Quakers

===Conservatives===
[[File:Microcosm of London Plate 064 - Quakers' Meeting (tone).jpg|thumb|alt=|Conservative Friends worshipping in London in 1809. Friends are in traditional [[plain dress]]. At the front of the meeting house, the '''[[Recorded Minister]]s''' sit on a raised ''ministers' gallery'' facing the rest of the meeting, with the '''elders''' sitting on the bench in front of them, also facing the meeting. Men and women are segregated, but both are able to minister.]]
{{Main|Conservative Friends}}

[[Conservative Friends]] (also known as "Wilburites" after their founder, [[John Wilbur (Quaker minister)|John Wilbur]]), share some of the beliefs of Fox and the Early Friends. Many Wilburites see themselves as the Quakers whose beliefs are truest to original Quaker doctrine, arguing that the majority of Friends "broke away" from the Wilburites in the 19th and 20th centuries (rather than vice versa). Conservative Friends place their trust in the immediate guidance of God.<ref name=quakerfinder/> They reject all forms of [[religious symbolism]] and outward [[sacraments]], such as the [[Eucharist]] and [[water baptism]]. Conservative Friends do not believe in relying upon the practice of outward rites and sacraments in their living relationship with God through Christ, believing that holiness can exist in all of the activities of one's daily life – and that all of life is sacred in God. Many believe that a meal held with others can become a form of [[Communion (Christianity)|communion]] with God and with one another.

Conservative Friends in the United States are part of three small Quaker Yearly Meetings in Ohio, North Carolina and Iowa. Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is generally considered the most Bible-centred of the three, retaining Christian Quakers who use plain language, wear plain dress, and are more likely to live in villages or rural areas than the Conservative Friends from their other two Yearly Meetings.<ref name=Wilburite-Gurneyite/>

In 2007, total membership of such Yearly Meetings was around 1642,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://fwccamericas.org/find_friends/stats_by_country.shtml |title=FWCC Section of the Americas |website=fwccamericas.org |access-date=25 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419003049/http://fwccamericas.org/find_friends/stats_by_country.shtml |archive-date=19 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> making them around 0.4% of the world family of Quakers.