Public services are conservative. Mormons have baptism, the laying on of hands, and communion. They have a temple for certain secret ceremonies, including baptism for the dead. Jehovah's Witnesses F ounded by Charles T. Russell in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Some 893,000 members believe in the imminent second coming of Christ and the potential salvation of mortal souls during the millennium.
All members are ministers who proselytize their faith with door.to.door missionary work.
F ounded by George Fox in England in the seventeenth century, who preached a doctrine of Inner Light, and inveighed against organized churches. The Friends,. who have 113,000 U.S. members. Meetings are characterized by quiet meditation without ritual or sermon. Quakers are active in peace, education, and social welfare movements. They refuse to bear arms or take oaths.