Four Doors to Meeting for Worship: Pendle Hill Pamphlet #306

This essay describes four doors as thresholds into the heart of worship as communion with the invisible but eternal stream of reality in which is this living and eternal Christ.From the Introduction:"Some people `find it' almost instantly when they attend their first Friends meeting for worship; as they settle into the silence they feel themselves gathered into a living Presence and they know they have come home at last. Others may experience their first Quaker worship as difficult and strange, but something keeps drawing them back until they gradually grow into a richer and richer experience of worship."ABOUT THE AUTHORFrom Pendle Hill's website: William Taber (1927-2005) grew up in Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), which remained his spiritual home throughout his life. Bill taught at Olney Friends School for twenty years, and at the Penington Boys and Moses Brown Schools. He later taught Quaker history, practice and spirituality at Pendle Hill. During the 1980s, while he was at Pen