A Quaker Weekly

VOLUME 1 DECEMBER 17, 1955 NUMBER 25

IN THIS ISSUE

~RE is in us a haunt­ ing conviction that if we are to match these days, if we are Christmas Carols to meet the colossal obliga­ tions which God in His provi­ by Freda Morrill Abrams dence has imposed on us as a people, then God H imself must invade us from the out­ side. We MUST have a fresh Internationally Speaking encounter with the living by Richard R. Wood Lord of the Universe who alone can fashion us into a people we never yet have been, yet always have longed Our London Letter to be. -EDWARD L. R. Er.soN, Amer­ by Horace B. Pointing ica's Spiritual Recovery (Fleming H. Revell Company) Self-Help Projects in Korea

Religious Broadcasting, Editorial Comments

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Internationally Speaking R etrospect FRIENDS JOtJRNAL HE year 1955 has been one of both progress and T retrogression. There have been instances of in­ creased irritability in relations between East and West, and, as the year draws to a close, there seetns to be a return to the feeling of bitter suspicion that tnakes con­ structive diplotnacy difficult and that so easily diverts attention fron1 the search for satisfactory international relations to considerations of tnilitary pressure.

Published weekly at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Yet 1955 has seen sotne relaxation of tension and Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) By Friends Publishing Corporation sotne evidence that coexistence is possible. WILLIAM HUBBEN JEANNE CAVIN Editor and Manager Advertisements Is War Impracticable'! MILDRED A. PURNELL LOUISE K. CLEMENT Associate Editor Subscriptions Rivalry in tnilitary preparations, particularly in the CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS developtnent of nuclear weapons, continues. Yet the itn­ RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia pression seems to be increasingly widely held that nu­ Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban England ...... Joan Hewitt, London clear weapons- at least the weapons of tnass destruction Horace B. Pointing, London Germany .....•. •...... Wilhelm Kllhler, Braunschweig as distinguished fron1 tactical weapons-will never be India ...... • ...... Benjamin Polk, New Delhi Japan ...... • . . . . • ...... Bruce L. Pearson, Osaka used. The reasons for this feeling are: (1) the unimagin­ Tatsunoauke Ueda, Tokyo Jordan ...... • ...... Graham Leonard, Ram allah able horror of the results of explosions of large H-botnbs Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavanger, Norway Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva in populated areas; (2) the unpredictable and uncon­ Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Ankara Lake Erie Association ...... W inthrop M. Leeds, Pittsburgh trollable nature of a war in which such weapons are Midwest (Five Years) ...... Russell E. ~s. Richmond New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartford used; and (3) the belief that world public opinion West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. would react so strongly against any nation resorting to BOARD OF MANAGERS the use of weapons of tnass destruction that their use 1955-1956: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P. Brock, Margaret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Sarah F. Splint. would be self-defeating. 1955-1957: Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson. 1955- In brief, 1955 saw sotnething very close to general 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willis H. Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Anne Wood. recognition that. as an instrutnent of national policy, THE JOURNAL ASSOCIATES are friends who add five dollars or more to their subscriptions annually to help war with large-scale atotnic weapons is not practicable. meet the over-all cost of publication. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and POssessions: Danger Remains $4.00 a year, $2.00 for six months. Foreign countries: $4.50 a year. Single copies: fifteen cents. Cheeks should be made payable to Friends Publishing Corporation. A serious danger retnains. Military pressure is still Sample copies sent on request. being applied directly or indirectly at several points of Re-entered as second-class matter July 7, 1955, at the post office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the Act of friction: for instance, between Fortnosa and tnainland March 8, 1879. China; between North and South Korea; between Israel and the Arab States. And both East and West seen1 still to hope that the threat of war will deter war. Although recognizing the necessity of avoiding all-out war with nuclear weapons. the nations continue to use the kinds Contents Page of pressure that, backed by the threat of tnilitary power, have in the past led to situations in which international Internationally Speaking-Richard R. Wood. . 390 tensions have broken down into open war. Editorial Cotntnents ...... 391 This is a tnatter which should concern public opin­ Our London Letter- Horace B. Pointing ..... 392 ion as well as statestnen. Christmas Carols- Freda Morrill Abrams .. ... 393 Basic Requirements For Christtnastitne and After (poem)-Sheila One basic requiretnent for lasting peace is an inter­ Leslie ...... 395 national organization adequate to enable nations to find Self-Help Projects in Korea ...... 396 mutually satisfactory solutions of the conflicts which naturally and nortnally arise atnong thetn. The United Books ...... 396 Nations appears capable of being developed into such Friends and Their Friends ...... 397 an organization; but national statestnen seen1 unlikely Letters to the Editor ...... 399 (Continued on page 397) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)

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Editorial Comments Religious Broadcasting The study of the National Council, entitled T he HRISTMAS and Easter are the seasons when re­ Television-Radio Audience and R eligion (Harper and C ligion is likely to receive a slightly larger share of Brothers), reports that religious programs tend to be time in broadcasting programs. A two-year study con­ watched by specific audiences rather than a broad cross ducted by the National Council of Churches informs section of the population. They rank sixth in general us that radio and television devote only about two per popularity. Roman Catholic programs have a much cent of their time to religious broadcasts while giving larger audience than Protestant ones. Protestant audi­ nearly 80 per cent to entertainment. Frequently they put ences are found largely among persons of late middle religious programs at the least desirable hour. Liston age or older. Few pastors of local churches have given Pope, dean of Yale Divinity School, which supervised serious consideration to the impact of radio or TV upon the study, thinks that these two facts are an unmistak­ their constituencies. A number of stations have been able indication of the industry's own appraisal of re­ lost for religious broadcasting, but the demand for copies ligious programs. His trenchant criticism of religious of sermons or scripts of plays is larger than a year ago. broadcasts in Christianity and Crisis (November 14, Religious broadcasting is still in its infancy and will 1955) reproaches the churches for the inept use they are need more experimenting, the employment of creative making of these new media of mass communication. imagination, and artistic skill. Ultimately, only an in­ Musical programs run the range from the worst to the spired ministry will decide whether the churches are best, while some of the dullest sermons seem more sin­ making the right use of radio and TV. We shall have to cere than the spectacular ones. Popular skits about ask questions such as these: "Is the level of a sermon to wholesome Christian family life too often fail to make be broadcast such that it deserves large and unseen audi­ their point because they employ sentimental moralisms ences? Is the expectation of display or pageantry in TV and pleasantries that seem merely to prove that it pays a temptation for ministers to surrender to eye appeal to be good. Brotherhood sermons tend to demand instead of centering on the message? Would fewer but brotherhood to keep America strong in the name of more carefully selected programs acquire higher stand­ religion, forgetting its origin in God's fatherhood. The ing in the audiences' judgment?" peace-of-mind type program centers man upon his own Women in the Society of Friends neuroses rather than on renewed obedience to God. Pope asks, "When shall we be led again by the Christian Elizabeth Gray Vining's Ward Lecture, given at religion to Gethsemane rather than to the psychiatrist's Guilford College on Founders Day, November 11, 1955, couch, to the heights and depths of life as viewed in Women in the Society of Friends, is now available in Christian perspective rather than to the misty plains print, as announced elsewhere in this issue. The author where the mass audience is said to live? When will re­ stresses that Friends .have always done more than accord ligious broadcasts learn to inspire reverence rather than women a mechanical recognition of equality. They have receptivity?" accepted women "as individual human beings, as valid disciples as men, as competent as they for spiritual A Medium of the Future? leadership." It is essential to stress these points since It has been said that the new means for mass com­ most churches have assigned to woman the rather dubi­ munication were invented at a time when nobody had ous position of having been the main agent in man's fall. anything to say. This same witticism was applied also Within the Society of Friends women never had to to the telephone when its invention opened up new struggle for their rights. They not only assumed their ways of intercommunication. Yet Liston Pope's severe duties in the ministry and in church administration but· criticism is probably based on actual observations, and also had their share of persecution. Jonathan Dymond he also stresses the conviction that the church has some­ wrote 150 years ago that Quaker women were remark­ thing to say. Evidently the problem is how to say it. able for their "intelligence, sound sense, considerate- 391 392 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 17, 1955 ness, discretion." Elizabeth G. Vining did well to quote Bernard Canter, chairman of the conference, could bet­ this statement, which is as valid in our day as then. It ter hold up his head as editor of The Friend, for he has been said that a people might be judged by the posi­ could score off most of the dailies and weeklies on the· tion it accords to women. Such opinion might not be ground of age, The Friend having been established in applicable to religious bodies as a whole, but our testi­ 1843. Besides, Bernard Canter is a keen professional mony in this regard deserves to be restated as unique. journalist, and though no Quaker paper can have a We warmly recommend this spirited and most ap­ large circulation, The Friend does appeal to many pealing lecture to Friends everywhere. Incidentally, the readers beyond our borders because they find it realistic, little book would have an even greater appeal if it had facing the great questions which stir our world, ques­ been given a modem binding and title page more in tions of human relationships, some of which are not keeping with its literary value. directly religious, but all of which may bear with vexing oppression on the lives of most of us. Of course I had to peep around hastily to see if the Our :Uondon Letter editor of our Friends Quarterly was there, but she, I AT the press conference I sat behind a young man suppose, felt that stop-press news was even less her busi­ £l_ with tousled hair who wore a black coat with ness than it is mine. There will be something about khaki-colored trousers and carried an umbrella, waist­ those Chinese Christians in the Friends Quarterly, I banded in the middle by a rubber ring. He looked inter­ have no doubt, but it will be the long-considered view, ested, asked questions, and left in a sudden rush, as in which the rash judgments of excitement can be though he had "hot copy." I suppose I noticed him be­ checked. cause he was slightly odd-fashioned, even old-fashioned. I wish the Quarterly got into the States more than it He should have been in a film, but not the one they does. I think you would enjoy it. On my way home I were actually making then of the conference for tele­ read again in the current issue a review by John Harvey vision. The camera itself was focused on five rather self­ of H. G. Wood's new book Belief and Unbelief since conscious Friends, caught in the trap of those blinding 1850. The notice he wrote is worthy of the book, and lights. Three of them had just returned from China and both are full of ripe original observations on the move­ were part of a delegation sponsored by British Friends; ments of thought here in Britain during the last hun­ they were talking about their experiences. They obvi­ dred years. In the 1850's nominal Christianity flourished osuly tried to look as though they were used to such except among the poorest; but now this had died, while ordeals, but an air of unreality hung about, an air of the appalling social contrasts which it tolerated have play-acting, as though at any moment a loud, tired voice been cleared up. Today true Christianity alone remains, from among the jumble of cables and wheels would ex­ to fight its own unaided battle. Better so. claim: "No, no! Don't do it like that, Mr. So-and-so. • • • That ain't no good at all!" There are articles in this issue of the Quarterly about So I was glad when the BBC got all it wanted and faith and reason, membership in the Society, belief and left us in peace to hear something about China. The creeds; but what pleased me as much as anything, after news was mainly concerning the Protestant churches in this solid fare, was the story of Jane Stuar-t. If ever you that country. We were told that there is freedom of re­ visit the meeting house at Wisbech, you will find her ligious belief; the churches are in full use and are un­ grave, bearing the date 1742. Her father was King James taxed; their congregations are again growing, modestly the Second; her mother, an unknown member of the but steadily. Youth conferences had been very successful, French Court. Jane lived in the English royal circle and there was most heartening cooperation between de­ until she was 35. James was, it will be remembered, a nominations. Ever since the expulsion of Western mis­ friend of William Penn, whom Jane must have met, sionaries there had been a feeling among Chinese with many other Quakers. Indeed, she was to have mar­ Christians that they now belonged to themselves and ried one of them, but he was killed by an accident on must make their Christianity real in a Chinese setting, the wedding day. When James fled from England, Jane and not as a foreign cult. Stuart went the same night, unrecognized, to Wisbech, • • • and eventually worked there on a farm. In the winter All this was of great interest, but while we waited for she spun flax. She lodged in a cellar with the birds she it I looked at my fellow listeners and wondered which loved. She seems to have been happy, and lived on to of them came from the great papers with circulations be 88, worshiping week by week with Friends; and daily several hundred times greater than that of our little though she was half-sister to the reigning Queen, no one Quaker monthly Wayfarer, which I there represented. probed her secret. HoRACE B. POINTING December 17, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 893

Christmas Carols The Relative and the Eternal BY FREDA MORRILL ABRAMS HRISTMAS has two moods inextricably inter­ troubador." To make the Christmas story vivid to the C woven, those of holiday and holy day. It is the time faithful, he dramatized it, setting up the crib in the of joy of heart but also the time of quiet hush and church and even bringing live animals to attend it. The thoughtful wonder. carols reflect this dramatic origin, being sung to ac­ Carols are the mirror of these two moods. In text and company the dancing procession of people around the in music they are the fresh, joyful, immediate expres­ crib, as lullabies to the Child, or as songs of the coming sions of simple people; rich in folk poetry, which is the of the shepherds or of the homage of the kings. "0 Come heart's language; and buoyant even when the subject All Ye Faithful" probably originated this way as a pro­ is grave. "Carol" has the old meaning "to dance in a cessional, and the beautiful English fifteenth-century ring," and the music of carols is some of our oldest, "Coventry Carol" was especially written for the Christ­ being intimately associated with the dance. It is uni­ mas mystery play, the Pageant of the Shearmen and versally rich in melody, interesting in mode and rhythm. Tailors, just as in Germany the lovely "Joseph, Lieber This folk music is the very language of which art music Joseph" of the fifteenth century, "The Song of the Crib," is made. was written to be sung by the different participants in Yet the Christmas carol is also the sometimes naive the Nativity drama. . but always happy mingling of the relative and the Among these eternal elements, then, is the Babe born eternal. Through all the diversity of peoples, places, and amid poverty and oppression, an outcast, a vulnerable times run the same eternal themes which have engaged human to live and sorrow even as the least of us. There the imagination everywhere and are the essence of the is the loving compassionate mother, the tender, protect­ Christmas spirit. ing father, the inspired simple shepherds, the mighty Love Came Down at Christmas kings who found in the Babe hope for the world. The What are these eternal elements? The underlying carols indentify with all these. Above all, the eternal song the carols sing is, of course, of man's relationship spirit of the carol, in addition to its basic joy and thanks­ to God, but God in a very special aspect. God is not an giving, is its poignant wonder-wonder that "God so abstract force. nor the transcendent forbidding ruler and loved the world" that He cared enough to come among judge; the central fact of Christmas is the birth of a us with His redeeming love to share our lot. baby, God in man. God becomes more human and man An old Austrian Alpine carol marvels that "God has more divine. heaven's halls forsaken and the paths of men has taken." After the fall of the Roman Empire, with Europe in And with great economy and beauty an early American chaos, Christianity retreated to the monasteries and be­ Anglo-Saxon mountain carol expresses this sense of awe: came an austere and stern religion. But with the coming "I wonder as I wander out under the sky that Jesus our of the humanizing influences of the later Middle Ages, Savior did come for to die for poor orn'ry people like God was to become more human, more available to you and hke• I. •. . ." And one of the best known French man. This was the period of the cult of the Virgin and carols, "II est ne, le divin Enfant," after first rejoicing the building of the great cathedrals decorated with hu­ with oboes and bagpipes, goes on to wonder thought­ manistic sculpture. God might be too mighty and in­ fully that this little Infant is also all-powerful king, and effable to approach, but somehow Mary, a mother who is charmingly indignant that only straw and stable of­ knew human joys and sorrows, was a person one could fered him lodging. For a king, "que! abaissementl" feel to be a friend. This new spirit found its purest expression in the The Imagery, Hopes, and Yearning of Men life of Francis of Assisi. He thought that religion should Throughout its history the carol has had a respon­ be joyful, and he went about singing songs of praise to sible role in nurturing the man-to-God and God-to-man God and nature. He thought of himself as "God's relationship. The imagery, hopes, and yearning of men have flowed about the Christmas story and kept alive Freda Morrill Abrams, a member of Yellow Springs Meeting, Ohio, is working on a collection of carols from all over the world. this gay personal relationship, even continuing under­ She has published song translations in the Fireside Book of Love ground throughout periods of puritanism when gayety Songs (Simon and Schuster) and edited the first two editions of in religion was suppressed. The eternal theme of the the songbook of the international work camps, Work and Sing (Cooperative Recreation Service, Delaware, Ohio). carols is this: "Love came down at Christmas." 394 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 17, 1955

The Eternal in the Now Easter again, but Oh ... we forgot, first comes Lent On this eternal theme individual peoples and cul­ with fasting!" The music is the gay dance rhythm of the tures have placed their unique stamp. This is the relative Rambo. The Austrian carols with their clear sonorities aspect of the carol and largely constitutes its charm. transport us to the snow-dad mountains, where we can Catalonians in Spain sing of carrying gifts of olives, figs, almost hear the shepherds awaking each other, yodelling pansies, and oranges to Mary, while Venezuelans bring across the valleys, rejoicing that "God and man are one," her "sweets of the papaya and cheese whiter than the that "A Child to us is given." daylight." To Joseph they give "a big cigar, already We in the United States have been the fortunate lighted," and the kings have with them in addition to receivers of much of the beauty of Europe's music and the three gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh, a flagon of tradition, and there is much more to enrich us when it rum brandy! The Huron Indians sing of bringing the is finally collected and translated. We are only now be­ Babe gifts of fox and beaver pelt. The Huron Indians ginning to become aware of our heritage of the early sing to a Gregorian modal French tune of the late fif­ Anglo-Saxon carols kept so many years in the mountain teen hundreds, remembered by their Jesuit missionary, states and the wealth of white and Negro spirituals and while Venezuelans carol to their characteristic "guasa" "watch-night" shouts stemming from Christmas celebra­ dance rhythm of triplet and couplet in two-four time, tions that took place long before Santa Claus and the whether they are singing Salve Regina to Mary in church Christmas tree came to us from Europe. It is only fairly or "Aguinaldos" from door to door during the twelve recently that there have been concerted efforts to collect days of the holiday season. The people of Chile have a the national folk music of different lands, and there has drum carol, as do the Czechs and the French, who sing, never been a time or place more auspicious for enjoying "Willie, bring your little drum, Robin bring your flute this harvest than the United States today. and come." The Spanish sing a lullaby (sic) to the Babe Christmas carols have not always been so appreciated with cymbals, castanets, guitar, and drum, warning in this country. The Puritan suppression of Christmas anything that would hurt the Babe that the singers will hung over New England for almost two hundred years. "fix" it, if he will allow. One of their tracts in 1656 characterized Christmas Day The English carol to an old love song, "Green­ as sleeves," with the words, "What Child is This?" and The old Heathen's Feasting Day, in honour to Saturn turn another secular love song, "My Dancing Day," to their Idol-God, the Papist's Massing Day, the Profane the use of the divine spirit, as do the Germans with "0 Man's Ranting Day, the Superstitious Man's Idol Tannenbaum." And they remember their history with Day, the Multitude's Idle Day, Satan's- that Adver­ symbolic use of the Druid winter solstice worship, "Out sary's-Working Day, the True Christian Man's Fast­ of the darkness we have light," and the Saturnalia sym­ ing Day... . We are persuaded, no one thing more bols of holly and ivy are used to adorn "Christmas tide, hindereth the Gospel work all year long, than doth a bride" when "the country guise is then to devise some the observation of that Idol Day once a year, having gambols of Christmas play ... to drive the cold winter so many days of cursed observation with it. away." We may laugh at this delightful outburst but we In sunny Spain, however, the Virgin washes the can respect its motive. We need such a reminder when­ swaddling clothes in the laughing stream, and wraps ever the relative and secular elements of life tend to them in sweet-scented rosemary while the little birds engulf the eternal and spiritual. The Quakers, of course, sing. Gypsies are in attendance at the manger, and have always de-emphasized the forms of festivals, seeking everyone tells Mary to come running "for they are tak­ rather to keep Christmas in the heart. The outer must ing the swaddling clothes." Another singer begs Mary not obscure the inner. to help him because the calf ate his sombrero while he If we would truly keep Christmas in the heart, we worshipped at the crib! And a burro carries chocolate can do no better than to go back to the folk carols with to the manger. In Spain and France, too, carols tell of their mingling of the eternal in the now. They range in the rejoicing of the birds, and in Spain there is a par­ emotion from the rousing jubilee elation of the Negro ticularly lovely poetic image: "In Bethlehem there is born "Go Tell It on the Mountain" to the poignant, com­ a pink carnation who becomes a purple lily to save us." passionate "Poor little Jesus .. . didn't have no cradle Swedish children and their elders dance delightedly ... wasn't that a pity and a shame!" In the carols we around the tree and sing "Now it is Yule again and our see, as through a window into the heart and soul, man joy will last till Easter, and then comes Easter and our as he is and man as he aspires to be. We find met m joy will last till Christmas. Then our joy will last till Bethlehem "the hopes and fears of all the years." December 17, 1955 .FRIENDS JOURNAL 395

For Christmastime and After- By SHEILA LESLIE At this now Christmas of the axised year turns man Godward in grave time-graved remembrance. The dutiful spine holly on the lintel, suspend a lanterned welcome at the gate, curl streamers room-round chaining-in all comers with brightly threaded warp of piety. The faithful pay their customary toll, spikenard most smooth and aromatic stacte and gold as chrysalis (holding who-knows-what purchase)

- present low-kneed and speak bowed words to win, kiss the young child and bed the poor as brother, cleave spirit now with God, splice, graft in stock.

All's needle-eyed, jacklanced and splinter-thin lasting not long. Forget good will, beget again self's malediction in winter's rigor rimed, rimous, superficial cracked across, shivered by blast and early frost not fruiting or parched in careful summer's gold-leaf-hoard. Pity that Christ in hearthollow should dry as chalice dregs or calix petals tumble. Yet dream of more-than-blessed man, God-lived-in, not brief December privilege but coupling completeness costing mere obedience. This truegrace plant would tenderstem phoenix from pride's cinder, more homely fragrant than marjoram shining as springwhite privet or watercress. This tree would roughest garden grow, root out, upshoot branch, blossom and berry at end­ un-willed and one with God creator in creating.

CLJoMMUNION with God is not primarily a matter of emotion any more than of sense; it is a matter of {Q fact. _Sometimes, indeed often, His touch upon owr spirit is so light that only afterwards do we realize that He has been with us. Even if we do not realize it at all it does not matter; we are not dependent upon feelings. We belong to God and He belongs to us; we give ourselves to Him and He gives Himself to us, there are no "ifs" or "buts" about it. Communion with God in the Living Silence is not a substitute for "active" prayer and meditation, rather it is their crown. All three, and a deal of hard, clear thinking in addition, are necessary if the Christian is to achieve a balanced spiritual life. But as, through long discipline, the way into the Silence becomes easier and more habitual the Christian finds that these other activities are constantly leading him up to the inner gateway through which he may plunge, in an instant, into the arms of God. It becomes the natural thing as opportunity occurs during the day to retreat for a few minutes into the unseen world of eternity where moments are neither few nor many. Outward noise soon ceases to be a hindrance to the Living Silence; it is not the clatter of a tram-car or the swaying of a crowded bus that interferes so much as the clatter of our thoughts an.d the swaying of our insatiable desires. But at the beginning the way must be sought with patience and ample time set aside for its practice; the American evangelist of fifty years ago who insisted that "Hurry is the death of Prayer'' spoke the truth.-From The Use of Silence by GEoFFREY HoYLAND, a Pendle Hill Pamphlet 396 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 17, 1955

Self-Help Projects in Korea Since their return from Korea the Bremners have reported on their experiences and impressions to a number of Friends ELF-HELP is becoming the keynote of work at Kunsan, and other groups in their native Washington State and Cali· Ssay Don and Dee Bremner, back from two years' service fornia. They have shown color slides illustrating the work with the joint British, Canadian, and American Friends at Kunsan, and they have tape-recorded interviews in Pltila· project in Korea. This new emphasis on helping people to delphia for broadcast by radio stations all over the country help themselves runs all the way down the line through the regularly using programs prepared by the American Friends varied activities of the project, from familiarizing Korean Service Committee. Their next move .is to seek newspaper hospital staff members with the latest techniques to insuring work for Don, who studied journalism at the University of a supply of fresh eggs for a needy widow by adding a laying Michigan graduate school before going to Korea. hen to her household. It means, the Bremners believe, the successful development of a short-term emergency aid program into a lasting lift for the people of Kunsan who have been Books contacted by the work. THE FAMILY AT DOWBIGGINS. By ELFRIDA VIPONT. Il­ If the Korean government could shake off its preoccupa­ lustrations by Terry Freeman. The Bobbs-Merrill Com­ tion with preparation for a new war and the maintenance of pany, Inc., New York, 1955. 253 pages. $2.75 the fourth largest army in the world, it might be able to do Of her five fine books for young people, Blow the Man more toward healing results of the recent conflict, the Bremners Down, The Lark in the Morn, The Lark on the Wing, feel. For example, said Don, by cutting down the army one Sparks Among the Stubble, and The Family at Dowbiggins, third, enough funds could be saved to finance continuation of this last one was the favorite of Elfrida Fould's husband. rehabilitation programs launched by Friends and others. It is a wholesome yet exciting story about five individually The Bremners realize, of course, that the size of the different yet completely loyal-to-each-other children; a mother Korean army results partly from Western pressure. They with common sense, humor, and trust in her family; a father sympathize, too, with the huge problems facing both the Seoul with unrecognized artistic talent and unsuccessful horticul­ government and the people in a country once renowned for tural ability; and their many paying guests, who are at first honesty and integrity, but now in desperate straits as a result disagreeable but become friendly and helpful under the win­ of conditions left by the devastating war, coupled with a some influence at Dowbiggins. 50-per-cent increase in population: The Christmas chapter is my favorite. With a little ex­ As a missionary many years in the country pointed out to planation and editing, it could stand alone as a holiday story. them, however, many Koreans were little better off before the Rachel conquers her fear of a gruff old neighbor when she war, so that it is not so much a question of getting back to takes him homemade mints and stays to prepare his tea. And "the good old days" as of helping them attain new standards all the children have an adventure as they go caroling. Thanks of life in a new day. The Quaker project has done much, to her juveniles, her pamphlets, her book on Quakerism, and they feel, to raise their goals and point the way. her speaking trip throughout the United States and Canada, Elfrida Vipont Foulds needs no introduction and recom­ Don Bremner aided in the distribution of as much as a mendation to readers of the FRIENDS JouRNAL. carload of American food, clothing, and medical supplies JosEPHINE M. BENTON each month in Kunsan, and he reports that there is still a real need for these things. His wife, Dee Bremner, was active in community education work. Books in Brief They tell of a newly applied plan under which everyone The Mind of Modern R ussia. Edited by Hans Kohn. Rut­ in the project gets "right down into the mud" and spends gers University Press, New Brunswick. 298 pages. $5.50 one day each week working with his bare hands in helping Hans Kohn has selected for this volume representative to build mudplaster homes for widows, the blind, and handi­ pieces of writing from the thinkers and political leaders of capped. This, they say, is creating considerable interest among the last 125 years of Russian history. The panslavists as well educated Koreans, who have long felt that one object of as the liberals speak to us in a strangely prophetic voice that education is to cut them off forever from manual labor. mingles truth and error as only the fervently patriotic Russian mind is able to do. The subjects touch on all phases of life Dee Bremner's work with community education included such as literature, women, education, unions, and, of course, encouragement of Korean local leaders in setting up classes politics. Hans Kohn gives each chapter an introduction that to lessen illiteracy, and special institutes to acquaint teachers provides the proper background for its understanding. An with modern methods. excellent and timely book. Among other undertakings which they watched with spe­ The Story of the Church. By Walter Russell Bowie. Abing­ cial interest were those intended to make widows with children don Press, New York. 208 pages. $2.95 self-supporting. Some of these little families were set up in A popularly written story of the church that combines small shops or little laundries; others were provided with reliable information with a graphic and entertaining manner enough chickens or pigs to bring in at least a small income. of telling the drama of our faith. Strongly recommended. December 17, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL S97

Internationally Speaking D. Elton Trueblood will terminate his assignment in the (Continued from page 390) U.S. Information Agency on January I, 1956, and will return to his professorship in Earlham College. so to develop it unless they are aware of a vigorous ex­ plicit demand for such a development among their own citizens. "Philip Woodbridge," observes the Newsletter of Middle Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting, "edited and produced a A second basic requirement of lasting peace is recog­ 16-page booklet about Boston which was distributed to the nition of the right, even the duty, of each nation to seek 2,000 who attended the meeting of the American Society of its own interests-provided it uses means consistent with Anaesthesiologists in Boston, October 29 to November 2. On the search for mutually satisfactory arrangements and November 10 he gave a talk at a meeting of physicians in Hart­ with prevention of war. Vigorous diplomatic and propa­ ford, Conn. On November 18 he served as moderator of a ganda efforts to achieve national purposes are legitimate; meeting of anaesthesiologists in Albany, and on November 21 the use or threat of military force is not. Effective di­ he was a member of a panel at a medical meeting in Boston." plomacy will be more easily carried on, and danger of war will be reduced, when public opinion recognizes the An ali-day High School Institute was held at Lincoln importance of mutually satisfactory arrangements and School, Providence, R. I., on November 19 under the auspices accepts the fact that a satisfactory arrangement must be of the American Friends Service Committee, Moses Brown satisfactory to the other party also. School, and Lincoln School. All the Providence High Schools, public, parochial, and independent were invited to send dele­ An Opportunity gates. The theme was "Human Solidarity in the Twentieth Finally, public opinion in presently powerful na­ Century." The morning speaker was Llywelyn. Williams, tions needs to recognize the normality and healthiness Member of Parliament, who is in this country for a short time. of the desire for self-government and improving stand­ Foreign students were present to lead the discussions after the ards of living among peoples now either politically or noon luncheon period. economically dependent. Such peoples are vulnerable to propaganda. The next phase of East-West rivalry seems David Clark was one of three poets to read his own poems likely to be in the contest to win the sympathy of the in a public program held at the Jones Library in Amherst, "backward" peoples. Mere massive aid is inadequate. Mass., on November 30. Technological and economic assistance is a factor in this rivalry; but respect for "the dignity and worth of the Eunice L. Le Fevre, librarian of the Kalamazoo, Mich., human person" in the relations between the West and Meeting, reports widespread cooperation in the Friendly Beg­ Asia and Africa is even more important. gars' Night project. "Here in Kalamazoo we call it 'Treats to Share.' This Halloween we collected approximately 13,744 The year 1955 is transmitting to 1956 new and diffi­ items (sewing materials, school supplies, and baby clothing), cult problems, together with some evidence that, if the about 850 pounds, and although pennies were not asked for, problems are approached in the right spirit, solutions $9.93 came in and was sent to the A.F.S.C. for welfare work." can be found. December 2, 1955 RICHARD R. Wooo Richard and Anita Burling, according to the latest Hono· lulu Friends Bulletin, have gone to Puerto Rico, where Rich­ Friends and Their Friends ard has been asked to teach physics in the University at Elilabeth Gray Vining presented the Sixth Ward Lecture Mayaquez, P. R. at Guilford College, "Women in the Society of Friends," on November II. Copies of the Ward Lectures in pamphlet form A new edition of Historical Sketches of Harford County, are available without charge on request from Guilford College. Maryland, by Samuel Mason, Jr., a member of Coulter Street The only Ward Lecture now entirely out of print is that by Meeting, Germantown, Pa., has been published. Not only are Howard Brinton, which may be read, however, as the chapter most of the illustrations new, but 52 pages of reminiscences on education in the book The Quaker Approach to Contem­ have been added which those familiar with the subject will porary Problems. especially cherish. Arthur W. Silver writes about the 177-page book as follows: "Everyone who knows or has visited in Har­ Alfred G. Steer, Jr., a member of Lansdowne Meeting, ford County, or anyone who knows well some other rural Pa., has been appointed assistant professor in the German promised land will find the personal recollections sheer bliss.'' department and also assistant to the dean of Harpur College, The book can be ordered from the author at Little Pines the Arts College of New York State University. Farm, Darlington, Md. 398 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 17, 1955

The new International House in Tokyo, Japan, was dedi­ Friends were well represented at the Fifth National Con­ cated last June. John Rockefeller, III, delivered the opening ference of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, which address. Homes are provided for the families of the managing was held from November 3 to 5 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edward director, Shigeru Matsumoto, and Gordon T. Bowles on the and Esther Holmes Jones, C. Mervin Palmer, and Esther M. same compound. Gordon Bowles is also teaching anthropology Furnas represented Friends General Conference. A. Bt.!rnS in Tokyo University. Chalmers and Clarence E. Pickett represented the American Friends Service Committee. On the opening day of the con­ ference Esther Jones showed colored slides which she had Henry D. Cox, 534 Floral Drive, Whittier, Calif., writes taken of UNESCO projects in South America this past sum­ that there is a need for books about "the history of the mer. These included photographs of the projects on adult Quaker church" at Union Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba. Henry education by radio in Columbia, the project on international D. Cox is a Friend who has done some translation of Quaker understanding in schools in Ecuador, the minimum science material into Spanish. Among the graduate students at Union laboratory for teaching science in secondary schools in Peru, Seminary are some Friends who wish to do research in the the pilot project school at La Paz, Bolivia, and the pilot field. These students read English. American Friends who have new or used books on the subject which they are willing project at the Pillapi Hacienda on the shores of Lake Titicaca, to contribute are asked to mail them to Miss Lois Davidson, which is bringing new life to the educational program of the Librarian, Apartado 149, Matanzas, Cuba. "The package, if rural schools. marked 'Books' ('Libros') will go for eight cents a pound As the accredited observer of Friends General Conference and will be admitted (as a rule) without going through at the United Nations, Esther Holmes Jones works to help customs." Henry Cox concludes, "There are now five denomi­ Friends become better acquainted with the United Nations nations at this Union Seminary, which was organized and and its work. She is available to show to local Meetings the started in 1946.... Friends should be happy to have a part slides referred to above and also photographs taken the pre­ in this work." vious summer in Patzcuaro, Mexico, where UNESCO has a project in fundamental education. In addition, she is prepared to report on the work of the United Nations Children's Fund, After an experimental period of two months in October the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Health and November, Friends have decided to go on holding regular Organization, all specialized agencies of the U.N. Any Meet­ meetings for worship at the old Friends Meeting House, Cen­ tral Avenue at Trakey Street, Dover, N. H. Beginning Decem­ ing interested in arranging such a program should contact ber 4, the meetings will be held at a new hour, 2:30p.m. each the Friends General Conference office at 1515 Cherry Street. Sunday. Correspondent is Vail Palmer, Gonic, N. H. Philadelphia 2, Pa.

Bliss Forbush, headmaster of Baltimore Friends School, Between 400 and 500 teachers, administrators, trustees, and has been reappointed to the Board of Trustees of Morgan staff members came together for the fall meeting of the Private State Teachers College, Md. School Teachers Association of Philadelphia and Vicinity. The program featured group meetings between 4:30 and 6 p.m. on 25th Anniversary of 57th Street Meeting, Chicago the following important educational subjects: "Self-acceptance," "Marks as Motivation: Is This still an Open Question?" "The For this commemorative occasion we are planning a re­ New Impetus and Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages in union of Friends among whom the 57th Street Meeting was the Elementary School," "Recent Developments in the Field of organized in 1931, together with those who have since or Foreign Language Teaching for Secondary Schools," "Prep­ before helped us along the way. Our observance of the Meet­ arations for College Entrance in Scientific Fields," and "Juve­ ing's 25th anniversary will take place Sunday afternoon, nile Delinquencies: Some Causes and Remedies." January 8, 1956. We shall then return for that observance to the founding site of our Meeting, John Woolman Hall, 1174 Paul Blanshard, Jr., from Station WHYY (radio and East 57th Street, Chicago. TV) spoke on "New Tools of Education" at 7:15 p.m., and Commemorating the anniversary with us will be early be­ Dr. Paul W. Partridge, Jr., director of the division of liberal ginners, once-upon-a-timers, and late starters--from these en­ arts, Philadelphia Museum School of Art, spoke at the evening virons or from afar. We shall welcome also representatives of meeting. other Meetings or churches in the area. Our special hope is that all nonresident charter members will arrange to attend this homecoming (with enabling hospitality offered by Friends During this season some local delays in mail delivery here) or send to me at Quaker House, 5615 Woodlawn Ave­ are likely to occur. We suggest that our subscribers in­ nue, Chicago 37, Illinois, before the present calendar year quire at the local post office when copies of the FRIENDS ends, any messages of greeting and reminiscence. JoURNAL do not arrive on time. Each issue is mailed regularly on Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia. HARoLD W. FLITCRAFT, Chairman 25th Anniversary Committee December 17, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 399

Letters to the Editor BIRTH Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous MOON-On November 19, at Rosemont, Pa., to John M. communications cannot be accepted. and Lois C. Moon, a son named EDWARD RANDOLPH MooN, II. I wonder if readers of FRIENDS JOURNAL have any books He is a grandson of Edward R. and Elizabeth M. Moon of by Rufus Jones which they would be willing to sell at a rea­ Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. sonable price. I am undertaking a detailed study of Rufus Jones' work in my spare time, and have had great difficulty MARRIAGE in locating any of his books since most are out of print. Used WILSON-BACON-On November 26, in the Salem, N.J., copies seem to be much in demand, and secondhand book­ Meeting House, MuRIEL ADELE BACON, daughter of Isaac W. stores have little to offer. I am interested in all Rufus Jones' and Hedwig M. Bacon, and PAUL DAVID WILSON, son of Mr. books, but particularly in Flowering of Mysticism, Studies in and Mrs. William H. Wilson of Lewes, Del. The bride is a Mystical R eligion, Spiritual R eformers in the 16th and 17th member of Salem Monthly Meeting, N. J. They will live in Centuries, and his early works. Lewes, Del. I would be very grateful if Friends having these books DEATHS who would be willing to consider selling them would contact McDOWELL-On December 6, at St. John's Hospital, me at the following address: Apt. 5-D, 400 East 16lst Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., MARY S. McDowELL, daughter of the late Bronx 51, N. Y. Joseph T. and Annie L. McDowell, a member of Schermer­ Bronx, N.Y. JAMES OSGOOD horn Street Meeting, Brooklyn, N. Y. Surviving are a sister, Lillian J. Rochester (Mrs. J. C.) of Greenwich, Conn., and Concerning Committees of Worship and Ministry and the a brother, E. Carleton McDowell of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. laying down of Philadelphia General Meeting this year: One MOORE-On November 28, in West Grove, Pa., Com­ area in which the current Friends Meetings need help in munity Hospital, WILLIAM PAXSON MooRE, in his 80th year, deepening the quality of the period of spiritual worship is in an active member of London Grove Meeting, Pa., and a con­ the fuller appreciation of the ways and means of enlarging cerned participant in the community activities of West Grove. our spiritual base. It seems to me that the original concept of He was born, raised, educated, and lived in Chester County all the General Meeting was to provide such a gathering with the his life. He was the husband of the late Sarah Pusey Moore. primary objective of giving us a corporate opportunity to Surviving children are Pusey L. Moore of Chatham, Pa.; Helen accomplish this end. Unfortunately, from the viewpoint of M., wife of Howard M. Heald; Lawrence W. Moore of West this writer the program of the General Meeting was permitted Grove; Mary L., wife of Pusey Caldwell, Lancaster, Pa.; twelve to include more and more committee reports reflecting the grandchildren and twin great-granddaughters. activities of the Society and away from the original concepts of deepening our foundations. Be that as it may, I urge mem­ Mary Stone McDowell bers of Worship and Ministry Committees to give this situa­ Mary Stone McDowell passed away on December 6, 1955, tion most diligent thought and prayer. in her 79th year, after several months of poor health. A birth­ Also since the annual meetings of Worship and Ministry right member of New York Monthly Meeting (15th Street), have been so closely allied with the Yearly Meeting's regular she dedicated her life to the concerns and testimonies of her business reports, the need for our midwinter meeting is even Society. She taught in the Brooklyn First-day School, and was greater than before. On all sides we read and hear of the a favored speaker in the Meeting. urgent need for development of spiritual power in individuals. By appointment of the Yearly Meeting, she was a member Therefore this mission of the General Meeting deserves our of the American Friends Service Committee from its beginning combined and consecrated attention to determine aright the to the present time. In both Monthly and Yearly Meetings wisdom of laying it down at this critical time both in the un­ she was a member of the Peace and Service Committee. She rest of the world and a certain poverty of spirit in many areas was a pioneer member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation of our own Society. and of the War Resisters' League, and gave devoted service Is the world not now concluding that spiritual forces are to the cause of peace everywhere. the only ones which can effectively combat those of destruction? The First World War found Friends too largely unprepared Wallingford, Pa. ELLIS W. BACON for such a test. The peace testimony was honored largely as a tradition. Mary McDowell, however, knew the implications May I express through the FRIENDS JouRNAL my thanks of her faith. She was teaching Latin in a Brooklyn public and appreciation for the article by William T. Scott on school in 1918 and refused to sign the loyalty pledge required "Modern Thought and Quaker Belief"? Such discussions as of teachers at the time. Her "trial" brought out that she was the author so well handles are needed in our days of scientific giving over a fifth of her income to the Red Cross, the A.F.S.C., scepticism to bring back to a faith in God those who in the and other war charities. She would help the sufferers but not last generation or two have been led astray by materialistic support war. concepts. Dismissed from the public school system at this time, she Clinton Corners, N. Y. ADELE WEHMEYER was reinstated in 1923 with a semi-apology for action taken 400 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 17, 1955

"at a time of great public excitement," and taught until her Coming: Pendle Hill Midwinter Institute on the Ministry, retirement in 1943. Her influence will long be felt among us. at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa., December 28, 1955, 8 p.m., to ANNA L. CuRTIS J anuary I, 1956. Subject, "Ministry to the Individual." Irene Pickard will speak on "Individual Relations in the Quaker Corning Events Group"; Carol Murphy, who has written widely on the sub­ DECEMBER ject, will lead a discussion on "The Opportunities for Counsel­ IS-Race Street First-day School, Philadelphia, 11:40 a.m.: ing in a Friends Meeting"; John M. Moore, professor at Children's Christmas Program: all adults welcome. Swarthmore College, will lecture on "The Ministry of J esus IS-Meeting of Young Friends Movement, Philadelphia, to Individuals"; Robert Clark, newly appointed clinical direc­ at 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m. Plans will be tor at Friends H ospital, will speak twice on "Qualifications made for the midwinter conference, Yearly Meeting, 1956, and and Difficulties of the Counselor"; and Gilbert Kilpack will the William Penn Lecture, 1956; a report will be given on the Young Friends of North America. Food; caroling at a local speak on one particular human problem, "Scruples." Ample hospital. time for group consideration of the place of counseling, elder­ 22-Christmas talk at Twelfth Street Meeting House, Phila­ ing, and guidance in Friends Meetings. T otal cost, $20.00; delphia, 12:25 to 12:55 p.m.: Clarence E. Pickett, A.F.S.C. nonresident attendance fee, $4.00. Those who cannot come executive secretary emeritus. for the full time are welcome at individual sessions.

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Bertsche, Clerk, 2230 Edgewood Drive, LONG ISLAND, Jr. Y..-Ma nhasset Meet· Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Streets. Augusta. lng, Northern Boulevard at Shelter Rock Fran kfor d, Unity and Wain Streets, 11 a .m. Road. First-day school, 9:411 a.m.; meeting Green Stree t, 411 West School House Lane, BVPPALO, N. Y.-Meetlng for worship for worshh>. 11 a .m. 11 a .m. and First-day school, 11 a.m. at 1272 Race and Twelfth Streets h eld j ointly at Delaware Avenue; telephone EL 02:>2. MBBXOll, PA..-Merlon Meeting, corner 15th and Race Streets. For Information about First-day schools of Montgomery Avenue and Meeting telephone Friends Cen tral Bureau, RI 6- CAMBBIDGE,MASSACHVSETTS- House Lane. Meeting for worship, First­ 3263. 11 Longfellow Park (near Harvard Square). days at 11 a.m.; First-day school, 9 :411 Meeting for wor ship each First-day at a.m. In Ac tivities Building. S'.l'. PBTBBSBUBG, PLA.-Frlends Meet­ 9 :30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Telephone TR 6-6883. MIAMI, PLA..-Frlends meeting held on Ing, 130 Nineteenth AvenueS. E. Meeting top floor of Tuttle Hotel, 11 a.m.; First­ a nd First-day school at 11 a.m. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS- The !17th Street da y school, 10 a .m. Telephone 88-6629. Meeting of all l<'rlends. Sunday worship SCABSDALJI, liBW YOBX-Unlted meet­ hour, 11 a.m. at Quaker House, :>61:> Wood· IIIli:NEAPOLXS, MI:N:NBSO'.l'A -Friends Ing for wor shl.p, First-days at 11 a .m ., lawn Avenue. Monthly m eeting (following Meeting, 44th Street and York Avenue Scarsdale F riends Meeting, 138 Popham 6 p.m. supper there) every first Friday. South. First-day school, 10 a.m.; meetinc Road. Clerk, Frances B. Compter, 17 Telephone BUtterfield 8-3066. for worship, 11 a.m. Richard P. Newby, Hazleton Drive, White Plains, N. Y. Minister, 4421 Abbott Avenue South . SHBEWSBVBY, liBW JBBSBY-Meeting CLABEMO:NT, CAL.-Friends meeting, Telephone W A 6-96711. House at Broad Street and Sycamore Ave­ 9:30 a.m. on Scripps campus, 9th and nue, 11 a.m. For Information call S. Fus­ Columbia. Ferner Nuhn, Clerk, 420 W. MOll'.l'CLAIB, liBW JBBSBY-Worship sell. Clerk; Red Bank 6-2040W. 8th. and First-day school, 11 a.m~ Park Street a nd Gordonhurst Avenue, 1.-1 mUes west S'.l'ATE COLLBGB, PA..-818 South Ather­ CLEA.B.BBOOX, VIBGI:NIA-Meeting for of Exit 1111 from Garden State Parkway. ton Street. First-day school at 9:30 a.m., worship at Hopewell Meeting House, First­ liBW OBLB.A.liS, LOVISI.A.liA-Friends meeting for worship at 10:411 a .m. days · at 10:1:> a.m.; First-day school at meeting each Sunday. For Information 11 a.m. telephone W A 11890 or UP 82411W. TUCSON, ABIZOliA.- Friends Meeting, 129 North Warren Avenue. Worship, First­ DES MOINES, IOWA-Fr iends Meeting, liBW YOBX, 11. Y..-Meetings fer worship days at 11 a.m. Clerk, :John A. Salyer, 741S 801 Forest A venue, Library entrance. each Sunday, 11 a.m. Telephone GRamercy East lith Street; T u cson 2-8262. W orshlp, 10 a.m.; classes, 11 a.m. 8-8018 for First-day school and meeting Information. WASHiliG'.l'Oll, D. 0..-The Friends Meet­ Manhattan-United Meetlnc for worship Ing of Washington, 2111 Florida Avenue, DOVEB, 11. J..-Randolph Meeting House, October-April: 221 E. 11Sth St. N. W., on e block f r om Connecticut Ave­ Quaker Church Road. First-day school, May-September: 144 E. 20th St. nue, First-days at 9 a.m. and 11 a .m . 11 a.m.; meetin.r for wors h ip, 11:111 a.m. Brooklyn-110 Schermerhorn Street Flushlng-187-16 Northern Boulevard WiliCHES'.l'BB, VIBGI:NIA--cen tre Meet­ GAIXESVILLE, PLA.-Meetln.r for wor­ Riverside Church, 15th Floor-Riverside Ing House, corner of Washington and Pic­ ship, F ir st-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida Union. Drive and 122d Street, 8:80 p.m. cadilly Streets. Meeting for worship, F irst­ days at 10:111 a.m.; First-day School, HABBISBVBG, PA..-Meetinf. for wor­ OBLA:NDO, PLOBIDA-Meetlng for wor­ 10:45 a.m. ship and First-day s choo , 11 a.m., ship at Soros ls Home, 108 Liberty Street, F irst-days at 11 a.m. Y .W.C.A., 4th and Walnut Streets. WOBOESTEB, MASSACHVSB'.l''.l'S-Pleas­ PASADBliA, CAL.-Qrange Grove Mon th­ ant Street Friends Meetlngi 901 Pleasant HABTPOBD, CO:N:N.- Meeting for wor· ly Meeting. Meeting for wor ship, East Street. Meeting tor worsh p each First­ ship, 11 a.m. at the Meeting House, 144 Orange Grove at Oakland Avenue, F irst­ day, 11 a.m. Telephone PL 4-3887. South Quaker Lane, Wes t Hartford. days at 11 a.m. Monthly meetings, 8 p.m., the second Fourth-day of each month. XAliSA:S O:tTY, MISSOUBI-Pe nn Valley WANTED Meeting each Sunday at 806 West 39th PHOB:Nr.l:, AJUZOliA-Meeting for w or­ Avenue. Unprogrammed worship at 9:411 sh ip, 10 a.m., 17th Street and Glendale OLD PAINTINGS AND OLD G OLD a.m. VIsiting Friends always welcome. Avenue. :James Dewees, Clerk, 1928 W. FRAMES. Write Box C72, Friends :Jour­ For Information call :JA 111116. Mitchell. nal. December 17, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 401

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