A Quaker Weekly

VOLUME 2 APRIL 21, 1956 NUMBER 16

IN THIS ISSUE

God's Plan for Man [!I) OES a man do th" wrong? Go to and mark what by Lyman W. B. Jackman notion of good and evil was his that did the wrong. Once perceive that and thou wilt "Again He Began to Teach beside feel compassion, not surprise by Clarence E. Pickett or anger. For thou hast still the Sea" . thyself either the same notion of good and evil as he or an­ Letter from Scandinavia other not unlike. Thou needst must forgive him then. But if by Ole F. Olden thy notions of good and evil are no longer such, all the more easily shalt thou be Annual Meeting of the European gracious to him that sees awry. Section, Friends World Committee - MARCUS AURELIUS by James F. Walker

How Old Was Hannah? Letter from the Past

Epistle of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY $4.00 A VEAl 242 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956

Letter from Scandinavia FRIENDS JOlJRNAL CANDINAVIAN Friends can reasonably be con­ S sidered a unit. They understand one another with­ out having to learn the language of the others; that is, each speaks his own language and is immediately under­ stood by the others. All three- Finnish Friends are all Swedish speaking and constitute a Monthly Meeting within Sweden Yearly Meeting- have the same general background both in religion and in politics. The state churches are all Luth­ Published weekly at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) eran, but with a difference in emphasis, and there is a By Friends Publishing Corporation certain number of free churches ("dissenters"). All WILLIAM HUBBEN JEANNE CAVIN Editor and Manager Advertisements have a democratic constitution, again with differences, MILDRED A. PURNELL MARTHA TURNER Associate Editor Subscriptions with proportionate representation. At present the social CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS democratic labor parties h ave more than half the seats RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia in Parliament, with another part of a somewhat differ­ Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Joan Hewitt, London ent complexion in each country. Horace B. Pointing, London India ...... Benjamin Polk, New Delhi The three Yearly Meetings are, however, somewhat Japan ...... Bruce L. Pearson, Osaka Tatsunosuke Ueda, Tokyo different. First in age is Norway Yearly Meeting, which Jordan ...... Graham Leonard, Ramallah Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway was founded in 1818 under the auspices of such promi­ Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Ankara nent British Quakers as William Allen and Stephen Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh Midwest (Five Years) ...... Russell E. Rees, Richmond Grellet. Denmark Yearly Meeting was founded in the New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. 1870's, and after some ups and downs it was nearly non­ BOARD OF MANAGE·RS existent about the turn of the century. Sweden Yearly 1955-1956: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Sarah F. Splint. Meeting is only 20 years old, a creation of the interwar 1955-1957: Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson. 1955- years like most of the Continental Meetings in Europe. 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. In membership they are all small, Sweden with just THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five over 90, Norway with 70, and Denmark with just over dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. 40. The groupings of members is also somewhat different. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can­ ada, and Mexico: $4.00 a year, $2.00 for six months. In Norway one would find, at least before the last war, Fore~n countries: $4.50 a year. Single copies: fifteen cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Pub­ rather many elderly or old members who remember the lishing Corporation. Sample copies sent on request. good old days when members and outsiders flocked to Re-entered as second-class matter July 7, 1955, at the post office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Act of meetings, especially when there were British or Ameri­ March 8, 1879. can visitors. Some of these were excellent emotional speakers, while others stayed in Stavanger for a whole year and more, ministering to the local group and some­ times also taking long journeys along the coast. The Contents Page number of members out in the country was consider­ Letter from Scandinavia- Ole F. Olden ...... 242 able, and the visit to the Yearly Assembly was a great Editorial Comments ...... 243 event in their lives. After the last war, however, there God's Plan for Man- Lyman W. B. Jackman . . 244 has sprung up an importan t group in Oslo, largely How Old Was Hannah?-Letter from the Past through the activities of Myrtle Wright from Great - 156 ...... 245 Britain. Most of the members are ladies, middle-aged "Again He Began to Teach beside the Sea"- and young. There are two Monthly Meetings in Nor­ Clarence E. Pickett ...... 246 way, one in Oslo and one in Stavanger. Epistle of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting ...... 246 In Denmark one will find a difference in the religious Annual Meeting of the European Section, background of some of the mem hers. Some of them Friends World Committee- James F. Walker 247 have come from the Grundtvig type of Christianity with Books ...... 248 a broad-church attitude, others have a strict Quaker Friends and Their Friends ...... 249 background, while most of the younger ones, coming in Letters to the Editor ...... 250 (Continued on page 247) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

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Editorial Comments American Church Leaders in Russia little drama of history will end in the overthrow of our clumsy Western civilization. We can never compete with N returning from their much publicized visit to Asia. In that event I allow until 1950 to run our race Russia, the delegates of the National Council have O out." This striking prophecy interests us not only for expressed satisfaction about their contacts with Russian its truth but also for its errors. The historic drama in church leaders. Hospitality was generous and warm, and question is not little but proceeds on a large scale, and our delegates came frequently in touch with Orthodox, the overthrow of our Western civilization is unlikely to Baptist, and Lutheran congregations. Russian church occur. We are still competing with Asia, although fu­ services were well attended, although mostly by old ture competition is likely to include hazards of which people and women. T he theological seminaries visited we can have at this moment only a vague picture. Henry were .filled to capacity. Religious instruction is severely Adams wrote at a time when everybody was speaking handicapped. Not only is it limited to the home, but of the "yellow peril," a slogan pointing primarily at the absence of suitable literature is felt everywhere, and Japanese progress. the aggressiveness of scientific public education is de­ British Friends are in closer contact with Asiatic signed as a long-range policy ro undermine religious developments than we, and their East-West Relations thinking. This is a much more subtle challenge than Committee has disseminated some inside information on the former atheistic campaigns, which have declined. Chinese trends that calls attention to China's un­ The church considers .its chief work to be the saving dreamed-of economic progress, the technical leadership of souls and their preparation for eternity. Questions of Russia, and the sense of unity and vision that imbues of social justice, freedom, and even the religious support the hearts of the teeming millions of the vast empire. of peace are beyond the range of church work. The fre­ These facts remain impressive in spite of the climate of quently heard appeals for peace appear vague and do fear, the mental regimentation, and the numerous polit­ not take into account the realities of the world situation. ical restrictions noticeable everywhere. The West is A certain accommodation has taken place in the rela­ obviously acting without a consistent plan in Asia, and tionship between state and church. our democratic affirmations have little effect in view of Disappointing as some of their observations were, our positions in Indo-China and Portuguese Goa. Our the delegates consider their visit worth while. It is a hostility and reserve toward China leave her no other promising beginning for later contacts, and the American access to technical, agricultural, and cultural improve­ church leaders are looking forward to a visit from Rus­ ments except by way of Russia's eagerly supplied assist­ sian clergymen to this country. Our delegates will con­ ance. There is little doubt that all of Asia accepts the tinue to express the importance of justice, human rights, Chinese revolution as an historic fact, independent as and the fundamental freedoms for achieving peace, the other Asiatic nations will want to remain from com­ need for reduction of all armaments, and the necessity munism. It is becoming clear that our armed truce of freedom for colonial and subject peoples through law, cannot be a lasting solution in our conflict with com­ order, and free elections. munism. We are losing valuable time to the growing Russian influence unless we open channels of communi­ China cation with China, as we have been doing with Russia On March 22, 1903, Henry Adams, American his­ without approving of the Soviet system. The easing torian, wrote, "My statesmanship is still all in China, tensions with Russia and her internal changes are results where the last struggle for power is to come. China is of a guarded rapprochement that might guide us in re­ bound to go to pieces and every year is a long step to assessing our relations with China. Our foreign policy, the bad. The only country now on the spot is Russia, ~s pec!all~ in Asia, is undergoing a reappraisal requiring and if Russia organizes China as an economic power, the 1magmatwn and courage. 243 244 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956 God's Plan /or Man By LYMAN W. B. JACKMAN

AMONG the most uplifting and energizing thoughts man must see himself as more than an animal with Il. that can take possession of the mind of man are desires and instincts centered in the physical. He must these: that human beings can share with the Creator the realize that if he is to progress toward his divinely carrying out of the divine plan; that in fact this is the ordained destiny, he must apply his mental powers and Creator's purpose; and that it is left to man himself his capacity of research, reason, and intelligence to the to determine whether he will accept God as his com­ moral and spiritual development of humanity. This panion and co-worker and so fulfill his destiny in the effort must be commensurate with that which he has divine program. How a person reacts to this concept of expended in acquiring knowledge of the laws of nature life's meaning determines his character and destiny. and their use in the physical realm. Often he has become Three Stages oblivious of the fact that he has a soul which must be Human life has had three stages of development, served above all else, for it is his real inner self in which each distinguished by dominant characteristics which human life centers insofar as it differs from that of the register its progress or regress, depending on whether beast. the divine laws relating to man have been followed or Fellowship with the Creator disregarded. Neither in human society as a whole nor The next frontier of humanity must be ~hat of moral in individuals is the line of demarcation between the and spiritual achievement. Man must sense the truth stages of growth clearly drawn or permanently main­ that he is not physical alone, or mind alone, but that tained. he is also, and supremely, spirit. The Creator's highest The Gift of Intellect gift to him is his possession of a spiritual self, which is Man shares physical characteristics with other ani­ his real entity and directs the action of his body and mals, but he became able to think. Somewhere in his mind. As spirit he has access to the Supreme Spirit for upward climb man became possessed also of a conscience, guidance, empowerment, and the divine-human com­ a sense of right and wrong. Yet selfishness still prevails panionship by which the soul is nourished. in man's dealings with man, wars are still resorted to This union and co-partnership between God and man in conflicts between nations, and organized social evils is provided for in the divine plan for humanity, but its are permitted to wax arrogant in their strength as they operation depends on man's willingness. As he is still capitalize on human weaknesses. in the initial stages of moral development, so he is only In certain periods a few have applied intelligence beginning to ascend the low foothills of the lofty ranges to the needs of man in his ascending levels of life and of his spiritual possibilities as a being created to have have refused to be concerned solely with the satisfaction divine companionship in his further progress. Man can of physical wants and pleasures. These daring souls cooperate with the Creator's purpose in and through often have had to suffer persecution from others who him and so continue the process of his own progression have preferred to remain undisturbed by any cali to a or refuse to do so and suffer moral regression. higher level where the physical and material things of In giving man the power of choice, the Creator man's existence would be subordinated to his moral divested Himself of His omnipotence to the degree i~ and spiritual life. which He bestowed on His creature the power of voli­ During the last century human intelligence has made tion in the moral and spiritual realm. Divine coopera­ marvelous strides in understanding forces of nature and tion is offered human beings in continuing their upward in harnessing them. But fear grips the hearts of many course, but no one is coerced. By this supreme gift to that unless an inteliigence superior to man's own be man and provision for his divine help, man becomes permitted to guide and control these physical forces, responsible for his own destiny. In our ethical and civiiization and even large sections of the human race spiritual natures we are "God's building," but only by itself may be obliterated. the sanction of our own wills in accepting His offer of cooperation and in owning the responsibility that spiri­ The Power to Know and Choose the R ight tual union and co-partnership with Him entails. Increasingly these alert minds are emphasizing that In this bestowal on man of the gift of intellect, the power to know and choose the right, and the capacity Lyman W. B. Jackman is a member of 20th Street Meeting, New York. to have fellowship and union with the Creator, we see April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 245 how God carried out His plan of creating "man in His ing Hannah, born April 18, 1664. This is the date given own likeness" and made him a "living soul." or assumed by most modern biographers of Penn, like To emphasize these truths and demonstrate their the Quakers J. J. Green, J. W. Graham, William I. meaning through his life among men was the mission Hull, H. M. Jenkins, and W. W. Comfort. of Jesus Christ. The purpose of his matchless life, suf­ If, however, one skips over in the registers to the fering, and death was to reconcile men to God and to 1670's, another Hannah born February 11, 1671, is the bring humanity into voluntary accord wtih the divine first of four later children of the same parents. It is purposes. Through the testing in his own experience evident that two children were given the same name, he knew that in such union man can enjoy the more and the most reasonable assumption is that it was the abundant life for which he is intended. In his call, second of the Hannahs who survived to marry Penn. "Follow me," the Master sets before us both the divine The frequent custom then was to give to later children goal for mankind and the pattern of life necessary for the same name as to ones who had died. Unfortun~tely, its attainment. This is the essence of religion as he the records give the deaths of only six of the children, intended his church to experience it and express it to three of them in their teens and three still younger. But the world. It is not a beautiful theory or an experience since Hannah when she married is described as the sole for a select few, but the normal and only successful way heiress of Thomas Callowhill, two more of the nine had for all men into whom God has "breathed the breath died, presumably in infancy without being so recorded. of life." One of these I think was the earlier Hannah. P.robably, then, when William Penn, a widower of How Old Was Hannah? between 51 and 52, married Hannah Callowhill, she was just turned 25 and not aged nearly 32. Second marriages Letter from the Past -156 often raise comment, and Hannah and William Penn EFORE the $64,000 question or even the $64 ques­ had their share of it. I do not know which age would B tion was heard of, our forebears used to entertain then have seemed less suitable for his second wife. The themselves with simple uncommercialized conundrums criticisms of the engagement that have come down to and problems. One of these, as I recall, was the question, us are too veiled. Perhaps her undoubted wealth was "How old was Ann?" taken to be Penn's unworthy motive; perhaps the fact I was reminded of this by a query lately received: that she was somewhat tied to Bristol as the only remain­ How old was Hannah Penn? One would suppose that ing child of her parents was feared as likely to keep her about the second wife of the founder of Pennsylvania from coming to Pennsylvania. These worries were more positive and unanimous information must be available. than overcome as time went on, and her abilities and We know that she married William Penn at Bristol character were soon highly appreciated on both sides of Friends Meeting House on March 5, 1696, and that she the Atlantic. In general, history has praised her, though died December 20, 1726. The former date is confirmed an American biographer (Vulliamy) describes her as by the full text of the marriage certificate, the latter by "neither very young nor very beautiful," perhaps mis­ the diary of Rebekah Butterfield, who lived next door understanding the last word of a British biographer to Jordans and witnessed Hannah's interment there in (Dobree), "a good woman, not too young, experienced her husband's grave. It is attested also by the register in the world, with sound business instincts ... excellent, of the local parish. But on neither occasion do I find homely." Buell says of her, "Miss Callowhill was a any contemporary mention of her age. Nor do the older somewhat mature spinster, a broad-minded, hard-fibred biographers ever mention it. stalwart Englishwoman." Therefore one naturally turns to the birth records It is strange how unfortunately Penn's wives have of her parents' Monthly Meeting at Bristol. These were fared at the hands of posterity. Guli's gravestone for digested and copied into Quarterly Meeting summaries nearly a century put her death five years too early. One some hundred years ago when the original records were of her children remained unknown to record until a deposited at Somerset House, London. They show nine few years ago. And now we find that Hannah's age is children born to Thomas and Hannah Callowhill, nor­ usually misrepresented by at least six years. Amelia mally spaced between 1661 and 1680. There is a supple­ Gummere is nearer right when she says Hannah died ment which repeats and confirms the same data. In the at 56, but Arthur Pound, though he gives her birthdate digest the decades are separated by lists from other as 1670, citing Albert Cook Myers as his authority, puts Monthly Meetings, so that one examining the book as the alternate date 1666 instead of 1664 and her death carelessly would notice only the first five children, includ- as 1727 at the age of 57, instead of 1726 at the age of 55. 246 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956

The latest account I have seen has a different error when Perhaps even more important is the fact that em­ it says she was "twenty-four years younger" than Penn, phasis is placed on attending the conference as a family for Penn was born in October 1644. experience. There is the program provided for every Penn's wives have no monopoly on such errors. There age group from preschool to the most mature, and all is still (see Letter 136) an unresolved discrepancy of two of this is carried forward in a climate of vacation and years between the age at death of Margaret Fox as given relaxation. If families are looking for a creative experi­ on the monument at Sunbreck near Swarthmore and ence together for a part of their vacation, here is the that in the original Quaker record book. According to answer. Some families have been attending for 25 years. George Fox her second marriage also, when she married The conference experience strengthens their lives and him, raised a "jumble" in some minds. through them quickens the life of our Society. Now AND THEN There are all too few occasions when Friends as one great family have an opportunity to get together under "Again He Began to Teach beside the Sea" such circumstances as this conference provides--the joy of meeting one's friends, the satisfaction of intellectual HE arrival of spring, 1956, is notice to Friends that search, the feeling of unity that comes from singing soon they will see announcements of the attractive T together, and the occasions for group worship, all in program to which they will be invited at Cape May, N.J., June at the seaside! this coming June. This will be the first conference held It was under circumstances suggested by these sur­ since the uniting of the Philadelphia, New York, and roundings that Jesus had some of his most searching Canadian Yearly Meetings. For the first time in its talks with people. May we not hope that he will walk history the conference has as its constituency the com­ again in our midst at Cape May this summer? bined strength of these united Yearly Meetings; and for the first time this and other functions of the Friends CLARENCE E. PICKEIT, Chairman, General Conference enjoy a greatly broadened base. Friends General Conference The conference has always been open to any Friend who wished to attend, but now it becomes an integral part Epistle of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the total life of these united Yearly Meetings as well as of the other Conference Yearly Meetings-Baltimore, O Friends Everywhere: Illinois, Indiana. T Dear Friends: There has been a good deal of concern that, since We are filled with deep thanksgiving as we look back over they are united, the Yearly Meetings will be such large our first year as a reunited yearly meeting. We realize that in laboring over the details of our union we have grown to­ bodies that they will have difficulty in functioning effec­ gether in love and understanding. Your epistles and the warm tively at the time of their various sessions. There are, personal messages brought to us by many visiting Friends have of course, limits to what Yearly Meetings have time to enriched our sessions and filled us with a vital sense of the accomplish. Certain business must be accomplished, and widespread fellowship of the Quaker family. personal concerns must have a chance for consideration, Our thankfulness brings with it a profound awareness of but there is never as much time as Friends would like our responsibility to bear our testimonies in the world today. for deliberate discussion and for worship. The recent Our thoughts have turned to the needs of young people and sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, however, are of the aged. We have searched how best to advance the cause very reassuring as to the "right ordering of Yearly of peace and civil liberties. The problem of racial integra­ Meeting." tion in this country concerns us deeply. We must be sensitive The conference at Cape May offers a supplement to and tender, slow to judge, lest the means we use to wipe out Yearly Meeting sessions at just this very point of open prejudice should create new prejudice and fear. While we try to give loving support to those in crucial positions in discussion. Without the necessity of taking official action, other places, we must also work untiringly for the kingdom the conference provides full opportunity for worship of God in our own communities. and for the consideration of the ministry and of public As we look to the year ahead, let us dare to keep our concerns. Yearly Meetings, particularly those which de­ windows open to fresh truth. We need to learn to live in pend upon the lay ministry, need the opportunities prayer and to lift one a nother to the light and love of God. furnished by the conference to supplement Yearly Meet­ Help us all, our Father, to manifest Thy love in whaJever ing sessions. Carefuly prepared and consecutively pre­ we attempt to do. sented messages are an important and frequently neg­ On behalf of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, lected part of our local and Yearly Meeting life. Third Month 28, 1956 CHARLES J. DARLINGTON, Clerk April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 247

Annual Meeting of the European Section, secretary, Alice Brugger (subject to her consent); treasurer, Friends World Committee Dirk Meynen; and a fifth member, Gerhard Schwersensky. Warm appreciation was expressed for the valuable work WENTY-SIX Friends representing all the European Yearly of Ranjit M. Chetsingh, retiring general secretary for the T Meetings from ten different countries came together for Central Office, Nora Douglas, former chairman, and Archer their annual session at Easter time. Julia E. Branson, Barrett Tongue, who has been their secretary. J F W Hollister, and Emerson Lamb represented America, and there AMES • ALKER was one representative from New Zealand. The site of the conference was the Pietersberg, outside Arnheim, Nether­ lands, a beautifully situated establishment, well adapted for Letter from Scandinavia conferences, where the group was very hospitably received by (Continued from page 242) Dutch Friends. ever increasing numbers, have a general academic back­ Plans were reported for a 1957 conference, when mem­ ground. Most members h ave close connections with bers of the European Section are to be the guests of English British Quakers (through Woodbrooke). Friends. Two hundred and twenty-seven representatives, half Sweden Yearly Meeting started almost as a branch from England and half from the Continent, are scheduled to of Forbundet for kristet samhiillsliv (Society for Christian meet at Selly Oak, Birmingham, England, July 22 to 29. T he Social Life) led by Natanael Beskow, and some of the conference plan will be much the same as the one used at members are still active there. Gradually, however, the Oxford in 1952. Quaker group has drawn into membership middle-aged Only two prepared talks were given at the annual meet­ and young people, many of them married couples with ing, one by Gerardina van Dalfsen, and the other by Ranjit children, and therefore it has great possibilities for main­ M. Chetsingh. The former in speaking of the esse nce of taining a continuous development without the break Quakerism sa id that we must be able to answer two great which so often occurs in small Meetings. questions, how to love and how to encounter reality. Ranjit .Jf one tries to find out what has attracted new mem­ Chetsingh said that in our diverse Quakerism we must try to bers to Quakerism, one will find that it in most cases is find common bases, for reconciliation is one of the main Friends attitude to war and peace. The important Danish Quaker contributions. Mellomfolkelig samvirke (International Cooperation), Reports from member Yearly Meetings brought out inter­ with a great and varied relief and reconstruction work esting facts. Swiss Yearly Meeting is composed of eight Meet­ in many lands, is to a certain extent an offshoot of Danish ings with 11 2 members, and enough friends of the Friends to make a total of nearly 300. T hey are active in working for Quakerism and has its office in the Quaker Center. conscie ntious objection and in helping friends of Friends in Quaker literature, both translations and originals, Italy. has been published in all the Scandinavian countries, German Friends have been busy preparing religious litera­ probably most in Sweden, least in Norway, and there ture for children. Friends in Nonvay cooperate with other is a certain cooperation there in order to avoid duplica­ Scandinavian Friends in planning regional conferences, and tions. Among the newer publications, a Swedish transla­ this summer they hope to have a conference for young people. tion of Kelly's Testament of Devotion (Det inre ljuset) France Yearly Meeting comprises three Meetings, one in Paris has been a considerable success. and small grou ps in Le Havre and in the Lyon area, the total Last summer a Scandinavian summer school was or­ membership being only 60. These Friends have been working ganized at Antvorskov Folkeh~jsko l e, Denmark, with for the abolition of the death penalty, have visited German about 80 persons, Friends and friends of Friends. There prisoners in France, and four of their members run a home for have been two before, one at Hundorp in Norway in delinquent children. Netherlands Yearly Meeting is composed 1947 and one at Lofthus in 1949; but they were both of two Meetings, Amsterdam and T he Hague, with a total entirely organized from Norway and therefore not so membership of I 00. Vienna has 25 Friends; they have so little contact with West German Friends that they would like to fully represen_tative as this one. Both the committee become a separate Yearly Meeting. No recommendation was for preparations and the steering committee had an reached. Denmark, at present the smallest of all the Yearly equal representation from all countries. This is not the Meetings, has 40 members; nevertheless they have study circles, place to give a report of the schooL Suffice it to say that a Friends school, and cooperate with other peace groups. Lon­ both lectures and meetings for worship were of a high don has over 20,000 members, and Ireland reported 2,000. quality. In the latter Yearly Meeting three new Meetings have recently An experiment was also made with children from been established. two to 15 years of age in a total of about a dozen in­ Officers of the European Section for the next triennium stances. The experiment was successful, largely thanks are ch airman, Sigrid Lund; vice chairman, Paul D. Sturge; to the help given by two of the students at the Hanna 248 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956

School of Deborah Halfdan Nielsen. And this modest and the South as far as Virginia. Throughout the Society he experiment was partly done in order to explore the pos­ was regarded as one of the saints and prophets of the age. sibilities of having a separate youth camp and children's The central and most significant fact of the Separation camp for about three weeks in 1956. A preparatory com­ story is made patently clear in the pages of this book. Elias mittee has been set up and a suitable place has been Hicks' testimony did not undergo any essential change be­ found in the south of Norway. Good help is expected tween 1778 and 1828. What changed was the temper, spirit, from some young people who have been over to England and theological concepts of a substantial group of American to similar camps. Quakers. The core of the controversy within the Society at The latest news is that the 100-year-old meeting house this period was basically the question of the supreme guidance of the Inner Light versus the primary adherence to formal in Stavanger has been expropriated by the municipality creed and doctrine based upon a belief in the literal infalli­ and will be torn down in the course of this year. It has bility of the Scriptures. It was a matter of closed and final not yet been decided whether we shall build on our own revelation as over against the traditional Quaker concept account or come to some kind of companionship with our (from which neither Fox nor Hicks ever deviated) of progres­ neighbor, a public institution, for building on the neigh­ sive revelation. boring site, which we own. In all cases it will be a five­ In the New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore areas the story building right in the heart of the town. The old great majority of Friends remained loyal to the liberal prin­ meeting house was built by Endre Dahl, then clerk of ciples espoused by Elias Hicks. Even in Ohio and Indiana the Meeting, and given to the Society. the division between Orthodox and Liberal remained about OLE F. OLDEN equal at the height of the controversy and later. One is im­ pressed and disturbed by the intensity, bitterness, and violence which characterized the quarrel in some quarters. In this Books respect, the equanimity of temper, gentleness of spirit, and ELIAS HICKS, QUAKER LIBERAL. By BLISS FORBUSH. unwavering commitment to principle which Elias Hicks evi­ Columbia University Press, New York, 1956. 354 pages. dently maintained throughout the struggle emerge as a light $5.50 piercing the darkness of the time. In this full-length, three-dimensional portrait of one of the There are certain logical as well as theological confusions greatest religious leaders America has produced, Bliss Forbush in Hicks' thinking which one wishes there were space to con­ has made a notable contribution to Quaker historical writing. sider more fully. One questions both the scriptural and the It is a work which very much needed to be done, for it is 44 logical validity of his belief that the saviorhood of Jesus years since the publication of the last previous biography of applied in a special doctrinal way to the Jews but not to the Hicks, The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks by Henry W. Gentiles; of his acceptance of the miraculous birth and other Wilbur. The present volume is a far more comprehensive miracles but his denial of any trinitarian system of Godhead; and definitive study, partly because the author has fully in short, of his insistence upon both a mystical and a rational utilized a considerable body of unpublished manuscript mate­ approach to basic reality in a way which would not stand rial, including 100 pages of Hicks' journal, and a large num­ the test of analytical scrutiny without doing serious violence ber of letters. Drawing upon Hicks' own extensive writings to either the mysticism or the rationalism, or both. In other and voluminous additional documents, the author here gives words, he did not clearly conceive or indicate the crucial us a detailed and authoritative account of American Quaker­ point at which the line between rational knowledge and mys­ ism in the 18th and early 19th centuries. tical knowledge should be drawn. Elias Hicks was an accepted and honored minister within All of this is to imply that critical evaluations and inter­ the fold of Quakerism for nearly 40 years before the schism pretations still need to be made of the impressive body of of 1827 occurred. Throughout his life he devoted the greater factual material which Bliss Forbush has here so skillfully part of his strength and talent to the advancement of the and painstakingly brought together. The factual material is doctrine of the Inner Light as conceived and interpreted by here, and on the basis of it further investigation and evalua­ Friends. He was the father of a large family'; he managed a tion can and should proceed. The currents of conflict and large farm at his home in Jericho, Long Island; h e played dissent which divided the Society of Friends in 1827-28 were an active and vital part in the work of his own local Meet­ a small-scale reflection of the forces permeating the whole of ings, serving on innumerable committees; he endured the American society at this period. sorrow of the death of all of his sons at an early age; he The figure of Elias Hicks as vividly portrayed in this study taught school at J ericho at several intervals; and in addition takes on a new significance in relation to the whole develop­ to all this, he embarked on repeated journeys involving ment of liberal and progressive thought in America. It is thousands of miles of travel under the most harrowing con­ well to remember that within less than ten years after the ditions to Quaker groups throughout New York State, New Separation, Emerson was to deliver his Divinity School England, Canada, the Middle West, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Address at Harvard, the underlying theme of which is essen- April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 249 tially that of one of Hicks' most pointed statements as quoted Friends and Their Friends m this volume (page 183): The Baltimore Yearly Meetings, meeting in joint session And when any people have depended upon what has on March 30, 1956,issued a call for a conference on race rela­ been written in former generations, such make no advance­ tions, which, it was hoped, would be representative of Friends ment, but just sit down on the labors of their forefathers, throughout the United States. Last June a conference of and soon become dry and formal, and fall behind those Southern Friends on the same subject was held at Woodland, they are copying after or propose to follow. North Carolina. It was hoped that the response to the present This with its corollary principle of "progressive revelation" call would make possible the planning of a program and is the heart and soul of Elias Hicks' message, even as it is the the making of arrangements by a committee representing a essence of the liberal mind and spirit in any age. wide range of backgrounds and of social and r eligious view­ HowARD W. HINTz points.

WITHOUT THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE More than 800 leading citizens of the Philadelphia area, SWORD. By JEAN STOETZEL. Columbia University Press, including Mayor Richardson Dilworth, Thacher Longstreth, New York. 334 pages. $4.00 his opponent in the recent mayoralty race, and religious, busi­ This book, a recent publication of UNESCO, is the report ness, and civic leaders have signed "A Declaration of Inten­ of an investigation made for that organization by a French tion," endorsing a new approach to ending r acial discrimina­ sociologist and a Dutch expert on Japanese civilization as to tion in their own lives. The list was announced by Clarence the attitudes of Japanese youth since the war. The basic ques­ E. Pickett, who had invited others to join in the statement. tion was that of young Japan's attitude towards its national The declaration endorses and "urges most serious consid­ institutions. Other questions closely related to the picture had eration by all our citizens," of an article published by Frank to do with· the private relations and the personality of the S. Loescher, intergroup relations consultant, in the FRIENDS young. In making the investigation the scholars took great JOURNAL for December 3, 1955, which sets forth a personal care to collect data from various geographical, cultural, and course of conduct for those who oppose racial discrimination religious groups. The results are carefully tabulated in 80 as a matter of conscience. graphs and charts. Six appendices contain summaries of the A considerable number of people who did not sign wrote various investigations, several "Autobiographies of the Future" back to Clarence Pickett, explaining that their present prac­ written by Japanese young people, and a detailed biblio­ graphy. tices were not consistent with the policy outlined and that it would therefore not be honest to sign. The fact that they This is a scholarly work which will be especially valuable took the trouble to reply under the circumstances was en­ to research workers and to those who want a really scientific couraging to those seeking to end racial discrimination. study of the subject. It is not too technical for the ordinary reader and is readable in spite of its many tables and charts. LOUISE K. CLEMENT Howard McKinney, executive secretary and peace educa­ tion director of the A.F.S.C. Des Moines Regional Office, has LUTHER. By RuDOLF THIEL. Translated by Gustav Wieneke. been named to the Iowa Committee of Indian Affairs. The Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, 1955. 492 pages. $5.00 Des Moines Regional office covers Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, This highly detailed study of the character and times of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, the great reformation leader Martin Luther ambitiously un­ and Colorado. dertakes to give the lay reader a new and enhanced view of his life. As Rudolf Thiel explains in his preface, he has Many Friends in America will know of Thomas Edmund distributed the emphasis differently from most other biogra­ Harvey of Leeds, England, who died last May, either through phers. He dwells very little on the details of the reformation his writings. such as The Rise of the Quakers, or through his in the churches and seeks rather to make Luther's doctrines work with the Friends War Victims Relief Committee and vivid through extensive quotations from his letters, writings, the early days of the A.F.S.C. during the First World War. sermons, speeches, and Bible commentaries. His wife, Alice Irene Harvey, died on December 3, 1955, For the English-speaking reader the portrait has difficulty after a short illness. They visited widely among Friends here coming to life primarily because this volume is a translation, after the Friends World Conference at Swarthmore in 1937. and sometimes even a translation of a translation. For ex­ ample, excerpts are given of passages originally written in Latin, then translated by Thiel into German, and ultimately Bernard Lester, a member of Montclair Monthly Meeting, into English by Wieneke. There is much good material here, N. J., is the author of a novel, Weatherby Crisis (265 pages; but the volume is of limited appeal to others than specialists. $3.50), published by Twayne Publishers, 31 Union Square BARBARA CURns West, New York 3, N. Y. The book presents an approach 250 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956 to the vexing problems confronting industry today. On one As a group we do not "deride" the beliefs of other religious side is management, believing in bigness, specialization, and sects, Catholic or Protestant. Quakerism does not include de­ regimentation; on the other side, a young engineer and a rision of those practices held sacred and helpful to others. Polish worker, who know that men need to recover individual­ I have a very dear friend, a Roman Catholic, who reads the ity and freedom and find pride and identification in their JO URNAL regularly. This is the first time in approximately work. ten years she has seen the Intelligencer and JouRNAL that she This is the first novel by Bernard Lester, who is a man­ has noticed anything of this nature. Fortunately she is an agement engineer with offices in New York City. He has intelligent and understanding person. She does not believe previously published Sales Engineering, Marketing Industrial that Friends as a group "deride" the pageantry, etc., of her Equipment, and other technical books, and has lectured on church. sales engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Stevens Horace Lippincott also speaks of "ignorant Irish cooks." Institute, New York University, and other institutions. I am surprised that any Friend would speak derogatively of any one group of people of any religion. How about the On the week end of March 17 and 18, a week end of snow Negroes and whites also with their revivals in the Baptist and driving wind, a two-day New York Metropolitan Confer­ or Methodist Churches as a way of bringing souls to God? ence on World Disarmament and Development was held at It is important that some statement be made in the Community Church, on East 35th Street. JouRNAL for both Friend and non~Friend readers. On Sunday, March 18, 230 members of 45 local civic, Bmoklyn, N . Y. MARY K. HAWXHURST church, and community organizations arrived for the panel discussion on phases of disarmament and development. Al­ As an historical student I was trained by Dr. John Bach though we have a list of over 70 national organizations which McMaster, the great American historian, who taught me have made statements or resolutions favorable to international always to search for and state facts. Facts are stubborn things disarmament, we were surprised at the way the average person but "the truth shall make you free." In my recent letter I attending the round table discussions leaped ahead of the stated that the trouble with our impressions of the Roman panelists in expressing a sense of urgency as to the present Catholic Church was racial and not religious. I gave the situation. Church high praise and stated reasons why Friends were near­ The areas of discussion which elicited the main interest est to them than to any other church. For years I have been of the different panel groups were (l) the transition from a member of a Roman Catholic Club of fifty fine men, who a war-time to a peace-time economy; (2) United States dis­ meet each month for dinner and a religious paper which is armament policy; and (3) specific steps on the road to dis- discussed with complete frankness. There are about a dozen armament. • Protestants, and we tell them what we think. The Roman Stephen Cary, executive secretary of the American Section Catholics take it all in good humor and answer us with a of the American }"riends Service Committee, was one of the conviction which we might do well to emulate. We would principal speakers, and Robert Gilmore, college secretary of also do well to step aside from the immediate to invite our the New York Office of the Service Committee, was a discus­ souls once in a while by reading George Fox's journal and sion leader. Among the sponsoring organizations were the the testimonies of the First Publishers of Truth, who spoke Joint Peace and Service Committees of the New York Monthly with a robust candor which would be refreshing today. Meetings and the New York Office of the American Friends Chestnut Hill, Pa. H. M. LIPPINCOTT Service Committee. The conference was primarily organized and conducted by volunteers from these and other groups. EDMUND HILLPERN, Chairman, I am surprised that so wise a Friend as Horace M. Lip­ New York Metropolitan Conference pincott finds "nearness" of the Quakers to the Catholic Church. This reverses, as he intimates, Friendly dissent strongly held over 300 years. Letters to the Editor What does his statement "the trouble with the Church is Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous racial not religious" mean? The same treatment . of "these communications cannot be accepted. people" (i.e., "Irish cooks") is accorded to millionaire con­ Mr. Dhirubhai Mehta, 29 Marine Lines, Fort, Bombay 1, tractors and to those of noble birth. This is the enduring India, is looking for pen pals for his friends. Those interested grace and power of the Holy Church. All are equal before should state their age, hobbies, address, and any other infor­ the throne, and the downright present position on racial mation valuable for finding congenial correspondents. integration contrasts with backward Protestant practice. An­ Hackensack, N. ]. GEORGE KESSLER other value of the Church has been its forward-looking atti­ tude toward labor and to measures of social justice, which I wish •to call your attention to a letter signed by Horace we might emulate. M. Lippincott in the March 10 issue of the FRIENDS JouRNAL. But the crucial difference concerns individual freedom As a Friend I resent his use of the phrase "we Friends deride." and maturity. The similarity of ritualistic silence to the silence April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 251 of Friends is quite incidental, perhaps meaningful only to 22--Showing of a new set of pictures of Latin America the aesthetes among us. For the dogmas and order of the taken last summer, by Esther Holmes Jones, at Green Street Church open an unbridgeable gap for Friends. We will hardly Meeting House, 45 West School House Lane, Germantown, now be won to the new worship of the Virgin Mother, or Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. to iconography generally! 22-Community Lecture at Gwynedd, Pa., Meeting House, The other vital fact which negates "nearness" is the non­ 7:30 p.m.: Eugene P. Bertin, Ph.D., assistant executive secre­ democratic, authoritarian tradition. Currently, the opposition tary of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, "Public of the hierarchy in Pennsylvania to the standard setting Child Education in Pennsylvania Today and Tomorrow." Welfare Bill bodes ill. And the negation of humanitarian 29 to 30-Ireland Yearly Meeting at 6 Eustace Street, Dub­ population controls will find little sympathy among Friends. lin, Ireland. Pittsburgh, Pa. FRANCIS D. TYSON 27-Illustrated Lecture at High Street Meeting House, West Chester, Pa., 8 p.m.: Esther Holmes Jones, "The United Nations Agencies at Work in Latin America." Coming Events 27 to 29-Annual Conference of the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology at Haverford Meeting House, APRIL Buck Lane, Haverford, Pa., beginning Friday at 7 p.m. For 20 to 22-Fellowship Week End in the Germantown· details see page 188 of our issue for March 24, 1956. Chestnut Hill Area, Philadelphia. Saturday, 7:30 p.m., dis· 28-Hershey Institute of International Relations at the cussion meeting at Coulter Street Meeting House on " How Community Club, Hershey, Pa., sponsored by the A.F.S.C. Schools Can Help Communities with Youth Problems"; Theme, "The Individual and Foreign Policy." Program: 10 leaders, Ruth Hayre and Eric Johnson. Sunday, meeting for a.m., Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, consultant to President Eisen­ worship, 10:30 a.m., at Coulter Street Meeting and Chestnut hower's Special Assistant for Cold War Strategy, "American Hill Meeting, followed by lunch at Chestnut Hill Meeting. Policy and the Power Struggle"; 2 p.m. , Kenneth Maxwell, All welcome. associate executive director of the Department of International 21-Western Quarterly Meeting at London Grove, Pa., 10 Affairs, National Council of Churches, "Our Foreign Policy a.m. and I :30 p.m. Worship and Ministry, 9 a.m. Richmond and Things That Make for Peace"; 7:30 p.m., A. J. Muste, P. Miller will speak in the afternoon on the work of Over­ secretary emeritus, Fellow~hip of Reconciliation, "You and seers. Lunch will be served. Foreign Policy." Also small discussion groups. 21, 22-Northwest Half-Yearly Meeting at the Victoria, Cost: full program, $2.00 (students, SI.OO); single lectures, B. C., Meeting House, 1831 Fern Street. Saturday, business 75 cents (students, 50 cents). Meals may be eaten in the Com· meeting, 3:30 p.m.; supper, 5:30 p.m.; evening session, 7 p.m.; munity Club cafeteria. Advance registration not necessary but special speaker, Eubanks Carsner of Riverside, Calif., "The helpful; write or telephone Ada Dolan, A.F.S.C., 20 South 12th World Conference and Committee for Consultation." Sunday, Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. (Rittenhouse 6·9372). meeting for worship, II a.m.: light luncheon, 12:30 p.m. 28-Chester Quarterly Meeting at Lansdowne, Pa., 3 p.m. 21, 22-United Nations Day at Yardley, Pa. Members. of Agenda: budget for 1956, what to do about Chichester, in­ the U.N. Secretariat will be guests. Sponsors, Yardley Method­ creasing the worth of Quarterly Meetings, routine matters. ist Church, the League of Women Voters, St. Andrews Epis­ At the evening session Gregory B. Votaw will talk about the copal Church, Yardley Meeting. On April 22. luncheon in work of Church World Service in Korea, from which he has the Lower Makefield School; brief musical program. recently returned. 22-Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting in Connecticut 29-First meeting for worship this year at Center Meeting, Hall, Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Min­ near Centerville, Del., 10 a.m., Standard Time. Meetings for istry and Counsel (for members), Room 80; Young Friends worship are held at Center Meeting the last Sunday in the discussion, 9:45 a.m., Room 78; meeting for worship, II a.m., month from April to November. Faculty Room, second floor, followed by business meeting; cafeteria lunch, I p.m., Yale Buttery, basement; at 2:15 p.m., MAY business and discussion: "The Spiritual Condition of Our !-Annual Conference of the Greater Philadelphia Branch Meetings," centered on the 1955 Monthly Meeting reports. of the American Civil Liberties Union at the University Mu· 22-Centre Quarterly Meeting at State College, Pa. Minis­ seum, 33rd and Spruce Streets. Philadelphia. Panel discussions, try and Counsel, 10 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Marshall Sutton beginning at 4 p.m.; dinner, 7:30 p.m. Dinner speaker, Dr. will speak in the afternoon on the Queries. Lunch will be Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University, served. "Equality before the Law." Cost and further details may be 22-Conference Class of Race Street First-day School, Phila­ had from the organization at 260 South 15th Street, Philadel­ delphia, II :40 a.m.: "Faith and Practice-Committees, Judi­ phia 2 (Kingsley 5·4576). cial Oaths, Recreation." Leader, M. Annie Archer. 5-Joint sessions of Fox Valley Quarter (Illinois Yearly 22-Chester Quarterly Meeting on Worship and Ministry Meeting) and Chicago Quarter (Western Yearly Meeting) in at Springfield, Pa., Meeting House, 3 p.m. The Second Query Milwaukee at Friedens Church, 13th and Juneau Streets. will be discussed. Ministry and Counsel, 10:30 a.m., addressed by Ralph A. 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on the lost art of eldering. After lunch, worship service and KESTER-On March 3, WILMER W. KESTER, husband of meeting for business. Close to the supper hour Ralph Rose the late Laura M. Kester, in his 89th year. He is survived by will outline the work of the Friends World Committee. a daughter, Florence K. Pratt of Glenside, Pa.; a son, Robert 6-Meeting for worship at Chichester Meeting House, Pa., E. Kester of Dayton, Ohio; five grandchildren and five great­ 3 p.m. The meeting house is situated in Upper Chichester grandchildren. Township, Delaware County, three quarters of a mile north­ PAXSON-On March 19, MARY ScARBOROUGH PAXSON, east of Boothwyn. aged 84 years, the daughter of Watson and Ruth Shaw Paxson 6-0pen House in the Cafeteria of the Meeting House, and a birthright member of Solebury Meeting, Pa. For the 221 East 15th Street, New York City, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. About past nine years she had made her home at the Friends Board· 4:30 p.m., illustrated talk by Curt Regen on his recent visit to ing Home, Newtown, Pa.; previously she lived for 19 years in Europe, "Curtains and Corridors: An Experiment in East-West Doylestown, Pa. Relations, as seen in Germany and Spain." All are invited. To many older members she is known and remembered as Coming: Spring meeting of the American Friends Service the author of a charming youthful book, a diary kept from Committee at Plymouth, Pa., Meeting House, on May 12. 1880 to 1884, which was published in 1931 under the title Worship, 11 a.m.; basket lunch, with beverage and dessert Mary Paxson, Her Diary. The book went through three edi­ provided by local Friends; reports, 2 to 4:30 p.m. tions before the copper plates were collected from the pub­ lishing firm during one of the war drives for metal. BIRTHS KLABER-On March 24, to Donald G. and Margot J. PIEPENBURG-On March 6, in Madison, Wisconsin, Klaber, a daughter named CATHERINE JEAN KLABER, a birth­ RHEINHOLD PIEPFNBURG, aged 71 years, a member of Madison, right associate member of 57th Street Meeting, Chicago. She Wisconsin, Monthly Meeting. Surviving are his wife, Esther has a brother and a sister. Piepenburg; three sons, Lyle, Willard, and Roy Piepenburg; and two grandchildren. SINCLAIRE-On February 3, to James K., Jr., and Char­ A faithful and valued member of Madison Meeting for the lotte M. Sinclaire, a daughter named SHERIDAN LouiSE SIN­ past ten years, he served as financial clerk for a year and was CLAIRE. The father is a member of New York Meeting. helping in the remodeling and painting of the new meeting STABLER-On April 8, to George M. and Jeanne J. house as long as he was able. His high ideals, kindness, and Stabler, a daughter named PATRICIA JANNEY STABLER. The courage will be cherished long, and will inspire his Meeting father is a member of Swarthmore Meeting, Pa., as are the to greater efforts. grandparents, Laurence J. and Sarah M. Stabler, and the POWELL-On March 26, CHARLES UNDERHILL PowELL of great-grandmother, Ida Palmer Stabler. The baby is the eighth Flushing, N. Y., aged 79 years. He is survived by his wife, grandchild of Sarah and Laurence Stabler, eighth great-grand­ Harriet Van Nostrand Powell; a son, Fred J. Powell; two child of Lena Janney Stabler of Sandy Spring, Md., and 20th daughters, Eleanor F. Case and Louise U. Burke; a brother, great-grandchild of Ida Stabler. G. Thomas Powell; and nine grandchildren. ADOPTION . He graduated from Cornell College of Engineering in STABLER-On April 2, by Hugh V. and G. Melvina 1898. H e was chief engineer of the Queens Topographical Stabler, a son named DAVID BROOKE STABLER, born December Bureau and planned many of the borough's vast system of 14, 1955. streets and highways. He also introduced the Philadelphia DEATHS system of house and street numbers instead of names to make BORDEN-On April 7, RACHEL LIVEZEY BoRDEN, wife of location simpler. H e was a trustee of the Bowne House His­ the late Thomas P. D. Borden of Thorofare, N. J., a nd a life­ torical Society and had published a paper on "The Quakers long resident of Gloucester County. She was the daughter of m Flushing." the late Joseph B. and Elma Haines Livezey, and a ttended Charles Underhill Powell school at the Little Red School House, Mickleton, N. J., and A birthright member of the Religious Society of Friends. the Henry Russell School, Woodbury, N. J. At one time she Charles Underhill Powell grew up in Matinecock Monthly taught kindergarten in a school at Salem, N. J. All her life Meeting and transferred to Flushing Meeting many years ago. she was an active member of Mickleton, N. J., Meeting. For ten years he was clerk of our Meeting. Deeply interested Burial was in the Friends graveyard there. Surviving are two in the old meeting house itself, he could always be depended daughters, Mrs. Rebecca Borden Clement of Woodbury, N . .J., on to help solve the many problems involved in the preserva­ and Mrs. Edith Borden Carline of Huntington Park, Calif.: tion of an ancient building. Sincerely concerned with the three sons, Thomas P. D. Borden of Thorofare, N. J., J oseph welfare of our members, Charles Powell never failed to extend L. Borden of Billings, Montana, and R. Raeman Borden of cordial greetings to everyone a t meeting. We shall indeed Mickleton, N. J.; and three grandchildren. miss him greatly, and we can never forget the many years of COCKS-On April 7, at his home, Cornwall-on-Hudson, faithful service he gave to Flushing Meeting. N. Y., CHARLES C. CocKS, in his 96th year, a lifelong member ALICE F. KIESSLING, Clerk, of Cornwall Monthly Meeting, N. Y. Flushing Monthly Meeting April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 253

worship each First-day, 11 a.m. Telephone For Information about First-day schools REGULAR MEETINGS PL 4-3887. telephone Friends Central Bureau, Ritten­ house 6-3268. MINNESOTA S'l"A'l"B COLLBGB-318 South Atherton ARIZONA Street. First-day school at 9 :30 a.m., IIIllni'BAPOLIS -Friends Meeting. 44th meeting for worship at 10:45 a .m. PKOBJIJIX-Meeting for worship, 10 a.m., Street and York Avenue South. First-day 17th Street and Glendale Avenue. James school, 10 a .m .; meeting for worship, 11 Dewees, Clerk, 1928 West Mitchell. a.m. R ichard P . Newby Minister 4421 Ab­ WANTED ~UCSOllr- Friends Meeting, 129 North bott Avenue South. Telephone WA 6-96711. Warren Avenue. Worship, First-days at 11 a .m. Clerk, John A. Salyer, 745 East POEMS, Religious and Dev otiona l from Fifth Street; Tucson 2-3262. MISSOURI the works of Whit tier, published by the KANSAS CITY-Penn Valley Meeting, 306 Frie nds First-day School General Confer­ >Vest 39th Avenue. Unprogrammed wor­ ence, Phtladelphia, 1893. C. M. T aylor, 140 CALIFORNIA ship at 9:45 a.m. each Sunday, Visiting Cedar Str eet, New York 6. Friends a lways welcom e. For Information CLABBIIOllr~-Frlends meeting, 9:30a.m. call J A 1556. MOTHER'S HELPER, young woman. L ive on Scripps campus, 9th and Columbia. in, lig ht h ousekeeping, four children, Ferner Nuhn, Clerk, 420 W. Sth. pleasant h ome. Mrs. Vernon Platt, Tre­ NEW JERSEY vose, Pa.; ELmwood 7-0500, PASADBllrA-Orange Grove Monthly Meet­ Ing. Meeting for worship, East Orange DOVEB--Randolph Meetin&' House, Quaker CAMP COUNSELORS, maintenance m en, Grove at Oakland Avenue, First-day s a t Church Road. First-day school, 11 a .m . ; summer cooks, stewards, secretaries, 11 a .m. Monthly meetings, 8 p.m ., the meeting for worship, 11:111 a.m. hostesses. B ox 7183, Philadelphia 17, Pa. second Fourth-day of each month. SKBBWSBUBY-Meetlng House at Broad Street and Sycamore Avenue, 11 a .m. For CAMP NURSE, also college-age men tor Information call S. Fussell, Clerk; Red counseling positions at Camp Onas. Write CONNECTICUT Bank 6-2040W. Wilbert and Nina Braxton, North Wales, HAB'l"FOBD- Meeting for worship, 11 Pa., or telephone Lansdale 5-2409. a.m. at the Meeting House, 144 South Quaker Lane, West Hartford. NEW MEXICO HELP IN HOUSEKEEPING DEPT. for SANTA I'B-Meeting for worship each dally care of faculty rooms, school par­ Firs t-day at 11 a.m. at the Garcia Street lors. Board and room furnished, Social DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Club, 569 Garcia Street. Security and paid vacation; permanent p osition, exceliE.>nt for middle-aged woman. WASB:IllrG~Ollr-The Friends Meeting of For details write or telephone M rs. F . C. Washington, 2111 Florida Avenue, N. W., NEW YORK one block from Connecticut Avenue, Firs t­ Supplee, Westtown School, Westtown, Pa. days at 9 a .m. and 11 a.m. ALBAllrY- Meeting for worsh ip and First­ day school, 11 a.m. at Y.M.C.A ., 423 State RECEPTIONIST AND T E LEPHON E Street; telephone Albany 3-6242, operator for Busin ess Office. Should be a FLORIDA lady experienced in office w ork and pro­ BUJ'J'ALO- Meeting for worshi p and cedure. Permanent, year-round position; GA:nniSVILLB- Meeting for worship, First-day school, 11 a.m. at 1272 Delaware vacation with pay, Social Security; board, First-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida Union. Avenue; telephone EL 0252. room and lau ndry furnished. For detatls JACXSONVILLB -Meeting for worship LOllrG ISLAllrD -Manhasset Meeting, or appointment write Robert K. Tomlin­ and First-day school, 11 a.m., Y.W.C.A. Northern Boulevard at Shelter Rock Road. son, Business Manager, Westtown School, Board Room. Telephone EVergreen 9-43411. First-day school, 9:411 a.m.; meetln~r for Wes ttown. 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Quaker guest h ou se, Drive and 122d Street, 8:80 p.m. adjacent J ordans Meeting, 21 miles from ILLINOIS London near Windsor and Oxford; hot SCABSDALB-Scarsdale Friends Meeting, and cold water every bedroom ; beautiful CHICAGO-The !17th Street Meeting of all 133 P opham Roa:d. Meet!n& for worship, garden. John Clark, Warden. Friends. Sunday worship hour, 11 a .m. at First-days at 11 a.m. Clerk, Frances B. Quaker House, 5615 Woodlawn Avenue. Compter, 17 Hazleton Drive, White Plains, N.Y. SWARTHMORE. PA.: 2d-floor apa rtment, Monthly meeting (following 6 p.m. supper 3 room s and bath, unfurnished; pleasant there) every first Friday, Telephone BUt­ SYBAOUSB-Meeting and First-day school garde n, convenient transportation ; bust­ terfield 8-3066. at 11 a .m. each First-day Huntington ness person or couple; $65 m onth. Tele­ DOWllrBBS GBOVB (suburban Chtcago)­ Neighborhood House, 512 Aimond Street. phone Swarthmore 6-4583. Meeting and First-day school, 10:30 a .m., Avery Coonley School, 1400 Maple Avenue. ROOM AND ADJOINING STUDY In quiet OHIO home In coun try setting. Plain m eals, CINCillrllrA'l"I- Meeting for worship, 11 family neith er smokes n or drinks; fields INDIANA a.m., Williams Y.M.C.A. Telephone JE and woods: ideal for writer, t ry It for 1-4984. a week; 10 mtles from Dis trict Line, IllrDIAllrAPOLIS - Independent Friends Was h ington. Box W95, Friends Journal. meeting. Unprogrammed meetings In homes, 6 p.m., first Saturday of month. PENNSYLYANI A PICTURESQUE OLD COTTAGE, modern­ Contact Esther L. Farquhar, HU 4207. KABBISBUBG-Meeting for worship and ized, in T amworth, N . H ., lov ely hill coun­ F ir st-d ay school, 11 a.m., Y.W.C.A., Fourth try between Chocorua Range and Ossipee and Walnut Streets. Mountains, three m iles east of North IOWA Sandwich Friends Meet ing. G round floor; LA:NCAB~BB--Meetlng for worship and living-dining room with fireplace, kitch en, DBS JIOillrBS--Frlends Meeting, 801 For­ First-day school, 10 a.m.:: new m eeting est Avenue, Library entrance. Worship, !l bedrooms (one with fireplace), 2 bath­ 10 a .m.; classes, 11 a.m. house, Tulane Terrace, on: U. S . 30, 1'h rooms, large porch. New oil heating. Clean miles west of Lancaster. barn connected- ground floor for garage, PKILADBLPKIA-Meetings for worship upp('r for games, etc. About 12 acr es land, LOUISIANA are held at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise mostly for ested. Brook. Conditions pres­ noted. e nt near house for inexpens ively making llrBW OBLBAllrS--Frlends meeting each Byberry, one mile east of Roosevelt Boule• and maintaining swimming-diving p ool of Sunday, For Information telephone WA vard at Southa mpton Road, 11 a .m. constantly chang ing pure water. With 5890 or UP 824CSW. Central Phtladelphla, Race Street west of most of furnishings now in house, $13,000. Fifteenth Street. C. G. H oag, 619 Walnut Lane, Haverford, MASSACHUSETTS Chestnut H111. 100 East Mermaid Lane. Pa. Telephon e Mid way 2-7938. Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. CAJIBBIDGB-Meeting for worship each Fair H111, Germantown Avenue and Cam- FOR FARM WORK: Greek farmer, e ner­ First-day at 9:30a.m. and 11 a .m ., IS Long­ bria Street1 11:15 a.m. getic, intelligent, h andy, 31 years old, fellow Park (near Harvard Square). T ele­ Fourth and Arch Streets. recently arrived under D. P. act w ith wife phone TR 6-6883. Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Stree ts. and two little children. Write Mrs. L. H. Frankford, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a.m. Teuber, 9 Porter Place, D obbs Ferry, N.Y., WOBCBS~BB- Pleasant Street Friends Green Street, 45 West School House Lane, or D. P. Committee, Scarsdale Friends Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street. Meetln~r for 11 a .m. Meeting, 133 Popham R oad. 254 FRIENDS JOURNAL April 21, 1956

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THOUGHTFUL FRIENDS who have found value in the NEWSLETTER BETWEEN THE LINES urge that otbtr Friends become acquainted with this authoritative information service. The editor, Charlu A. Wells, is a Frirnd. Writr for a umplr copy or srnd $1.50 for a yur'o oubocription. THE MARSHALL SQUARE SANITARIUM 29 PARK STREET, DEMAREST, NEW JERSEY WEST CHEST ER, PENNSYLVANIA cA 'Private CJ-eospital , Committee on Famil1 Relationships Counseling Service for Friends catering especially to the aging, the nervous and those requiring prolonged For appointments bt Philadelphia telephone care for physical or neurological disabilities. Careful classification assured, John Charleo Wynn, MAdlaon S-8069. In the ennlnc. Special rates for permanent guests. For appointments with Dr. Lontt Dewees write him at Glen Hut., Pa.. or telep•-• EVERETT SPERRY BARR, M.D. Valle,.brook 2474. Director Furniture Upholstering THOM SEREMBA, 215 felton Annue, Collingdale, P1. FRIENDS HOSPITAL More than five yeara of references In Swarth­ Established and operated since 1813 more, Po., and vicinity • • • firat·closs work at reasonable rot.. , , • over 25 years' eaper~. by members of the Religious Society of Friends Telephone Sharon Hill 0734 The oldest private, non-profit institution in America devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of the mentally ill. EASTMAN, DILLON & CO. ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD AND ADAMS AVENUE Members New York Stock Exchange PHILADELPHIA 24, PENNSYLVANIA Investments WILLIAM EDWARD CADBURY Rtp re ~tntar iu t 225 S. 15TH ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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Sanitarium ASK OUR OPINION WAWASET ROAD OF YOUR SECURITIES (Route 842) WEST CHESTER, H~CKER & CO. PENNSYLVANIA Members of New York Stock Exchtmge LIBERTY TRUST BUILDING Broad and Arch Streets A recognized private psychiatric hospital. Complete modern diagnostic and Philadelphia 7, Pa. therapeutic services. Qualified physicians may retain supervision of patients. Moderate rates. Owned by Friends and particularly adapted for the care of LOcust .C-3500 elderly and confused Friends. CHARLES J. ERICKSON H. VAN DER MEER, M.D., Medical Director Telephone West Chester 3120 Registered RefWesenllllifll April 21, 1956 FRIENDS JOURNAL 255

The OAKWOOD FRIENDS' Coeducational Quaker CENTRAL SCHOOL Legal BOARDING SCHOOL OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 31 , PA. Oakwood students enjoy life in the open country, yet have access to the Coeducational - College Preparatory advantages of the city. Four-year kindergarten through lntelligencer 12th Grade GRADES 9 TO 12 INCLUSIVE Established 1843 A Friendly school which offers country For additional in/ormation write day facilities and program with a col­ WILLIAM W. CLARK, Principal lege preparatory curriculum and the OAKWOOD SCHOOL advantages of nearby urban resources. PRINTING BOX 45 POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. MERRILL E. BusH, Headmaster

FRIENDS JOURNAL is regularly on sale in the magazine 10 SOUTH 37TH STREET department of the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA 4, PA. EVERGREEN 6-1535 GEORGE A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDING SCHOOL, Grades 9-12 ADVERTISING RATES Founded 1893 Enrollment has been completed for autumn of the coming school DISPLAY ADVIlB'.riSilii'G- 15~ per agate line or ,2.10 per column Inch; year. A waiting list is being established from which applicants will 10% discount for 6-24 Insertions be accepted for vacancies as they occur. within six months: 15% discount for 25 or more Inser tions within one year. Children of Friends are given preference on the waiting list if application is made BllG'ULAB JIEil'.rilrG BOTICEB-15¢ for the 9th grade. per agate line: no discount for re­ A.ddrus inquil'iu to: peated Insertions. RICHARD H. McFEELY, CLASSil'IBD ADVIlBTISilii'G-7f per ADELBERT MASON, Director of Admi&sions word, with a minimum charge of $1.00; Principal no discount for repeated Insertions. A Box 350, George School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania box number will be supplied If re­ quested, and answers received at the FRIENDS JOURNAL office will be forwarded without charge. Advertlslnc copy may be chanced FRIENDS ACADEMY without extra charce. Established 1877 FRIENDS JOURNAl A coeducational Quaker school in a beautiful residential com­ 1515 CherrJ Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa.: II &-7669 munity 25 miles from New York. A well-balanced academic program is designed to stimulate in the student a desire to live a creative Christian life in today's world. The novel that concerns Quaker principles Boarding school-Grades 7-12. Day school-Kindergarten through Grade 12. applied to labor-management relations . .. A reduction in tuition is available to members of The Society of Friends. VICTOR M. HAUGHTON, JR., Headmaster WEATHERBY CRISIS Box B, Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y. by BERNARD LESTER "A challenging and provoca­ tive story." "Full of helpful advice and THE SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL guidance to both employers In the Nation's Capital and employees." Coeducational Day School - College Preparatory from Kindergarten Based on the man vs. ma­ chine conflict, the author (a Started by Friends In 1811 lifelong Quaker) vividly Thomas W. Sidwell, Principal, 1883-1936 depicts the struggle between A non-profit corporation since 1936 with the majority of trustees Friends management and labor. Accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools $3.50 - - Member of - - At better bookstores - or FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION NATIONAL COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION BOARD EDUCATIONAL RECORDS BUREAU TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, INC. NATIONAL REGISTRATION OFFICE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS 31 Union Square West ROBERT S. lYLE, Headmaster II New York 3, N. Y. 3901 WISCONSIN AVENUE N. W. WASHINGTON 16, D. C. TH EODORE B.HETZEL

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ROCKMERE LODGE FIVE ISLANDS, MAINE ARE YOUR SAVINGS INSURED? in fishing village on rocky shore of Sheep­ scot Bay, via 127 from Bath. Room and meals $50 a week single; $45 double. House­ They would be in the Lansdowne Federal Savings and Loan Association. Our keeping cottRge for two, without meals, $50 a week. accounts are Federally insured up to $10,000.00 and participate in liberal divi· HARRIET E. WORRELL dends. Accounts may be opened by mail, starting with aa little aa $1.00. Legal Owner-Manager investments for trust funds. UNSDOWNE FEDUAL SAVINGS AND LOAI ASSOCIATIOI CAMP C E LO 32 SOUTH LANSDOWNE AVENUE, LANSDOWNE, PA. Ages 6 to 10 A farm-home camp in the Black Mountains Literature on request of North Carolina tor 20 boys and girls. Full eamp program of worship, work, and play Fam A. WEBNEB, President under Quaker leadership. Emest Morgan, Yellow Springs, Ohio

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