DOCSLIB.ORG

On Speaking in Meetingfor Worship and Meeting

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
On Speaking in Meetingfor Worship and Meeting May 1996 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today I! I I I / / On Speaking in Meetingfor Worship Love and Meeting Noise I \ - i 1\,, ,• Quakers on the ~b I I ' ' Among Friends Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Associate Editor Kenneth Sutton Alabama '96 Assistant Editor Timothy Drake ometimes a news article touches the heart and moves people to reach out to one Art Director another in unexpected ways. So it was this winter when the Washington Post Barbara Benton published a piece on the rash of fires that have destroyed black churches in the Production Assistant S Alia Podolsky South in recent months. There have been 23 reported fires in seven Southern states in Development Consultant the past three years, all of which were proven or suspected to be the work of Henry Freeman arsonists. Nineteen of the fires have occurred since January 1995. Marketing and Advertising Manager Nagendran Gulendran Last December's burning of the 100-year-old Mount Zion Baptist Church in Administrative Secretary Boligee, Alabama, was a total loss. Three weeks later, on January 11, two other Marie McGowan black churches in the same county were burned to the ground on the same night. On Bookkeeper February 1, four churches were torched in Louisiana, three in the town of Baker. No Nancy Siganuk arrests have been made in any of these most recent incidents. Poetry Editor Judith Brown When Friend Harold B. Confer, executive director of Washington Quaker Development Data Entry Workcamps, saw the article, he decided to do something about it. After a series of Pamela Nelson phone calls, he and two colleagues accepted an invitation to travel to western Intern Alabama and see the fire damage for themselves. They were warmly received by the Cat Buckley pastors and congregations of the three Greene County churches. Upon their return, Volunteers Jane Burgess, Robert Sutton they set to work on a plan. What has resulted is the Alabama '96 Summer Board of Managers Workcamp Project, an ambitious undertaking that will involve volunteers from Irwin Abrams, Jennie Allen, Frank Bjomsgaard, across the country in an effort to rebuild the three Alabama churches. As Harold Paul Buckley, Susan Carnahan, Sue Carnell, Marguerite Clark, Barbara Coffin, Emily Conlon, wrote in a recent letter (quoting from a Habitat for Humanity poster), "Once again, Phoebe Cottingham (Treasurer), God's people can use a good carpenter!" Richard Eldridge (Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Here's the plan. The summer-long building effort will include three international, Marty Grundy, Robert Kunkel, Carol MacCormack, Mary Mangelsdorf, Jack Mongar, Lee Neff, intergenerational, month-long workcamps. They will run consecutively, designed to Caroline Balderston Parry (Recording Clerk}, provide a volunteer labor force to the locally chosen contractor. Throughout the Lisa Lewis Raymer, Margery Rubin (Assistant summer there will be shorter weekend service opportunities for churches and Friends Clerk), Larry C. Spears, Robert Stauffer, Robert Sutton, Carolyn Terrell meetings as well. Washington Quaker Workcamps has responsibility to recruit the FRI ENDSJO URNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was established volunteers and to organize offers of labor from other sources so as not to overwhelm in 1955 as the successor to The Friend ( 1827-1 955) the local building efforts. and Friends lntelligencer ( 1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious Society of Friends. "The response we have received from everyone who has heard this story has been overwhelming," Harold Confer writes. "We have had offers of assistance from • FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Unitarian Universalist, Episcopal, and Catholic communities and would like to hear Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone (2 15) 241- from many others .... We can work together to help our friends in Alabama and to 7277. E-mail: [email protected]. Accepted as second-class postage at Philadelphia, Pa., and say a loud 'no' to all forms of racial or ethnic hatred and a joyful 'yes' to community additional mailing offices. and mutual respect." • Subscriptions: one year $25, two years $45. Add The organizing task for the summer is a daunting one, but Washington Quaker $6 per year for postage to countries outside the U.S., Workcamps seems well experienced to take it on. Since 1985 the nonprofit Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies $2.25 each. • Information on and assistance with advertising is organization, under Harold's able leadership, has provided service opportunities in a available on request. Appearance of any variety of settings, doing useful work on three continents: in the Washington, D.C., advertisement does not imply endorsement by area, in Tanzania, and in Romania. The top of their organization letterhead reads, FRIENDS JOURNAL "Work Is Love Made Visible." • Postmaster: send address changes to FRIENDS JouRNAL, 150 I Cherry St., Philadelphia, How may Friends be supportive? Be in touch directly with Washington Quaker PA 19102-1497. Workcamps. Their address is 1225 Geranium St., N.W., Washington, DC 20012, • Copyright © 1996 by Friends Publishing telephone (202) 722-1461. Volunteers are needed; money will be important too. My Corporation. Reprints of articles available at nominal cost. Permission should be received before personal hope as well is that Friends will write letters of concern to the U.S. reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. Department of Justice to urge an ongoing, active investigation into the church Available on microfilm from University Microfilms burnings. Those responsible should be arrested and brought to trial without delay. International. PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER Moving? Let us update your subscription and address. FRIENDS JoURNAL, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Next Month in FRIENDs JoURNAL: (215) 241-7277; Fax (215) 568-1377 Voices from Death Row E-mail: [email protected] A Letter-Writing Ministry Allie Walton: Quaker Crone 2 May 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1996 FRIENDS Volume 42, No. 5 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 On Speaking in Meeting for Worship 2 Among Friends Patrick J. Nugent What goes through the mind and heart ofa Friend about to 4 Forum speak in meeting? 5 Viewpoint 9 Love and Meeting Noise 22 NCP Notes Rich Van Dell en What does the "noise" in meeting for worship say to you? 23 Witness 10 Messages: A Personal Odyssey 24 News of Friends Fran Palmeri Messages in meeting can take us to places we never expected 26 Bulletin Board togo. 26 Calendar 11 The First Meeting for Worship in Hawaii 29 Books Gerald A. J. Hodgett British Friend Daniel Wheeler traveled halfway around the 33 Resources world with his concern to share the message ofFriends. 34 Milestones 13 What Scripture Can Mean to Friends Today 37 Classified Georgia E. Fuller The Bible both reflects and transcends the times in which it was written. Poetry 16 Jesus Among Friends John Pitts Corry Some Friends meet resistance when they bring their beloved 8 Sara in Quaker Meeting to meeting. Elizabeth Addison 18 Quakers on the Web Carl Stieren The Internet 's World Wide Web presents Friends with new opportunities to communicate with each other and share our message with nonQuakers. 20 Benjamin, the Meetinghouse Mouse Clifford Pfeil Now an attender, Benjamin struggles with questions that have no right answers and becomes more familiar with Friends. (Part 3 of8) Front cover drawing by Narcissa Weatherbee F RJENDS JoURNAL May 1996 3 Forum Bosnian students With our hearts Pakistani activists struggling against such groups in their own country choose to call I have been moved by the response to the In response to Joseph W. Letson's them religious terrorists, a very appropriate editorial (FJ Nov. 1995) regarding the work comments (FJ Jan.) on Blanche term. Such terrorists exist among Muslims, being done on behalf of Bosnian students by Zimmerman's attempt to separate the Jews, Christians, Hindus, and other Friends schools and families. We received message of Jesus from the myth (FJ June religions. calls from many parts of the country from 1995), I am dismayed by primarily Aziz Pabaney Friends interested in finding out how they intellectual approaches to the Bible. Bombay, India could help. Statements that start "When looked at In December, Amar Nalic, age 15, came objectively ..."bother me. Sure, the Bible from Tuzla to live with a Quaker family in is our experience of God as passed on by The Listening Project Coalinga, Calif. The Greenwood School in humans, but its important messages are Pennsylvania undertook a drive to provide gained by opening one's heart to it. I heartily applaud your publication of clothing and shoes for the children of Understanding the Bible does not come "The Listening Project" by Willie R. Frye Bosnia. They sent seveml much-needed from the scientific approach ofdissecting it (FJ March). We need more accounts of the packages. The Country Day School in as if it were a frog in a biology class. This struggles around issues that our yearly Winnetka, Ill., and St. Louis (Mo.) Meeting humanistic tendency to assume that meetings experience. I would hope that if are both exploring the possibilities of whatever exists can be understood and the editor becomes aware of such struggles offering scholarships for the fall. A group in explained by human intellect is in other meetings, he would commission an Hartford, Conn., is involved in looking for a anthropocentric. It assumes we are God, article discussing the problem and attempted scholarship for a college-age student. capable of knowing all, and basically the solutions. Although the Dayton Peace Accord has rulers of the universe. In the past, humans Allan Kohrman provided a much-needed cessation in the believed the Earth was the center of the Newton, Mass. fighting, the educational system in Bosnia universe. We have a hard time imagining We will continue to seek ways to has been decimated.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 Column5 Column6 Column7 Column8 Column9 Column10 Column11 AUTHOR TITLE CALL PUBLISHER City PUB
    Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 Column5 Column6 Column7 Column8 Column9 Column10 Column11 AUTHOR TITLE CALL PUBLISHER City PUB. COPY# SUBJECT 1 SUBJECT 2 SUBJECT 3 NOTES NUMBER DATE Aarek, William From Loneliness to Fellowship: a Swarthmore George Allen London 1954 1 Quakerism, Psychology study in psychology and Lecture & Unwin Ltd. Introduction Quakerism Pamphlets Aarek, William From Loneliness to Fellowship: a Swarthmore George Allen London 1954 2 Quakerism, Psychology study in psychology and Lecture & Unwin Ltd. Introduction Quakerism Pamphlets Abbott, Margery Post Christianity and the Inner Life: PH #402 Pendle Hill Wallingford, PA 2009 1 Christianity - Twenty-First Century Reflections Spiritual Life on the Words of Early Friends Abbott, Margery Post To Be Broken and Tender: A 289.6 Western 2010 1 Quaker Quaker theology for today Ab2010to Friend Theology Abbott, Margery Post, Walk Worthy of Your Calling, 289.6 Friends Richmond, IN 2004 1 Pastoral Travel - Parsons, Peggy Quakers and the Traveling Ministry Ab2004wa United Press Theology - Religious Senger eds. Society of Aspects Friends Abbott, Margery Post; Historical Dictionary of Friends 289.6 Scarecrow Lanham, MD 2003 1 Society of Chijoke, Marry Ellen; (Quakers) Ab2003hi Press Friends - Dandelion, Pink; History - Oliver, John William Dictionary Abrams, Irwin To the Seeker Brochure Friends Philadelphia ND 1 Quakerism, General Introduction Conference Alexander, Horace Everyman's Struggle For Peace PH #74 Pendle Hill Wallingford, PA 1953 2 Pendle Hill Pamphlet Alexander, Horace G. Gandhi Remembered PH#165 Pendle Hill Wallingford, PA 1969 1 Pendle Hill Gandhi, Pamphlet Mohandas - Non- violence Alexander, Horace G. Quakerism in India PH #31 Pendle Hill Wallingford, PA ND 1 Pendle Hill Pamphlet Alexander, Horace G.
    [Show full text]
  • Cox-Parrish-Wharton Papers 0154 Finding Aid Prepared by Cary Majewicz
    Cox-Parrish-Wharton papers 0154 Finding aid prepared by Cary Majewicz.. Last updated on November 09, 2018. Second edition Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; 2011 Cox-Parrish-Wharton papers Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 5 Overview of arrangment................................................................................................................................5 Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 6 Related Materials........................................................................................................................................... 7 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................7 Bibliography...................................................................................................................................................9 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • George Fox, Plato's Dialogues and the Ballad Poetry of Scotland " (P
    jfrien&0 in Current In the Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan (1818-1896), by Charles L. Graves (London : Macmillan, 9 by 6, pp. 418), we read, " Alexander Macmillan found his chief recreation in reading. Amongst the standard works which greatly influenced him at this time [1855] were the Journal of George Fox, Plato's Dialogues and the ballad poetry of Scotland " (p. 33). In a letter, written in 1848, he remarks, " Do you know George Fox puts me marvellously in mind of Socrates. Of course there is a wide difference, but still there is that drawing of men's attention to what is in themselves—in Socratic language—looking to the soul how it might become perfect—in Quaker language going to Christ, their inward Teacher—that causes a wonderful similarity" (p. 36). '* His youthful enthusiasms for . never changed or faded. To these may be added the names of George Fox, Bunyan . ." (P- 395). ______ The work commenced by the late Charlotte Hanbury (d. 1900) for the amelioration of the condition of Moorish prisoners and carried on by Henry Gurney, receives interesting illustration in Donald Mackenzie's Kalifate of the West, being a General Description of Morocco (London : Simpkin, 9 by 5^, pp. 274). C. Hanbury visited Morocco prisons for the first time in 1889, and was much impressed with the sad lot of the crowd of miserable captives. Much remains yet to be done. This volume gives a report on the prisons, dated July, 1910, in which we read (p. 128) : " This prison is entirely below the ground level.
    [Show full text]
  • Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol
    Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Evangelical Friend (Quakers) 6-1988 Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol. 21, No. 10) Evangelical Friends Alliance Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend Recommended Citation Evangelical Friends Alliance, "Evangelical Friend, June 1988 (Vol. 21, No. 10)" (1988). Evangelical Friend. 223. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_evangelical_friend/223 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Evangelical Friend by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. june 1988 FRIEND Watches and Worship PAGE 4 llVIN G STONES . ,, . BYRmHB····in the Holy land King of my life I crown thee now; Thine shall the glory be. Lest cherish the old rugged cross, to be true to it, cling to it, I forget Thy thorn-crowned bro~ Lead me to Calvary. gladly bear its shame and reproach, and "exchange it ANDA and I sat but a stone's throw from someday for a crown:' Calvary, singing the familiar hymn in English; HE PROMISED Land is a potpourri of never-to­ W three-fourths of the congregation in Jerusa­ be-forgotten experiences: Standing on the hill lem's Church of the Nazarene sang concurrently in their overlooking Galilee, reading the Sermon on the native Arabic. It seemed right that each could participate T Mount and pondering the enormity of its message, sitting in his own tongue; appropriately, the songbooks had the on the steps where Jesus walked into the Temple and feel­ Arabic and English on facing pages.
    [Show full text]
  • A Quaker Weekly
    • A Quaker Weekly VOLUME 3 DECEMBER 7, 1957 NUMBER 49 IN THIS ISSUE ~TAND ruham'd and Collecting Whittieriana almost despairing before holy and pure ideals. As I read the by C. Marshall Taylor New Testament I feel how weak, irresolute, and frail I am, and how little I can rely Whittier~ Quaker Liberal and Reformer on any thing save our God's by Howard W. Hintz mercy and infinite compas­ sion, which I reverently and thankfully own have followed me through life, and the as­ Most Winning Spokesman of the surance of which is my sole Moral Life ground of hope for myself, and for those I love and pray by Anna Brinton for. -JoHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER William Edmondson and Ireland's -First Quaker Meeting by Caroline N. Jacob PRICE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE TWENTY CENTS Internationally Speaking $4.50 A YEAR 786 FRIENDS JOURNAL Decennber 7, 1957 Internationally Speaking FRIENDS JOURNAL RESIDENT EISENHOWER, speaking to the nation Pabout science and security, referred to "a great step toward peace" as being as necessary as a great leap into • outer space in connpetition with the developnnents of the Russian satellites. The probability that space satellites are a step toward the developnnent of intercontinental nnissiles ennphasizes the innportance of the great step toward peace, as does the suggestion that local NATO connnnanders are to have authority to decide whether a' Published weekly at 1616 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 2, situation requires response with atonnic weapons. This Pennsylvania (Rittenhouse 6-7669) By Friends Publishing Corporation latter suggestion innplies the end of national sovereignty.
    [Show full text]
  • "The Other Branch"
    "The Other Branch" London Yearly Meeting and the Hicksites 1827-1912 By EDWIN B. BRONNER FRIENDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY FRIENDS HOUSE, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON NWi zBJ 1975 Friends Historical Society wishes to record its indebtedness to Friends Historical Association for a grant towards the cost of publication. Supplement 34 to the Journal of the Friends Historical Society © Friends Historical Society 1975 Obtainable from Friends Book Centre, Friends House, London NWi 2BJ, and Friends Book Store, 156 North i5th Street, Philadelphia Pa 19102 USA For my Mother Nellie (Garretson) Bronner 1896-1973 born a Hicksite, married a Gurneyite and a Friend to all CONTENTS Preface 1 A Decision to Ostracize "The Other Branch" i 2 The Policy in Action, 1829-1870 n 3 Seeing the Hicksites in America 19 4 Beginnings of a Change in Attitude 27 5 The Change Becomes a Reality 39 6 A "New" Yearly Meeting Creates a New Policy 52 Index 61 IB PREFACE HEN the Great Separation came to the Society of Friends in America in 1827-1828, British Quakers Wlealized that the evangelical wing was very similar in belief and outlook to London Yearly Meeting, while the other branch appeared different and foreign. English ministers visiting in America sided with one group of Friends and denounced the others as unsound. Thus it seemed reasonable and proper to recognize the yearly meetings called "Orthodox," and to ostracize the other branch called "Hicksite," which meant they were no longer to be thought of as Quakers. As other splits came in the United States, the British Friends chose in each situation to recognize one branch and ostracize the others.
    [Show full text]
  • The Religion Quaker Journalist
    The Religion of the Quaker Journalist By Howard H. Brinton SHREWSBURY LECTURE THE SHREWSBURY LECTURES Shrewsbury Meeting was already established in 1672, when George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, visited America. He says in his Journal, published by Cambridge University Press: “And soe wee came to Shrewsberry & on the first day of the weeke wee had a pretious meet- tinge… & friends & other people came farr to this Meettinge; & on ye 2d of the 7th month wee had a mens (& weomens) Meettinge, out of the most parts of ye new Country Jarsie, which will be of great service in keepinge ye Gospell order & Government of Christ Jesus…and there is a Monthly & A Generall Meettinge sett up and they are buildinge A Meettinge place in the midst of them.” In preparation for the tercentenary, in 1972, of George Fox’s visit to America, an annual Shrewsbury Lecture is given on some basic aspect of Quakerism. A particular phase of the spe- cial emphasis which Quakerism gives to the Christian message is presented. The community and Monmouth County in particular are invited on this occasion, known as Old Shrewsbury Day, to join with Friends who “came farr to this Meettinge” to learn together from him who is the Light of the World. The Religion of the Quaker Journalist By Howard H. Brinton SHREWSBURY LECTURE Given at Shrewsbury Friends Meeting Highway 35 and Sycamore Avenue Shrewsbury, New Jersey Sixth Month 17, 1962 JOHN WOOLMAN PRESS, INC. 4002 North Capitol Avenue Indianapolis 8, Indiana 1962 Copyright 1962, JOHN WOOLMAN PRESS, INC. PREFACE “Journals” were not an exclusively Quaker phenomenon.
    [Show full text]
  • Redefining Quaker Simplicity: the Friends Committee on National Legislation Building, 2005
    Portland State University PDXScholar Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Publications and Presentations Planning 3-1-2008 Redefining Quaker simplicity: The Friends Committee on National Legislation Building, 2005 Carl Abbott Portland State University, [email protected] Margery Post Abbott Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/usp_fac Part of the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Citation Details Abbott, M., & Abbott, C. (2008). REDEFINING QUAKER SIMPLICITY: THE FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION BUILDING, 2005. Quaker Studies, 12(2), 230-252. This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. QUAKER STUDIES 12/2 (2008) [230-252] ISSN 1363-013X REDEFINING QUAKER SIMPLICITY: THE FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION BUILDING, 2005 Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott Portland, Oregon and Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA ABSTRACT In 2005, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the major Quaker peace and justice lobbying organization in the United States, completed a substantial remodeling and expansion of its office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The building exemplifies a self-conscious effort to express Quaker values of simplicity and stewardship in architectural choices. Examining the changing meanings of simplicity as expressed in Quaker meeting houses, this article argues that contemporary Friends in the United States have given nontraditional meanings to the concept and now associate simplicity with environmental stewardship in personal and community life.
    [Show full text]
  • Separations : Their Causes and Effects
    in Current AfJEVIEWERS have differed considerably in their estimate of \*S' W. Teignmouth Shore's John Woolman, His Life and Our Times (London : Macmillan, 8 by 5^, pp. 273, 53. net). Most agree in thinking that there is little of "Our Times " in the book, but many inter­ esting and sympathetic sketches of the life and work of Woolman have appeared in periodical papers in consequence of this publication. The following are the closing words of " The Church Times " review of March 13 : " Many will be grateful also for the light which is thrown on the beliefs and habits of the Quakers. And it can never be anything else but helpful to read how a man deliberately set himself to follow, as best he knew how, the footsteps of Jesus Christ." We think that what may be termed the historical and descriptive interludes are very valuable. We only regret that we could not, after much search, find in our archives more illustrative matter for the Author. The Joseph White who is introduced so abruptly on p. 273 is mentionedjthree times in Woolman's Journal. He lived in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania ; began to preach when twenty ; visited England in 1758; died 1777, aet. 64. (" Piety Promoted " ; Corder's " Memorials " ; and other books and MSS. in D.)« The paper by William Charles Braithwaite, read at the Reading Summer School, 1913, entitled Lessons from Early Quakerism in Reading, has been issued in pamphlet form (Reading: Poynder, 8| by 5f, pp. 18). Jesse Edgerton, of Damascus, Ohio, has issued a volume of his poems under the title, A Brook by the Way (8£ by 5^, pp.
    [Show full text]
  • Newport Historical Society, Manuscripts and Archives Collection Inventory Please Note These Collections Are Largely Unprocessed
    Newport Historical Society, Manuscripts and Archives Collection Inventory Please note these collections are largely unprocessed. The data presented here is to aid scholar and researcher access, while formal processing is underway. For processed collections, visit the Manuscripts and Archives Collection on the NHS Online Catalog at http://j.mp/nhsarchives, or locate our finding aids on RIAMCO, Rhode Island Archives and Manuscripts Collections Online, at http://j.mp/nhsriamco. For more information about the items here or to make an appointment, please contact NHS. 440: Series Note 245: Title Statement 035: Local 691: Local Subject 691: Local Subject 100: Main Entry - Personal Name 110: Main Entry - Corporate 300: Physical 500: General Note 541: Immediate Source of 600: Subject Added Entry - 610: Subject Added 650: Subject Lookup (1) 700: Added Entry - Personal System Control Added Entry - Date Added Entry - Date Name Description Acquisition Personal Name (1) Entry - Corporate Name (1) Number Name (1) Acoco Series Selected Stories, What Hetty Learned at School; One Thing Hetty Learned Ladies Home Journal Ladies Home Journal bound printed material; 20 Children's stories no. 23 at School pp.; illus. Allen family papers, 1728-1732 Deed for land on Ferry Wharf, August 5, 1728, recorded 1728 1732 Carr, Samuel ms Jeremiah Child listed as Cooper, Carr, Mary; Child, Jeremiah December 8, 1732 Copied by William Coddington, 1766 Almy papers Plate of farm (near mile corner) Cranston, Samuel mss Xerox copies of paper originals Loaned by George A. Thurston of Union St., Portsmouth, March 1984 Barbara (Norman) Cooke papers Concert in Newport, 1962 1962 Goodman, Benny ms Barbara Ladd Cooke papers Horse Racing Association, Portsmouth, papers, 1935 1935 Jones, Dan.
    [Show full text]
  • John Greenleaf Whittier - Poems
    Classic Poetry Series John Greenleaf Whittier - poems - Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive John Greenleaf Whittier(17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892) John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now remembered for his poem Snow-Bound, and the words of the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, from his poem The Brewing of Soma, sung to music by Hubert Parry. <b>Biography</b> <b>Early Life and Work</b> John Greenleaf Whittier was born to John and Abigail (Hussey) at their rural homestead near Haverhill, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1807. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. Their farm was not very profitable. There was only enough money to get by. Whittier himself was not cut out for hard farm labor and suffered from bad health and physical frailty his whole life. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father’s six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.
    [Show full text]
  • Quaker Pioneers in Russia
    ittasianamissitaitK GIFT OF Professor Noyes QUAKER PIONEERS IN RUSSIA. ALEXANDER PAULOVITCH. Emperor of Russia, 1801-1825. QUAKER PIONEERS IN RUSSIA. BY JANE BENSON, " Author of From the Lune to the Neva^ LONDON : HEADLEY BROTHERS, 14, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT, E.G. 1902. -inT' K« B^ HEADLEY BROTHERS, PRINTERS, LONDON ; AND ASHFORD, KENT. ^ DeMcatcD TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND MOTHER, GEORGE AND ANNE EDMONDSON. 967690 CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE. Introduction 9 - - - - I. Allen and Grellet 13 II. Daniel Wheeler and His Assistant - 23 III. The Departure for Russia - - - 32 IV. Okta and Welcome Guests - - 43 V. The Woes of a Mild Winter - - 53 VI. VOLKOVO 61 VII. Good News 70 VIII. Settling in at the New Home - - 79 IX. The Great Inundation - - - - 88 X. A Fourth Type of Quaker Minister - 99 XI. Shoosharry - - - - - - no LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. - Medallion of Emperor Alexander Frontispiece. Portrait of Daniel Wheeler ... 24 A One-seated Dkoschky 36 The Emperor Alexander doing a kindly deed ON HIS WAY TO VISIT DaNIEL WhEELER 46 Frozen Meat Market 55 Ice-Blocks from the Neva - - . 6^ Establishment House 81 Large Private Sledge 106 INTRODUCTION. have in our possession a number of pictures, WEsome lithographs, others coloured prints, which were bought in the city of Petersburg nearly eighty years ago. They used to be a source of great pleasure to a certain little child, especially " when her father or mother could be induced to talk about Russia," and add personal recollections to the suggestions of the pictures. They were, in fact, the child's first conscious connection with that vast country.
    [Show full text]