Saturday, October 16, 2004

Quaker

Byname of �Friend,� member of a Christian group (the Society of Friends, or Friends church) that stresses the guidance of the Holy Spirit, that rejects outward rites and an ordained ministry, and that has a long tradition of actively working for peace and opposing war. George Fox, founder of the society in England, recorded that in 1650 �Justice Bennet of Derby first called us Quakers because

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