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None are necessary for worship after the manner of Friends-there is no minister, creed, sacrament, music, nor prescribed ritual. Silence is the basis for worship, although anyone who feels moved to do so may speak. Visitors are always welcome but prepared messages or forum discussions are not appropriate to the Meeting for Worship.
Fourth Street Meeting House and School 1763-1764 [24] 1859 [24] A two-story brick building, "76 feet front on Fourth street, 42 feet deep." [24] Built beside the Friends Public School (for boys). A school for girls occupied the meeting house's second floor. [24] East side of Fourth Street, between Chestnut and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia: PAB [25]
The movement is regarded as having changed the current Anglican practise such that a more collective service of Communion in the mid-morning is often central to a parish's Sunday worship. The practice of non-communicants leaving the church while communion is offered has also retreated.
The fire-side chats apparently resonated deeply with those involved, and so Stuart and McGinniss, upon recommendation by their pastor, took their stories on the road with some new friends and musicians from their home church, hoping to create "an intimate and hope-filled night of music, testimony, and worship."
In 1670, Friends in England built the first worship-purposed meeting house. [7] The Hertford Meeting House is located in 48 Railway Street, Hertford, East Hertfordshire. [8] This is the oldest Quaker building in the world, still in use for worship meetings. [9] It was thrice visited by Quaker founder George Fox. [7]
Friends in annual sessions at Arch Street Meeting House circa 1970 The Arch Street Meeting House is a landmark building within the over 100 monthly meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Friends would come from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s four-state geographic area to conduct annual business at its ...
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Cuts 2–6 of this album loosely follow the pattern of a liturgy - a tool used for collective worship. In it there is proclamation, praise, confession of sin, affirmation of faith and celebration of grace. Cuts 7–12 are a consideration of our "secular" heritage, issues and ideas that play themselves out in the history of our country.