Publication Format: Digital
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A Key
Originally published in 1692, this tract was intended to explain Quakerism to those who did not know the truth about Friends. It is also a good introduction to new Friends and a refresher for old Friends.
William Penn
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A Quaker View of the Christian Revelation
The experience of the living presence of Christ is the basis for Quakerism. The continuing presence brings about a new relationship between God and individuals, but also between God and his people as a group.
John H. Curtis
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A Question of Authority
The tendency to rely on human leadership comes from people who are not “hearing” the message that God wants to lead them directly.
Nancy Goodwin
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A True Testimony Concerning My Faith in Christ
“I believe in Him, as he is the Minister of the sanctuary, and true tabernacle which God hath pitched, and not man; who by his power and spirit hath fitted and made many able and faithful ministers. He is the Minister of ministers.”
John Banks
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Concerning the order and government of the church of Christ, No. 1 and No. 2
These two tracts describe the proper ordering and functioning of spiritual religious society from extracts of the writings of Isaac Penington.
Isaac Penington
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Detraction
Speak only good of people. Evil, even if true, is hurtful to the speaker, the hearer, and the person spoken about.
Seth Hinshaw
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Five Tests for Discerning a True Leading
How do we know when we experience a leading? We can test a leading and its rightness by looking to Scripture, offering it for community discernment, and taking time to allow the leading deepen.
Hugh Barbour
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Forgiveness
If we do not love those who trespass against us, we will not be in a forgiving spirit.
Phoebe Hall
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In Prison, Yet Free
A German Friend writes of her experience in a Nazi prison and how prayer and hardship became sources of strength and freedom.
Eva Hermann
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In the Will of God, Stand
There’s a moment in the life of a Christian when you finally yield fully to God. Adapted from a longer tract by Kenneth Morse, “Conversion: Is it Gradual or Instantaneous?” in 1943.
Kenneth Morse