Religion: The Friends

The Society of Friends is not numerous: there are only 115,000 Quakers in the U.S. and they are not gaining much. But a sign of Quaker vitality came to light at the Friends' Philadelphia General Meeting last week: 100 new Quaker meetings have been organized during the past 14 years.

Two states now have more meetings than Quaker-founded Pennsylvania. The figures: Indiana, 153; Ohio, in; Pennsylvania, 97.

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