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A Quaker Weekly VOLUME 4 JUNE 7, 1958 NUMBER 23 IN THIS ISSUE tf}TERNAL Lov<r of Thy children, The Quaker Conception of Man Bring us into Thy life, Make us sharers of Thy love . • . • by Rufus M. Jones And transmitters of it. Help us to become serene and patient Rufus M. Jones In the midst of our frustra . by Mary Hoxie Jones tions, But at the same time make us Heroic adventurers, Brave, Internationally Speaking Gentle, . • by Richard R. Wood Tender, But without fear And with radiant faces. - RUFUS M. JONES The Handbook for Committee Members of Friends Schools . by John A. Lester AFSC Summer Institutes- Poetry FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY $4.50 A YEAR 358 FRIENDS JOURNAL June 7, 1958 Internationally Speaking FRIENDS JOURNAL Anxiety Over Algeria T is hard to discuss helpfully a rapidly changing sit I uation like that in France, when nearly two weeks must elapse between the writing and the reading of the comments. The situation, however, demands attention. Of the nearly eight million people in Algeria, more than a million are French, permanently settled there, electing deputies to the French parliament, French in their culture and sentiments, and fearing serious loss Published weekly, except during July and August when published biweekly, at 1616 Cherry Street, Pblladel economic and in status-if they were suddenly to become pbia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7668) By Friends Publishing Corporation politically equal with their seven million fellow Alger WILLIAM HUBBEN MILDRED A. PURNELL Editor and Manager Assistant Editor ians of North African ancestry. These French residents JEANNE CAVIN ELEANOR F . LILLY of Algeria naturally oppose independence or even equal Advertisements Subscriptions political rights for the majority. They are more opposed CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS than are the residents of France to Algerian self-govern RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia Africa ............................. Maurice Webb, Durban ment. England ...................... Horace B. Pointing, London Joan Hewitt, London Although Algeria is scarcely capable of independence, Germany ......................... Lottelore Roloff, Berlin India .. ........... ............. Benjamin Polk, Calcutta because of inadequate resources, Algerians of North Japan ........ .... .. .... .. Jackson H. Bailey, Tokyo Lebanon . .. .. Calvin W. and Gwendolyn Schwabe, Beirut African ancestry have felt the attraction of independence Scandinavia ................ Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ...................... Robert J. Leach, Geneva and have become more demanding and less patient as Turkey ......................William L. Nute, Jr., Ankara Lake Erie Association .... .. Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh their hopes for self-government have been disappointed. Midwest (Five Years) ........... Russell E. Rees, Richmond New England ................. Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford The result is a civil war waged by guerilla methods, West Coast . .... ......... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. bloody, dangerous, and not likely to be soon ended. BOARD OF MANAGERS French troops in Algeria, sickened by the hardships, 1966··1968: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. 1966- 1969: casualties and indecisiveness of the fighting, have come Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Ruth 0. Maris, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr. 1967- to the conclusion that temporizing is painfully expensive 1960: Mary R . Calhoun, Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. and have undertaken to impose military control, at the Johnson, Elizabeth H. Kirk. THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five risk of seeming insubordinate. They appear to expect, dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all coat of publication. in the teeth of the evidence, that a vigorous military SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States, possessions, Can policy, freed of attempts to conciliate Algerian feelings, ada, and Mexico: $4.60 a year, $2.60 for six montbo. Foreign countries: $6.00 a year. Single copies: fifteen can force a prompt and satisfactory solution. cents. Checks should be made payable to Friends Journal. Sample copies sent on request. The weakness of the central government in France, Re-entered as aecond-cla88 matter July 7, 1966, at the past office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Act of with frequent changes of cabinet, has aggravated the dif March S, 1879. ficulties all politicians feel in advocating a policy that seems to demand generosity of one's own country. The result has been that French politicians, even including Socialists, have become involved in attempts to restore French control over Algeria by force, although many of them are reported to admit privately that they no longer Contents Page believe such a policy to be practicable. Internationally Speaking-Richard R . Wood ... ... 358 The present situation is full of dangers: of tragic Editorial Comments . 359 bloodshed and chaos in Algeria; of civil war in France; Rufus M. Jones-Ma7)' H oxie jones .... ... ...... 360 of increased international tension as France commits The Quaker Conception o£ Man-Rufus M. jones ... 361 military actions in Tunisia in the course of operations in To Mother (poem)-Emma Wendt ................ 364 Algeria and at the same time becomes so involved in Privileged Morning (poem)- jenny Kweger ....... 364 North Africa as to be manifestly unable to take an effec Books .............. ......................... 364 tive part in the East-West balance of power. AFSC Summer Institutes . 366 The Handbook for Committee Members of Friends The groups in the Army, Navy, Algeria, and some Schools-john A. L ester ....................... 366 of the colonies sympathetic to General de Gaulle are Friends and Their Friends . 366 (Continued on page 364) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955) ESTABLISHED 1955 PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 7, 1958 VOL. 4-No. 23 Editorial Comments Rufus M. Jones, Sage and Seer "flash" for a message came to him. It often appeared N June 16, 1958, Friends will commemorate the while he was taking a walk, or while reading, or late at O tenth anniversary of the death of Rufus M. Jones. night when he was almost asleep. A "lead" seemed to It is significant that both his best years and his death attract related thoughts, and a central idea slowly grew. marked two distinctive phases in American Quakerism. Day by day this germinating process would continue, During his lifetime his extraordinary endowment as a and when on Sunday the message, with an "inward preacher, teacher, scholar, and writer made him not only click," actually pressed for utterance, it had been, in the outstanding Friends minister in the United States a manner, prepared. This preparation was, nevertheless, but also one of the foremost leaders of American church confined to going over a familiar area of thought, while life at large. To hear him preach was an unforgettable the choice of words was a matter of spontaneous inspira experience, a privilege the like of which is not accorded tion. As is evident in his many books, his mind was to every generation. Friends in some sections of the richly stocked with poetic and literary resources, but he United States are happy in h aving impressive personali gave the Bible first place in his quotations, and the ties among their ministers, although there is in many setting in which he used them made the Good News sections a noticeable dearth. But the death of Rufus again good as well as new. Jones marked the end of an era during which at least one Friend might h ave called all American Quakerism From the Wellsprings of Life his parish, had Rufus Jones ever cared to take stock in When speaking about the ministry, George Fox once this manner. His place is still vacant, but his influence characterized it as a breaking forth of "the springs of persists in our memories and in his writings. The life." One of Rufus Jones' favorite similes dealt with younger generation who never heard or saw him will the hidden, underground rivers that would grow silently find his vast literary work as illuminating as did the and then suddenly appear in full strength to renew contemporaries of Rufus Jones. flowers, trees, and the entire landscape with their life givmg waters. Symbolically speaking, the river of in The Roots of Ministry spiration coming from Rufus Jones' writings will con The free ministry that is traditional in our unpro tinue to quicken our minds and hearts. We hope par gramed meetings for worship invites a broader range of ticularly that our younger men and women will read individual concerns, literary references, and expression and reread his books. Their rich information and clear than traditional church sermons will allow. Many style will continue to illuminate the fundamentals of Friends are keenly aware of the beauty as well as the our Quaker faith and the eternal truths of Christianity. hazards implied in this freedom. Both the almost un limited scope and the pitfalls of this ministry must have In Brief become a matter of experience for any regular attender Mrs. Tara Cherian, a Christian, who was recently of our meetings for worship. Freedom always demands elected mayor of Madras, India, is the first woman to a price. Tact, self-restraint, and depth of thought are be chosen for the office in the history of the city. Both even more indispensable for this type of ministry than Mrs. Cherian and her husband are active in the Church for a standard church sermon. Yet these assets are only of South India. the outward indications of genuine inwardness; the According to the New York T imes, more than half- secret life of prayer and moral effort are the exclusive 56.4 per cent- of all public high schools in the U. S. do school of preparation for any sound ministry. not offer modern foreign-language instruction. Schools Rufus Jones' ministry invites such reflections because with the best opportunities are those of Connecticut, it abounded in these attributes. The generosity of his Maine, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.