"It may surprise some of us to hear that the first generation of Friends did not have a testimony for simplicity. They came upon a faith which cut to the root of the way they saw life, radically reorienting it. They saw that all they did must flow directly from what they experienced as true, and that if it did not, both the knowing and the doing became false. In order to keep the knowledge clear and the doing true, they stripped away anything which seemed to get in the way. They called those things superfluities, and it is this radical process of stripping for clear-seeing which we now term simplicity."
~ Frances Irene Taber, 1985
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~ Frances Irene Taber, 1985
I can find nothing more about Friend Frances Irene Tober than this single quote. Please let me know if you have any information on her. HQ
ReplyDeleteFrances Irene Taber is a member of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) and Stillwater Friends Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio. She is a lovely person. I believe that is who you are looking for. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Paula :^) If you are in contact with Frances please pass on my thanks for her Ministry.
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