quaker-funerals

Updated: July 8, 2026

Funerals Most nations have paid extravagant attention to their dead The moderns follow their example This extravagance, or the pageantry of funerals, discarded by the Quakers Their reasons for it Plainness of Quaker-funerals.

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends