The Nature of Quakerism

All the social doctrines can be derived directly from the primary doctrines of the Inward Light and the teachings of Jesus. This has often been done, both in the Society of Friends and in other religious societies. The Christian social gospel is of course by no means peculiar to the Quakers. However, it is probable that this particular sequence of primary producing secondary and the secondary conditioning the form of the tertiary testimonies occasions social action in the form which is char...