7/12/2017 - Section 49:1-14
July 12, 2017 Section 49:1-14 Shakers, Converts Believe With Your Whole Heart, Holy Ghost Importance of Being With Us, Holy Ghost & Missionary Work, Second Coming, Conversion Study it All Out In Your Mind & Ask & Receive, There is interesting background information on page 104: “ Not far from Kirtland, Ohio, the new headquarters of the Church, was a religious society known as the Shaking Quakers. Formerly members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), they were called Shaking Quakers or Shakers for two reasons: Their dress and manners resembled in certain respects those of Quakers, and their manner of worship included shaking and physical contortions. The society seems to have had its beginning in England during the latter part of the 1700s. Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, immigrated to America with her followers just before 1800. Settling in Ohio, they were in such close proximity to the Saints that it was only a matter of time until there was some intermingling be...