lucretia mott she spoke out a , lot. we have records of some of the sermons and talks she was giving during worship. they relate to abolition, urging other quakers to feel the same way she did about freeing slaves. today, it varies. , adults i said earlier and children are treated with quality as well. i have been to a few meetings where children will stand up and give messages, and it can be really moving to hear what they have to say and what their experience is. in 1814, we know there were 600 and all members of the meeting that worshiped here -- adult members of the meeting that worshiped here, and we can tell me by the law of averages they would've had children. so this room would have been filled with 600 or so it all sitting down here, and they probably had two kids each. you could extrapolate that. the entire upstairs would have been filled with 1200 people here, and it would have been told to the rafters with quakers. nowadays when we have worship, --re are about the-70 people 60-70 people. back when the childre

this one is lucretia mott who a lot of people know. she was an ardent abolitionist. some of the others are just interesting that they chose to depict themselves holding plants or knitting for instance. the young girl in the center it's probably hard to make out , here, but she actually has a crutch. you can see this little piece hanging up from beneath her foot. that's a crutch. it's really interesting, it's so simple but to start to look deeper, you do see all these details of who these people really were. this next case is about the construction of this house. what i didn't mention, the meeting house was built by a r.aker named owen biddle, j the comes from a family really active in quaker circles. in 1804, he did was to go to architecture school. i was not a thing, there were not architects. he referred to himself as a builder. what we have here are some of his tools that he left inside the building. they have his initials on them. both found in the lentil above the porticos we have outside. this image shows you to it was the top rectangular box. they were doing s

that would be quakers that you've heard of from history, such as susan b anthony, william penn, lucretia mott -- they would mean buildings similar to this. they would sit in silence for one hour. if anybody in the group, congregation felt the desire to stand up and share a message, if they felt moved to speak, they can rise from in silence -- and share what they had to share. the question we get often, what was -- what with the quakers have said during worship? we like to throw it back to history. it's easier to say -- susan b anthony, when she had a message, it's probably related to women's rights and suffrage, because that she was fighting for the most, that was on her mind rapprochement -- she spoke out a lot. we have records of some of the sermons and talks she was giving during worship. they relate to abolition, urging of the quakers to feel the same way she did about -- today, it can vary. about holiday, adults and children are treated with the polity as well. i've been to a few meetings were children will stand up and give messages. it can be really moving to hear what i have to say fo

lucretia mott, we have records of some of her sermons and talked she was getting during worship. it was related to abolition and quakers do feel the way she did about freeing the slaves. sometimes you may hear quakers referred to as friends, with a capital f. that is the formal name of their religious society of friends. the religious society of friends formed in england in the 16 50's by a number of people, by prominently george foxe was his name. the leaders in england were sort of -- they did not agree with the english church. all the stuff we talk about, the church than was incomplete and -- in complete and total opposition of that. the quakers wanted to bear that down and only do the things they felt was useful, the things connecting them that are to god. theythe quakers wanted wanted te artifice and the middlemen. they thought they could communicate directly with god. they thought every thing else was superfluous. a lot of the early quicker leaders were jailed for their beliefs. they were on street corners preaching and they could be thrown in prison for speaking out the wa