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Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
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Silent Worship at the Brooklyn Friends Meeting House
Elias Hicks, a controversial Quaker leader who lived in the beginning of the nineteenth century, said that Quaker silent worship was the search to "center down into abasement and nothingness...This is what I labored after: to be empty, to know nothing, to call for nothing, and to desire to do nothing."
to read full story: http://www.silenceopensdoors.com/2009/10/enclosure.html
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