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,, ()7. U HE U!ord is infinitely lN THIS ISSUE more powerful than the \ ' sword. He who knows how to handle it wisely and strongly is mightier than the mightiest •• !j of all kings. When the hand The Father dies which held the sword, by Florence E; Taylor the sword· will be buried with it. And as the hand becomes dust so will rust eat the sword. But when death closes the Japan Yearly Meeting mouth fn)m which came the word, it w'ill remain free and . by Esther B. Rhoads living; death has no power over it, and it cannot be put away in the grave. God's serv ants may be tied in chains Friends World Com~ittee Holds Its Sixth and locked in irons, but the word of God remains free. Session Annual Meeting of the Friends - JEREMIAS GOTI'HELF Journal Associates
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Friends World Committee Holds· Its FRIENDS JOURNAL Sixth S~ssion HE Yearly Meeting representatives comprising the Friends TWorld Committee hold sessions approximately every three years. The sixth such session of the Committee was recently held at Germantown, Ohio, with 103 persons present, repre senting 34 Yearly Meetings and 15 countries. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was represented by Mary Hoxie Jones, Emma Cadbury, William Eves, Ill, Anna Griscom Elkinton, J. Pass more Elkinton, Dorothy B. Hallowell, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr,. , and Joseph R. Karsner. Also present were Cl'arence E. Published weekly at 1616 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) Pickett, Allen J. White, Colin W. Bell, Harold J. Chance, By Friends Publishing Corporation and Bertram Pickard. WILLIAM HUBBEN JEANNE CAVIN Editor and MaRager . Advertisements Most of the 25 overseas Friends visited Meetings and fami MILDRED A. PURNELL LOUISE K. CLEMENT A1180Ciate Editor Subscriptions lies over a wide area both before and after the meeting, thus helping to deepen spiritual life and strengthen the bonds of CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS RICHARD R. WOOD, Philadelphia fellowship. The services of these visitors have been spoken of Africa ...... Maurice Webb, Durban EOKland ...... Joan Hewitt, London many times with deep appreciation. Horace B. Pointing, London There was in the meeting a growing awareness that Quaker Germa117 ...... Wilhelm KlShle.::, BraunachweiK India ...... Benjamin Polk, New Delhi ism is not the exclusive possession of a few Anglo-Saxons, -but Japan ...... Bruce L. Pearson, Osaka Tatsun011uke Ueda, Tokyo that it extends to the ends of the earth. The Friends in Asia, Jordan ...... Graham Leonard, Ramallah Scandinavia ...... Ole Olden, Stavan&er, Norway Africa, and Australasia are a full part of this great family and Switzerland ...... Robert J. Leach, Geneva Turkey ...... William L. Nute, Ankara have much to contribute to the group life. A warm invitation Lake Erie Association ...... Winthrop M. Leeds, Pittsbur&h to hold the next meeting of the Committee in East Africa and Midwest (Five Years) ...... Ruaaell E. Rees, Richmond New England ...... Thomas R. Bodine, Hartf&rd another invitation that it be held in Tokyo remind us that West Coast ...... Ferner Nuhn, Claremont, Calif. not all the concerned Friends live in London, Richmond, and BOARD OF MANAGERS Philadelphia. Ranjit and Doris Chetsingh plan a seven-week 1955-1956: Howard H. Brinton, Sarah P . Brock, Mar&aret L. Matthews, Lawrence McK. Miller, Jr., Sarah F. Splint. visit to East African Friends on their return to India next 1966-1957 : Eleanor S. Clarke, Barbara L. Curtis, Arthur M. Dewees, Irving Hollingshead, Emily C. Johnson. 1966- summer. 1958: Carol P. Brainerd, Willla H. Satterthwaite, Lydia F. Taylor, Daniel D. Teat, Jr., Anna Wood. Appreciation was expressed to Ranjit M. 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The new secre March 8, 1879. tary will be guided in his service by a small Advisory Com mittee, which may call together a somewhat larger Interim Committee should occasion demand it. The Committee reaffirmed the Quaker "objection to all Contents Page wars" and recorded its conviction "that committing ourselves Friends World Committee Holds Its Sixth to God leads us to oppose conscription for military service. Session ...... 406 We urge our various countries to move from an armed truce Editorial Comments ...... 407 to confidence and good will for our security. We plead for the The Father- Florence E. Taylor ...... 408 elimination of atomic bomb tests, and advocate the use of Our London Letter- Joan H ewitt ...... 409 atomic energy for peaceful purposes." Mary's Journey to Church (poem) ...... 410 A growing interest was expressed in Friends peace work at Love Came Down at Christmas (poem)- the United Nations, and an Advisory Committee was ap pointed to be available for consultation with the agencies Christina Rossetti ...... 410 carrying on the active service. This committee is composed of J apan Yearly Meeting- Esther B. Rhoads .. .. 411 13 persons who have had experience in peace work at the Annual Meeting of the Friends Journal Asso· international level. ciates ...... 411 A concern was laid before the Committee for the abolish Books ...... 412 ment of capital punishment. Groups of Friends both in Friends and Their Friends ...... 414 Europe and America have been active in this field. After dis Letters to the Editor ...... 415 (Continued on page 412) FRIENDS JOURNAL Successor to THE FRIEND (1827-1955) and FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER (1844-1955)
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Editorial Comments Our Public Schools Our Anonymous Educators HE White House Conference on Education may not Miss Dunn's observations on the prevalence of bored~ T have served all the purposes for which it was in rude, and spoiled children does, likewise, not need to be tended. It has, nevertheless, dramatized some of the most considered typical. But her observations indicate trends urgent needs in our nation that seem to us far more noticeable in the spirit and conduct of American youth serious in their general, cultural significance than may that bear watching. We have outgrown the excesses of appear on the surface. We learned from the Conference the kind of progressive education that permitted the that the United States needs right now 203,000 more child to accept or reject work according to the weather classrooms and an additionall70,000 rooms by 1960. An in his soul. We are, just the same, still facing the task of even more pressing question is how to find the teachers convincing many pupils and students that it demands to staff our elementary and high schools. We lack at systematic labor to acquire an education. This has present 165,000 elementary and 40,000 high school teach always been necessary. Yet we know that in our time we ers. Probably more than 60,000 teachers are leaving their have to extend this effort also to the ranks of many par profession each year either to take less burdensome jobs ents. Understanding and cooperation exist in a most or to enter a career promising a salary more in keeping encouraging degree in many, many communities. But with their training and effort. Among these, many are some observers are becoming doubtful whether such likely to quit school work because of the unbearable con communities are still typical for the whole country. ditions under which they have to work. Joan Dunn's Even if the home wants to cooperate, it remains a fact recent book, Retreat from Learning (McKay, New York), that too many invisible educators are at work undermin illustrates the disillusioning experiences of one young ing or weakening its influence. Films and TV with their teacher who left because the unpleasant working condi emphasis on violence and sex, the comics, neighborhood tions exhausted her energy and the children's imperti gangs, the drugstore atmosphere- these are potent fac nence had consumed her nerves to the breaking point. tors in the formation of the youthful mind. The lack of We hope to get more complete information on the supervision at home and the growing incidence of broken findings of the Conference than newspapers have so far families are apt to breed cynicism and the spirit of re supplied. But whatever we may yet hear about ways and volt. Again we must beware of generalizing rashly, but means of securing adequate funds for teachers and the presence of these deplorable factors in too many schoolrooms, it is emphatically important that all of us communities has become a national problem. realize now the seriousness of this problem as a cultural crisis of first magnitude. This question is not to be The Abuse of Freedom solved by schoolmen, or the Federal government, or the In such circumstances the cry for strict discipline is, states only. We may eventually rally to the enormous of course, bound to be heard. We are inclined to con financial demands involved (although this, too, seems sider it a demand for wise guidance rather than punitive by no means certain), but the cooperation of every father sternness. Apart from the difficulty of handling it wisely, and mother is indispensable in ameliorating the social, we must not expect discipline to solve all problems. The educational, and psychological conditions that are task before us includes the raising of cultural standards making too many classrooms unattractive for our young in our homes and families, in popular reading and enter men and women to enter as teachers. We do not need tainment, and in radio and TV. We are simply not to think of extreme conditions such as were pictured in alert to our task as citizens, parents, and Christians as Blackboard Jungle to realize the overwhelming demands long as we let our magazine stands be flooded with confronting teachers who are anxious to keep order, to bawdy magazines and crime stories which will always combine the teaching of their subject with the teaching find their way into the home and heart of youth under of the child, and to live up to the high ideals with which the guise of "freedom of the press." As long as we do their professional training has imbued them. not initiate and support youth centers, well staffed public 407 408 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 24. 1955 libraries, and clubs for children and adolescents, we shall education, Conversely, foreign observers · abroad are fail in providing useful activities and stimulation for often shocked by the behavior of our soldiers when they them. The absence of good, interesting, and truly enter are "on their own." In either case, generalizations are taining books in homes that might well afford them is a inadvisable and likely to be unfair in view of a more in sign of cultural failure. timate knowledge of all conditions involved. We believe in the essential health and sound judgment of our citi The Challenge zens, including our youth. The present crisis also hits The crisis in American public education coincides us at a moment when church statistics are at an all-time with our unequalled prosperity and political world high level. There are numerous othe.r contradictory fac" power. We must not fail in providing the means and tors involved in this puzzling picture. There are soaring -personnel to prepare the young for their future role as figures everywhere, good ones and bad ones. Once more, responsible citizens of the United States and the world. we are confronted with the age-old choice between quan ·Foreign educators visiting our country are rightly im tity and quality. May the New Year lead us forward on 'pressed with the care and intelligence we are giving to the road toward making a wise choice between these two. The Father BY FLORENCE E. TAYLOR
"HOW is it that ye sought me? Did you not know call me My Father and shall not turn away from fol that I must be in my Father's house?" lowing me." This again is a relationship with Judah and "And they did not understand the saying he spoke Israel as a chosen people, not individual sonship. to them" (Luke 2:49, 50). Personal Experience These words. recorded in Luke, are the only ones uttered by the youthful Jesus of which we have an ac On what, then, did Jesus build his concept? Could count. They are simple and direct. Why were they not it have been a personal experience? I think it was. understood, especially by his parents, who surely knew He was reared in a strict Jewish home, the eldest of .the boy's habit of thought? Or did they? a fair-sized family, where "Honor thy father and mother" was a natural habit springing from mutual · He was found in the temple, sitting among the affection. The father's love for this son was of particular te~chers, "li,stening to them and asking questions: and quality arising from the unusual circumstances sur all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and rounding the times before and after the lad's birth. his answers." Evidently he, too, was being asked ques We are deeply indebted to Matthew, in the first and tions and making replies quite out of the ordinary. second chapters of his gospel, for the clear picture he In a late issue of the Friends Intelligencer it was gives us of Joseph. a man of great strength of character. recommended that we read the Bible with "imagina Consider how this love triumphed over doubt and un tion.'' not to distort truth but to give it life and vitality. certainty when he was betrothed to Mary and "resolved In this spirit let us seek what was amazing in the an to divorce her quietly." Read Matthew I: 18 to 25. Love swers Jesus gave both to his parents and to the teachers. is surely the "Angel of the Lord.'' whether it speaks in _ - I think it was his confident way of speaking of God a dream or by the voice within. Here love won by faith. as "My Father." Jesus was a sensitive lad with a keen The next dream demanded faith plus-great courage mind, and by the time he was twelve. he had been well and unselfishness. Just when Joseph and Mary. with the .started on the study of the Law and the Prophets that precious babe, expected to return to their new home and he later expounded with such insight and wisdom. Did settle down, he was warned of danger, not for himself he find in them the beautiful relationship of Father or his. wife, but for this new child that had come into and son that became the heart of his own teaching? their lives. How easy to persuade himself that it was Reference to a concordance shows very few times yielding to an unreasonable fear to entertain the sug when God is considered in a direct and individual rela gestion of fleeing into Egypt to avoid the temper of a tionship. He is the "Father of Nations.'' or in a com king who did not even know them, to forego home, an parative expression, "Like as a father pitieth his chil established trade, normal living, to travel across weary ~ren" (Psalm 103). In Jeremiah 3:19 we find, "Ye shall miles of unknown difficulty and danger to a foreign land! Was this required of him? Florence E. Taylor is a member of Green Street Monthly Meet ing, Philadelphia. "And he rose and took the child and his mother by Dec.ember 24, 1955 FRIENPS( JOURNAL 409 night and -departed to Egypt and remained there until of love, and this spiritual quality runs like a golden the. death of Herod" (Matthew 2:14, 15a). thread through all of Jesus' public life. "The hairs of . When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared your head are numbered," "Your Father knows whereof in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Rise, take the child and ye have need before you ask Him," and the beautiful his mother and go to the land of Israel" (Matthew 2: 19). parables of protection like the Lost Sheep and the Spar Another dream led them back to Nazareth, to the row's Fall betray this. long-delayed n'ormal life. Such devotion is the outward We ·know not when the earthly bonds between Jo sign of great love which grew as the child grew. seph and Jesus were severed, but it is reasonable to think When the father ta).lght this son the .art of carpentry, that the love and understanding of Joseph's character is it too much to suppose that some of the experiences and worth deepened in Jesus with maturing years. of these journeys were retold in the long hours together? The concept of God as Father was established early Do we hear echoes in the parables where long journeys and expanded into an ideal that purst the bonds of are the background? ...... Judaism and included Samaritans, Greeks, and all man Jesus' recurrent surprise at the "little faith" he found kind in "Our Father, who art in heaven." ' in people might easily'come from association with Jo The faith, hope, and outpouring .love of the father: seph, whose faith was as perfect as a -child's. Such faith in the parable of the Prodigal .Son is a finished portrai~ IS contagi9us. of what a father may be. For those who have not knowq Obedience such tenderness in earthly experience, Jesus offers by Another of the fundamentals of Jesus' life and teach implication the greater, more abiding, and permeating ing that he learned from his parents was obedience love of the Heavenly Father. (Luke 2:61). He does not use this term, but over and Joseph was the point of departure from which Jesus over he speaks of the "will of my Father." We are so apt gave an entirely new interpretation of the relati~n ship to think that such power was in Jesus that he had no between the human and divine elements in life. struggle to practice the virtue, but here we get more These thoughts are suggestive and there is no desire than a glimpse of the training of a very strong will to to press the point too far. yield to guidance. The story of the temptations, as told in both Matthew and Luke, though in an ori.ental, dra matic setting, is really an inner struggle to set a right Our London Letter aim and course of procedure for the coming ministry. It EVERAL new meeting houses have recently been seems like' a bit of autobiography, or its equivalent, for completed in England, among them one at Oxford: Jesus, we are told, was alone "in the wilderness." There SThose who attended Friends World Conference there is a close relationship between his return to Nazareth and who perhaps picnicked in the garden of Oxford after th~ ,youthful visit to Jerusalem, the temptations, Friends Meeting House in St. Giles will be able to pic and the· final triumph in obedience in the Garden of ture the new one, built in warm Cotswold stone at the Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42- far end of the lawn, its roof of Stonesfield slates of al 44). most the same color. The interior, we are told, gives an It is evident that the parental training was strict but .impression of cleanliness, brightness, and simplicity. loving, for Jesus has a great deal 'to say about rewards. Wails and floor . are of oak. The benches, .in traditional Reread Matthew chapters 5 and 6 and see the emphasis Quaker style, are the work of a Gloucestershire crafts laid not only on personal conduct but on the right rela man, who has signed them with the outline of a squirrel, tionship of child and parent. The latter quietly observes his trade-mark. We are glad to think that Henry T. the growth in spiritual quality and gives praise and Gillett, who worked so hard to build up Oxford Meet encouragement. This was in all probability Joseph's ing spiritually and to provide it with fitting premises, method, and Jesus carried it forward into his teaching. lived long enough to worship in them. Jesus also has much to say about punishment, but It is good news to British Friends that when Young there is no evidence that it was a personal experience, American Friends met at Quaker Haven they were eager and it is likely that it was based on the teaching in the to promote understanding and friendship with young synagogue and was an accepted premise of those days. Russians. Friends in this country are also anxious to Read his Mother's gentle rebuke when he was lost as a get to grips with East-West questions, and this autumn boy (Luke 2:46). a number of Meetings are studying a set of papers, pro The Golden Thread duced by our East-West Relations Committee, on Chris The Nazarene home was built on the sure foundation tianity and communism. 410 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 24, 1955
Although we should not neglect these wider world bedroom. The contrast was almost too great. The day issues, if our eyes are open, we cannot avoid problems after visiting the Franciscans I went and bought myself which are close at hand. The other day I visited a street a coat and suddenly realized to my shame that perhaps in the East End of London near the docks in which I could no longer afford the small donation which I had some Franciscans are working. As I walked the length thought of sending to the Brothers. Surely there is of that long street, my surroundings became ever more something wrong in our scale of values that a second squalid. I myself work in another district which was coat should seem necessary when one already has one formerly a poor part of London, but today it abounds and when others are ill-clad and ill-fed, not only in far in new flats topped with television aerials, and I had off Asia but in the very next street. forgotten that such poverty as I saw in dockland still JoAN HEwrrr existed. Small shops for the sale of clothes, or fish and chips, the odor of which clung to the smoky air, or for the purchase of old rags, were interspersed with bombed Mary's Journey to Church buildings, their dilapidated shutters up. More and more When Mary to the church would go, of the passers-by were colored people as I approached the Franciscans' shopfront, where an illustrated Bible She came to where deep waters flow. was displayed. And when she came down to the shore, Inside was a couch for visitors, a rough wooden table The boatman young stood there before. bearing a pot of flowers, and the post laid out for the 0 boatman, sail me over the sea, Brothers. Beneath the table stood a pile of household Thy heart's desire I'll give to thee. goods including a saucepan, temporarily housed, I was told, for a man who had been evicted from his lodgings. I'll gladly sail thee over the sea In a tiny inner room the Brothers cooked and ate their If thou wilt give thy heart to me. meals. Upstairs were their sleeping quarters, and in the If I must give my heart to thee, basement was their little chapel, a haven of quiet beauty I'd sooner swim right over the sea. amid those sordid surroundings. One of the Brothers took me along a yard past an uncurtained window, When she had gone about half way, through which I saw a colored woman with a child on All the little bells began to play. her lap, to the club which the Franciscans run for col ored men. On the ground floor there is just room to Then rang the great, then rang the small, move round a billiard table, avoiding the counter of a They rang together, one and all. tiny canteen in the corner, where another Brother was Then Mary knelt upon a stone; serving cups of tea or cocoa and buns. The room above The heart-crushed boatman stood alone. was used for table tennis. (A musical ittting for this balb d appu rs in tbe Afarienlitdtr of J ohannts Brahms.) The Franciscans have acquired another building, in which they run a hostel for colored men, and in the vicarage basement nearby they organize classes in read Love Came Down at Christmas ing, writing, and English. Some of the men, I gathered, can be helped up the ladder to a more prosperous life, By CHRISTINA RossETTI but to many others who will remain at the lowest social Love came down at Christmas, level the Franciscans can give only emergency help, Love all lovely, Love divine; sympathy, and friendship. Love was born at Christmas, In times of disaster we Friends are among the first Star and angels gave the sign. to undertake work of relief and rehabilitation, but few Worship we the Godhead, of us, I think, devote the whole of our lives to the down Love incarnate, Love divine; and-outs; still less do we go and live in their midst. Not Worship we our Jesus; that these Franciscans, who are Anglicans, are typical But wherewith for sacred sign? of their church. I had just been staying at a lovely Church of England conference center with green lawns Love shall be our token, and bright flower beds just off the same sordid street. I Love be yours and love be mine, was housed in a clean, bright building, simply but Love to God and all men, beautifully furnished, with hot and cold water in my Love for plea and gift and sign. December 24, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 411
Japan Yearly Meeting bration at Yearly Meeting next year because it is 70 years since Friends work began and ten years since reconstruction November 12, 13, 1955 of the Yearly Meeting in its present form. RIENDS would all have been greatly encouraged if they Everyone felt the meeting for worship was especially fine. Fcould have attended Japan Yearly Meeting this year. Of We had wonderfully warm sunny weather, ami. there must course, it was too short, but Mr. Takemura is a good clerk have been about 170 in attendance. and keeps us moving along pretty much on schedule. Dr. Ueda gave the Nitobe Lecture in the afternoon on The reports of the various Monthly Meetings were clear conscience, presenting a very clear and informal resume of and showed increase in attendance and membership in most George Fox and the early Friends, and their conscientious of the Meetings. Committee reports, too, were very good, I objections to many laws and customs, carefully .selected quo thought; publications seemed to be moving along more or less tations from John Woolman, and a brief survey of the atti on schedule, and the report of the Kyomuin (Ministry and tudes and action of conscientious objectors of World War I Extension) was especially good. and World War II, especially emphasizing the creative gain Besides the usual annual retreat, held this year at Hayama, which has followed the taking of this stand against war. The there have been three regional retreats, one at Nishida Tenko's new Standing Committee of the Yearly Meeting met for one Ittoen for Osaka and Kyoto Friends, one at a camp at Oku hour and a half at the Friends Center, while the young tama for Tokyo Friends, emphasizing especially attenders, and Friends had a good time in the meeting house. a third in Ibaraki. These special gatherings have been useful ESTHER B. RHOADS in giving attenders opportunity to talk in a leisurely way with older members, and the results are showing in definite applica tions for membership from people who have attended for Annual Meeting of the Friends Journal several years without joining, or perhaps feeling any particu Associates lar value in membership. I noticed that at the last Tokyo Monthly Meeting committee there were six applications to November 11, 1955 be considered. HE first dinner meeting of the Friends Journal Associates Then there were the reports from the affiliated activities of T was held November 11, 1955, at 304 Arch Street, Phila Friends-Friends School, the legal body holding Quaker prop delphia, at 6 p.m. erty, the new Friends social work corporation covering the The supper was a most delightful occasion for Friends to neighborhood centers, the work of the A.F.S.C., the Old become better acquainted with one another. A short business People's Home at Mito, etc. session followed that largely concerned itself with the organ· This year the topic for consideration was "Faith Which ization of the Friends Journal Associates, the consolidated Overcomes Tribulation," taken from John 16:33. The open group comprising the former Friends Intelligencer Associates ing worship had, of course, referred to this, and in the eve and the Contributors to The Friend. ning three people representing three decades spoke on the Benjamin R. Burdsall, acting chairman for the first part topic. The first was a young Friend, probably about 26 or 27, of the meeting, spoke of the merger of the two publications from Mito, who lost everything in the war and since spent and recounted events of the last few months. This was a two or three years in a TB sanitarium. She spoke very clearly very busy period, during which much was accomplished. Appre of the sense of the presence of God which she had had, espe ciation for the increasing interest in the FRIENDS JoURNAL cially during the period of convalescence. Next was Shima was expressed. San, in his thirties, representing a Quaker in the business The report of the Board of Managers, acting as an Execu world. He spoke of his struggle to find meaning in life, espe tive Committe for the Associates, suggested the following cially immediately after the surrender when the old idea of nominations to serve the Associates for the year: joint chair· giving oneself completely for the Emperor and Japan was so suddenly brushed aside, and then he touched on the difficul men, Benjamin R. Burdsall, New York, and Daniel D. Test, ties of living his newly found faith in the complicity of the Jr., Westtown, Pa.; secretary, Emma C. Flaherty, Lansdowne, business world. The third was Mrs. Nunakawa, a housewife Pa.; treasurer, Harold W . Flitcraft, Chicago, Ill. and worker in Friends activities. She is in her forties. She William Hubben, editor and manager of the journal, spoke touched very beautifully on the tribulation which comes to of the work of the past five months, and of the great and one's soul at the time of the loss by death of a family member sustained enthusiasm of the staff. The flood of letters received or some other very close friend. She also touched on the from Friends all over the United States indicates the general tribulations which come to groups in upholding their interest in the paper. The JouRNAL has helped to direct the principles. eyes of all Quakerdom toward Philadelphia. As a part of the Sunday morning there was a short business session before promotion program a number of special issues have been the meeting for worship. Ukaji San, who was at Pendle Hill printed: a Young Friends issue, of which 1,100 extra copies 1948-1950, is named clerk for the coming year. Fumiye Miho were printed; a Wider Quaker Fellowship issue, with 3,600 of the A.F.S.C. and I are included in the committee of Minis extra copies; and a special education issue, for which over try and Extension. There will be some sort of special cele- 500 extra orders have been received. 412 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 24, 1955
Irving Hollingshead, treasurer of the· Corporation and of ward teacher. "Let .the light of Christ in you be clearly seen." the Interim Board, spoke with deep appreciation of the staff The Committee issued. a message to all Friends. In addi for the fine paper to which they are so earnestly and sincerely tion it formulated a set of questions and a statement of pur giving their every effort. The future of the JouRNAL has great poses which appear in the current issue of Friends World News. possibilities. -We have received since July 2, 1955, $1,046.75 The final sentence of the closing minute gives some indica~ in contributions from the Associates, and it is hoped that this tion of the vital spirit in which the sessions were held. "With amount will be increased considerably before the end of the greater understanding of each other, with patience, yet with ~ year. A total of $13,000 will be needed for extension work determina~ion born of the call of Christ to unity in Him, we for. a bigger and better paper. The funds of the two papers adjourn, each to share this concern in our respective"areas anci are now merged, and an appeal will shortly be sent out to to·convene again at such time and.place as may be determined.'~ all Associat~s and Contributors who have not yet contribu_ted for the: current year, _reminding them of our n~ed and sug gesting that ~ey increase their. cqntributions if p~ssible. We Books _need the best effort~ of everyone to help us balance our budget. THE BOOK OF ACTS IN HISTORY. By HENRY CADBURY_; Daniel D. Test, Jr., then acted as chairman for the second J. half of the meeting and gave us a few details of the organiza Harper and Brothers, New York, 1955. 170 pages. $2.'75 tion. T~enty-one Friends are appointed to the Corporation If Henry Cadbury's definition of a scholar as "largely a by Friends General Conference, and 18 by the Associates. The cr<;>ss between a detective and a puzzle addict" is accepted a~ names of the IS members appointed by the Court earlier this valid, then the readers of this new book from his pen will year were.approved. ·Nine lJf these are frQm the former Friends agree that in it its author shows himself a second and great~r Sherlock Holmes and that his choice of scholarship as his life~ Intelligencer Associates and ..nine from the Contributors to work deprived Scotland Yard of one who would have becom~ The Friend. A Nominiti~g Co~ittee of five Friends was the br~ghtesi star in its crown! For here is a superb piece of appointed from the~floor to serve for the coming year. These "detective" work which delves i'nto the historical situation in are Evan L. Stubbs, Edith W. Way Raymond W. Hilles, ~1:¥. 1 which the book of Acts was written. Before the reader's gaze Hoxie Jop.~s. a~d. R,uth .Perera. I pass the events, literature, and cultural patterns of tha·t in It was decided that the next meeting of the Associates volved and most interesting perioa in history. · would be held at the same time as the meeting of the Cor In five chapters, which comprised the Lowell Lectures iri poration. 1953, are shown the Roman, Greek, Jewish, Christian, and coS:. Appreciation to the editor and his staff was again expressed; mopolitan aspects of the first-century Western world, and the they have worked beyond the line of duty. It is most unusual points of contact between that world and "this earliest little for a new product like our paper to make real progress in essay of Church History [which] is one of the most interesting the summer months. A net gain of over 200 subscriptions and important narratives ever written," as Henry Cadbury during the months of July, August, and September was noted. characterizes the book of Acts. The world of that day illumines The JouRNAL stresses the things that unite us. the book, and .the book, in turn, presents materials which illumine that world and without which our knowledge of that The business meeting was followed by an exceedingly world would be much poorer. Greek customs and concepts; inspiring talk by Elfrida Vipont Foulds, well-known English Roman life, especially as regards Roman citizenship; Jewish author. Her topic was "The Lord's Business." She expressed customs; and the character of the early Christian community her interest in the JouRNAL and the good wishes of English are ferreted out by this master puzzle-solver and presented with Friends for the well-being of the paper, for maintaining its all the humor, lightness, and interest for which he is so well balanced view and the true values that unite us all in the known to Friends. The volume is easily read, interesting, .and "Lord's business." above all highly informative. It ·presents in digested form the EMMA C. FLAHERTY, Secretary rich knowledge which its author obtained through a lifetime of scholarship, delving into materials in Latin and Greek gen. erally unavailable to the average rea
malignant cancer growing in the very vitals of society. We In the November issue of Friendly Contact, newsletter of haye become obsessed with technics. The so·called conflict the Lafayette Avenue Meeting, Brooklyn, Leonard S. Ken between science and religion of the 18th and 19th centuries worthy raises the question whether music should have a part was a mistake that did little good. Men become obsessed with in the life of a Friends Meeting and reviews the different economic doctrines and activities. ways music is already being used in both programmed and The author devotes a whole chapter to what he calls the unprogrammed meetings for worship. "divorcing society," and in this we observe the grave failure the idealism and higher motives in men's lives have suffered. The "bent world" suggests something less critical than a Water colors by Dorothy Schalk and Inez Fuller were "broken" world. It deviates from its nature. We must strive among those hung in the three-county Regional Show held to straighten out the crooked places, not altogether without recently at the Springfield, Mass., Museum of Art. confidence, and to stand it erect once more in the center of the stage of human history. WILLIAM W. CADBURY At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society held in Pittsburgh in September, Dr. Theodore L. Friends and Their Friends Dehne of Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, was selected as president-elect of the Society. He will serve in this capacity The appointment of Dr. Archibald Macintosh as acting in the current fiscal year and will become president in 1956. president of Haverford College was announced by S. Emlen Stokes, chairman of the Board of Managers of the College. On January first, Dr. Macintosh, who is vice president and A new series of religious dramas will be telecast over the director of admissions, will succeed President Gilbert F. White, National Broadcasting Company network, beginning with the who announced his resignation last June to return to teaching Christmas Day telecast of the story of the Nativity, "No Room and research as professor of geography at the University of at the Inn." This telecast will be at 4 p.m. (EST) , Sunday, Chicago. It is planned that Dr. Macintosh will serve until a December 25. Though sponsored, these programs will contain new president is chosen. Dr. Macintosh served as acting ho commercial or institutional messages, so nothing will dis president of Haverford in 1945-46. turb the sincere and reverent tone of the production. Dr. Archibald Macintosh, earlier in the fall, was elected This telecast will be followed by three others, one each chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board for a month, with "The Prodigal Son" telecast over the NBC tele three-year term. The College Board, a 55-year-old cooperative vision network on Sunday, January 29, at 2:30 p.m. (EST). effort on the part of 170 schools, colleges and universities, A third, "Where Your Treasure Is," will be seen on Sunday, and 23 educational associations, has its headquarters in New February 26, again at 2:30 p.m. (EST), and the fourth, "The York City. Through its 800 centers over the world, some Fruitless Fig Tree," on Sunday, March 25, at 2:30 in, the 200,000 students will be examined this year. afternoon. Archibald Macintosh is also an overseer of William Penn Charter School and a trustee of Episcopal Academy. Paul Sekiya of Japan has been traveling in this country since April in the interest of peace for the F.O.R., the Ameri Yardley, Pa., Meeting announced on December 15 that can Friends Service Committee, and the Friends World Com construction of a new meeting house on North Main Street in mittee. While on a visit to Lehigh Valley, Pa., Friends in mid Yardley would start soon. Foundations were to be poured November, he was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, within ten days, T. Sidney Cadwallader, 2nd, Yardley attorney Pa., with a gall bladder attack. After a somewhat extended and chairman of the Finance Committee, said. series of tests he was operated on by Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads "The Meeting has approved plans prepared by Mather on December 13. He is now recuperating in Ward M, Uni Lippincott, an architect who has designed several Friends versity Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Meetings in the eastern United States," he said, "and we hope that we will be able to use the new building in the early spring. It will be constructed in the traditional Friends style East Cincinnati, Ohio, Friends Meeting received recogni and will contain First-day school rooms, a recreation and tion by the Friends World Committee earlier in the year and social room, and a meeting room which will accommodate held a formal organizational meeting on October 9, 1955, at 175 persons." the home of Merwin and Esther Palmer. Approximately 80 Sidney Cadwallader said that it had become necessary to Friends and friends of Friends, including children, were build the new meeting house because of the increased attend ance and the rapidly growing First-day school. The present present. Ralph Rose of the Friends World Committee spoke meeting house was constructed in 1868 and is located at Main on "Opportunities of a New Monthly Meeting." Clerks who Street and College Avenue. The old building will be offered assumed their duties at the November monthly meeting were for sale. It is expected that the finished meeting house will Edwin Moon, clerk, and Jessie Hoffma nn, recording clerk. cost about $60,000.00. JESSIE HOFFMANN December 24, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 415
For several years the Friends General Conference has been of the fall Committee meeting. Marjorie Dixon, Earlham expanding its religious education services. In addition to office senior, is acting Young Friends editor of this forthcoming consultation, preparation and distribution of First-day school issue. MIRIAM MICHENER material, and the publication of the Religious Education Bul letin, the Conference has provided some field work. Amelia W. Swayne has served on a part-time basis and has held con ferences with First-day school workers in all of the Yearly Letters to the Editor Meetings as well as in Meetings of the Lake Erie Association Letters are subject to editorial revision if too long. Anonymous and other independent groups. With the great growth of communications cannot be accepted. established First-day schools and the many new ones that are My thanks for publishing the "Letter from Japan" by Bruce springing up, the time seems to have come for a full-time Pearson in the December 3 issue of the FRIENDS JouRNAL. It is Secretary of Religious Education. a lucid analysis and presentation of a major problem, namely, A Friend is being sought who has a liberal theological point interrelationship of world cultures. of view and a liberal philosophy of education. He should have Philadelphia, Pa. WALTER D. VoELKER an understanding of the First-day school field and some experi ence in the teaching of classes. Academic training in the field of religious education is not necessary, but is preferred. It is An editorial in your issue of October 1 entitled "The Race hoped that a competent person may be secured by July first, for the Moon" mentions a certain Chinese, Wan Hoo, who and that office space may be found in the Central Bureau, around 1500 A.D. "actually equipped two gigantic kites with Philadelphia, until some type of Friends House provides a 47 rockets which his coolies had to kindle at a predetermined center for all religious education activities. moment. Wan Hoo had obviously underestimated the power AMELIA W. SwAYNE of this explosion and lost his life in the experiment." Though the Chinese can be credited with many experi ments and inventions in ancient times, I fear this experiment Young Friends Committee belongs in the category of science fiction. Upon inquiry I find With a memorable and challenging conference at Quaker my doubts shared by Joseph Needham and Wang Ling of Haven fresh in our minds, it was natural that our thoughts Cambridge University, England, authors of the great work should turn to "next time," the conference in 1957, as more Science and Civilization in China, soon to run into seven vol than 40 young people of the Young Friends Committee of umes. They, too, never read of such an experiment. North America met at Earlham College on November 19 I wish that in place of the word "coolies" the word "labor and 20. ers" or "assistants" had been used. The former has derogatory The opening session of this, the first of the semiannual overtones belonging to an era that happily is now vanishing. I hesitate to offer these comments, for I value the new Committee meetings for 1955-56, was spent in deliberation of a skeleton plan for the forthcoming conference: time, place, FRIENDS JoURNAL highly and read every issue with much interest. and planning committee chairman. We were united in feel Washington, D. C. ARTHUR W. HuMMEL ing Canada offered possibilities for future fellowship and (Our information was based on J. G. Leithauser's lengthy inspiration, and we set the date of the 1957 Young Friends article "Raketen zum Mond," page 202 of the June issue of Conference for the last full week in August. We were united, Der Monat, international magazine published in Berlin by as well, in naming Margaret Smith, an Iowa Friend and Earl Melvin J. Lasky and Helmut Jaesrich.-Editor) ham College sophomore, for the responsibility of planning committee chairman. A letter from Fran Smith telling of her last summer's visit To Willard Mead's views on "Preparing for Meeting" in to Friends in England and Germany, and discussion of the your September 10 issue, I should like to add the thought possibility of American Young Friends acting as hosts to a that I would like to see music used in our Sunday morning German Friend next summer emphasized our shared belief meeting for worship. I would not approve a showy, expensive in the need for personal contacts among Friends all over the organ, a robed choir, or a salaried conductor but quiet play world. ing or singing as one enters the meeting house. Again as one Out of a concern that Friends in North America know leaves it would add just that touch of inspiration and feeling more generally about the purpose and activities of the Young of reverence so much needed for spiritual enrichment. Friends Committee of North America, a publicity subcommit I hope it will be the coming thing in the Society of Friends tee presented the first draft of a flier. This is designed to show and should like to hear some discussion in the pages of your in a clear and meaningful way what the committee does and paper. what it aims to do. We are eager that this statement may Great Falls, Montana EsTHER HAYES REED reveal the spirit of Christian love implicit in our activities. The next issue of the North American Young Friends pe riodical, appearing in the January 25 issue of The American How one can sense God's will and guidance in the way Friend, will include a more complete report of all the sessions of daily living is an unsolved problem for J. Paul J. Williams, 416 FRIENDS JOUR ·!'iA~ according to his letter in FRIENDS JouRNAL, October 1st issue. HERITAGE-On December 9, J. OMAR HERITAGE, hus There ihould be some light on -his problem in what another band of the late Mary J. Heritage, of Mullica Hill; N.J., aged Paul wrote to a perplexed community about nineteen. cen• 74 years. He was a member of the Mullica Hill Monthly Meet turi.es ago. ing, N. J., and well-known throughout the Society of Friends Paul wrote to the Corinthians a chapter on the nature of in Salem Quart~rly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. God. He writes: Love is patient and kind. Love is not Surviving are a son, B. Paul Heritage, Mullica Hill, N.J., and envious or boastful.· It does not put ·on airs. It is not rude three daughters, Ruth H. Stanton and Esther H. Wright of or resentful. It does not insist on its rights. It does _not Mullica Hill, and Naomi H. Yarnall of Pittsburgh, Pa. become angry. It is not happy over injustice; it is only happy Elizabeth ~~ei:lley Hoadley with truth. It will b~ar anything, believe anything, hope Elizabeth Smedley Hoadley passed away in Los Angeles for anything, endure anything. Love will ·never die out. December 5, 1955, at the age of 92. She was born in Sandy . And Paul might have added as a footnote: Love never Spring, Md., the daughter of John Elgar and Anna Townsend wrongs a· neighbor (Romans 13:10). Hallowell. She lived all -of her earlier life in Philadelphia ~urcellville, Virginia ARTHUR E. LYBOLT and attended Swarthmore College. She· married Dr. Isaac Garrett Smedley, and after his death she married Clarence I wish to recommend to the editor, who devpted space in BurtCh Hoadley. In 1902 she moved to California, where she the October I FRIENDS JouRNAL to the spiritual state of space lived until the time of her death. She never lost her deep men to be encountered in the future, a study of Davy Crockett, interest in the Society of Friends. Surviving are two daughters, ~ho (according to a quote in October's Reader's Digest, page Florence E. Vernon and Caroline H. Colburn, five grandchil.; 159) "not only subdued the Indians and other foes of his day, aren, and nine great -grandchildren ~ as well as a host of rela but in 1955 succeeded in practically wiping spacemen off the tives and friends who have been inspired by her courage, un map." selfish devotion to oth'ers, and bright sense of humor. Elkins Park, ·Pa. DAVIDS. KEISER Coming Events BffiTH MYERS-On November 11, to Harrison and Elizabeth DECEMBER Coles Myers, a daughter named JosEPHINE ALICE MYERS. The 28 to January ·1, 1956-Midwinter Institute on the Ministry mother and maternal grandparents are members of Woods at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. Subject, "Ministry to the town .Monthly Meeting, N. J. The grandparents are William Individual." Participating, Irene Pickard, Carol Murphy, John M. and Margaret Hough Coles. M. Moore, Robert Clark, Gilbert Kilpack. Group considera tion of the place of touriseling, eldering, and guidance in Friends Meetings. Total cost, $20.00; nonresident attendance MARRIAGE fee, $4.00. WILLIAMS-KIRBY-On November 25, at Sheridan, Wy 30 to January 1, 1956-Midwinter Conference of Young oming, Ajlc DAVIs WuLTJEN WILLIAMS, son of Mrs. Francis Friends in the Baltimore Yearly Meetings, at Stony Run Meet C. Williams, Jr., and the late Mr. Williams, and DoROTHY ing House, 5116 North Charles Street, Baltimore, beginning MAE KIRBY, daughter of John J. Kirby and the late S. Hazel at 5 p.m. on Friday. Theme, "Barclay's Teachings and How Kirby of Harrisonville, N. J. They will make their home at They May Be Applied to Our Lives." Leaders, Bliss Forbush, 1681 Newark Street, Aurora, Colorado. The bride is a mem Byron Branson, Marshall Sutton. Attenders are asked to read ber of Woodstown Monthly Meeting, N. J. in advance the Pendle Hill Pamphlet Barclay in Brief. Cost, $2.00. Overnight hospitality and breakfast will 'be provided DEATHS in the homes of Baltimore Friends. BLACKBURN-On November 20, at his home in Fisher JANUARY town, Pa., ISAIAH PENROSE BLACKBURN, aged 90 years, a life !-Meeting for worship at Huntington Meeting House, long member of Dunnings Creek Monthly Meeting, Pa. He York Springs, R . D., Latimore Township, Adams County, Pa., was the last member of the Azariah and Sarah Blackburn 3 p.m. Four persons attended the December 4 meeting. family of four sons and three daughters, all valuable mem 1-0pen House in the Cafeteria at the Meeting House, bers of that Meeting. Surviving are his wife, Anne Conklin 221 E~st 15th Street, New York City, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. This Blackburn; two sons, Richard C. Blackburn of Winston will be a New Year's party and festival of the New Year, led Salem, North Carolina, and Philip Blackburn of Fishertown, by Rachel Davis DuBois. All are cordially invited. Pa.; and two grandchildren. 8-Frankford Friends Forum, Unity and Wain Streets, HARKER-On November 24, PRISCILLA W. HARKER, wife Philadelphia, 3 p.m.: John Otto Reinemann, director of pro of James Harker, 41 Simpson Street, Pitman, N. J., aged 87 bation, Municipal Court of Philadelphia, "The Challenge of years. She was a member of Woodstown Monthly Meeting, Juvenile Delinquency." N. J. Burial was in the Friends Cemetery, Woodstown, N. J. 8-25th Anniversary Celebration of 57th Street Meeting, 1)ecenrrber 24, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 417
Chicago, at the founding site of the Meeting, John Woolman munity services, youth, and the aging, with resource persons Hall, 1174 East 57th Street, Chicago, afternoon. cooperating. The Joint Social Order Committee is holding 14-Meeting sponsored by the Committee on Social Order the meeting in line with its desire to explore the possibility of the four New York City Meetings, at 225 East 15th Street, of increased service of Friends in areas in which preventive or New York City, 1 to 9 p.m. Study groups on housing, com- educational aspects would be prominent.
REGULAR MEETINGS JUAJU, l'LA.--Frlends meetlnc held on SA~A l'B, B'BW IIBDCG-Meetlng for top ftoor of Tuttle Hotel, 11 a.m.; First worship each First-day at 11 a .m. at the A17G178'.l'A, GBOBGIA-First-day school day school, 10 a.m. Telephone 88-6829. Garcia Street Club, 1109 Garcia Street. and meeting, 11: Ui a .m. every First-day, IIIlll'llrBAl'OLIS, JUllliBSO'.l'A- Frlende SKBBWSBV:aY, JIBW JB:aSBY-Meetlnc Old Government House, 432 Telfair. Faith Meeting 44th Street and York Avenue House at Broad Street and Sycamore Ave Bertsche, Clerk, 2280 Edgewood Drive, South. First-day school, 10 a.m.; meetlnr; nue. 11 a.m. For Information call 8. FUs- Augusta. for worship, 11 a .m . Richard P. Newby, sell. Clerk; Red Bank 6-2040W. . Mlnleter, 4421 Abbott Avenu• South. B17:1'1'ALO, Jl, Y.-Meetln~t tor worship Telephone W A 8-96715. S'.l'A'.l'B OOLLBGB :PA.--818 South Ather and First-day school, 11 a.m. at 1272 ton Street. First-day school at 9:30 a.m., Delaware Avenue; telephone EL 02112. JIO~OL&DI. JniW JB:a&BY-Worship meeting tor worship at 10:411 a.m. and First-day school, 11 a .m.t Park Street OAJIBBIDGB,JIA88AOJ1178B'.l''.l'8- and Gordonhurst Avenue, 1. miles west 8T:aA01711B, liBW YO:alt-Meetlng and 5 Longfellow Park (near Harvard Square). of Exit 1111 from Garden State Parkway. First-day school at 11 a.m. each First Meeting tor worship each First-day at day, Huntington Neighborhood House. 512 9:30a.m. and 11 a .m. Telephone TR 6·6888. liBW YO:aJt, :11. Y .--Meetln~ts fer worship Almond Street. each Sunday, 11 &.m. Telephone GRamercy 8-8018 for Flrst-da7 school and meetlntr ·WASJIIJIG'.l'Oll, D. 0.--The Friends Meet CLA:aBJIO~. CAL.- Friends meeting, Information. Ing of Washington 2111 Florida Avenue, 9:80 a.m. on Scripps campus, 9th and Manhattan-United Meeting for worship N. W., one block rrom1 Connecticut Ave Columbia. Ferner Nuhn, Clerk, 420 W. October-April: 221 E . liSth St. nue, Flrst-da7s at 9 a .m. and 11 a.m. 8th. May-8eptember: 144 E. 20th St. Brookl7n-HO Schermerhorn Street WIJIOJIBS~ TmGDnA--centre Meet CLBA:aB:aGOB:, n:aGDriA-Meetlng tor Flushing-187-16 Northern Boulevard Ing House, corner of Washln,;ton and Pic worship at Hopewell Meeting House. First Riverside Church, 111th Floor-Riverside cadilly Streets. Meeting tor worship, First days at 10:15 a.m.; First-day school at Drive ani 122d Strettt, 8 :80 ·p.m. days at 10:111 a.m.; First-day School, 11 a.m. 10:411 a.m. OJt.r.AlrDO, :I'LO:aiDA-Meetlng for wor DB'.l'l&Orr, JUOHIGAli-Meetin,; tor wor ship at Sorosls Home, 108 Liberty Street, WO:aOBS'l'IIB, JIAUAOJ1178B'.l''.l'II-Pleas ship, 11 a .m. each First-day In Highland First-days at 1I a.m. ant Street Friends Meeting! 901 Pleasant Park Y.W.C.A. at Woodward and Winona. Street. Meeting tor worsh p each First Visitors telephone TOwnsend 11-4086. l'ASADBJI'A, OAL.--Qrange Grove Month day, 11 a.m. Telephone PL 4-8887. ly Meeting. Meetln~r tor worship, East DOVIIB, Jl', J.-Randolph Meeting House, Orange Grove at Oakland Avenue, Flrst Quaker Church Road. First-day school, .days at 11 a.m. Monthly me,etlngs, 8 p.m., . WANTED 11 a.m.; meetlnll' tor worship, 11:15 a.m. the second Fourth-day of each month. CAREFUL DRIVER to take car to Florida GAIJI'JISVILLB, l'LA.-Meetlng tor wor PKILADBLPJIIA, :PBllliBYLVAli'IA in .January. Elizabeth Abbott Christ, 115 ship, First-days, 11 a.m., 218 Florida Union. Meetlngs for worship are held at 10:80 Pinehurst Lane. Moorestown, New .Jersey. a.m. unless otherwise noted. HA:aBIBBV:aG, PA-Meetlnf. for wor Byberr)', one mile east of Roosevelt Boule· SECRETARY. J>referably Friend; short ship and First-day echoo , 11 a.m., vard at Southampton Road, 11 a .m. hand desirable. Telephone Friends Central Y.W.C.A., 4th and Walnut Strt~ets. Chestnut Hill, 100 East Mermaid Lane. Bureau. Philadelphia, Pa., Rittenhouse Coulter Street and Germantown Avenue. 6-3263. JI0178'1'0JI', 'l'BXAS __ Friends Worship Fair Hill, Germantown Avenue and · Cam· Group each Sunday, 6:30 p.m. 2830 North brla Street, ll:t:i a.m. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SECRETARY Boulevard; telephone . .JAckson 8-6418. Fourth and Arch Streets. beglnnlnlt .July 1, 1950. Editing of First Frankford, Penn and Orthodox Streets. day school materials : field work. Write Frankford, Unity and Waln Streets, 11 a.m. FRIENDS JOURNAL 1515 CHERRY STREET, PHILADELPHIA 2, PENNSYLVANIA 418 FRIENDS JOURNAL December 24, 1955 FRIENDS ARCH STREET CENTRE THE PENINGTON ASK OUR OPINION 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia 6, Pa. 215 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 3 Next door to the Meeting Heuse OF YOUR SECURITIES A FRIENDLY HOSTEL A Friends Hostel in New York for Friends Rooms with running water; some and friends of Friends. Comfortable rooms with bath. Lunch served daily; also and wholesome meals for permanent guests. Accommodations for transients limited. 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Alse 4·bedrt011 buses, no discount for repeated Insertions. A Available at WANAMAKER'S $13,600. 100 % mortgages available. On box number will be supplled If re bus line to El. near Philadelphia .Interchange Quested, and answers received at the Pennsylvania Turn pike. FRIENDS JOURNAL office wlll be Our deadline is 9:15 a.m. Monday. forwarded without char,;e. When Monday is a holiday, the Call Elmwood 7-4356 or write Advertislnc copy may be chanced without extra charge. deadline is 9 :15 a.m. the preceding CONCORD PARK HOMES Friday. Instructions regarding ad FRIENDS JOURNAL vertising MUST be in our hands OLD LINCOLN HIGHWAY AND STREET ROAD before that time. TREVOSE, PA. 1515 Cherry Street, P•llalel)lhla 2, Pa.; Rl 6-7669 VITAL RECORDS Holiday Greetings The Great Question. Did you ever answer it? ANTON *C. LAMPEL PART I. "What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?" 3S26 -North Broad Street It was a vital record of the Jews that the answer wos: Philadelphia, Pa. "THE SON OF DAVID" PART II. "How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord how is he his son?" See (no time* for cards) Matt. XX, 42-45. Mark XII, 35-37. Luke XX, 41-44. THE GENEALOGY OF IT: "So the generations from Abraham to David are . fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations." Matt. I, 17. The Yes, the son of David and the son of Joseph, as well as born of the Virgin Mary. "Therefore (David) being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the Legal flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, etc." Acts II. If you think of the virgin birth and the resurrection "as a bit of poetry," the Intelligencer tenns: He is the image of his father; she is the image of her mother; and Christ "Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every Established 1843 creature," Col. 1., will be little incentive to study genealogical records and ancestral charts. Don't sing Christmas hymns if you don't BELIEVE in the Divine origin, au thority and purpose of Jesus Christ, as the Son of God and the Son of Man. PRINTING I am interested in selling ancestral charts. I om not interested in hunting up records on the basis of D.A.R. eligibility. It is contrary to the teachings of the "Prince of Peace" and George Fox. JOSEPH COPE, WEST CHESTER, ROUTE 5, PA. 10 SOUTH 37TH STREET PHILADELPHIA 4, PA. Do You Understand the Answer to the Great Question? It's Vital. EVERGREEN 6-6028 December 24, 1955 FRIENDS JOURNAL 419 APTITUDE TESTS CAREER COUNSELING & JOB STRATEGY Darlington Want to find the work for which you have most aptitude? Want to get ahead faster? Why not explain your problem to us? We've helped others since 1937. Telephone, write today. Free folder T. Swarthmore 6-2022. Sanitarium TOMLINSON COUNSELORS 546 RUTGERS AVENUE, SWARTHMORE, PA. WAWASET ROAD (Route 842) VICTOR GOERTZEL, Ph.D. CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST WEST CHESTER, announces the removal of his office from 2020 David Stott Building, Detroit 26, Michigan to PENNSYLVANIA 16 PRESCOn AVENUE, MONTCLAIR, N.J. CHILDREN AND ADULTS Personal-Voeational-Educational Problems Telephone MOntclair 3·1415 J for appointment A recognized private psychiatric hospital. Complete modern diagnostic and (Temporary private line until March 1956) therapeutic services. Qualified physicians may retain supervision of patients. Moderate rates. Owned by Friends and particularly adapted for -the care of FOR WORLD FRIENDSHIP play the favorite elderly and confused Friends. counting game of millions in Africa and Asia. H. VAN DER MEER, M.D., Medical Director Telephone West Chester 3120 THE SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL Rules for 10 nations 25c. Complete Game $3. In the Nation's Capital Coop. Recreation Service, Inc., Delaware, Ohio Coeducational Day School - College Preparatory from Kindergarten Started by Friends In 1811 Thomas W. Sidwell, Principal, 1883-1936 A non-profit corporation since 1936 with the majority af trustees Friends FRIENDS Accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools -- Member of -- FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION NATIONAL COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS HOSPITAL SECONDARY EDUCATION BOARD EDUCATIONAL RECORDS BUREAU for the NATIONAL REGISTRATION OFFICE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MENTALLY ILL ROBERT S. LYLE, Headmaster 3901 WISCONSIN AVENUE N. W. WASHINGTON 16, D. C. 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Day school-Kindergarten th_rough Grade 12. ·The Parkway and Seventeenth Stnet A reduction In tuition Ia available to members of The Society of Frlend~ .' Philadelphia 3, Pa. VICTOR M~ HAUGHTON, JR., Headmaster ' Rl 6-9150 Coeducational Box B, Locust Valley, Long Island, N. Y. Kindergarten-i2th Grade A sound academic preparation . for college A FRIENDS COEDUCATIONAL A reverent approach to-life ·RGE - . For further information address EO .. L BOARDING SCHOOL, Grades 9-12 _the Heild_master ..G oO· - Founded 1893 .. S C H Applications for 1956-57 are now welcome. FRIENDS' · Children of Friends will receive flrst consideration CENTRAL SCHOOL • if applications are submitted before March 1st, 1956. A.ddreu inquir~ w: .· OVERBROOK, 'PHitADELPH"IA 31, PA. RICHARD H. McFEELY, ADELBERT MASON, Direptor of Admissions Coeducational - College Pnparatory . Principal Box 350, George S'ehool, Bucks County, Pennsylvania · Four-year klndei-garten through · ·. . , . t2tJt Gtade A Friendly lchool which offers country day ·facilities .and prograD,l with a col lege preparatory curriculum: and the 1199 · WESTTOWN REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS .; 1955 adva.ntagei of _nearby urban resources. Westtown now offers fifteen Competitive Regional Scholarships based ,l<:. Headmaster MERRILL BusH, on character, leadership, and intellectual p~rforrnance. Winners t:eceive grants of $500 each, and these are renewab1e year by year if a satisfac tory record is maintained. To be eligible a pupil must be a ~ember of. MEMORIAL the Society of Friends, or have one parent wfl,o is or has been a Friend, STONES and be ready to enter either grade ten or eleven. .(Limited vaca~ies in .... grade eleven.) &RAVE Each applicant. will be given, in his home locality, three subject matter MARKERS tests: one in English, one in algebra or geometry, and a third to be selected by the student. Applications £or 1956-57 must be in hand by STYLES AND ENGRAVINGS IN GOOD TASTE SECOND MONTH 1ST, 1956. . DELIVERED AND SET IN ANY CEMETERY IN PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT Write or telephone offiee-MAjestle 5-0%20 or TUmer 4·0696 for fall information For application forms address: ARTHUR S. ROBERTS • President ARTHUR W. HUTTON • Treasurer DANIEL D. TEST, JR., Headmaster Alllliatad with HILLSIDE CEMETERY CO. CLEMENT E. ALLEN, President WESTTOWN SCHOOL BOX 1000, _WESTTO_WN, PA. THI! LEGAL INTELUGENCJ!R .... 811