george fox, journal
The
Monthly Meeting consists of a group of Friends who meet together
at regular intervals to wait upon God in Meetings for
Worship and who meet monthly on the occasion of business. In
corporate fellowship, Friends experience the most profound
realities of life: birth and death, marriage and family, community
of
spirit, and concern for other people. A true Meeting in the Quaker
sense is a gathering of people that is also an encounter with God.
When this divine-human interaction takes place, there is order,
unity, and power. If and when this connection fails, Friends wait
and pray that “the way may open” once more. The good
order of
Friends is based on this conception of a “Meeting.”