Abstract
During the past several decades the Friends Meeting at Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been well-known as one of the strong meetings on the Atlantic seaboard, of the unprogrammed type. It is not generally known that for several decades around the turn of the century Friends in that region were under the influence of the programmed or pastoral tradition. In this article we shall endeavor to trace the development and decline of the pastoral type of meeting in the Boston and Cambridge area. In the year 1865 the Friends meetinghouse on Milton Place, just off Federal Street in Boston, was sold by the Yearly Meeting of Friends for New England. There had been practically no Friends in Boston since the local meeting had been laid down in 1799. Although Friends had never flourished in Boston because of the strong Puritan influence, the Yearly Meeting, remembering the persecutions of the 1600's, had felt an obligation to maintain a Quaker presence there. The only Friends meetings held in the city since 1799 had been those arranged by Lynn Friends for visiting ministers. The future of Quakerism in Boston at that time was indeed bleak.
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