Articles In Quaker Periodicals

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Articles In Quaker Periodicals By Lyman W. Riley The American Friend "Quaker Meeting in Dixie" is an account written in 1863 by an Earlham College student, Susan Walker, of Waterford, Virginia. It tells of a meeting for worship held at Fairfax Meeting, Virginia, attended also by Confederate soldiers who were using the meetinghouse as an encampment. —Jan. 25, I960, p. [32]. Lucy Carner writes of "Jane Addams and the Society of Friends" in honor of the 100th anniversary of the great social worker's birth. There were a few official relationships, including a trip to Germany with American Friends Service Committee personnel in 1919. More significant, however, were "a kinship of spirit and of outlook on life, a shared conviction about war and about 'the things that make for peace'."—Feb. 8, 1960, pp. 37-38. Selected from a story appearing in the Gramercy Graphic of New York City are items of information about the building of the meetinghouse of Twentieth Street Meeting in 1859·—May 16, I960, p. [160]. Willard Heiss gives a list of available records of some Indiana meetings deposited in the vault of Indiana Yearly Meeting and at the Indiana State Historical Society.—June 13, I960, p. [192]. The Friend Leslie Gilbert in "John Bright and the Factory Acts" defends Bright against the charge of callousness and inconsistency arising from the Quaker statesman's opposition to the Factory Acts. He points out that Bright was not defending long working hours but the freedom of employer and employee to determine the length of the working day without state interference . Free trade and absence of state interference (which the Manchester Liberals equated with privilege) would, he believed, bring higher wages and shorter working hours.—Feb. 12, I960, pp. 197-198. Friends Journal Letter from the Past No. 181 is about two "Mementoes of John Woolman." "Now and Then" first describes the old schoolhouse in Mt. Holly in which Woolman probably taught. He then prints, for the first time, a letter of Woolman to Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, a characteristic apology for not keeping "low enough" in his mind in his ministry.— Feb. 27, I960, pp. 136-137. 127 128Bulletin of Friends Historical Association "First Friends in Florida," Letter from the Past No. 182, retells the story of God's Protecting Providence, Jonathan Dickinson's account of Friends and others who, in 1696, after shipwreck, made their way from the Florida coast to Charleston, South Carolina.—March 19, I960, p. 184. Letter from the Past No. 183 is called "The End of Another Schismatic ," one Charles Bayly, "heretic" in early Quakerism. After presumably leaving Friends, he traveled to Canada, serving the Hudson Bay Company for a decade as its first governor. He died in England in 1680.—April 30, I960, pp. 281-282. Letter from the Past No. 184, citing an article published in 1910, suggests that the site of the hanging of Mary Dyer and her companions in 1659-1660 may not be Boston Common, as tradition has held, but a place a mile away from the Common.—May 28, 1960, pp. 346-347. The Friends' Quarterly T. Canby Jones in "George Fox's Belief in the Trinity" shows by Fox's own words that, although he rejected belief in the Trinity as a creedal statement and spoke little of "God the Father" but much of Christ and the Holy Spirit, he was in fact a "practical trinitarian." Especially in his writings addressed to the heathen he refers in explicit terms to all three Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit.—July, 1959, pp. 112-117. Northwest Friend A major publishing effort, well executed, is the Special Centennial Edition, Vol. XXXIX, No. 5 (July 1959, 36 pages, illustrated). In article after article it tells the story of each phase of development of Quakerism in Oregon since the day in November 1859 when two Friends, Robert and Sarah Lindsay, carrying a minute for service from London Yearly Meeting, arrived in Portland. Later evangelists and setders followed. A Yearly Meeting was formed. A college, schools, and foreign missions were all undertaken by Friends. The bibliography shows that much unpublished as well as published material has been used. Quaker Religious Thought The first issue...