Articles in Quaker Periodicals

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ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Lyman W. Riley Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College The Canadian Friend An editorial interview with Emmett Gulley, who visited the Dukhobors of Canada during the spring of 1950 as a representative of the American and Canadian Friends Service Committees, tells of some of the present problems of diis sect.—Dec, 1950, pp. 2-4. The Friend (London) "William Savery, 1750-1804," by L. Hugh Doncaster, outlines the life and describes the preaching of this American Quaker minister.— Sept. 15, 1950, pp. 687-688. Doris N. Dalglish has some appreciative words to say about William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude which was also well-liked by Robert Louis Stevenson; "Stevenson and Penn."—Nov. 17, 1950, pp. 839-840. "Friends and the 1851 Exhibition," by Hubert W. Peel, consists mainly of excerpts from The Friend (London) of 1851 which comment on the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace.—Ian. 12, 1951, pp. 29-31. Friends Intelligencer "Insights of Permanent Value in Barclay," are, to Waldo Beach, his doctrines of "selective wididrawal" from the world and "vocational pacifism."-^5ept. 9, 1950, pp. 527-528. F. Charles Thum writes of "Creative Quaker Architecture," the architecture of the early American meetinghouses, which, he says, was forward-looking and even experimental in its day.—Oct. 7, 1950, pp. 587-588. The 250th anniversary celebration of Moorestown Meeting, N. J., is described by Shaun B. Copithorne.—Oct. 7, 1950, pp. 589-590. In "Questions and Answers about Quakers Past and Present," Frederick B. Tolles discusses the adoption of the pastoral system by some American Friends and tells of the origin of the term "Quaker."—Oct. 14, 1950, pp. 604-605. Waldo Beach finds that one of the "Insights of Permanent Value in Woolman" is Woolman's "integrity to truth," i.e. his concern for right motivation rather than practical success.—Oct. 21, 1950, p. 617. Letter from the Past No. 112 discusses the substitution in the plain language of "Thee for Thou," and some other contradictions in Quaker language usage.—Nov. 11, 1950, p. 661. "John of Haverhill," by A. Gerald Whittier, is an imaginative account of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier ; it is part of a proposed novelized life of the poet.—Dec. 9, 1950, pp. 720-721. 62 Articles in Quaker Periodicals63 After showing that the Bible has always been of great value to Friends, Frederick B. Tolles defines "continuity of revelation" in relation to Friends beliefs: "Questions and Answers about Quakers Past and Present."—Dec. 23, 1950, pp. 755-756. "Minor Queries re Reunion," Letter from the Past No. 113, are in reference to the proper name for a united Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the correct numbering of its sessions.—Dec.·30, 1950, p. 765. Anna Green Shoemaker describes briefly an interchange of visits between Indians and Friends in the 1760's, involving chiefly Papunahung and lohn Woolman; "Visit of Religious Indians to the Quakers in Philadelphia."—Dec. 30, 1950, pp. 765-766. In "A Retrospect of Recent Quakerism, 1900-1950," Frederick B. Tolles writes comprehensively of events and trends in organization, action, and doctrine.—Jan. 6, 1951, pp. 4-6. Elinor Dennis submits to a "Quakeriana" department some amusing anecdotes involving Quakers.—Jan. 6, 1951, pp. 10-11. "Now and Then" shares some of his thoughts "On Rereading John Woolman's Journal," among which are a new appreciation of Woolman 's contacts with "New Lights" and his concern about war taxes: Letter from the Past No. 114.—Jan. 20, 1951, pp. 38-39. The Friends' Quarterly Lulie A. Shaw quotes delightful excerpts from "Some Letters from Young Quakers in die 1840's,"—the family letters of Benjamin Head Cadbury, his wife, Candia, and their numerous children.—Oct., 1950, pp. 244-255. "The Dialectic of Quaker History," according to Stephen Allott, has meant successive shifts in emphasis from prophecy based on inward experience, to Quietism, then to evangelicalism, then to service, and perhaps, in the future, again to inward experience.—Jan., 1951, pp. 24-30. In "Quaker Simplicity," Gladys Wilson describes die witness to simplicity on the part of early Friends and its transformation when made a part of the discipline and tradition; she suggests that...