George Fox remembered in Scotland
Ben Pink Dandelion spoke at Edinburgh Meeting House as part of the Quaker co-founder’s 400th anniversary celebrations
Friends in Edinburgh heard about George Fox’s first steps into Scotland this month, almost 370 years after he was banished.
Quaker Ben Pink Dandelion spoke at Edinburgh Meeting House on ‘The Life and Times of George Fox’ as part of the Quaker co-founder’s 400th anniversary celebrations.
‘When first I set my horse’s feet upon Scottish ground I felt the Seed of God to sparkle about me, like innumerable sparks of fire,’ Fox wrote about his first arrival in Scotland in 1657. His journey continued to Dumfries, Douglas, Badcow, Edinburgh, Leith, Linlithgow, Glasgow and Dunbar. In Edinburgh, he is recorded as having disrupted a gathering about burning a witch. The Quaker co-founder was banished from the country in October 1657.
The talk on 5 October was mentioned in The Scotsman. ‘Today there are 400,000 Quakers worldwide, including 34 groups meeting on Sunday mornings in Scotland,’ it said.
