ave an obligation to remain involved with others outside the movement. Frederick B. Tolles writes, "The Quakers have never withdrawn completely from the world, but have always felt it a religious duty to work out their testimonies in the midst of life" (2).
Although "Quaker" is now a widely accepted name for members of the Society of Friends, it was, in the late seventeenth century, a derisive label. Some attempts to connect with and release the inner light put followers into a trance-like state, sometimes inducing a shivering or quaking movement. Opponents found it easy to dismiss Friends as "quakers," watching them undergo what appeared to uneducated eyes to be strange, uncontrolled possessions by outside forces.
These occasions of quaking made the Friends easy targets for strict, conservative groups such as the
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