1. Which people did Elizabeth Fry want to help?
Purton decribes how Fry heard about Newgate prison and how badly women and children were treated there. She determined to try and help these rejected and forgotten people.
2. Why was the prisoner governor surprised?
Fry was a repsectable and demure woman but she wated to be amongst the dregs of society, women who had stolen and killed and who knows what else. Yet she wanted to be with them. (It is quite messianic and incarnational some extent).
3. What can you find out aboit the Quakers?
Quaker is a nickname given because one of their founders George Fox told a judge to quake before God. The Religious Society of Friends, originally known simply as the Society of Friends started as a restorationist denomination of Christians. They believe in each person's ability to be guided by the inward light to "make the witness of God" known to everyone. To differing extents, the Friends have avoided creeds and hierarchical strucures and so having begun as a broadly evangelical sect in the seventeenth century, by today all sorts of things are believed as the Bible has increasingly been left out of things.
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