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Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.
The Mount Pleasant Historic District encompasses the historic center of the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Founded in 1803 by anti-slavery Quakers, the village was an early center of abolitionist activity and a well-known haven for fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. The village center is relatively little altered since the ...
These realities are realized in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. Unlike most of the other branches of Friends, the Evangelical Friends Church allows for individual freedom of conscience in regards to participating in water baptism or in offering and receiving Communion within their churches.
Mount Pleasant was laid out in 1803. It was named for its scenic landscape. [4] An early variant name was Jesse-Bobtown. [5] In 1802 [6] Nathan Updegraff of the Pennsylvanian Op den Graeff family settled north in Mount Pleasant. [7] His family belonged to the 19th-century Quaker families of Ohio [8] and produced a lot of Quaker Ministers and ...
Pages in category "Quaker meeting houses in Ohio" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Friends Meetinghouse (Mount Pleasant, Ohio) G.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus expressed the essence of Christian humanism. Here are the salient passages from the Book of Matthew, King James Version: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for ...
Generally, Quakers believe that meeting for worship can occur in any place - not just in a designated meeting house. [1] [2] Quakers have quoted Matthew 18:20 to support this: "Where two or three meet together in my name, there [is God] in the midst of them." [3] [4] Therefore, theoretically, meeting for worship may be held anywhere.
Quaker meeting houses in Ohio (3 P) S. ... Mount Pleasant Historic District (Mt. Pleasant, Ohio) N. New Association of Friends; O. Our Cousins in Ohio; S.