An illustration featuring a humble Quaker family working together on their farm in 1696, with a backdrop of a tranquil countryside and a small meeting house in the distance, highlighting their values of hard work and community.
“Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.”
~ George Fox, in a statement of 1656, from The Works of George Fox (1831)
Here is the full text of William Penn’s work titled ‘A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers.’ A long read but well worth the time for those willing to examine in greater detail the sundry historical minutia of the Quakers.
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1.70 The People Called Quakers