture has long been the main source of income and sustenance for both Costa Ricans and Quakers in Monteverde.
Singletary, now in his fourth year, has led the Quakers to conference championships in the 2009-10, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons.
Head Coach Anne Renninger, a pioneering player at the University of Maryland and one of the youngest Division I college coaches ever ( at George Washington University ), has led the Quakers to over 400 victories.
Quakers Hill has experienced much road development over recent years including the construction of a new road leading directly to the education precinct, bypassing the town centre.
Following this opening the road overpass for the Quakers Hill Parkway has been widened from two to four lanes, improving toll-free traffic flow between Richmond and Sunnyholt Roads.
Quakers Hill has a blend of old and new developments.
While there are no formal linkages between Quakerism and Anarchism and Quakers as a whole hold a wide variety of political opinions, the long tradition of Quaker involvement in social-justice work and similar outlooks on how power should be structured and decisions should be reached has led to significant crossover in membership and influence between Christian Anarchists and Quakers.
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The seven hundred Quakers who had been imprisoned under Richard Cromwell were released, though the government remained uncertain about the group's links with other, more violent, movements.
Meanwhile, Quakers in New England had been banished ( and some executed ), and Charles was advised by his councillors to issue a mandamus condemning this practice and allowing them to return.
Though the Quakers lost influence after the Glorious Revolution, which deposed James II, the Act of Toleration 1689 put an end to the uniformity laws under which Quakers had been persecuted, permitting them to assemble freely.
Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature.
Elko had first been settled by Quakers, acting as missionaries to the local natives in 1798.
Amy and Isaac Post, Hicksite Quakers from Rochester, New York, had long been acquainted with the Fox family, and took the two girls into their home in the late spring of 1848.
For two generations his family had been Quakers, and it was his wish to be buried at the Stoney Brook Meeting House Cemetery in Princeton.
Silent prayer and worship, including moments of silence practiced during other group activities have been practiced by Quakers for more than 300 years.
His grandfather Matthew Church, a merchant of Cork, and his wife, were Quakers, and John had not been baptized into the Church of England until the time of his marriage in 1814.
They may or may not have been considered clergy by the Nazis, as all Quakers perform services which in other Protestant denominations are considered the province of clergy.
" Several anti-slavery societies had been formed and free blacks, Quakers and other abolitionists operated safe houses associated with the Underground Railroad, but lower class and ethnic whites opposed the abolitionist movement because of competition for jobs.
During this period, Methodists and Quakers were active missionaries for manumission, and many slaves had been freed since the end of the Revolution in part due to their work.
The movement had been gathering strength for some years, having been founded by Quakers both in Britain and in the United States, with support from other Nonconformists or from Puritans on both sides of the Atlantic.
By 1680, 10, 000 Quakers had been imprisoned in England and 243 had died of torture and mistreatment in jail.
They originally had been the Fightin ' Quakers ; although the name was meant tongue-in-cheek, it was changed in the 1980s to the Hustlin ' Quakers after the college's board of regents decided that it was inappropriate for Quakers to fight.
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