Friends Service Committee, 1917-1937. Rufus Discipline and Practice by Pamela Haines M. Jones describes the early work of AFSC (PH #420). A Guide for Friends on after World War 1 in Service of Love in War Conscientious Objection to War by Ben Time, American Friends Relief Work in Richmond addresses conscientious Europe, 1917-1919. Out of Hitler’s Reach, objection. The Peace Class: A Study of The Scattergood Hostel for European Effective Cheek-Turning, Neighbor-loving Peace Refugees, 1939-43 by Michael Luick-Thrams and Sword-to-plowshare Conversion by recounts the aid provided refugees during David Weatherspoon and Diana Hadley and the early years of World War 2. Memories George Lakey’s book How We Win: A Guide and and Meditations of a Workcamper by David to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigns are Richie deals with the experiences of a new additions to the Library. conscientious objector during World War 2. Non-violence Lives That Speak, Stories of Twentieth These and other books on Peace and Century Quakers offers brief sketches of the Non-violence can be found in the Cleveland lives and experiences of 17 Friends and their Friends Library. Our searchable catalogue work for peace and justice. We Won’t Go, can be accessed online by going to: A Brief Guide Personal Accounts of War Objectors by https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/clevela Staughton Lynd addresses conscientious nd-friends-meeting/resources/cleveland- to Books objection during the Vietnam War. Tribute friends-library-catalogue to a Peacemaker: Our Friend Tom Fox by in the Florence Fullerton is about Tom Fox, a Cleveland Friends Friend and member of the Christian Cleveland Friends Library Peacemakers, who was executed by religious 10916 Magnolia Drive Library extremists while working for Peace in the Cleveland, OH 44109 Middle East. War Resistance in Historical Perspective by Larry Gara provides a short examination of resistance to war. Quakers Hours: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm and the Search for Peace edited by Sharon First Day (Sunday) Hoover offers short articles by Friends on Or by appointment aspects of their peace witness in different areas of life. The Practice of Peace In the two-part The Anti-War, which consists of the essays Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People and Militant Peacemaking in the Manner of Friends by Douglas Gwyn, examines the Lamb’s War waged by early Friends “as an inversion of war; a non-violent campaign against the entire social order that generates violence and war” and how the early Quaker vision could play out in our times. Waging Peace: ne of the best-known and most argument that participation in war is attitudes toward slavery. Peter Brock’s O influential of the Quaker incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. Pioneers of the Peaceable Kingdom covers “Testimonies” is the Peace Testimony. How Christians Made Peace With War: the Friends Peace Testimony from colonial Originally published in 1661 in response to Early Christian Understanding of War by times to the First World War. Eighteenth the restoration of the monarchy in England, John Driver examines the change from the Century Friend John Woolman examined it states the Quaker view against war and Christian refusal to participate in war during the roots of war and oppression found in the violence in all its forms. In it, Friends stated the first 300 years to the later acceptance of worldly attachment to materialism in A Plea unequivocally that war following the conversion of Emperor for the Poor. Other Woolman writings are Constantine and the establishment of found in the John Woolman: A Nonviolence “[…] the spirit of Christ which leads us into Christianity as the official religion of the and Social Change Source Book. all Truth will never move us to fight and war Roman empire. Friends and the Peace Testimony against any man with outward weapons, Early Friends and the Peace Testimony neither for the kingdom of Christ, nor for the Peace Be With You: A Study of the kingdoms of this world.” The original “Declaration from the harmless Spiritual Basis of the Friends Peace and innocent people of God, called Quakers, Testimony by Sandra Cronk is a brief and Cleveland Friends Library contains against all plotters and fighters in the world” useful introduction to understanding the various materials on Friends’ attitudes written by George Fox and Richard integral place of the Peace Testimony in towards peace and non-violence. Hubberthorne, which has come to be known Friends’ faith and practice. Other resources as the “Peace Testimony”, can be found in to understand the Quaker Peace Testimony The Biblical Foundation of Peace George Fox’s Journal (pp. 398-404, Nickalls include Sources of the Quaker Peace A number of publications examine the edition). An earlier peace declaration, “A Testimony by Howard Brinton (Pendle Hill Biblical sources of Christ’s message of Peace Declaration and an Information from Us, the (PH) pamphlet #27). Practicing Peace, a and non-violence. Among them are People Called Quakers, to the Present Governors, devotional walk through the Quaker Christian Attitudes Toward War & Peace: the King, and Both Houses of Parliament, and tradition by Catherine Whitmire looks at A Historical Survey and Critical Re- All Whom It May Concern” was written six Friends and the Peace Testimony over time. evaluation by Roland H. Bainton which months earlier by Margaret Fell while Fox Friends’ Peace Witness in a Time of Crisis reviews Christian attitudes over the past was in prison. It can be found in A Sincere by FWCC includes discussions of different 2000 years including the Christian roots of and Constant Love: An Introduction to the aspects of the Peace Testimony by many Pacifism and the theory of “Just War.” The Work of Margaret Fell edited by T. H. S. different Friends. Wallace. T. Canby Jones’s George Fox’s short booklet Waging Peace: A Study in Quakers in the Face of War Biblical Pacifism by John Lamoreau and Attitude Toward War is the most detailed Ralph Beebe offers a review of biblical examination of Fox’s views as expressed in The two World Wars and the Vietnam passages, mainly from the New Testament his writings. William Penn advanced his War of the 20th Century have challenged illustrating the centrality of peace and non- Plan for the Parliament of Nations as a Friends to find ways to respond to war and violence in Jesus’s message. In The Way God precursor of the United Nations. Walking in violence. The responses included providing Fights: War and Peace in the Old Testament, the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the aid to those affected by war, assisting young Lois Barrett argues against the view that the Seventeenth Century by Meredith Baldwin men opposed to conscription for conscience Old Testament supports War. In A Weddle examines the response of New sake, alternative service, opposing Declaration on Peace: In God’s People the England Quakers to the King Philip’s War preparations for war and policies which give World’s Renewal Has Begun by Douglas of 1675-6. In From Peace to Freedon, Quaker rise to war. The Library includes numerous Gwyn and others, representatives of the Rhetoric and the Birth of American Anti- pamphlets by the American Friends Service traditional “Peace Churches” – Friends, Slavery, 1657-1761 author Brycchan Carey Committee (AFSC). Mary Hoxie Jones, an Mennonites and Brethren – provide the examines how the Peace Testimony was at early AFSC activist, provides Swords into the root of the development of Quaker Ploughshares, An Account of the American