Citations:public Friend


 * 1846, Robert Smith (ed.), The Friend, vol. 1 [1st and 2nd eds. of vol. 1; 1st ed. of vol. 1 wanting no.7, 14-17, 25, 26], page 172:
 * Dr. Griffith Owen, of Philadelphia, who had been on a religious visit to England, did this year return.
 * George Gray, a public Friend, who had come from Barbadoes early to settle in Pennsylvania, this year returned thither again in the service of the ministry.
 * 1857, The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, page 188:
 * [...] through the wilderness four hundred miles or more, where no public Friend had ever travelled before: the journey was perilous, but the Lord was with him; who may, in his own time, make way for his servants in those desert places.
 * 1863, Friends' Intelligencer, page 420:
 * Ordered at this meeting, that Samuel Furness and Thomas Raper assist Henry Grubb in the care of public Friends&#39; horses.
 * 1952, Friends' Intelligencer:
 * The vicissitudes of ocean travel in the early days are of interest. From sundry Quaker journals a considerable collection of examples could be given. Here we may include the passages in which only one or two public Friends travelling on concern took part.
 * 1997, Richard L. Greaves, God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700, Stanford University Press (ISBN 9780804728218), page 295:
 * The Friends&#39; Business
 * Because Quakers eschewed a professional ministry and formal ordination, their ministers—public Friends—operated with relatively few restrictions in comparison, for example, with conformist or Presbyterian clergy.
 * A certificate amounted to a meeting&#39;s stamp of approval that the bearer was qualified to be a public Friend. For a public Friend about to embark on "truth&#39;s service," the monthly meeting provided a certificate, as the Dublin men did for Anthony ...
 * 1998, Richard L. Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp, page 136:
 * All adult Friends in good standing were expected to attend, but those whose conduct was questionable faced banishment. In 1699 unrepentant Quakers who had engaged in an illicit sexual relationship were prohibited from attending monthly meetings and serving as public Friends. By the early 1700s the Dublin meeting had begun to interview those who had expressed an interest in participating...
 * 2012, Sandra Stanley Holton, Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930, Routledge (ISBN 9781135141172), page 80:
 * Events in her personal life once again prompted her to follow her calling as a &#39;public Friend&#39;. This time her response required leaving her family, voyaging to the United States, and travelling extensively there to deliver her ministry.
 * Events in her personal life once again prompted her to follow her calling as a &#39;public Friend&#39;. This time her response required leaving her family, voyaging to the United States, and travelling extensively there to deliver her ministry.