Quaker spirituality plain speech witness

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 (pdf)
  • 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
  • "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.
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Epistle 48
1653

"The Besom"

SO, all walk in the Light, with which we are Enlightned, for it will teach you all the good Manners and pure Communications. . . . And all walking in the Light ye have the Besom; labour to sweep the Land from such corrupt Manners and vain Communication, and with the Light all that comes to be Judged down. So the Light is the Judge and the Condemnation; and in the Light walk, and ye will shine. . . .

And Friends, none to speak abroad, but as ye are moved of God with the Spirit of the Lord, and ...

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