Articles in Quaker Periodicals

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Articles in Quaker Periodicals By Barbara L. Curtis The Friend Geoffrey F. Nuttall, in an article "Violence: Some Perspectives," deals with pacifism and violence in the perspective of the history of dissent from the fifteenth century to the present. This includes references to Friends. —February 19, 1971, pp. 199-201. An article based on an address by Edwin H. Alton to the Friends Historical Society at Friends House, London, contains a discussion of the development of Quaker attitudes toward music from the early days to 1970. Changes in the official attitude of the Society as expressed in the discipline are recorded. —February 19, 1971, p. 202. Henry Holmes describes Quaker meeting in 1890 in a small Yorkshire village as seen through his own eyes in childhood. This material appeared originally in Sutton Friends Quarterly.—February 26, 1971, pp. 243-244. Brian Arundel, of the faculty of Ackworth School, writes the history of the building there called Flounders House. It was erected as a teacher training college in 1848 and has enjoyed a number of other uses since that time. It was torn down in 1970.—March 5, 1971, pp. 269-270. Friends Journal Howard H. Bainton, in "The Quaker Muddle in the 19th Century," takes up theological questions. He synthesizes material from three Pendle Hill pamphlets which he has published in the recent past. The history of American Quakerism as it relates to theological controversies of the period is outlined. —February 15, 1971, pp. 100-101. Jean Erickson Kadyk, in "Builders through the Years in Valley Meetinghouse " gives a brief history of the Friends Meeting near King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, from the days of the earliest settlers on Penn's Welsh Tract down to the present.—April 1, 1971, pp. 213-214. Letter from the Past, Number 251, deals widi George Fox's earliest religious experiences before he went into the North of England to spread his message. The article gives quotations testifying to the exemplary life led by Fox as early as 1652.—April 15, 1971, pp. 231-232. Friends Quarterly Henry Joel Cadbury has an article entitled "Inquiry into Fox's Early Years." He extracts from sources long hidden the essential events which provide insight into the earliest time of Fox's efforts to proclaim the Quaker message.—April, 1971, pp. 70-74. Quaker Life Russell Branson writes an account of the history of several trust funds arising from bequests to North Carolina Yearly Meeting over the years from 1881 to 1970. The information was obtained from research in the records started in 1881 after the Yearly Meeting had lost all its older funds as a result of the aftermath of the Civil War.—January, 1971, p. 20. 132 ...