Quakers

====Rise of Gurneyite Quakerism, and the Gurneyite–Conservative split====
[[File:Joseph John Gurney.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Joseph John Gurney was a prominent 19th-century British Friend and a strong proponent of evangelical views.]]
''Orthodox'' Friends became more [[evangelicalism|evangelical]] during the 19th century<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bronner |first=Edwin B. |title=Moderates in London Yearly Meeting, 1857–1873: Precursors of Quaker Liberals |journal=Church History |year=1990 |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=356–371 |doi=10.2307/3167744 |jstor=3167744|s2cid=163077764 }}</ref> and were influenced by the [[Second Great Awakening]]. This movement was led by British Quaker [[Joseph John Gurney]]. Christian Friends held [[Revival meeting]]s in America and became involved in the [[Holiness movement]] of churches. Quakers such as [[Hannah Whitall Smith]] and [[Robert Pearsall Smith]] became speakers in the religious movement and introduced Quaker phrases and practices to it.<ref name=Bebbington/>{{rp|page=157}} British Friends became involved with the [[Higher Life movement]], with Robert Wilson from [[Cockermouth]] meeting founding the [[Keswick Convention]].<ref name=Bebbington/>{{rp|page=157}} From the 1870s it became common in Britain to have "home mission meetings" on Sunday evening with Christian hymns and a Bible-based sermon, alongside the silent meetings for worship on Sunday morning.<ref name=Bebbington/>{{rp|page=155}}

The Quaker Yearly Meetings supporting the religious beliefs of Joseph John Gurney were known as ''Gurneyite'' yearly meetings. Many eventually collectively became the Five Years Meeting and then the [[Friends United Meeting]], although [[London Yearly Meeting]], which had been strongly Gurneyite in the 19th century, did not join either of these. Such Quaker yearly meetings make up the largest proportion of Quakers in the world today.

Some Orthodox Quakers in America disliked the move towards evangelical Christianity and saw it as a dilution of Friends' traditional orthodox Christian belief in being inwardly led by the [[Holy Spirit]]. These Friends were headed by [[John Wilbur (Quaker minister)|John Wilbur]], who was expelled from his yearly meeting in 1842. He and his supporters formed their own Conservative Friends Yearly Meeting. Some UK Friends broke away from the [[London Yearly Meeting]] for the same reason in 1865. They formed a separate body of Friends called [[Britain Yearly Meeting#Fritchley General Meeting|Fritchley General Meeting]], which remained distinct and separate from London Yearly Meeting until 1968. Similar splits took place in Canada. The Yearly Meetings that supported John Wilbur's religious beliefs were known there as Conservative Friends.