Word: quakerdom
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...meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no priesthood. Their societies are organized simply: in Monthly Meetings (one congregation), Quarterly Meetings (representatives from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (representatives from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). Last week two important Yearly Meetings gathered in Philadelphia, citadel of Quakerdom, where some Orthodox Monthly Meetings still object to hymns with music and hired preachers...
...Philadelphia the silver-haired statesman warmly wrung the hand of Quakerdom's distinguished S. Solis Cohen, the physician who saved his life in Philadelphia two years ago. In gratitude the Prime Minister stopped over for three hours, facetiously recalled to august lunchers at the Bellevue-Stratford how "Philadelphians used to come in with long faces and look at me over the foot of the bed and reveal in their countenances how long I had to live...
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