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Indiana Yearly Meeting is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. Indiana Yearly Meeting (IYM) was established in 1821 and originally included all the Friends congregations west of the Scioto River, Ohio, as well as congregations in Indiana and Illinois. [2] (IYM) met for most of its history in Richmond, Indiana.
Due to the division, church membership declined over time and in the 1870s the church was reduced to half its original size. The liberal and orthodox factions remained isolated from one another until the 20th century. [6] The meeting house is now called the Old Blue River Friends Church. A historic marker is located near the church. [5]
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
For many Quakers these things violated their commitment to simplicity and were thought too "worldly". Some Quakers, however, are noted today for their creative work. John Greenleaf Whittier was an editor and a poet in the United States. Among his works were some poems involving Quaker history and hymns expressing his Quaker theology.
Newberry Friends Meeting House, now the Friends of Jesus Fellowship Friends Church, is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery located in Paoli Township, Orange County, Indiana. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular, vernacular Greek Revival style frame building.
Feb. 14—This is the 22nd article written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial. Forty-eight years ago I wrote a graduate paper about Amish education. The paper was titled The Educational ...
The criticisms became prominent after a gathering of Friends General Conference (FGC) in Richmond, Indiana, in the summer of 1979 when many Friends joined with prominent leaders, such as Kenneth Boulding, to call for a firmer Quaker orientation toward public issues. [36]
Several of such unite Quakers who share similar religious beliefs – for example Evangelical Friends Church International unites evangelical Christian Friends; [145] Friends United Meeting unites Friends into "fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved and obeyed as Teacher and Lord;" [146] and Friends General Conference links Quakers with ...