La Jolla Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Records 1952-1968
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La Jolla Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
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Historical Note The first meeting of what is now the La Jolla Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends was held in the Mission Hills Methodist Church in San Diego in the late 1940s. The first official business meeting was held in 1951 at the home of Ruth and Joshua Bailey in La Jolla. The La Jolla Meeting was accepted at an official Monthly Meeting in August of 1953 by the Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society...
Society of Friends
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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...
