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How children contribute to Quaker worship
Katharine Defrance considers how children can embody Quaker teaching in practice
THERE IS A FAMOUS QUAKER TALE of the children of Reading Meeting, who in 1663 whilst their parents were in prison for practising Quaker worship, continued to hold their Meeting. Their repeated quiet act of rebellion, conscience and bravery is so indicative of the Quaker spirit. Whilst it is moving that they were children, alone in the world with no adults to guide, protect or support them, the fact they were children was not the key point. Their value in the Meeting was neither because they were children nor despite being children, neither greater nor lesser than anyone else’s, it was equal. And so they gathered.
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