Articles in Quaker Periodicals

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ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Lyman W. Riley Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College The American Friend "Caesars Creek Centennial" by Edith L. Haines is a brief outline of the history of Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting, Wilmington, Ohio.— Nov. 10, 1949, p. 363. The Evangelical Friend Louise Ellett sketches the history of Damascus Meeting, Damascus, Ohio.—Sept., 1949, pp. 7-8. The Friend (London) The great-granddaughter of Luke Howard, F.R.S., tells briefly of the contact between Howard and Goethe, who admired the English Quaker not only for his meteorological work but also for his religious faith; "Goethe and the Quakers" by Elizabeth F. Howard.—Aug. 26, 1949, pp. 686-687. Stephen J. Thorne, Recording Clerk of London Yearly Meeting, outlines the history of the Meeting for Sufferings in explanation of the origin of the name and its appropriateness for the present.—Sept. 16, 1949, pp. 749-751. The Friend (Philadelphia) In "Friends and the Imitation Again," Henry J. Cadbury notes that many Friends, including as prominent ones as Penn and Woolman, were very familiar with and influenced by this devotional classic.— Nov. 3, 1949, pp. 134-135. Margaret Pascoe, high school exchange teacher from England, graphically describes the life of the people in "The England of William Penn."—Nov. 17, 1949, pp. 151-152. Leslie D. Shaffer describes the "Doukhobor Jubilee" of July, 1949, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of these refugees from Russia.—Dec. 1, 1949, p. 169. (Also in the Friends Intelligencer, Sept. 10, 1949, pp. 505-506, and The Canadian Friend, Oct., 1949, pp. 3-4,16). Friends Intelligencer The rise and fall of Quakerism in Nantucket is recounted by Fritz Eichenberg in "Quakers and Whalers in Nantucket"; he suggests that the isolation and pride of the islanders had much to do with the breakup of the Friends meetings there.—Sept. 24, 1949, pp. 532-534. Elizabeth Marshall announces the "250th Anniversary of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, Pa." and tells of a few incidents in the meeting's history.—Oct. 1, 1949, p. 549. 57 58Articles in Quaker Periodicals Job Scott, Quaker minister of the 18th century, might have been a "quietist" Friend, but according to contemporary accounts his preaching , physically, was vigorous and uninhibited; "Coatless Quietist" (Letter from the Past No. 104) .—Oct. 1, 1949, p. 550. Katherine Seeler and Robert J. Leach contribute additional data about Quakerism in Nantucket, to supplement and correct Fritz Eichenberg 's article of Sept. 24, 1949; "More About Nantucket."—Nov. 12, 1949, pp. 641-642. "Elias Hicks in 1813: Notes from the Diary of Miers Fisher" by Frederick B. Tolles quotes comments on Hicks, partly doubtful and partly favorable, by Miers Fisher (1748-1819), a Philadelphia Quaker lawyer.—Dec. 3, 1949, p. 680. "Now and Then" remarks that Friends usually called Washington General rather than President, but in spite of his being a man of war they admired and respected him; "General Washington" (Letter from the Past No. 105) .—Dec. 10, 1949, pp. 699-700. A great deal of George Fox's time was taken up with lobbying activities, for the earliest Friends, no less than those of today, were filled with a "Concern for National Legislation" (Letter from the Past, No. 106) .—Dec. 17, 1949, pp. 715-716. The Friends Quarterly Evelyn Southall Whiting finds, in "Thomas Traherne: Poet: Contemporary of George Fox," that this Church of England clergyman shared much of the spirit and even some of the views of George Fox.— Jan., 1949, pp. 56-64. Brian Sparkes reminisces admiringly about several prominent Quaker teachers of a generation ago, in an article he calls " 'Others Have Laboured.'" April, 1949, pp. 70-82. "A Mother in Israel" by T. Edmund Harvey is an appreciative interpretation of the life of Margaret Fell, based on the recent biography Margaret Fell, Mother of Quakerism, by Isabel Ross.—July, 1949, pp. 182-189. Maurice Creasey, in his article "A Reasonable Faith," discusses the book of that name by Francis Frith, William Edward Turner, and William Pollard, published in London in 1884. He suggests that the issues raised then, and hotly argued, are worthy of attention today.— Oct., 1949, pp. 196-206. "One Hundred Years of Friends' Service...