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GEORGE FOX

George Fox was the founder of the Society Of Friends. He was born in 1624 and died in 1691. A man of poor education, but deep moral earnestness he had passed through very deep spiritual experiences in his search for God, and believed that, when no help had come to him from people. Books or churches, that at last God had spoken directly to him as He had the ancient prophets. George Fox preached widely, gathering together followers as 'Children of the Light, and were widely persecuted by the orthodox church who viewed his teachings as subversive.
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