Articles in Quaker Periodicals

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ArticlesinQua\erPeriodicals By Edwin B. Bronner Concern (Association of Evangelical Friends) The early days of Friends in Ohio are described in "Ohio Yearly Meeting — An Historical Resumé," by Amos Henry. A large part of the article describes the days before the initial separations. — Vol. 3, No. 4, Oct., 1961, pp. 2-13. T. Eugene Coffin describes the early days of Friends in "The Birth of California Yearly Meeting," from 1873 to 1893. — Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan., 1962, pp. 3-9. In an article entitled "Piety Promoted," the history of memorials and dying statements of Friends is summarized. Unsigned. Presumably written by the editor, Arthur O. Roberts. - ¦ Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan., 1962, pp. 12-14. Friends Journal Mary Sullivan Patterson continues her discussion of the restoration of the Caleb Pusey house under the title, "Progress Report on the Caleb Pusey House." She also summarizes Caleb Pusey's activities in Pennsylvania. — Sept. 1, 1962, pp. 371-372. Letter from the Past Number 196 is called "Across the Neva's Cold Morass," by Henry J. Cadbury, who tells of the discovery of the graves of the wife and daughter of Daniel Wheeler, buried in Russia near Leningrad. Two Russian stamps commemorating the reigns of Nicholas I and Alexander I are reproduced. — Oct. 15, 1962, p. 436. Henry J. Cadbury, in Letter from the Past Number 197, discusses the importance of the term "Praemunire" in legal history, and particularly as it was related to Quakers in the seventeenth century.—Dec. 15, 1962, p. 535. The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rufus M. Jones was noted in the January 15, 1963 issue. Elizabeth Gray Vining wrote "Rufus Jones, Teacher," and there was "A Rufus Jones Sampler," largely made up of selections from the Friends Intelligencer, one of the predecessors of the Friends Journal. The Friends' Quarterly Under the title "Of 'Speaking the Truth in Love,' " a Roger Clark essay, published under the pseudonym "Friar Tuck," includes a letter written in 1845 by Amy Metford Stephens, his great-grandmother. — July, 1962, pp. 136-141. 54 Articles in Quaker Periodicals55 Another "Friar Tuck" essay, written by Roger Clark in a humorous vein, is entitled "Of Breeches, Leathern or Otherwise." It deals with Quaker attire today and yesterday. — Oct., 1962, pp. 180-183. Journal of the Friends' Historical Society R[ussell] S. M[ortimer], in "The Quakers Dublin Weekly Oracle, 1721," cites evidence from the Anthony Sharp MSS in Dublin which seems to show that John Crabb, a disowned Friend, actually published the above-named but still-unlocated newspaper. Crabb also sought to publish the life and writings of Anthony Sharp. — 49 (1961), 244-247. Continuing his article "Friends' Queries and General Advices," Richard E. Stagg publishes "A Survey of their Development in London Yearly Meeting, 1860-1928." Again he quotes all the new or revised queries and advices. Since I860 the purpose of the Queries has shifted from corporate self-discipline to individual self-examination, and the Advices have become increasingly evangelical in tone. __ 49 (1961), 249-269, 279. "'Inward' and Outward': A Study in Early Quaker Language" is Maurice A. Creasey's Presidential Address to the Friends' Historical Society in 1961. In using these contrasting terms, he finds, Fox and Nayler simply expressed the pre-eminence of vivid personal Christian experience. Isaac Penington, a mystic with "much more insight and sympathy," expressed the same view, "consciously relating himself to the emphases of contemporary Puritan religion." Penn and Barclay, more philosophically minded, made a conscious effort to relate Quakerism to the philosophical and theological interests of their age by contrasting two modes of revelation, even two distinct organs of revelation. "The effects of this false severance between the 'inward' and the 'outward' . . . are . . . written large upon the life of the Society." — Supplement No. 30 (1962), 24 pages. Henry J. Cadbury discusses various new sidelights on the persecution of Quakers in Boston in an article entitled "Shadows of Boston Gallows." — 50 (1962), 4-8. Jack Caudle, in "The Grave of William Penn," suggests that the present location of the markers at Jordans does not coincide with the graves of Penn and others. He points out that there were incomplete records, no gravestones at all...