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Contents VOL 172 NO 23

3 Thought for the Week: God. Holy? Pure? Jill Allum 4-5 News 6 Drones and human rights Rhiannon Redpath 7 Tax justice Barbara Forbes 8-9 Letters Centre. Study Quaker Woodbrooke 10-11 Assisted dying – towards a Quaker view? Cadbury story on film Barbara and Paul Henderson The conflicts faced by the Cadbury 12 Divine love family of Birmingham in the first world Leslie Fuhrmann war were featured in a half-hour film on 13 On the complexity of simplicity BBC One West Midlands on 2 June. The programme, entitled Cadburys Michael Oppenheim at War, was one of eleven regional 14-15 Baptism in the Spirit documentaries that featured Allan Holmes ‘untold stories of the war’. Part of the programme was filmed at the 16 Simple life at the Meeting house Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. The film is available on BBC iplayer 17 Friends & Meetings http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/ b045gjw5/world-war-i-at-home- cadburys-at-war.

Cover image: Meeting for Worship at the British Museum. Photo: Louisa Wright. See page 5.

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2 the Friend, 6 June 2014 Thought for the Week

God. Holy? Pure?

hat does a word mean? How do we know a Muslim and a Jew attempted answers. Is this a key what thoughts are in someone’s head? If we question? How do you imagine each one answered? are listening carefully, we are listening for the How would a Quaker answer? Wmeaning behind their words, from the smallest child to When George Fox was twenty-six years old, before the cleverest intellectual. the magistrate at Derby, he said: ‘they asked me whether I love doing theology from a phenomenological I was sanctified. I said, “Sanctified? Yes”, for I was in the perspective: what that person, wherever he is, says he paradise of God.’ At thirty-four years of age he was thinks is what he thinks. It’s his truth, so we must listen. talking to a Yearly Meeting: ‘Friends must be kept in the There is no hypothetical truth. We will never all agree. life which is pure, that they may answer the pure life of So, let us ask some questions. Say we start with a God in others.’ Was he holy? Was he pure? He would three-to-four-year-old and ask: What does holy mean? answer, ‘Yes, by the grace of God.’ What does God mean? You will be surprised by the How did he become so sure? I think that his ‘opening’ answers. Simple, direct and honest. Children haven’t at twenty-four, when he got through the flaming sword learnt to be otherwise and give no wordy, intricate into paradise, is the key. I believe that a major event answers, where the hearers switch off after the first two took place for the young George, not unlike Paul’s sentences. I have met so many people who say, ‘When I conversion on the Damascus road. He has already was three, I had a sense of the holy/numinous/mystical,’ heard the revelatory voice saying, ‘There is one, even and they can tell you exactly where they were when the Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition’. Then, the ‘revelation’ came. following year, he has the ‘vision’ of being in paradise Is holiness/pureness possible? George Fox thought knowing ‘nothing but pureness and innocency and so: ‘When I came to eleven years of age, I knew righteousness’. pureness and righteousness’, and, at twenty-four years, I believe this is crucial to Fox, because he put this he said: ‘Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword on his favourite seal. Now, if you were flaming sword into the paradise of God’. Jesus thought going to have a seal made, and write 400 letters, surely so. He said to the penitent thief on the cross: ‘Today you you would want your seal to be what you would want will be with me in paradise’ and ‘Blessed are the pure in to be known by – the first thing that would be noticed heart’. Kathleen Ashford, an elder at Beccles for many before the letter was opened. So, a curved sword and years, also thought so: ‘I was four years old when I wet the flourishing letters GF. No one could mistake it! my pants, and knew I had left the Garden of Eden and It was the symbol of paradise. What cost was a letter, could never go back.’ almost always written from prison by someone there Our university, the University of East Anglia, held a to help him, sent out across the country on horseback! ‘Hot Potato’ evening on 19 March with the question, Dear George, if only we could get closer to you, and ‘What does it mean to be pure in heart?’ A Christian, not doubt but believe!

Jill Allum Norfolk and Waveney Area Meeting

the Friend, 6 June 2014 3 News Jewish worship in York York will again see regular ‘another room booking’. He themselves Jewish. Jewish services, almost forty years stressed that the Meeting rents ‘York’s Liberal Jewish Community after its last synagogue closed – at rooms to a number of faith groups. now aims to add to what is already Friargate Meeting House. Chris added that local Quaker on offer, by providing regular The first Shabbat morning and Jewish communities had services and a friendly Jewish service will take place on Saturday collaborated on several projects, home to any residents, students 14 June, led by Liberal Judaism’s including a Holocaust memorial. and visitors to the City of York who chief executive, rabbi Danny Rich. ‘We sit comfortably together,’ he identify as Jewish,’ said Community Subsequent services will be held on said. member Ben Rich. the second Saturday of each month. The York Liberal Jewish For Friargate Meeting, while Hebrew lessons and children’s Community is behind the new this remains a straightforward activities are also planned. services. While it is not yet known room letting, Edwards said that Friargate Meeting House how many people will attend, similar arrangements with other manager Chris Edwards told the the Community says that more groups have led to spin-offs and Friend that the move is simply than 200 York residents consider knowledge exchanges. Prisoners need more help

More needs to be done to help she wants ‘to publicise everything ‘We weren’t sure how the prisoners, asserts a former Quaker that is good and bad about the Meetings would be received but prison chaplain in a new book. prison system’. they loved them,’ she said. Confessions of a Prison Chaplain, She believes that the element Mary, of Stroud Meeting, served by Mary Brown, was published last of Quaker worship most valuable as a prison chaplain from 2000 week and deals with her experience to the prisoners who attended until 2012. She previously taught of the criminal justice system. Meetings for Worship was the in an open prison, and came to ‘One in three prisoners have been silence, which remains in short prison chaplaincy with a particular in care at some point and it just supply in British prisons. It was insight, having spent ten days goes to show that more needs to the silence that attracted a diverse in custody in 1960, as a CND be done to help people with their group of prisoners, including protester. problems, rather than just locking Travellers who could be seen The book covers a range of them up,’ she writes. silently saying the rosary during topics, from Christmas in prison to With the book, Mary said that Meetings, she explained. learning behind bars.

Brighton Friends seek ideas for new initiative

Friends in Brighton are seeking ideas from need to be taken into account, we are seeking also to other Quaker Meetings for an initiative that aims to find broader ways of bringing together members of bring together people who hold different views on the different communities into a common space, actually Palestine/Israel conflict. to hear and respect each other.’ They intend to offer Brighton Meeting House as Local Friends hope that the initiative will contribute a place of ‘encounter and sharing’ for local people towards greater understanding and reconciliation. The concerned with the situation. decision followed a well-received workshop in January Harvey Gillman, a local Quaker, explained: ‘We that included a showing of the last episode of Simon know that some Meetings are looking to find ways of Schama’s acclaimed television series The Story of the Jews. reaching out to Jewish communities after the decision ‘We should be grateful, therefore, if Friends and to boycott settlement goods from the Occupied others could pass on to us any ideas, experiences and Territories. initiatives that could help us move forward,’ Harvey ‘While this is obviously one of the elements which added.

4 the Friend, 6 June 2014 reported by Tara Craig [email protected] New Meeting house opens for worship The new Kingston Quaker Centre in South West London will host its first Meeting for Worship at 10am on Sunday 15 June. The following Sunday, the Centre will hold a ‘friends and family day’. Beginning at 10am with a Meeting for Worship, this will continue until 4pm, with lunch, musical entertainment and afternoon refreshments. A key part of the friends and family day will be an illustrated talk on both the new building and the history of Quakers in Kingston. Friends from the wider Quaker community are welcome to attend. The formal opening of the Centre will take place on Saturday 6 September. Writer and broadcaster Geoffrey Durham will be a guest speaker. Further details have yet to be confirmed, but Graham Torr, clerk of the Kingston Meeting House Committee, told the Friend that local MPs Ed Davey and Vince Cable have also agreed to attend. Some members of the Meeting get a preview of The Centre includes a number of sustainable design features, the new Meeting room from John Langley, the including an air-source heap pump, underfloor heating and architect. rainwater harvesting for toilet flushing and garden watering. It Photo courtesy of the Kingston Meeting House opens more than thirty years after Kingston Meeting decided that Committee. the existing building was no longer fit for purpose. British Museum action continues London-based Friends staged a third protest at having supported the institution since 1996. The the British Museum on Tuesday 3 June. company also sponsors the Royal Opera House, the A group of sixteen people held a silent Meeting for National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. These Worship in the building’s atrium as an act of witness in partnerships have recently been renewed for five years opposition to the role of BP as a corporate sponsor of at a cost of nearly £10 million. the museum. The group is planning one more protest before The protestors also distributed leaflets to visitors. the end of the Viking exhibition, which is currently There was a lot of interest from the public. The leaflets on show at the museum. The Viking exhibition is explained their actions: ‘We gather in stillness to show sponsored by BP. love for our earth, and our resistance to powers such as oil company BP, who sponsor British Museum exhibitions.’ New Rowntree biography Quaker Hannah Brock, who took part in the protest, said: ‘BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum is an A new biography of the Victorian attempt to “greenwash” over their considerable sins philanthropist, educationalist and social reformer against the earth and its people. It’s a hard time for Joseph Rowntree is to be published in the arts and museum funding, but by accepting BP’s autumn. sponsorship, the British Museum is helping this It is the first biography since Anne Vernon’s destructive company’s PR campaign. study of 1958 and will trace Joseph Rowntree’s life ‘I loved being part of a Meeting for Worship in from grocer’s son to manufacturing magnate. the British Museum, because it felt like we were quietly The book, which will be written by the award- but powerfully challenging the veneer of respectability winning journalist and writer Chris Titley, has that they give to a business that threatens us all.’ been commissioned by The Rowntree Society. BP is the British Museum’s longest standing partner,

the Friend, 6 June 2014 5 Report Drones and human rights

Rhiannon Redpath welcomes a United Nations address on drone use

n March, the United Nations Human Rights distinction and proportionality in the use of armed Council passed a resolution calling on all states drones. Further, the resolution calls for prompt, to ensure that their use of armed drones complies independent and impartial investigations whenever Iwith international human rights law. The resolution there are indications of a violation of international law was tabled by Pakistan and co-sponsored by Yemen, and human rights. This can be considered pioneering both countries where the United States has undertaken work by the Council, when so many concerns have multiple drone strikes. It was adopted by a twenty- been raised about the use of armed drones and very seven to six vote with fourteen abstentions. little concrete response has been generated.

The resolution followed a recommendation from Of the eight NATO member states that are also Ben Emmerson, the special rapporteur on the members of the Council there were three abstentions, promotion and protection of human rights and and three negative votes. The UK was among the fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. states who voted against the resolution, explaining In a recently published report he found that a United that existing international law sufficiently covers States drone strike in October 2006 at a religious the use of remotely piloted aircraft. The UK was seminary in Chenagal, in the Bajaur tribal region of joined by the USA, who defended their use of armed Pakistan, had killed up to eighty people instantly. drones, highlighting their commitment to ensuring Sixty-nine of them were children. use in accordance with all applicable national and international law, as befits national security needs. The resolution builds on the precedent set by the European parliament, which earlier this year called The fact that this issue has been taken up by for a ban on the practice of extrajudicial targeted a human rights body is particularly significant killings. The resolution urges that all ‘states’ using and controversial for some states. This point was drones should ensure that they are complying ‘with underlined by the USA, who, before voting against the their obligations under international law, including the resolution, commented, ‘this Council is not an arms Charter of the United Nations, international human control forum’. rights law and international humanitarian law’. When the Council meets again in September the Zamir Akram, Pakistan’s ambassador, said Pakistan’s panel of experts formed in the wake of this resolution purpose in calling for the Human Rights Council’s will present its first report. We will wait to see what involvement was ‘not to name and shame anyone’. progress is made, as the international human rights However, he explained that the Human Rights Council community takes up the issue of armed drones, has already taken jurisdiction for drone strikes, contributing to the efforts and work of other groups – because of reports by its experts, and that it should including Friends – on this critical issue. undertake a more systematic look. Rhiannon is the programme assistant for peace and The UN resolution is quite strong, calling upon disarmament at the Quaker United Nations Office in states to ensure the principles of precaution, Geneva.

6 the Friend, 6 June 2014 Talking point Tax justice

Barbara Forbes writes on tax havens, tax dodging and the seeds of war

‘May we look upon our treasure, Manual – an organisation whose website includes the furniture of our houses, and our garments, items on anonymous banking, buying your own and try to discover whether the seeds of war offshore company in more than thirty offshore have nourishment in these our possessions.’ jurisdictions, ‘Ready-Made Panamanian Corporations, Trusts and Foundations for only €1250’, opening a hese words of John Woolman, written in about Swiss bank account, and purchasing useful second 1770, underline that our prophetic role as a passports. This is a murky world – which we enter at peace church extends beyond war and weaponry. our peril – so totally opposed to everything Friends T For many years I had considered work on hold dear in our testimonies to truth and simplicity, development and financial issues to be intimately yet fascinating in the insights it gives into the amoral linked to peace concerns, and in autumn 2012 I took attitudes of many who have chosen another path. my concern that tax havens and tax dodging were We exist on a spectrum of truth and responsibility, also ‘seeds of war’ to Central England Quaker Peace and it is quite clear where Quakers stand. American Committee. With their support, I contacted the local Quaker David Morse thinks that ‘if John Woolman Christian Aid office to see how we could take it were alive today he would see the global economy as further. This developed into a project where I was able the slave system it is: a deregulated, profit-maximizing to spend time using Christian Aid resources (access colonial system in which transnational corporations to documents, reports and stories from their work freely exploit the cheapest labour available – jumping around the world) to prepare a presentation on tax … to whatever workforce is cheapest, and wherever justice that is currently being taken round Meetings in repressive regimes can be bought’ (New England the West Midlands. Yearly Meeting Committee on Prejudice and Poverty). My fascination with multinational corporations Unaccountable offshore jurisdictions (tax havens) dates back to the 1980s when, as a church worker enable this exploitation to take place. in Hamburg on development education, I helped Quakers have a history of getting our hands dirty. to set up the German Pharma Campaign and the We engage with unsavoury practices such as slavery, Agribusiness Campaign (both still flourishing three torture, child soldiers, and hope to shine our Light decades later) as part of a national NGO. In those days into their depths. One Quaker, Richard Murphy, I was a Lutheran, not yet a Quaker. When I returned set up Tax Research UK and, in 2013, was rated by to the UK and came into contact with Quakers I the International Tax Review as the seventh most saw clear parallels with the ‘Peace Church’ strand of influential person in global tax, ‘setting the tax agenda Lutheranism where I had felt so at home. Working for in a way which must be frightening for his opponents’. justice is equally laid upon Quakers and, as a historic We cannot all do what Richard Murphy does – we peace church, we have our own clear perspective. do not have the knowledge and expertise. But we can At that time I already knew about the labyrinthine take sides, and as Friends we must take sides for the structures set up by multinationals for transfer pricing poor and against injustice and lack of transparency. and tax dodging. What was new to me now, however, was the extent of the blatant promotion of tax dodging, Barbara is a member of Central England Area Meeting. the role of the City of London at the centre of a spider’s web of tax havens and the worldwide network of high- Richard Murphy will be delivering the Salter Lecture at level and grassroots campaigns which are uniting to Yearly Meeting Gathering on Thursday 7 August. rein in the excesses of the global economy. The scale of the challenge ahead became clear when For further information on the Tax Justice campaign, my journey of discovery unearthed the Offshore contact your local Christian Aid office.

the Friend, 6 June 2014 7 Letters All views expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily those of the Friend

Tua’r Tarddiad hand who, on hearing of a colleague who has had a Gerald Hewitson’s piece about the cultural and wage rise, reacts as if he had received a pay cut. emotional differences in tone and meaning between Adrian Smith two languages (30 May) must have rung bells for many Chelmsford Meeting, Essex Friends struggling to express themselves in more than simply their mother tongue. As a Quaker couple we feel it necessary to say that in Swiss German was spoken in my family, but we recent weeks we have opened the Friend with dread. It lived in the French part of Switzerland; when I started has been a painful few weeks. kindergarten, I quickly adjusted to my new friends and Strong voice has been given to opposing equal learned to chatter in French. I do not remember being marriage; views sincerely held, but very trenchantly aware then of any conflict, but when, aged thirteen, expressed. It is our hope that Friends will pause and we moved to Zurich, where Swiss German was the see these letters from our perspective and hear those common dialect and German the official language, it strong words with our ears and spoken to our hearts. was like a homecoming for me. Some years later I was Please talk with us, not about us or at us. We do not given as essay topic ‘changer de langue c’est changer de threaten you. We, too, are Friends. Like others we climat spirituel’ (to change language is to change one’s are ‘loving and faithful’ through ‘divine assistance’. spiritual climate). I felt I had plenty to say about it! The gifts and graces in all relationships can never be While feeling rather stressed and exhausted, the diminished by other people; nothing valuable in a words on occasion have come to me: ‘God, just relationship can ever be taken away from us by others. catch me’. Gerald’s article made me wonder how this There is no profit in feeling offended, neither is there would translate. While in German fang mich has any point in being offensive. We hope for reconciliation to me something intrusive and the French attrappe among Friends and ask Friends to remember our shared moi even more so – it can sound violent even – the pilgrimage and life – whatever our ‘state’. English version conjures up an image of some parent The Friend is a Quaker Meeting; it should be a place preventing a child’s fall or embracing it as it jumps of kindness, gentleness and love. A dwelling for the from a wall. I rather like the English language! Spirit of God. Sonja Rose Mark Lilley and Paul Fitzgerald Oast House Meeting, Cambridge Lincoln Meeting, Lincolnshire

First world war Politics and religion I have become increasingly concerned at Friends’ It is right not to be aligned closely with a particular activities commemorating the first world war. political party and right to acknowledge a range of To commemorate, according to the New Shorter political choices amongst our membership. Yet, I am Oxford Dictionary, is to ‘mention as worthy of grateful for John Veit-Wilson’s letter (25 April). remembrance; celebrate in speech or writing’ and to Our corporate understanding of our promptings of ‘preserve in memory by some solemnity of celebration’. love and truth involves discerning how society can I find myself in sympathy with Valéry Giscard move closer to the kingdom of God. This outworking d’Estaing, the former president of France, who of our testimonies is, essentially, political. expressed, in the Financial Times on 24 May 2014, in my It matters enormously that we can reach such view, a much more Quaker-like position: ‘What is there shared understandings. If our differences made this to commemorate? It was a war with no purpose that impossible, we would be left with the shared process of ended in an abominable massacre. I won’t commemorate Meeting for Worship, without any witness that could it. I will reflect, remember, but not commemorate.’ emerge from it to move us towards being a people of John Hall God. For myself, that would not be enough. Colchester Meeting, Essex Britain Yearly Meeting is currently deepening its understanding of equality, of wealth and power, and looking towards different models of economic Same sex marriage organisation. It also sees our current model as I hold no particular brief for same sex marriage, but incompatible with our commitment to sustainability. I have been puzzled by some recent letters on this These stances cannot be identified with any of the subject to the Friend. It seems to me that for people in main political parties, but they are rooted in the longstanding traditional heterosexual marriages to say radical tradition. Will those of a conservative mind that they feel their relationship has been damaged by see things in this way? We must hope some will. But the advent of same sex marriages is a bit like a factory it is pointless expecting Britain Yearly Meeting to be

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politically neutral. We are not equidistant from all complexity of the problem and the political issues points of the political compass. We witness to truths raised (including immigration). Wider supply of birth we find in our spiritual searchings – individually and control devices is useful, but only a small contribution corporately. How far the Society shares the approach of to the problem. the UKIP, the Conservatives, Labour, the Green Party I believe that equality should be our motivation, and so on necessarily varies. That’s as well. not population itself or sustainability. If third- Jonathan Dale world countries had full access to the medical and 48 Coronation Street, Salford M5 3SA agricultural technology in the West, population growth would respond as in Britain since Victorian times I agree with Barbara Forbes (30 May) that the rise of (when many families had more than ten children). the neo-fascist parties in Europe is a shock, although If our economic system were built on zero growth, we have known about these parties for some years. rather than maximum profit, it would be sustainable The results in different countries have been mixed. and much else would become sustainable too. The There has been a big rise in France (Front National + real problems are global inequality and growth-based twenty-one MEPs), Austria (Freedom Party + two), economics. Population growth is a result of human Denmark (People’s Party + two), Finland (Finns greed, not a separate problem. Party + one), Greece (Golden Dawn + three), Sweden Geoff Pilliner (Sweden Democrats + one). In some countries the Alton Meeting, Hampshire results of the far right have remained the same or are small, such as Germany (one National Democratic Party MEP out of ninety-five), Hungary (Jobbik Shot at dawn – the most racist in Europe stays at three) and the In the current coverage of conscientious objectors, one Netherlands (Freedom Party stays at four). In some important book that I have not seen mentioned is For countries the far right vote is down: Belgium (Vlaams the sake of example by the late Anthony Babington, first Belang – one) and Italy (Northern League – four). published in 1983. As an army officer the author was The former fascist countries of Spain and Portugal horribly wounded during the landings in France in the returned no far right MEPs. Other countries, such as second world war and was left with serious physical Ireland and Estonia, have none either. handicaps, but decided to study law and eventually Overall, the European results are of concern. There became a circuit judge. The sub-title of his book is are organisations, such as the Anti Fascist League and ‘Capital Courts Martial 1914-1918: The Truth’. It is the magazine Searchlight, that are very informative and highly critical of the procedures followed. Relevant files campaign on these issues. They are possibly useful to held by the Ministry of Defence were marked as not associate with. for release for seventy-five years, but Babington was Bill Hughes granted privileged access in 1983. He died in 2004. [email protected] Phillip Gething [email protected] Population Sustainability gets more fraught as population increases. In essentials unity, But simple logic ends there. Population growth is in non-essentials liberty, an emotive, politically loaded, worldwide problem. Population depends on both birthrate and longevity. in all things charity. Birth control cannot be enforced and people cannot be persuaded to die early. Stopping development of The Friend welcomes your views. Please keep letters cancer cures or antibiotics is ethically and politically short (about 250 words) and include your full unacceptable. Population control in China, Nazi postal address, even when sending emails. Please Germany and Australia produced unacceptable specify whether you wish for your postal or email consequences. Individual witness by limiting our own address or Meeting name to be used with your families is worthless for the worldwide problem. name, otherwise we will print your post address or There is credible evidence that the world population email address. Letters are published at the editor’s will peak at ten billion, and that the world can provide discretion and may be edited. Write to: the Friend, food and water for ten billion if technology and 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ or email resources are shared equally. [email protected] So, what is a Quaker attitude to population? We Remember if you are online that you can also comment on all articles at www.thefriend.org cannot do anything without understanding the

the Friend, 6 June 2014 9 Witness Assisted dying – towards a Quaker view?

Barbara and Paul Henderson address a growing Quaker concern

hen we joined Leeds Area Meeting’s End preparation for one’s own death and consideration of of Life Care working party just over a year attitudes towards death and dying. The working party ago little did we think that the work of the continued corresponding with the national Quaker Wgroup would coincide with such an increase of public Concern Around Dying and Death group, which meets interest in the issue of assisted dying. It is hoped that at Woodbrooke and runs courses there. The ongoing Charles Falconer’s Bill will have its second reading dialogue between the two groups is important. At in the House of Lords before the summer recess. Yearly Meeting in May 2013 both groups ran special Furthermore, there have been a number of high profile interest meetings. There was much interest in the topic cases and announcements in the media: the most recent and many Friends were supportive of the suggestion being the pact of chat show hosts Richard Madeley and that Britain Yearly Meeting should consider it further. Judy Finnigan to assist each other to die if needs be – regardless of any legal consequences. Focus groups

End of Life Care The working party has been fortunate in being able to draw upon the time and expertise of Judy Kessler, an In October 2010 Leeds Area Meeting received a minute attender at Carlton Hill Meeting in Leeds. She is studying from one of its Local Meetings, Adel, supporting the for a MA at Leeds University and has undertaken concern of an individual Friend about assisted dying. research for the working party for her dissertation. This Friend, Quentin Fowler, continues to be an There were two components of the research. inspiration for the work. An Assisted Dying working Firstly, all Leeds Quakers were given the opportunity party was formed and it has undertaken a range of to discuss assisted dying and related matters in focus activities. Some of these have been reported in the Friend groups. There were six of these, held at five different (‘The last taboo’, Ben Francis, 10 August 2012; ‘A good Meeting houses. A total of fifty-five people participated. death’, Caroline Humphries, 5 July 2013). The report The discussions were recorded and transcribed. The by Ben Francis refers to the position on assisted dying insights and ideas were powerful and often full of in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In this emotion. article we focus on the activities of the working party On assisted dying, very few people were against over the last year and on the way forward. it. Some said their minds were not made up: ‘I see In May 2013 the name of the working party was the benefits but have some reservations.’ Most of changed to End of Life Care. This reflected the wider the discussions were concerned that a change in the context in which the working party was moving, notably law needs to include safeguards to prevent abuse of the context in which the issue of dying needs to be the system. There was recognition that a change in considered – palliative care, hospitals, nursing homes, the law in favour of assisted dying would need to

10 the Friend, 6 June 2014 happen in parallel with an increase in the availability pain, is terminally ill and has requested help to die on of palliative care. The most distressing comments more than one occasion and is thought to be within were those relating to the suffering witnessed because six months of death, the responses were as follows: yes assisted dying was not available and treatment for pain (plus qualified yes) 81.9 per cent, no (plus qualified no) was inadequate: 8.5 per cent and don’t know 9.6 per cent. Respondents were asked to consider if the question ‘I know she was in terrible pain. Between these bouts of assisted dying is related to the Peace Testimony of morphine she used to get very agitated before it or other testimonies and beliefs. 53.9 per cent (plus was time for her to have it. And that made her death qualified yes) said yes, 27 per cent no and 19.1 per cent and everything about it really hard.’ don’t know. The comments received in answers to this question were strong and challenging, for example: Accepting responsibility ‘We make no war, not even a just war. We eschew A theme running through the discussions was that of violence. Killing or colluding in killing is a form of allowing individuals to accept responsibility before violence.’ God for any choice they make, knowing that they would be supported in their choice by the community ‘Issues of dignity and respect – of seeing that of God of Quakers around them. Analysis of the large amount in everyone – are key to finding a way forward on of data collected from the focus groups has not yet been this issue.’ completed. The experiences, perspectives and ideas are insightful and moving. People spoke with openness and A minute feeling. Secondly, all Leeds Quakers were invited to complete We have selected only a few of the findings from the a questionnaire on issues surrounding end of life care. questionnaire. The questionnaire was returned by 97 people, of whom The two research projects which we have summarised 60 were female and 37 men. The size of the Quaker were central to helping the working party to ask Leeds community in Leeds is in the region of 200 active Area Meeting to consider sending a minute to Meeting members and attenders. for Sufferings. At this point it became clear that the Of the respondents, 69 per cent had written a will, issue which concerned Friends most was that of assisted suggesting that over 30 per cent had not. Only 18.6 per dying. A special Area Meeting was held. Twenty-one cent had prepared an advance decision with regard to Friends were present. Great care was taken to explain wishes for their future. It surprised us that only 35.1 the origins and activities of the working party and this per cent of respondents had spoken with their families was followed by a sustained period of worship sharing. about their wishes and only 12.5 per cent had spoken After a lengthy period of discernment a minute was with their doctor. agreed. The penultimate paragraph reads: One question asked where people would prefer to die, if given a choice. When the answers are ranked, 96.4 per ‘Throughout our deliberations what has been cent would choose to die at home as either their first apparent is our sense of great compassion for those or second choice while 70.9 per cent would choose a suffering at the end of their lives and the need for hospice. In 2012 the Office of National Statistics gave a palliative care. We reflected on why the state of end figure of 71 per cent of people wanting to die at home but, of life care in Britain today leads some to consider sadly, only twenty-one per cent had this wish fulfilled; 53 the issue of assisted dying as the preferred option.’ per cent died in hospital, 21 per cent in care homes and only six per cent died in a hospice. Quakers will, we are certain, bring a crucially important perspective to the national debate on assisted dying. Dignitas There can be little doubt that the Religious Society of Friends needs to give itself time and opportunities When asked whether, under any circumstances, they to examine the matter in great depth. It is a difficult, would go to Dignitas in Switzerland to end their own complex and controversial issue. life, 36.1 per cent replied yes, 27.9 per cent no, 34 per cent stated they did not know and two per cent did not Barbara and Paul are members of Ilkley Meeting. answer. However, in answer to the question of whether the law on assisted dying should be changed to allow All the findings of the questionnaire are available at: a doctor or friend to assist another who is in extreme http://bit.ly/AssistedDyingQuestionnaire

the Friend, 6 June 2014 11 Spirituality

Divine love

Leslie Fuhrmann considers the nature of divine love Photo: Nina Matthews / flickr CC. / flickr Photo: Nina Matthews

xford English Dictionary definitions suggest that People do much good work on earth during their divine love is strong feelings of affection having working lives and in their retirement years. After to do with God. It is usually felt to be a gift of moving on from life and work on earth some souls Ouniversal love from God to mankind. Are all Friends may be active on a spiritual plane, serving as guides, or of the Truth at ease with this broad statement? ‘guardian angels’ for earthlings. Do we label our subtle Is love a universal gift? The energies proceeding perceptions as ‘instinct’, ‘conscience’, ‘subconscious’, from God are universal, but is divine love universal ‘inspiration’, ‘ministry’, or ‘dowsing guidance’, when or, indeed, real? What of the calamities that affect they are, in fact, intimations of divine love and good people and bad alike: war, disease, pests, famine, guidance from a spiritual plane? If divine love, storms, floods, droughts, forest fires, earthquakes guidance and care come from a spiritual plane, but not and poverty? A universal love from God? Something from an omnipotent God, perhaps our prayers should doesn’t fit. Perhaps we should consider alternative be shared with our spiritual guide, maybe a deceased views of divine love. relative, friend, teacher, or ancestor, as a possible I currently think of God not as an entity or being source of divine love and help, rather than directed to but as a mysterious source of vital universal energies, an impersonal, remote, perhaps unloving, God. including gravity, electricity and life itself – life Healthy life includes receiving and giving; but not embracing the diverse human energies or qualities, just a balance – we should not be living to mark spiritual, emotional, and physical. Our emotional time, but seeking to make a difference by looking for energies include the power of love; but not all love opportunities to generate positive offerings of practical is good. Love can be directed inwardly: self-interest, and spiritual giving and creation during our daily lives. greed, lust, money, pride and power. Or it can take A full life should include the contribution of personal more beneficial forms when directed outwards: to creative additions to the worldwide spiritual pyramid family, friends, communities, mankind, nature, beauty, of universal love. Altruistic love can be our individual truth, goodness and, perhaps, at the highest level, personal offering. We each have a share of diverse altruistic, selfless love. This I think of as a form of divine energies. ‘That of God in everyone’ can be our divine love. Perhaps divine, or altruistic, love is not personal dynamo, providing fuel for us to generate something that we receive from God, but something altruistic (divine) love. we can create, using our divinely given energies. Should we view our universal gift from God not A step further; when earthly bodies become as divine love but as spiritual energy, a responsibility unserviceable, souls may, if they have progressed laid upon us all to use our personal efforts in creating sufficiently in this life, move to a spiritual plane. We effective altruistic (divine) love in action? know of the earth, oceans, atmosphere and sky. Four levels perhaps. How many levels may there be on spiritual planes? Leslie is a member of Worthing Meeting.

12 the Friend, 6 June 2014 Simplicity On the complexity of simplicity Michael Oppenheim reflects on the testimony to simplicity and motor cars CC. / flickr Photo: Flavio~

he Quaker testimony to simplicity urges us the window a bit). And the opening and closing can to live our lives simply. I enjoyed a certain be effected perfectly safely even whilst driving the smugness for many years, in the belief that I was car. Again, there is a complex arrangement whereby a Tpractising simplicity because I was driving a Citroën motor opens or closes the window. But the operation is 2CV motor car – the much-loved Freda. It was a very absolutely simple. basic vehicle. I contemplated writing a letter enquiring So, I now feel that it is actually the modern car, how many members, similarly, drove 2CVs – thereby notwithstanding its complex construction, which is practising simplicity – but decided that I might the simpler of the two vehicles to handle! Handling embarrass those Quakers who choose to drive what I a simply constructed 2CV is more complex than then considered to be ‘rather complex’ modern cars. handling a more complexly constructed modern Now, having become an old man, I recently took Fiat. I am intrigued that this handling simplicity is a test drive in a modern Fiat car up the steep roads only possible because of constructional complexity. out of Lancaster that lead to the upland ‘Trough In fact, the greater the complexity of the device in of Bowland’. Driving there in the 2CV is a slow terms of construction, then the greater becomes the undertaking, and one holds up the traffic, so I was corresponding handling simplicity. amazed at the ease with which this Fiat negotiated This simplicity/complexity paradox is present in the slopes and ordered a new car for myself. For a few other aspects of our daily lives. One might think that weeks now I’ve been driving a modern Fiat 500. My true simplicity is exemplified by lighting a candle former, much-loved, Freda is now replaced by a highly in order to illuminate a room or by chopping up respected Benito. wood with which to light an open fire. Yet, nothing But, I am revising my conception of the term is simpler to do than flick a light switch or turn on ‘simplicity’. Here is an example why. To adjust a mirror the central heating. The electric light requires prior on the 2CV it is necessary to get out of the car and installation of miles and miles of cables; which cables physically rotate the mirror. One then returns to the commence at a generating station; which station is driving seat and checks whether the view in the mirror fuelled by… who knows what – possibly even nuclear is correct or not. It probably won’t be, so one gets out fuel. The simplicity with which we turn on a light is of the car again and makes another adjustment. Even only possible when there is great complexity in the with experience, it is usually necessary to make at least electrical system. four such adjustments-and-inspections. I am intrigued by the basic understanding of what is In the modern Fiat 500, on the other hand, there are simplicity as opposed to complexity! Overall, I cannot four little buttons that control the mirror setting whilst but feel that it is my structurally complex modern Fiat the driver remains seated inside the cab. Yes, there is 500 which is the simpler vehicle to own rather than the great complexity involved in that each little button structurally simpler Citroen 2CV. controls a separate motor that alters the orientation of Could it be a Law of Nature that simplicity of one the mirror. But activation of those buttons is absolutely aspect of a system implies complexity elsewhere? But, simple! Similarly, the window opening is controlled surely, somebody has already thought of that! by a single button, by pressing either its lower half (to open the window a little) or the upper half (to close Michael is an attender at Lancaster Meeting.

the Friend, 6 June 2014 13 Faith Baptism in the Spirit

Allan Holmes writes about his experience

hese are the details of the most important days of Fred Smith, the sergeant where we lived, came to talk my life, as I remember them, after fifty years. The at our church about all the healings he had witnessed. memories were prompted by a letter from my I became close to Fred for several years and I knew he Tclose spiritual friend Dawson Price, dated 16 January was telling the truth. He and a housewife, Joan Steele, 2014. They were also prompted by words from Quaker had a weekly, non-denominational meeting in her faith & practice: thatched cottage on the outskirts of Oxford. On my third time at these meetings Joan said to me: ‘Allan I ‘…the Quaker position is really summed up in the think the Lord wants us to lay hands on you, is that words “John indeed baptised with water, but Ye shall be all right?’ As a small group laid hands on me I was baptised with the Holy Spirit”. It is the inward change, flooded with Love and out of my mouth came this the inward purification, the spiritual fact and not the loud language, which I knew to be of praise, and then outward symbol, that belongs in truth to the Kingdom intercession as images of people flashed into my mind. of God…’ This seems crazy for a scientist but is the truth. Fred and Joan called this a ‘Baptism in the Spirit’. Dawson, John Wilhelm Rowntree, 1902 his wife Norah, and about twelve others from our Quaker faith & practice 27.37 church had similar experiences.

‘While waiting upon the Lord in silence, as often we Complete healing did for many hours together, with our hearts and minds before him, being stayed in the Light of Christ within Dawson’s letter of 16 January 2014 recalled: ‘How lovely us from all thoughts, fleshly motions and desires, we to be reminded of that wonderful occasion, fifty years received often the pouring down of the spirit upon ago, when you were baptised in the Spirit. I remember us, and our hearts were made glad and our tongues that, a few days later, Beryl Fudge asked me and Norah loosened, and our mouths opened, and we spake if we would look after Hilda Woods for a couple of with new tongues, as the Lord gave us utterance, and hours. Hilda had suffered a mental breakdown and had his spirit led us, which was poured upon sons and been admitted to hospital. She discharged herself and daughters.’ phoned Beryl to ask her to collect her from the hospital, which Beryl did. Edward Burrough, 1632 or 1633–1663 Quaker faith & practice 19.20 ‘When Hilda came to us, she said she would like someone to pray for her complete healing. The Lord Baptisms of the Spirit prompted me to phone you, and you agreed to come down. When you came I said that you were better In 1964 both Dawson and I had careers at the Atomic equipped than me to pray for Hilda now that you had Energy Research establishment at Harwell. We were been baptised in the Spirit. You prayed for her in the both closely involved in a new church in Abingdon and sitting room while Norah and I prayed together in the connected with the Lee Abbey International Christian dining room. Soon Hilda came and told us she felt Community in North Devon. News had been filtering much better. She was wonderfully healed. across from America, via the magazine Trinity, of a new spiritual movement from St Mark’s Episcopal Church ‘A few months later, Bert, her husband, got a job in Van Nuys. There was much talk of healings and in Leicester, and the family moved there. After that baptisms in the Spirit. someone told me that Hilda had made a complete

14 the Friend, 6 June 2014 And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, ‘you heard from me, for John baptised with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit’. Act 1:4

recovery. I learned that she was being very much used who aren’t close, then their reactions might exceed your in Leicester, helping Asian families to enter into the love expectations. But when they are high, say with your of Jesus. wife or husband or pastor, then their reactions could then fail to meet your expectations. He developed his All of this shows us that Baptism in the Spirit is theme of your taking offence and how it walls you up. not just for our own blessing. It brings great blessing He had a lovely biblical reference saying it is easier to to others through us. It is great that you are sharing knock down the walls of a city than remake friends with your experience with Quakers, and to hear of your someone you have offended. This was the devil’s bait. experience in Mumbai and with Patrick Muganda from Your offence taken when someone you love had let you Kenya. The Acts of the Apostles continues to unfold.’ down, that offence had walled you up and removed you from love, of both that person and God. An experience in Mumbai ‘This is so exactly Allan’s experience. As he says On the 10 March 2013, at a Christian Brethren Meeting “hostility came from my wife and from a group in my in Mumbai in India, the sermon was translated, sentence Anglican church. Although we stayed together until by sentence, in Hindi or English. Here is Jane’s account our children had grown up our marriage failed. That from her blog: is when I took early retirement and came to the Lake District in 1986.” ‘The Indian preacher illustrated a point with a personal story and it was stunning. Allan and I were ‘As the service finished Allan stood and spoke about caught in his net. He spoke about being born again and how much the sermon had meant to him and how being filled with God’s love: “Put your hand up if this he hadn’t put his hand up because Allan called it a has happened to you.” This was the most important day Baptism in the Spirit. The young man translated Allan’s in your life. So, you would always remember, wouldn’t words into Hindi. An elder afterwards tried to argue you? And when you woke up the next day with a smile with Allan about the label but Allan said “that it is the on your face and in your heart. experience that matters – not the label.”’

‘Allan has often told me of the events in June 1964 A while ago I heard from someone at the 2012 Friends which led to his Baptism in the Spirit. But as the World Committee for Consulation’s World Conference preacher spoke it became even more relevant. “But in Kenya that there were many testimonies of healing do you remember,” he said, “How hurt you were. You and talk of the Baptism in the Spirit. This was verified thought everyone would be happy for you but they let to me when I recently met Patrick Muganda, general you down. They rejected you. Your closest and dearest superintendent of Kakamega Yearly Meeting, Kenya, at hurt you, even members of your church, even the pastor Cockermouth. and elders.”

‘He went on to talk about different levels of expectation Allan is a member of Cockermouth Meeting (including and when they were low, say with workmates or friends Pardshaw).

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