July 1/ 15, 1973

Quaker Thought and Life Today

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That we could but take to the soul some of the great­ ness and the beau­ ty of the summer! -Richard Jeffries The Growing Edge FRIENDS SARAH RAMBERG ot Southampton Friends Meeting, PA, JOURNAL brings to our attention an opportunity for Friends to work directly toward the relief of the sufferings of politi­ July 1/ 15, 1973 cal prisoners in South Vietnam. Over 200,000 Viet­ Volume 19, Number 12 namese men, women and children remain imprisoned, Friends Journal is published the first and fifteenth of each month usually in subhuman conditions, subjected to torture, star­ (except in June, July, and August, when it is published monthly) by Friends Publishing Corporation at 152-A North Fifteenth Street vation, "tiger cages," and other horrors. Many of these Philadelphia 19102. Telephone: (2 15 ) 564-4779. (Temporary ' civilians are Buddhist pacifists, Catholics, and students office address: 112 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia 19102.) who are seeking a "third way" of reconciliation and re­ Friends Journal was established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend (1827-1955) and Friends Intelligencer (1844-1955). construction. They support neither the Communists nor JAMES D. LENHART, Editor Thieu, but because Thieu's government considers them a J OYCE ROLLE ENNIS, Managing Editor NINA I. SULLIVAN. Circulation Mana/ler threat they face continued persecution. Sarah Ramberg JOHN F. HIMM El EIN. MARGUERITE L. HORLANDER, and LOIS F. ONEAL, Office Stafl collected a supply of hospital bracelets, partly donated by Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, and has put on each BOARD OF MANAGERS 1971-1974: Carol P. Brainerd, Miriam E. Brown William Huooen the name of a prisoner. She is offering them to people Margaret B. Richie, Daniel D. Test, Jr. (Chairma'n), ' Eleanor B. Webb, Elizabeth Wells, Mildred Binns Young (Secretary). who want to "adopt" a prisoner and accepting donations 1972:1975: Paul Blanshard. Jr., Charles J. Cooper (Treasurer), for the AFSC Make Your Own Peace program. Adopt­ Barnngton Dunbar, Walter Kahoe, Patricia McBee Sheeks, Ada C. Rose, James B. Shuman, Eileen B. Waring, Go rdon D. Whitcrafl. ing a prisoner means wearing the bracelet until he/ she IS 197.1-1976: Laura Lou Brookman, Helen Buckler, released, writing letters and sending aid to the prisoner Mary Roberts Calhoun, Richard J. Crohn, A. Alexander Morisey, and writing letters to prison authorities, the Saigon gov­ Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Opal Gooden, Francis Hortenstine, William B. Kriebel, Walter H . Partymiller. ernment, and the American government to urge the pris­ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS; Alfred Stefferud, Frances Williams Browin. oners' release. Friends who wish to begin similar projects William Hubben, Richard R. Wood. may write to: Nora Booth, AFSC, 112 S. 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Permission should be received before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. known port, which ships over one third of the munitions used in Indochina. The action was the culmination of over four months of research, educational and organizing Contents work by the MOTSU Project, a coalition of peace action groups that includes the Southeast Regional AFSC. Proj­ ect participants had attempted to present to MOTSU Quaker Sociology- Robert F. Tatman ...... 356 officials an alternative shipment of blankets, clothing and A Tribute to Howard H. Brinton-Elizabeth Gray Vining. first aid supplies donated from all over the state. When Dan Wilson, Phillip H. Wells, Elizabeth Brin;o11. the shipment was refused-"Relief supplies do not meet Edwin B. Bronner and Douglas Steere ...... 357 Department of Defense criteria"-an all-night vigil was Bicentennial of Luke Howard- Now a11d The11 ...... 365 undertaken which led to the blockade action. Those ar­ rested were found guilty, fined court costs, and released. There Was an Old Man with a Beard- Noah Vail . . . . 365 The MOTSU Project continues with regular weekend On the Essential Differences Between Friends- R. W. Tucker. vigils at the gate entrance over the summer and an on­ Tom Abrams ...... 366 going campaign that includes lobbying for the conver­ Poetry by Richard 1-:. Tirk. lack Toote/1 and sion of MOTSU to lifegiving purposes and the develop­ Pollyanna Sedziol ment of alternatives for those employed by the port. While weekly vigils have been laid down at some Reviews of Books ...... 369 places, several continue in protest to the escalating "non­ Letters to the Editor ...... 370 war" in Indochina. The every day, 24-hour-a-day Vigil for Peace in front of the White House began its third year Friends Around the World ...... 373 Reports by Rosemary M. Ellioll and Robert A. Martin, Jr. on June 2, with participation increasing. A judge re­ cently told Bob Walsh of Quaker House: "If you're Announcements and Coming Events ...... 376 connected to that Quaker Vigil, I must commend you on your persistence." Other weekly vigi ls in which Friends THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE COVER was taken by Steve participate continue in Durham, Greensboro and Chapel Anderson, a member of Haddonfield, NJ, Meeting. Hill, NC. 354 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL The First Word service is much more common. The basic power of our national policy is negative, not positive, and with few ~x­ The Darkness of Watergate; ceptions, it is the worst in man, not the best,. ~o whic? America appeals. When these appeals not surpnsmgly fall The Light of Howard Brinton to meet the needs of developing peoples, external pressure is applied through political, economic and, if need be, military forces. . MY READING MATERIAL and therefore my thoughts have And religion essentially has absolutely nothmg to do been dominated recently by two Quakers. One of them, with the process by which national decisions are made. Howard Brinton, is physically dead but spiritually he will That is how far we have come from the days when live forever through the impact of his light-filled, illum­ America was founded by persons "who did not distinguish inating life. Some reflections by others about that life are between their religion and their democracy." shared with readers in this issue of the Journal. And we can't blame Richard Nixon for that. Instead, To me, some of the clearest of Howard Brinton's in­ [ suggest that we Americans, especi?lly we "religious" sights are in Quaker Education in Theory and Practice, Americans and particularly we Amencan Quakers, .take a Pendle Hill pamphlet first published in 1940, and re­ a long look at ourselves and ask some hard questiOns. printed every nine years since. Particularly t~ely .are How sacred do we consider each human personality? How some of his views on democracy. "A democratic society capable are we of genuine self-sacrifice? How closely ?o in order to function," he said, "must respect human per­ we relate religion to not just democracy but our entire sonality as sacred, inviolable and capable of genuine self­ way of life? And do we indeed "appeal to the best that sacrifice. These are Christian doctrines. Democracy can­ is in man?" not work merely on a basis of sweet reasonableness and If even a few of us would consistently ask these ques­ a general pooling of self-interests. There is no such thing tions of ourselves and then try to honestly answer them as a successful secular democracy. English democracy was in and through our own lives, religion would begin. to b~ ­ born out of the struggle for religious freedom in the seven­ come alive and well in America, rather than contmue 10 teenth century. The American democracy was founded by its insipid and irrelevant way. But b~cause we are not persons who came out of that struggle and who did not consistent and honest, we must share m the darkness of distinguish between their religion and their democracy." Watergate even as we share in the light of Howard Brin­ I came across those words while reading and thinking ton that continues to point toward a better way. JDL about another, even more immortal Quaker, Richard Nixon. As Watergate deepened and became murkier, Shortly after the above was ,w ritten, Martha Da~~ Howard Brinton's words, written more than three decades shared with us what she called ' a poem-prayer-hymn earlier, continued to shed light on this latest example of by G. K. Chesterton that had been read at the General just how far America has come since it was founded. Conference of Friends in India in early May. It seems, "As long," Howard had said, "as we can draw on the Martha said, "to speak very clearly to the United States accumulated reserve of Christian power stored up during at the moment." It does, indeed. an intensely religious era, so long will our American democracy prove workable. Only religion can overcome 0 God of earth and altar, selfishness sufficiently to enable men and women to work Bow down and hear our cry; together without compulsion ... (Yet) . it. will ~e truly Our earthly rulers falter, said that there is a power other than relig10n which en­ Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, ables men to work together with sufficient unselfishness The swords of scorn divide; to create a cooperative society. That power is patriotism Take not thy thunder from us, ... But patriotism is more likely in the long run to lead But take away our pride. toward authoritarianism than toward democracy ... there From all that terror teaches, is a Higher Power than the state which can and will From lies of tongue and pen; judge . .." From all the easy speeches Elsewhere, he also said true peacemaking was "a That comfort cruel men; positive power by which an inner appeal is made to the From sale and profanation best that is in man, rather than as an external pressure Of honor and th e sword; by forces from outside him." From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! As I read those words by one Quaker and compared Tie in a living tether them with the actions of the other one, it was all too sadly The priest and prince and thrall; obvious how much closer to Richard Nixon and to Water­ Bind all our lives together, gate than to Howard Brinton and to Pendle Hill the Smite us and save us all; American way of life really is in 1973. In ire and exultation The dollar and what it can do, not human personality, Aflame with fai th, and free, is sacred in modern America. As a result, there is ab­ Lift up a living nation, solutely nothing inviolable. Self-sacrifice is rare; self- A single sword to Thee.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 355 not to say that the other Friends aren't committed, but Quaker Sociology these Friends are COMMITTED.) Simply defined, a C?mmitted Friend is one who serves on so many com­ by Robert F. Tatman mittees that he or she (usually she; Quaker committees are mostly female in membership and mostly male in HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED "Quaker Sociology"? The rules leadership) runs the serious risk of being "committeed to are ~imple: list all the different Friends you can, and death." The Society of Friends couldn't function without classify them according to their various characteristics. th~m. In a very real sense, they are the Society of It's fun, and any number can play-( even attenders.) Fnends, for no one else ever comes to meetings. Of First there are the Spirtual Friends. For them the course it isn't really possible to divide up Friends-or worship experience is paramount. They are usualiy ;ome­ any group-so neatly, although the temptation to do so w~at confused by and sometimes contemptuous of those is very. strong. Most of you will have recognized your­ selves 10 more than one of the categories, and others will F_nends w~o prefer t? _work in_ the world. There are many dtfferent kmds of Spmtual Fnends: the Children of Fox have occured to you. Go ahead and make your own who se~ themselves. as reki~dling the spark of Original con~ributions to Quaker Sociology. As you do, you will Quakens_m ; the Onental Fnends, who discipline them­ realtze that all of these Friends need nurturing. All of selves with yoga or Transcendental Meditation and who them need encouraging. All of them need each other, for sit in meeting meditating on the Whichness of What· the they are all necessary to the life of the Society of Friends. Philos_ophes, who spin . marvelous webs of airy logi~ on The Society of Friends is remarkably diverse. I seriously the shm base of a spht hair; the Biblical Friends, who doubt that anyone can spell out all the ways Quakers know their Bible inside and out, backwards and forwards take action. Yet all of us-Spiritual and Acitivist His­ and who. a_re always ready with an apropos quote. ' t~rical and Committed- find our great strength in the dtrect and personal experience of God that lies at the ~o. Spm_tual Fnend, of course, can get along with the Activist ~nends. These are the ones who see the meeting ?eart of ~uake~ism . Just as American society as a whole for worship as a waste of precious time, choosing instead ts grappling with the question of pluralism so is the ~o seek God on the picket line or in prison. Their mission ~ociety of Friends. And perhaps-just perhap~-we are a IS to Save the World, and they go about it relentlessly­ httle ~urther along on the way to understanding what true an? God help any Friends who don't drop what they're pluralism means. On~ way to understand the diversity domg and follow ~hem. Here, too, there are many different and beauty of Quakensm IS to engage in this little game types: the NonviOlent Sociologists, whose worldview is called Quaker Sociology. Once we Friends come to under­ st~d an~ appreciat~ e~pre~sed in a scenario and who are forever running the full spectrum of religious ex­ situation analyses and scaling options to determine whether p~nence 10 our Soctety, we will have begun the more an action would be ~?unterproductive (tactically speaking, dtfficult task of understanding and appreciating the full of course) ; the Pohtically Active Friends, usually liberal spectrum of cultural and political experience in the nation at large. Democrats, who ~ike _the Ame~can Way of Doing Things an? who ~ould hke It better if they were running it; the Fnends With a Helping Hand, who collect old clothes and James Nayler Entering London canned goods for the Poor People in the Ghetto, and who look forward to the one day a year when the Poor No, no, he had not thought himself to be People come out to meeting for worship and a nice pot­ the Christ of the Gospels; no, he had not thought luck; the Communal Friends, who live in (what else?) London to be Jerusalem. communes, sharing all the work and the child care and Then why, Friend James, the vegetarian meals (for Communal Friends never eat meat). Everyone, ·they say, should be a Communal did you ride a donkey into London town? Friend, because it's radi<:al, ecologically sound, cheap, The Anglicans and Presbyterians laugh. and healthy (not necessanly in that order; cheap usually Confused, James Nayler bowed his head and begged goes first) . forgiveness of the Society of Friends. Then there are the Historical Friends. These are the And then in him the inner Light burned low ones of impeccable pedigree. Their ancestors were con­ which was his passion, utter and entire. vinced by George Fox or Margaret Fell, and while maybe Could the Light betray him? Or betray Itself? thos.e ancestors were poor working folk, you sure couldn't The vessel was insufficient for that Light; tell It by looking at their descendants. Their main interests his doubt and theirs would now turn down the wick. lie in maintaining old buildings and old records, so that everyone ca~ know that their pedigrees are impeccable, Gentle my reader, do not pause to examine and that their ancestors were convinced by George Fox the wording incidental to this recital. or Margaret Fell .... Mount your white donkey and set out straightway And we can't forget the Committed Friends. (This is for a thousand Jerusalems plotting crucifixion. JACK TOOTELL Robert F. Tatman, a member of Merion, PA, M eetings, works with the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission.

356 July 1/ 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Photograph by Takao Akiyama

HOWARD H. BRINTON 1884-1973 " ... through whom the Light shone."

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 357 HOWARD H BRINTON 1884-1973 Surrounded and Lifted Up by Elizabeth Gray Vining

DURING the Christmas holidays in 1936 at a Meeting Workers Institute at Pendle Hill, I met Howard Brinton for the first time. The seeds of all my later knowledge of him were there in that week. I was a recently convinced Friend and I had just dis­ covered the mystics. Howard Brinton and also Rufus Jones, though briefly at that Institute, were to illumine both Quakerism and mysticism for me and to show me how they fitted together. At that time Howard gave a series of lectures on the source~ of Quakerism, which he traced not only to John and Paul , the great European mystics and spiritual re­ formers, but also to the religions of the Orient. He had spent the previous spring and summer in China and Japan, where he talked with the great roshis and meditated with the monks at a temple in Kyoto. For the first time I heard of Zen. Howard Brinton in 1936 already had the aureole of white hair that distinguished him to the last, a face luminous with wisdom and serenity and the unselfconscious Howard a11d Yuki p/a11t a tree. Photograph by Brad Nichol~ simplicity that is the mark of the best mystics. He had, too, the mystic's fellowship with animals, although it was The Mystic Will was followed by a distinguished list not ti ll later that he came to meeting for worship with a of books and pamphlets, chiefly on Quakerism. His last baby rabbit in his pocket. His sense of fun surprised and fou r pamphlets, soon to be published in book form with delighted me when I saw him take part in the skits and th e;; title, The Philosophy of Quakerism, were written when songs of Log Night at the end of our week of study and he could no longer see to reread the sources he knew so worship. I did not then understand the deeper significance well. The unique character of Howard Brinton's work on of Log Night: how by laughing at itself Pendle Hill seeks Quakerism lies to some extent in his sources: the little­ to produce not fanatics sure of their rightness but "humble read Epistles of George Fox and some three hundred truth-seekers who do not take themselves too seriously." Quaker journals. Over a period of years he and Anna In 1969 and 1970 I taught a course at Pendle Hill, Brinton together made an exhaustive study of the journals. which I called "Certain Mystics", in which I included He saw their Quakerism as mystical, with other elements. both Rufus Jones and Howard Brinton. Before I lectured "Quakerism;' he wrote in Ethical Mysticism, "is de­ on Howard I had a long and memorable talk with him rived from the ethical teachings of Jesus, the Christ­ about his life and thought. There is room for only a mysticism of Paul and the Logos- and God-mysticism of highlight or two. His first piece of writing, at the age of John." He defined mysticism many times, but perhaps his twelve or thereabouts, was a collection of original poems simplest definition is in Friends for Three Hundred Years: entitled Extracts from the Thought of Howard H . Brinton. "a religion based on the spiritual search for an inward, Studying under Rufus Jones at Haverford, he was Jed to immediate experience of the divine. . . . Quakerism is Jakob Boehme who, he said, was his "favorite mystic, peculiar in being a group mysticism, grounded in Christian for he showed how to combine the affirmative and the concepts." "By ethical mysticism," he explained, "I mean negative ways." His comment on the six years he spent that type of mysticism wh ich first withdraws from the teaching at Pickering College, Ontario, was a rueful "I world revealed by the senses to the inward Divine Source think I was just the same when I left there as I was when of Light, Truth and Power, and then returns to the I went there." His work for the American Friends Service world with strength renewed, insight cleared, and desire Committee in Germany provided him with a car to drive quickened to bind all life together in the bonds of love." and a chance to take lovely young Anna Cox through the There are no spiritual ladders or stages to be found in Riesengeberge to visi t Boehme's grave. Howard Brinton's mysticism, nor is the mystical journey He took his Ph.D. in physics and philosophy and his mapped. But he does write of aridity and he does give thesis on Jakob Boehme was later published as a book, advice as to how to meet what he calls "the dark forces The Mystic Will. At Earlham he taught physics, but when of the soul." They "cannot be removed by direct attack. he and Anna Cox Brinton went to Mills College, he taught To fight them is to give them the only strength they can religion and philosophy. "I thought there was plenty of possess . . . It is not through a struggle to possess the physics in the world but not enough religion." Light but rather by permitting the Light to possess us

358 I uly 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL " ... through whom lht Light shont." that inner darkness is overcome." (The Quaker garden while students who had come to his regular Tues­ Doctrine of Inner Peace) He was very sure that day afternoon lecture drank tea all around us, of an ex­ insights received in retirement were to be carried out in perience he had had in England. service to others. "The negative journey to the Light was "Do you know Glastonbury Tor? It stands up high­ always followed by the positive journey to the needy but the ancient Isle of A val on above what used to be a marsh. good world." (Friends for Three Hundred Years) And I climbed up there once years ago-it's quite a climb­ again, "A religion is better understood by what it does and when I got to the top I had the most impressive ex­ than by what it thinks." perience of my life. I felt surrounded and lifted up." Though Howard Brinton wrote about mysticism with In his last years, after Anna Brinton's death, he used to the authority of direct knowledge, there are in his books come with Yuki Brinton's help, leaning on two sticks, no accounts of his own experiences. He was reticent to meeting for worship in the Barn at Pendle Hill. I see about himself. But in his later years he did say to Dan him now: with his white hair and frail, spare body, he Wilson that perhaps he should have revealed himself was like a beautiful, translucent shell through which the more, and he did tell me one afternoon, sitting in his Light shone.

Great and Humble Teacher, Warm Friend and Wise Counselor by Dan Wilson I REMEMBER seeing him for the first time in the autumn Door") , and had lived there for the rest of Anna's life; of 193 7. It was at the morning meeting for worship in Howard's, too, except for his last few months. He and the Pendle Hill Barn. Only during the previous summer Yuki Takahashi Brinton had moved recently into one had I discovered the Religious Society of Friends while of the new apartments to make way for a new highway, serving in the American Friends Service Committee's the "Blue Route." Peace Caravan program. My literary introduction to the Matsudo had provided a special treat, once each week, Quaker way of worshiping had come through reading his tea being served by Anna before Howard's lectures there. Swarthmore Lecture, Creative Worship. Though the meet­ How like them to take, in their usual unruffled stride, the ing room was filled that morning with the Pendle Hill awful announcement, some years ago now, that the high­ family, plus us sojourners for a peaceworkers roundup, my way was to come right up to the front door. Anna had eyes were drawn at once to the man who had to be the commented, "We'll use the back door," and Howard, author of that deeply convincing book. There he sat, back "We'll not be living to see it." straight, head lifted, eminent eyebrows crowning closed In his presence could be felt the unusual degree to which eyes. He appeared to be listening, unafraid for whatever he had been blessed with the inward peace, reverenced truth was to come purely out of the quiet. When he He could laugh and play heartily. Photograph by Takao Akiyama spoke, simply, briefly, clearly, I felt we were in the presence of a Friend, authentic as his writing. Quoting from Pascal's Pen.sees, "When we encounter a natural style we are always astonished and delighted, for we ex­ pected to see an author, and found a man." During his nearly forty years at Pendle Hill, Howard Brinton came to be known by seekers from around the world as a teacher of the religion he lived. Characteristics of the Quaker Journalists, whose religion he was so de­ voted to portraying in contemporary terms, were pre­ dominantly his own as well. Though he didn't keep a Journal, as such, I believe Pendle Hill has been his living autobiography. He lived as simply as he spoke. In younger years he had worked as skillfully with his hands as with his mind; in later years he expressed wonder that he hadn't followed the way of the manual more than of the intellectual. He could laugh and play heartily, as evidenced par­ ticularly at Hallowe'en parties, Pendle Hill log nights, and with his grandchildren. Children and animals always seemed to feel at ease with him, and he with them. Never to be forgotten were the joyous family reunions, with Howard, Anna, their four children, spouses, and all six­ teen grandchildren overflowing that humble little cottage, to which Howard and Anna had retired from Upmeads, in 1952. They had named it Matsudo (translated "Pine

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1/ 15, 1973 HOWARD H. BRINTON 1884·1973 by him both as end and means, though in his modest way during one of our last visits, he commented, sadly, "I should have been less preoccupied with watching my mind. I could have revealed more, the depths of feeling in my heart." Throughout my own twenty years of sitting almost daily with him, in the Pendle Hill meeting for worship, I knew him as a great and humble teacher, warm friend and wise counselor. The Father of Pacific by Phillip H. Wells

HOWARD BRINTON has often been spoken of affectionately as the father of Pacific Yearly Meeting. During one yearly meeting at St. Mary's College I was sitting next to one of the Christian Brothers when Howard was introduced to make some remarks from the platform. Brother Girard leaned over and asked me, "Is he your pope?" Throughout the life of the yearly meeting he was an active par­ ticipant, being present often, especially in the last ten years when he attended almost every year. While he never served in any office, he participated fully in the sessions. Photograph by David J. Russell Howard and Ann Brinton came to Mills College to teach in 1928 and stayed until 1936 when they became Howard and Anna at Pacific Yearly Meeting, 1968 directors of Pendle Hill. They participated in Berkeley an education conference held just before it, at which Meeting and the College Park Association, which in­ Howard was the resource leader. Howard also helped by cluded the Friends meetings in the San Francisco Bay directing Friends in Victoria, Vancouver and Mexico City area. In April, 1931 they called together Friends and to Pacific Yearly Meeting, so that we became an interna­ friends of Friends from California, Oregon and Washing­ tional yearly meeting. ton for a two-day meeting at their home in Oakland. At During the 1950's, other concerns kept the Brintons that meeting the Pacific Coast Association of Friends, from attending yearly meeting, but as H oward and Anna forerunner of Pacific Yearly Meeting, was formed. Howard grew older they gradually became more regular attenders, also was the first editor of the Association's Friends Bul­ partly because they could also visit their son, Edward, letin, and the earliest issues were mostly his writing. his wife, Desiree, and the grandchildren at La Jolla. It Even after Howard and Anna moved to Pendle Hill thus became a special dividend at yearly meeting to see they continued to be interested in Friends on the West and hear Howard and Anna as they spoke to the business Coast. In the early 40's the number of Friends and of the meeting. Friends meetings in the West had increased, and there After Anna's death his devotion to the yearly meeting was a greatly felt need to unite them in a yearly meeting. did not waver. He came to the 1971 session at McMinn­ Howard was always ready with wise counsel. It had been ville, Oregon, with a special concern to help Friends more many, many years since a yearly meeting had been set clearly understand Quaker theology and its foundations up independently and not by an existing yearly meeting. in the writings of John. His enthusiasm sparked a renewed Some Friends in the American Friends Fellowship Coun­ interest in the study of John and the Bible in many monthly cil (later the American Section of the World Committee) meetings. were very doubtful. Rufus Jones was especially con­ Yuki came with him and cared for him so carefully cerned that we might offend California and Oregon Yearly that he was able to be quite active. And again last year Meetings of Friends Church. Howard labored with them he and Yuki came to yearly meeting. Although he was patiently and helped us in our contacts with them until feeble, his spirit pervaded the gathering. He was alert to they all felt easy. Neither yearly meeting was troubled by all that went on, and he gave his approval to the next the appearance of a new yearly meeting uniting the in­ steps of growth that saw the grouping formed in his home dependent unprogramed Western meetings. 41 years before divide into three yearly meetings now. In August of 1946 at a meeting of the Pacific Coast Who can foresee how much gr.owth will eventually take Association in Pasadena, attended by Howard and Anna place? Brinton, a yearly meeting was decided upon and the usual During all these years, the presence and writings of officers were appointed. The following August we met at Howard Brinton have been a unifying and insipiring in­ Palo Alto as the first session of Pacific Yearly Meeting. fluence for Friends everywhere, but particularly for us in The Pasadena meeting had been especially enriched by the Pacific Coast region.

360 July 1 j 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL ••. . . through whom lht Light sh'""·" Family Occasions: Memories That Linger On by Elizabeth Brinton

IT WAS NOVEMBER, and a familiar voice on the phone said "Of course we want everyone again this year." And so brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren and cousins of assorted ages would be gathering for another Thanks­ giving dinner in Howard and Anna Brinton's home at Pendle Hill. When our parents were no longer living, Howard's strong feeling for family solidarity, his real interest in each individual member, as well as his cordial invitations (backed wholeheartedly by Anna) made their home the natural gathering place for our particular branch of the Brinton family. Howard was the oldest of our generation, but as the family gathered around the dinner table, his were the jokes we·en joyed the most, his stories the ones asked for year after year. Who among us will ever forget his ac­ Douglas, 4; Howard, 87; and a treasure. count of attending a very conservative meeting in the came to love and appreciate the out-of-doors, particularly Middle West, years ago, and being preached at because he the Brandywine valley. The family camp, each summer was wearing a necktie and his suit coat had the con­ beside the stream, and his canoe trips on the Brandy­ ventional collar? Howard's imitation of the elderly Friend's wine and the Delaware, have made family history. quavering voice-to the last cadence-was perfect, and In these later years, when hiking and canoeing were his grandchildren were as entertained as we were. no longer possible, his love of small animals continued. One of the Thanksgiving dinner pictures, taken some Many a day both family cats took afternoon naps with years ago, shows Howard holding out a plate well filled him on the couch. A hole cut in the kitchen door allowed with turkey. It portrays his hospitable sharing of food a pet raccoon to come into the cottage at Pendle Hill to but symbolically it speaks of other things he shared with get food, to the delight of all the human onlookers. us, over the years. Perhaps Howard's love of the outdoors coupled with We all knew that he had spiritual depths and religious his appreciation of the smallest of God's creatures were insights far beyond anything any one of us could attain. why young children felt so at home with him. We looked up to him with respect for his towering Two years ago, at a family gathering celebrating his intellect and his literary ability and appreciated the place sister's birthday, a picture was taken of Douglas, aged 4, of prominence he held in the Religious Society of Friends. showing to Howard, his great-uncle, aged 87, his most In spite of his achievements, however, he never talked treasured possession- a set of keys. Eighty-three years down to any of us and his quiet simplicity made us all separated them in age, but their mutual interest was of feel at ease with him. the moment. Howard's July birthday meant another family gather­ The love and appreciation his grandchildren had for ing-usually an outdoor picnic. Part of the fun, which him were made very clear when two of his granddaughters he entered into wholeheartedly, was the "crowning" volunteered to give up a half year of college in order to ceremony when some of his grandchildren placed a wreath live with him at Pendle Hill- to care for him and to learn on his head- a green· ·wreath they had made of honey­ from him as he talked of religion, philosophy and the suckle or some trailing vine. Before the picnic was half living of life. over, the wreath was always askew, usually caught in a His wonderfully retentive mind was stored with family bushy eyebrow, but he always wore it bravely to the end genealogy as well as delightful family anecdotes, and we of the meal, much to everyone's delight. all turned to him for information about Chester County One year, a very young grandchild gave him a birthday and our ancestors who helped to settle it. His knowledge present of a ball of wire twisted into an odd, complicated of our twice-great-grandfather, Amos Brinton, and his shape. His grandfather looked at it carefully and said in home, the mill house on the Brandywine, was particularly the kindest voice, "Thank you very much, I never saw appreciated by Andrew Wyeth and his wife, who live anything like that before." None of the rest of us had there now. The stories Howard told the artist over tea­ either! Howard had told the exact truth and the giver of cups a few years ago delighted them- and made family the gift ran away, pleased that something he had made history for the rest of us. for his grandfather had been so well received. Years ago, when Howard and Anna were teaching at During his growing-up years in Chester County, Howard Mills College in California, Howard's love of the out-of-

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 361 HO WARD H. BR INTON 1884- 1913 doors prompted him to suggest a Sunday picnic after The memory of that day lingers on-the beautiful meeting. There were eight of us in the car, four adults Sequoia Park, Howard's enjoyment of a family picnic and and four small children. Those of us in back had little his skill with a flapjack. Yet underneath all the fun, we room for our feet because of a large basket filled with knew those members of the church Sunday School had kindling for the campfire, a Bible and reference books benefited from his teaching. Those of us who had at­ which Howard had just used as he addressed the Sunday tended meeting for worship with him earlier would not School of a nearby church, a large carton of ice cream soon forget the inspiring way he developed the text of and of course a good supply of lunch. The picnic was his sermon, "There are many roads up the mountain, but a great success, partially because Howard himself had one Sunrise for all." done the flapjacks. A Message to Share; A Mission to Accomplish by Edwin B. Bronner HOWARD BRINTON, completely at home with the history 20.) He began by describing the "Wilburite" type of of his beloved Society, enjoyed using his knowledge of yearly meeting which he attended in his youth at Arch the past to help his listeners and readers understand the Street, along with the unofficial "Gurneyite" sessions at present. He used his early scientific training in the same the Twelfth Street Meeting, and moved on up through way, to explain and illustrate religious truths that he his share in the creation of Pacific Yearly Meeting. His shared with countless others during his rich, long years observations constitute a valuable document recording as teacher and writer. an important period of Quaker history. Years of reading the writings of the early Friends, He edited two Festschrifte with a historical emphasis, especially their journals, provided him with a good under­ Children of the Light (1938), for Rufus M. Jones, and standing of the early history of the Society. Furthermore, Byways in Quaker History ( 1944), dedicated to William he had read many of the official minutes or proceedings I. Hull. His own best known historical work was Friends of the monthly meetings, as well as quarterly meetings, in for 300 Years (1952), published at the time of the his own Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Moreover, as an tercentenary of the Society of Friends. It is not actually a acute observer of the religion he lived and shared for history of Quakers, but rather a series of essays about more than four score years, he brought a special knowl­ Friends through three centuries. Howard Brinton said in edge of Quakerism, both in this country and overseas, to his introduction that it was not his intention ". . . to his lectures and to his publications. produce a history of Quakerism, but, by means of his­ Howard served for many years as the curator of the torical illustrations, to examine a method; just as a writer records housed in the vault at 302 Arch Street-records on science might interpret science by explaining, and that went back to the 1670's in Pennsylvania and New illustrating, the development of the scientific method Jersey, before the yearly meeting was created. A series through successive periods." of paid archival assistants did much of the actual work of Howard Brinton used history to explain Quakerism, organizing, listing, and maintaining the records, in order he selected historical facts from the past to support the to make them available to the meetings that deposited interpretation of Quakerism that he accepted for him­ ·them, and to scholars wishing to consult them. It was self, namely as a mystical religious movement, but he was Howard Brinton who trained these persons, though, and not a historian in the accepted meaning of the word, who laid down the guidelines for the operations of the nor did he regard himself as one. He did not believe it Department of Records. Over the years he became fa­ his responsibility to write in a comprehensive and objec­ miliar with many of the manuscripts housed in the yearly tive fashion about the past, although he did understand meeting archives, including committee reports and re­ the importance of interpreting the past to the present. He lated papers, as well as official minutes. He also served had a message to share, a mission to accomplish, and as an honorary member of the Friends Historical Library chose to use history rather than to create it. His writing at Swarthmore College. inspired many persons, and will do so for years to come. In 1961 he was named president of the Friends His­ If he had been merely a historian, that might not be the torical Association, and, after three years in that office, case. was succeeded by his wife, Anna. It was a rare experience He was firmly committed to the belief that the best to watch these two unusual Quaker personalities preside Quakerism was mystical in outlook. He wrote in the intro­ at meetings of the Board of Directors. Sometimes they duction to Friends for 300 Years: "Quakerism represents arrived with a single pair of glasses, said to have been a form of group mysticism which has perisisted longer purchased at Woolworths, which they proceeded to pass than any other instance in literate times." He found a back and forth when the occasion demanded that one or strong emphasis upon mysticism throughout the history the other read something to the meeting. Howard Brinton of Friends, and refused to be shaken in his belief by delivered several papers to the Friends Historical Asso­ scholars in the last quarter century who have deprecated ciation, of which the most important was "Friends for the idea of a strong mystical tradition. He was impatient 75 Years." (Bulletin, F.H.A., Vol. 49 (1960), pp. 3- with the evangelical Quakerism that was revived in the

362 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL ". . . through whom tht Light slro11t. " nineteenth century and continues to the present. In his final volume, Quaker Journals, Varieties of Religious Ex­ perience Among Friends ( 1972), he commented about such Friends: "Their experience was quite different from that of the founders of the Society of Friends." (p. xiv) He used history to good advantage in his perceptive volume, Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (1949), in his last book, Quaker Journals, and in many of his pamphlets. While he felt very much at home with the past, and used the facts of history to strengthen his mes­ sage in the present, he never allowed himself to be im­ prisoned by history.

Sanctity and a Man's Photograph by Harry J . Patton on the panels, Howard, whose own eyebrows came out like shelves of thatch over his eyes, to my astonishment, asked Eyebrows by Douglas Steere Dr. Suzuki (whose brows quite matched Howard's and I HAVE NEVER SEEN a more convincing argument for what those on the panels), "Dr. Suzuki, is it true that Zen some have called "the extended family" where grand­ Buddhists believe that there is some connection between parents and parents and children share in the same house­ sanctity and the size of a man's eyebrows?" Daisetz hold, than the presence of Howard Brinton at Pendle Suzuki took in the situation and with a faint curl of a Hill in the closing years of his life. To have the "old smile coming over his face, replied courteously, "So they Abbot," or the "elder statesman" living at Pendle Hill, say," after which we all roared with laughter. appearing now and then at meals, attending ·the morning Howard Brinton had unusual ways of getting his work periods of worship and even occasionally drawn to share done. When he had a pamphlet in his system th'at had one of his telegraphic two- or three-line messages, and to come out, he simply disappeared for a week or ten to have him there to be visited and consulted was a blessing days and came back with the manuscript in his pocket. beyond measure. The care that Yuki, who last year If pressed as to where he had been, he might confess that became his second wife, gave him over the last years he had been holed up in some small New York hotel in since Anna's death made this possible. And now his whose anonymity he felt completely liberated to get his Darshan, the blessing of his presence, goes on invisibly. work done. At one Board meeting at Pendle Hill he was With Howard Brinton as Director of Studies and with called on fairly early in the meeting to give his Director's Anna Brinton so competently placed as Director of Ad­ Report. Howard replied with a kind of bemused look that ministration, Pendle Hill gave Howard the freedom and he had not been expecting to be asked for the report until the scope for him to use in full the gifts that his life and the end of the meeting and had counted on another hour wide experience had provided. Someone suggested that in the meeting to prepare it! Thomas Aquinas was "a mystic in private life and a man In Japan, I understand that not only are certain artifacts of reason in puJ:>lic life like any sensible man," and the and buildings designated as national treasures but that epithet does not come far from describing Howard Brinton certain persons are also given that honor. Howard Brinton at Pendle Hill. He was a birthright Friend whom the Lord was indeed a Quaker treasure, whose life and gifts were kept ever freshly convincing. His lectures were plain, freely and gayly given. Few of us are the same for having blunt, clear messages that shared his conviction that there known him. A Birthday Gar/anti was in the Society of Friends a viable, relevant approach to life that was worthy of exploring and at the same time stressed that Quakerism must be aware of the new movements in the life of each generation, must assess them and learn from them, and must make its response to them. Both his lectures and his personal counsel, much of which was given in that beautiful library-cum-living room at Upmeads, left a lasting mark on those who ex­ perienced them. Howard and Anna Brinton entertained many distin­ guished people in their Upmeads residence with its fireplace framed with panels of old Chinese and Japanese Zen patriarchs who looked down searchingly upon the guests. I once confronted those patriarchs in Upmeads ·when I brought over Daisetz Suzuki, the great Zen writer, to see Howard. 'fhere, before these fierce beetle-browed figures

FRIENDS JOURNAL I uly 1 I 15, 197 3 HOWARD H. BRINTON 1884-1973 and colleges due to a disturbed and chaotic inner life than Education of the Mind and the Spirit to laziness or dullness. Inner tensions produce outer ten­ Editor's Note: Among the richest of Howard Brinton's sions and outer tensions produce inner tensions. Life lacks contributions to religious thought and life are his insights the calmness, wholeness and serenity which result from about Quaker education. The following from his Pendle inner balance. Hill Pamphlet #9, Quaker Education in Theory and .. .If the Quaker school should do again what it used to Practice, include what some consider the classic summary do and prepare, not for the community "of this world" but of Quakerism's four basic social testimonies. for a special kind of life which is in the world but not of it, its methods must conform to that special kind of life COMMUNITY is present in the attempt of the meeting to for which it prepares. It would be possible, in varying de­ become a unified, closely integrated group of persons grees depending on circumstances, for the teacher to which is not just a collection of separate individuals, but adopt the pacifist non-authoritarian technique similar to a living whole which is more than the sum of its parts. that which governs a Friends meeting for business by Not only is a spiritual and intellectual group life created which the meeting arrives at its conclusions through a in a successful meeting but, in vari ous degrees, material united judgment, arising from a synthesis of many in­ interdependence develops as well. dividual judgments. The endeavor to arrive at a condition Harmony is in some respects a better word than "paci­ of unity is a valuable training in the usc of the power of fi sm," which has acquired an unfortunate negati ve con­ non-violence for it requires a loving understanding of op­ notation. "Pacifism," however, being derived from pax posing points of view, an ability to recognize some and facio , designates " peace making" and is therefore opinions as weightier than others, an endeavor to win a positive power by which an inner appeal is made to the over others by appealing to their inner sense of truth called creative peaceableness .... Peaceableness exists as and rightness, and a willingness to surrender one's own a positive power by which an inner appeal is made to the opinion in obedience to truth best that is in man, rather than as an external pressure Published Works of Howard H. Brinton by forces from outside him. This must include that kind BOOKS: The Mystic Will, A Study of the Philosophy of Jacob of love and understanding which integrates separate and Boehme. New York: Macmillan Company, 1930; Children of Light. In Honor of Rufus M. Jones. Ed. Howard H. Brinton. New conflicting clements into a higher unity. York: Macmillan Company, 1938; Byways in Quaker History. A Equality is represented in the meeting by the equal Collection of Historical Essays by Colleagues and Friends of opportunity for all to take part in the worship or business William I. Hull. Ed. Howard H. Brinton. Wallingford. PA: Pendle Hill, 1944; Critique by Eternity and Other Essays. Wall­ regardless of age, sex, or official position. This does not ingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1943; Friends for 300 Years. Walling­ mean that the opinions of all have equal weight in de­ ford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1952; Creative Worship and Other Essays. termining decisions. There are obvious differences of Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1963. (Includes "Creative Worship," Swarthmore Lecture. 1931; "Divine-Human Society," William Penn ability and insight, but it does mean that every opinion Lecture. 1938; "Quakerism and Other Religions," Pendle H ill expressed must be taken into account according to its Pamphlet #93. 1957.); Quaker Journals. Varieties of Religious truth and not according to the status of the person who Experience Among Friends. Wall ingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1972; The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism. The Beliefs of Fox. Bar­ utters it. clay. and Penn as Based on the Gospel of John. Wallingford, Simplicity, as Friends used the word, ... means the PA: Pendle Hill, 1973. (In process). PENDLE HILL PAMPHLETS: #2 A Religious Solution to the absence of superfluity. It has often had the broader con­ Social Problem (1934); #9 Quaker Education in Theory and notations of sincerity, integrity, practicality and consist­ Practice { 1940); #20 Guide to Quaker Practice {1943); #44 The ency .... It involves a kind of life which docs not depend Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace ( 1948); #54 Prophetic Min· istry {1950). The Dudleian Lectu re at Harvard University, 1949. for happiness on abundance of material things but rather Published with the permission of Harvard University. where it on inner serenity of soul. A serene individual is not was issued in the Divinity School Bulletin ; #55 The Pendle Hill anxious and worried because of the possibility of material Idea (1950); #665 Reaching Decisions (in Friends for 300 Years, Chap. 6) (I 952); #93 Quakerism and Other Religions (I 957). (In losses. His soul is not centered in those things but rather Creative Worship); # 11 4 How They Became Friends (196 1): in a region which is eternal and which cannot be affected # 156 Ethical Mysticism in the Society of Friends (I 967); #I 61 The Religion of George Fox ( 1968); #I 73 Evolution and the In­ by outward change. ward Light ( 1970); # 179 Light and Life in the Fourth Gospel (1971 ); # 185 Meeting House and Farm House (1972). . . . The cultivation of sensitivity to the still small (Editor's note: A II hut # 2. 54, 65 and 93 are in prillt). voice, willingness to obey it, and the practice of ways of PAMPHLETS (not published by Pendle Hill): Vocal Ministry living which enlarge the inner dimensions of the soul have and Quaker Worship. Reprinted from The Friend, Philadelphia, Ninth Month 27 to Eleventh Month l (incl.), 1928; The Meeting always been among their (Friends schools) objectives. If and Its Community. Rufus M. Jones Lecture, 1945. Delivered at the needs of the whole person arc to be met substantial Upper Dublin Meeting House. Ambler, PA: Upper Dublin United portions of time should be devoted to body and spirit as Monthly Meeting, 1945; The Function of a Quaker College. The Ward Lecture, given at Guilford College, NC, 1951 ; The Peace well as mind .... The need is pressi ng. Our humanistic Testimony of the Society of Friends. A.F.S.C., 1958; The Quaker civilization in which we over-develop the intellect and its Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Reprint edition of Quaker Religious Thought, with comments by Lewis Benson, Thomas S. Brown, and tool-using capacities is collapsing. We arc being ruined by Charles F. Thomas, !959; Seventy-Five Years of Quakerism 1885- the very tools we have created. T he head is over educated 1960. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Friends Historical Ass'n.., at the expense of the heart. Due to this onc-sidcdness stu­ Spring, 1960, by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; The Religion of the Quaker Journalist. Shrewsbury Lect ure given at Friends Meeting dents are often neurotic and oppressed by inner tensions. House. Shrewsbury, NJ. Indianapolis. IN: John Woolman Press, Educators tell us that there are more failures in schools 1962.

364 July 1/ 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Bicentennial of Luke Howard Reflections on a Rainy Day Letter from the Past- 266 Noah Vail

NOVEMBER 28, 1972 was the bicentennial of the birth of There Was an Old Man with a Beard .. . the notable Quaker, Luke Howard. It does not appear to have been widely commemorated by Quakers. ABOUT ONCE IN THREE WEEKS I am assaulted by some In London a bicentenary exhibition was on display at well-meaning Friend who informs me that it is unthink­ the Science Museum for some months. Luke was born in able that any reasonable person should still conceive of 1772 in a Quaker family, although not apparently re­ God in terms of an Old Man with a Beard. lated to the earlier Luke Howard of Dover of the first This is very distressing to me, since I tend to think of generation of Friends. His education, especially his ap­ myself as a reasonably intelligent person, and of God as prenticeship as a pharmaceutical chemist, determined his an Old Man with a Beard. interest in science. Apart from a successful career as a It is true that in recent years I have been tempted to manufacturer of chemicals- for part of the time a partner give up on the beard. of William Allen of Plough Court, who also was a Quaker It is also true that I am not persuaded of God's essential scientist- he developed an interest in meteorology. It was or exclusive masculinity. for this that he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. But the real problem, I fear, has little to do with either Like modern Friends, he carried on, besides his busi­ sex or complexion, but involves my comprehension of ness, religious and humanitarian concerns. He edited for God as a wise and powerful Old Person. five years the journal called the Y orkshireman and con­ My friends tell me sadly that I am thinking anthropo­ tributed many pieces of his own. He was an active com­ morphically. To please them, I make desperate efforts to mittee ?1ember of the British and Foreign Bible Society, think treeomorphically, or monkeymorphically, or nucleo­ translatmg from the Greek some of the apocryphal books morphically, or occasionally even spookomorphically, but not in the current English Bible. In 1814 after the to tell you the truth I am not very good at it. Napoleonic war he visited Germany on a mission, like My non-anthropomorphic-thinking friends tell me that that of more recent Quakers, of relief to war sufferers. God is love, or truth, or beauty, and I nod wisely and try Details of this effort have been collected in Ormerod Green­ to adjust myself to these insights. Unfortunately I can wood's book, Quaker Encounters. The exhibit at the think about love and truth and beauty only anthropomor­ Science Museum included more than fifty objects con­ phically, because anthropo- is what I am. (If I ever get nected with one or another of the aspects of Howard's to be God, I will let you know . . . ) very variegated career. It refers to him as "the father So I don't know whether God is all these things, or of modern meteorology." none of them, or, most likely, all of them and a good A second recent monument to Howard's memory has many more our philosophers haven't thought of yet. All to do with a later contact with Europe. Early in his life I know is that if I try to figure out love and truth and he was a careful observer of clouds, and he wrote a report beauty I wind up looking into a mirror and projecting of London weather based on his daily record for 1806 my love and truth and beauty onto God and everybody to 1830. Before that he wrote for the Askesian Society an around me, usually with disastrous results. "Essay on the Modification of Clouds," which in a Ger­ But there are times when it seems that God is trying to man translation came to the attention of the poet Goethe. get something across to me, in a very personal way, and It met an artistic need of the German poet, who adopted he (sorry, ladies) does not come across on these occasions the nomenclature of clouds, which Howard was the first like an abstraction; he comes across like an absolute to use. Goethe published a poem in honor of Howard and sovereign giving orders, and I can either like it, lump it, solicited later from Howard himself an account of his or try to hop a ship for Tarshish. life and interests. Goethe received this and translated it No, dear Friends, you may keep your Glorious Ab­ into German. In my letter 103 this interchange was men­ stractions; as for me and my house, we will string along tioned. Now in this anniversary year the original English with the Old Man with a Beard, text has been published for the first time by Gertrud Liepe, Who said, "It is just as I feared, an American friend of the Friends, together with a whole Three heresies and an -ism, series of notices of other contacts. Her essay is published Two -ologies and a schism, in the Jahrbuch des freien deutschen Hochstifts, 1972, Have all built their nests in my beard." pp. 59-107 (reviewed in Friends Journal 4/ 1). We are used to reading the biographies of notable Friends, but few of them have passed through such vicis­ situdes as this one, ending now with the first publication of the original English text of Luke Howard's auto­ biography. Now AND THEN

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 R. W. Tucker: porateness and when viewed as sums of whom Jesus invested with the same individuals who are imperfect. a uthority he claimed for himself, to IT DAWNS ON ME that in the COUrse of And intimately tied to this, a grow­ forgive sins, to bind and to loose, to many controversial articles on many ing sense of awe at God's mercy in proclaim truth in God's name, to "ask specific topics, l have never written view of how little I know 1 deserve it all things." Knowing full well their in­ about the basic point that makes me and sense that others deserve it. God adequacies, Jesus nevertheless promised keep arguing with other Friends. l feel really does love humans! And how his presence in their midst whenever stung by comments that I am on a utterly incredible this is! He reaches out they prayerfully engaged in decision­ " head trip"' or unduly concerned over to us inexorably, he drags us kicking making. (Matthew 18.) doctrinal abstractions, yet it is true that and screaming into acceptance of The mercy of God is at all times a my specific articles are in terms that truths we find intellectually abominable, . miracle, in that it cannot be explained may permit this conclusion from a he hauls us into a less and less imper­ rationally. And of all of God's mercies, reader. Now I'd like to say why. Not fect faithfulness to him, and he offers apostolic authority is the most miracu­ as an expression of a head trip, but hi s forgiveness to us whatever we do. lous. We don't deserve anything by as a report from the heart. My overall summary view of the So­ rights, we certainly have done nothing I once was where most Friends still ciety of Friends is much the same as to earn God's help and love, and above are. I was drawn to Quakerism and be­ my overall view of me: We are riddled all it is absurd and preposterous that a came an enthusiast fo r reasons I now with unfaithfulness, we have messed up community of discipleship should have reject; I now have views that would the bulk of the opportunities the Lord delegated to it a portion of the power have repelled me in my teens. In par­ offered us, we continue to do things and authority of God, including the ticular. views on si n and redemption. wrong-yet what is a mazing is that we power to dispense help and love. If we keep on growing as we ma­ manage to do as well as we do, and so Now: What the arguing is all about: ture, then we do change. much better than could reasonably have I have found over the years, to my For me, spiritual growth has con­ been expected of us. There is no expla· enormous sorrow, that it is not possible sisted of a slow and steady increase in nation-just the mercy of God. for me to speak in meeting for worship awareness of my sin s and faults and an Religious history reinforces this in­ of my deepest perception of how God accompanying perception that others ward perception again and again. What relates to us. are also imperfect and that corporate a crummy bunch of confused stumble­ This isn't because I feel it to.o deeply groups, and in particular Friends meet­ bum sinners the original twelve disciples to be able to share it. I desperately want ings, are imperfect both in their cor- were! Yet it was this "crummy bunch'' to share it. It isn't because r lack Speaking Out: On. the Essential Differences Tom Abrams: in the history of Quaker faith and or did it begin with the sermons of practice. Friend Hicks? There are some Evan· T. VA IL PALMER, .JR. , argues (FJ 4/1), From the 17th century to the pres· gelical Friends for whom the classical ( I) that there is a "classical Quaker ent, the history of Quaker doctrine Quaker faith took shape with the mis· faith." (2) that AFSC "articulates a has been a history of schisms, tensions, siona ry tours of Friend Gurney, and specific theology," (3) that this theology and uneasy truces. When have these there are some mystical friends ior "negates" the classical Quaker faith, Quakers, these "plain people," not whom the classical expression of Quak­ a nd ( 4 ) that AFSC statements of been in a state of plain confusion? er faith is to be found in the words of belief therefore "affront" many con· Anyone who has studied Fox and Thomas Kelly or Howa rd Brinton or temporary Quakers. Penn must have been struck bv im· Rufus Jones. I deny Friend Palmer's propostttons portant d ifferences in the "specific If Thomas Kelly, say, was not a - deny them root and branch. theologies" they articulated. Priend Quaker. what was he? Or have there Referring to an article by John Pc nington's Christology, if words mean been no Quakers but George Fox and Sulli van in which a defense had been anything at all. was as different from that saving remnant which, from grn· offered against charges similar to his Friend Fox's as Friend Fox's was fr01n cration to generation, have made a own. Palmer summari zes his argument Friend Gurney's two centuries later. scripture of his words, thereby sug· in t~ese words: Who among contemporary Quakers gesting (in the view of another saving "John Sullivan has unwittingly con· possesses the ideological purity or the remnant, from generat ion to genera· firmed the charge which he was o;piritual and ecclesiastical authority ( Q tion) how little they could have grasped trying to refute: AFSC does, by canonize Fox as "classical" but ex· of the words' real meaning or the a nd large. articulate a specific eludes E li as Hicks or Jonathon Evans spirit that gave them forth? Whcfl~ is theology; and this theology does or Rufus Jones as " negating the hea rt the priest hood that holds the keys to both negate the heart of the clas· of the classical Quaker faith"? T am the kingdom of George Fox, and who sica! Quaker faith and affront sure that Friend Palmer is far from owns dead the George Fox no one many contemporary Friends." arrogating such authority to himself: owned alive? Therefore who shall lay I answer: but, speaking the truth with love, the it down that Cla rence Pickett, say, was ( I ) There has never been a "clas· question must be asked. a Quaker but not a "classical" Quaker? sica! Quaker faith." The term "clas· When and by whom was the classical Again, I am far from intending to sica!" in this context implies a stable Quaker faith enuncia ted? D id the clas· ascribe such an assumption of pontifical and authoritative consensus of ideology sica! age of Quaker doctrine come to authority to Friend Palmer, whose and form that simply cannot he found an end with the death of Friend Fox theological views. I suspect. arc very

366 July 1 I I 5, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL words, or am afflicted with crippling narrow, and l do not see myself as I've tried just using orthodox lan­ shyness. No, I cannot share my deepest precipitating doctrinal arguments. I guage. At least, this doesn't come on as reasons for standing in awe at God's see myself as having grown and ex­ trickiness but polarizes meetings. mercy, because whenever I have tried panded to a point where the orthodoxies One thing, though, does seem to it-in most Meetings-some other that I too once rejected now have new work. If I can make Friends just plain Friend has promptly risen to proclaim and vital meaning for me. I see myself furiously angry, being Friends, we at that Friends do not believe humans are as unable to share what I have learned once feel terribly guilty at having let sinners in need of forgiveness; or to of the Lord's way with us because of ourselves get angry. Out of our guilt explain, to any presumed ignorant the narrownesses of Quaker "liberals" (which, a few of us know, God has stranger present, that it is Quaker doc­ and "humanists." I see our Society of freed us from) we make, or some of us trine that God is within us pantheis­ Friends as full of people who not only make, a serious effort to cope with what tically, and not outside us. (It is of are in flight from orthodoxies rigidly we perceive as a communications gap. course true that a sense of the outside­ and unfeelingly imposed upon them in A few of us will in time see that it ness of God is central to my personal youth, but also as full of people for isn't just a communications gap, but a religious experience; only, with Fox, I whom this is their hangup, whose gut significant matter of doctrinal differ­ do not understand "inner light" as an reaction to words like "sin," "forgive­ ence; and of this few, a few will be assertion that God is made up of bits ness,"' "God's mercy that we don't de­ helped to see how we can grow by dis­ and pieces with which we are innately serve," is to go on a head trip of auto­ carding our narrownesses toward doc­ endowed; I understand it as our en­ matic rejection. trines that we first learned the wrong dowment with the capacity to receive I've tried it every way I can. I've way. Some may discover that we have God's love.) tried rephrasing my perception of the been attending Christ's School all The Society of Friends is chockful of pervasiveness of sin into Murphy's along; we may finally reach a point people in flight from orthodoxies, us­ Law, which most people know by com­ where we can ourselves use a term like ually for very good reason. If anyone mon sense to be true: " If something can that without embarrassment. When we dares, in meeting for worship, to try go wrong, it wilL If people can mess do, we find that we in tum are now to share a perception of divinity in something up, we wilL" Friends are too people to whom other Friends have a anything that sounds remotely like or­ sharp for this sort of game; they see gut rejection response, and we in tum thodox language, the meeting is apt to right through it; they see right away will be terribly pained over our inability degenerate into doctrinal argument. that I am offering a doctrine of sin and to share our deepest perception of I do not see myself as doctrinally salvation; they will have none of it. God's love. Between Friends close to my own. But for his sake as wise would have been to "articulate a only implied that AFSC statements for the Society's, someone needs to specific theology." do not go far enough in specifically elicit a few of the more pernicious Surely there is a continuum between reproducing Fox's presumed theological implications that lie coiled in that general statement and specific articula­ views-i.e., that AFSC statements do innocent-looking sonorous, and hypnotic tion. It is precisely as one proceeds not "articulate a specific theology." phrase "classical Quaker faith." from the general statement of belief Is it possible that he has unwittingly To sum up, the assumption that there to the specific-and from statements refuted the charge that he was seeking is a Quaker orthodoxy and that it of belief to articulations of them-­ to confirm? stretches in a thin straight line from that one proceeds from i·nnocence of ( 4) AFSC statements of belief do Friend Fox to Friend Palmer (or "articulating a specific theology" to not "affront many contemporary Quak­ Friend Steere or Friend Trueblood or responsibility for doing so. There is a ers." Since there is no classical Quaker Friend Benson) just cannot be made world of difference between confessing faith, since no consensus exists among to square with the historical record, a belief in "that of God" in evervone Friends in the U. S. concerning issues much less with the teachings of Fox or and reciting the Apostle's Creed;. but of theological doctrine, since the AFSC the tenure and spirit of Quakerism. the difference is that, while the former does not articulate a specific theology, (2) I submit that AFSC does not does not exclude the latter, it certainly and since, even if it did, that theology "articulate a specific theology." Friend stops way short of "articulating .l could not "negate" a nonexistent tradi­ Palmer's choice of words here clearly specific theology." tion or consensus, therefore the prop­ implies the attribution to AFSC litera­ ( 3) I submit that AFSC statements osition that AFSC statements of belief ture of theological statements that are of belief do not "negate" the classical "affront many contemporary Quakers" both precise and systematic. It has Quaker faith. In the first place, there has no basis of support in Friend never been denied that AFSC literature is no "classical Quaker faith." In the Palmer's argument, but must stand or contains statements of religious belief second place, even if there were, and fall as a naked assertion of opinion. I and conviction. But feeling a respon­ even if we equated that faith with assert the contrary opinion: AFSC sibility to the whole Society of Friend<;, every word of George Fox, it remains literature does not affront many con­ AFSC has always generalized these to be demonstrated how AFSC's simple temporary Quakers. statements of belief to that point where generalities of belief "negate" - i.e. , I assert a different opinion: It is not they will answer to the diversity of controvert or contradict-such a faith. true that AFSC literature "affronts theological viewpoint among Friends Friend Palmer has demonstrated no many contemporary Quakers." and not "affront" one or another of contradiction between Fox's teachmg these viewpoints. To have done other- and these simple generalities. He ha<; (conrinut'd next page)

FRIENDS JOURNAL July l / 15, 1973 367 At issue, presumably, is not what There has never been less consensus Reason for lnfall Quakers ought to believe or what Friend and more diversity among Friends on Palmer or Friend Abrams want Quak­ theological issues than there is at the a Quaker interpretation of the ers to believe or what Quakers be­ present time. It is not the AFSC but oscillating universe cosmology lieved or are thought to have believed this theological diversity and confusion in the time of Fox. At issue, ostensibly in the Society of Friends that men The myriad parts the universe con- at least, is whether AFSC literature like Friend Palmer need to discipline­ tains misrepresents the theological orienta­ if not to slay-with the sword of their go hurtling out at faster speeds tion of those Friends Meetings that Ohristian scholarship. By thrusting that till something makes them tum give it support, have a genuine ~n­ formidable weapon through the AFSC terest in it, and feel identified with it. instead of aiming it at their real and and fall back in, On the surface at least, the ques­ less vulnerable enemy-the Society of an instrument creation forges tion is not ~heological but empirical. Friends-such men can only deepen to bring annihilation on: It is my clear impression as a Friend the confusion they so commendably who is fairly well attuned to theological want to dispel. that of God, intelligence. currents in the Society of Friends-­ I do not question their motives, and my distinct impression as an AFSC their good faith, their scholarship; I Infant intelligence staff member-that Service Committee insist only that their arguments do not may monkey with the atom I iterature faithfully reflects the in­ work and that their strategy is ineffi­ and blast its planet into dust. tellectual orientation of its constituency, cient. But elsewhere in the universe including its central Quaker con· stituency, to the degree that this orien­ intelligence tation can be known or can be ex­ matured by reconstructing genes pressed in very general and simple that limit its development terms. with no more worlds to conquer This impression is based on hard evidence daily perceived. And this can only start the cycle over; evidence is supported by the deduction no longer tries to master nature, that any other state of affairs would masters harmony instead­ have to entail a dramatic loss of sup­ vibrates in a higher key, port from Friends Meetings and from a significant number of individual phases with infinity, Friends. sets up a resonance If Friend Palmer has evidence to that makes expanding matter turn the contrary, it is in the vital interests and fall back in! of the Societv of Friends and of the American Friends Service Committee a few more billion years that he share this evidence with the and compact into mass so dense AFSC Corporation and Board of Di­ it detonates a new creation. rectors, who together constitute 160 Quakers from 20 yearly meetings across RICHARD E. TIRK the country and whose only complaint about AFSC literature appears to be that they have to read too much of it. Conundrum ·I ·want to close by confes-sing ·that my own Quaker theology is strongly That the ideal evangelical and conservative. It is heart­ is not the real breaking to me that the message by must be accepted - aJnd about Jesus Christ, as he encounters not interpreted us in word and spirit, is not central to as condemnation. the profession of many Friends vitally interested and involved in efforts at The ideal goal social change. But this hard issue of and realist role the relation between Christianity and ·I counterbalance Quakerism can only be confused by making circumstance easy a~tacks on this or that piece of I their revelation. . . AFSC literature. It is theological diversity in the Society of Friends that compels living within the real theological generality in AFSC litera­ without seeking the ideal ture, as it compels a similar generality leaves emptiness in the utterances of any FrienM body even God can't bless seeking to represent a wide spectrum without misrepresentation! of the contemporary Quaker con­ Photograph by Don Byerly stituency. North Door, Westtown Meetinghouse PoLLYANNA SEDZIOL

368 July 1/ 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Reviews of Books CREMATION Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Fund will reimburse cremation Narrowing Our Medical Care Gap. Dr. Alter's book should be of in­ costs. (Applicable to members of By JOSEPH D. ALTER, M.D., M.P.H. terest to all those who are questioning Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Exposition Press. 58 pages. $2. our health care system and are trying For lafonDatloa write or telephoae to think through ways of really making HF.NRV BECK " HEALTH CARE must be made available 412 Carlton A •enae to all people, and health care must health care a right and not a privilege. Wyncote, Pa. 19095- TU 4-4741 come to be considered a basic right PHYLLIS B. TAYLOR of all people rather than just of those Lesbian Nation. By JILL JOHNSTON. who can afford it." So says Dr. Joseph Simon & Schuster. D. Alter in his short, easy·to·read book, OAKWOOD SCHOOL which gives an overview of our medical JILL JOHNSTON is the Village Voice's system and points to the deficiencies token lesbian and feminist. She is also 175 Years of Quaker in the administration of health care. one of the world's great punsters. Her Coeducation The book. written in language high book, Lesbian Nation, adds new di­ school and college students can under· mensions to the story of the fall, and V ITAL C O MMUNITY, stand, looks at the gap between the of the flood. She is only a minute away WARM QUAKER A TMOS­ technological gains in medicine and from Pauline theology. She has an as­ PHERE, mountain climbing, their application to the people who tounding understanding of the beast creative arts, urban work­ could reap their benefits. It analyzes of the apocalypse (which she calls study program, community the cost of medical care, the sources christianity). God will hiss like a government, Maine ecology of payment (both private and govern· mother and gather up her children like program, major sports. mental) , the health providers, the or· goslings. Is an important statement ganization and administration of med· made by many Hebrew prophets. J/J ical care (private practice, group prac· is not aware of this. GRADES 9-12 , small classes, tice, comprehensive health care pro· Also not in her book is Kate Mil­ individual guidance, senior grams, Health Maintenance Organiza· lett's famous statement that the only projects, financ ial aid, I Y2 tions) and ends with suggestions for honest woman is a whore. Remember hours from YC. Write: ways of providing more health care Amos? (he married one to prove a Nanette J. Koch, Oakwood for more people at less expense. A poilnt). Remember the two women in School, Poughkeepsie, NY good bibliography is included. Dr. Revelations, who hid from the dragon, 12601. Alter has illustrated the points made and who rode the dragon. You know in each chapter with pertinent graphs which one jill johnston is. and charts. The lesbian revolution was created " Doctors and other health profes· by God to prove a point (compare sionals must give more emphasis to Zechariah 12: 11 ·14). To compare the community medicine, preventive med· modern age to Sodom & Gomorrah is pendle hill icine, and the influence of social, eco· to miss it. Of course homosexuality is A Quaker Center lor Study and Contemplation nomic, cultural, and environmental unnatural & immoral. That is not the I factors on health and disease." This point. The point is that one must have statement is being recognized more an utter break with the past. J/J makes Being turned to one another and more for its validity as is the one a distilnction between faggots and les­ which states that the health team must bians. The one has the advantages of HUNGER FOR COMMUNITY work under "the concept of treating society, the other doesn't. One is the patients as whole human beings whose true revolution the other is not. Con­ by J. Diedrick Snoek health is often affected by the environ· fusing the two obscures the revolution. ment they live in.'' The revolution is not in bed but in Explores experiential education for in­ I was disappointed, though, in the morality. There she goes off track. terpersonal living, in line with Martin recommendations Dr. Alter made. He If one were to substitute the charity Suber's statement, "We expect a the­ talks about prepaid health insurance between women, as charity is meant by ophany of which we know nothing but which might cost "only $46.60 per St. Paul, for lesbianism, and consider the place, and the place is called com­ month for a family of four," a figure the patriarchical revolution in two I find very high. People who did not phases/one at the fall/ the other at the munity." qualify for governmental assistance but flood, all would be solved. There would whose ~n come was not very high would not be an error in the book. Pendle Hill Pamphlet # 188 be excluded under such a payment That is how close it comes. 70 cents plan. He also feels that "different plans I thought I would write a book in· abiding by specific guidelines should eluding sexual morality & these things. Annual subscription to 1973 Pendle Hill be allowed to develop and compete She has done it for me. This review is Pamphlets (six issues) for $4.00. with each other so that groups and only addenda. individuals can choose among plans." The patriarchal lineage is also to WRITE: Elaine Bell, Pendle Hill Pub­ I question whether competition belongs prove a point. So is atlantis. lications, Wallingford, PA 19086 in the solving of our health care the end. crisis. PETER SuTH ERLANn

FRIENDS .JOURNAL July 1/ 15 , 1973 369 Letters to the Editor Want to Feel Great? Look Good? Control over the Executive 1 URGE Friends to consider seriously the idea of amending the federal con­ DON'T grow o ld before your stitution to institute a parliamentary system of government in the United time. Stay young! States as perhaps the only viable way to maintain any control at all over the so-called executive branch of government. Get your energy back! Space prevents detailed description of the system, but its basis is the in· Find out what foo ds you should vesting of the highest power in the parliament. The Prime Minister is de­ eat and which ones you should termined indirectly by electing the majority party to parliament. He is re­ avoid to prevent heart and sponsible to parliament and must appear regularly and answer questions. He vascular disease. serves at the leisure of parliament and may be toppled if he gets too far out of line. This gives the people a firmer control over their chief executive. In Learn about COFFEE, ALCOHOL, Canada, national elections must be held no less often than 5 years, but may PEPTIC ULCERS, REGULARITY, be called earlier by the Prime Minister or by his being toppled by a "no AGING, and many more important confidence" vote. facts abo"ut your health. Surely we need no more striking example of how an irresponsible presi­ UNLESS you KNOW what to d o dent can twist his power to his own satisfaction thllln the present incumbent and what not to do the chances who claims to bear our label. He refuses to implement legislation enacted by are good that you are doing things Congress; he undermines the Co.urt decisions he disagrees with, notably en­ every day that are bad for your forced school integration and the abolition of capital punishment. It is un­ health and shorten your life. bearable to think that we are saddled with him and that he is beholden to DON'T GUESS! BE INFORMED! no one, literally, any longer. The parliamentary system would have ousted Find o ut before it is too late. him when first the Senate voted to cut off Vietnamese war funds. Had he THE HEALTH LETTER IS NOT gotten back into office, he would have served only until another crisis .caused AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS, another confidence vote. Friends wield great influence when they take up a BUT ONLY AS A PRIVATE good cause. Let us get ourselves a parliament and a Prime Minister! SUBSCRIPTION. IT CARRIES NO JAMES B. OsGooo ADVERTISING. Chicago

THE HEALTH LETTER is edited by DR. LAWRENCE E. LAMB a well known medical authority. He' Mistakes about the Military Mystique listee in this unfortunate situation explains complex medical YOUR OTHERvnSE EXCELLENT coverage often faces the choice of remaining in information in simple every day of the military mystique (FJ 4/ 15) is the military for a wholly unprofitable language so yo u can have the three (or four or six) years, seeking benefit of up to d ate medical marred by a seriously misleading state­ knowledge. You can get his ment in James Lenhart's "An American legal remedy (which is usually un­ advice TWICE A MONTH by Paradox." availing and always expensive), or subscribing. Speaking of military job training, going absent without leave (AWOL). James Lenhart writes: "The fact of It is interesting to note that the high­ the matter is that the military offers est AWOL and desertion rates are I MAIL COUPON TODAY I [some enlistees] not just the best, but found among those who enlisted, not in many cases, the only opportunity among those who were inducted by THE HEALTH LETTER for a future." He also states that spe­ the Selective Service System. Any ex­ P.O. BOX 326 cific job training is guaranteed in writ­ oerienced military counselor would San Antonio, Texas 78292 ilng, leaving the impression that any agree that the military's broken prom­ Payment enclosed for such guarantees are completely binding ises are the cause of many an AWOL subscription checked: on the military. Both statements are incident. unfortunate, for they accept the very More deceptive than the misrepre­ 0 1 year (24 issues) $15 in USA; add $3 foreign military mythos which the author is sentation of the enlistment contract, concerned to debunk. however, is the outright fraud-for no 0 2 years ( 48 issues) Military enlistment contracts are a weaker term will serve--of military $25 in USA; add foreign legal nightmare for enlistees. They are job training. The Pentagon's own fig ­ Please print or type long, complicated, and often ambiguous. ures show the falsity of the military's Worse, legally, they are bind.img on claims to be in the manpower develop­ ment business. Most combat jobs have Nome the enlistee but not on the military. Job training is usually "guaranteed" to no civilian counterpart. Of those mil­ an enlistee if the enlistee is found itary jobs which do have civilian coun­ Address "qualified." If unqualified, he or she terparts, 38% account for only 1.5% has no recourse-and certainly no right of possible civilian jobs, while 29% to discharge-even though in normal account for another 9.6% of civilian City State ZIP contractual dealings the contract would jobs. be considered null and void. An en- These figures leave out of account

370 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL whether military skills training is really of this nation's cities, the military of· applicable to the civilian jobs which fers hope in an otherwise hopeless situ· THE SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL 3825 Wisconsin Avenue, N . W. are "counterparts" to military jobs. In ation. The tragedy of America in 1973 Washington, D. C. 20016 fact many of these "counterparts" are is that with all its broken promises, Established 1883 not. For example, tra~ning in the elec· fraud, duplicity, impracticality and Coeducational Day School tronics of missile guidance systems is basic immorality, the military and its Kindergarten through considered by the Pentagon a "coun­ training programs are the best this na­ Twelfth Grade terpart" of training in repairing tele­ tion has to offer these young persons. Based on Quaker traditions, the vision sets, even though the skills in· This is terribly wrong, but true. School stresses academic and per­ volved are quite different. Some experts sonal excellence in an environment estimate that, in fact, over 80% of From Despair to Praise: enriched by diversified back­ military jobs provide skills which are A Powerful Postcard grounds. We welcome the applica­ useful in Jess than 10% of civilian tions of Friends as students and occupations. The other 20% provide JUST WHEN I despair, after receiving a teachers. no useful civilian skills. Journal with an ilnsipid Vista reprint, a Robert L. Smith, Headmaster In short, to the military's great de­ good issue like April 15 on military ception-the concerted effort to cover mystique-making comes, and I praise up its war·making function-must be human achievement. How interesting Readers of the "Friends added a smaller, and yet more cruel, that Thomas Head falls into the mys­ Journal" are urged to take deception. SmalJer, because it is only tique trap in his own article, speaking advantage of the facilities of: part of the Big Lie about the military's about semantics. He states ". . . dis­ war-making function. More cruel, be­ torts our perception . . . The defense THE QUAKER HILL cause job-training and education are establishment." There is no such CONFERENCE CENTER the military's major seiling poiJnts for thing- there is a;n offense establish· most enlistees. ment and we ought to use that correct 10 Ouaker Hill Drive These are, indeed, young people who wording all the time. Women's libera­ Richmond, Indiana 47374 have no other source of job training, tion has sensitized me to language, no way out. To hold in front of them even more than my philosophy classes Phone (317) 962-5741 the prospect of a "way out" that is in did. I hope your editor's eye and pen· fact a trap is unconscionable. Were the cil will actively change "he," "his" and A FRIENDS STUDY CENTER military a commercial firm, the Federal "him" to "co" and "military service" AIMING TOWARD NEW Trade Commission would no doubt be to "dis-service." "Enlistee" needs to be LIFE IN THE QUAKER considering prosecution. At the same changed to "extortee." However the MOVEMENT AND PER­ time, the myth that the military trains whole problem of the military is tied people in useful skills helps to under­ to the question of a;ny kind of govern· SONAL SPIRITUAL cut efforts to provide real job training ment "service." FCNL meeting really GROWTH for all Americans who need it. taught me how brainwashed we are. Those of us who are concerned at MARGIE McFADDEN :-Ne; ls;u~------­ the growth of the military mystique Kansas City, MO should not-even, as here, unconscious­ : MULTIRACIAL HOUSING ly-fall into the trap of perpetuating it while trying to combat it. Our duty "Village" Defended : AS AN INVESTMENT THE MENTION of my book, The Village is, rather, to make sure that young I '9i PARTNERS IN That Allah Forgot (FJ 4/15), was not people considering enlistment have HOUSING available to them the full, and highly a review. 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FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 371 written about the Arab world. Adults Review of a Review and young people alike are unac­ ELKMONT GUEST HOUSE 1 PROTEST the comments (FJ 4/ is) Endless Mts., Sullivan Co., Pa. quainted with Tunisia, with the culture of its inhabitants or with the Moslem that appear to be a "review" of The Country living. Homecooked meals Village That Allah Forgot by Norris family style. Garden produce. Cot­ religion. The setting, therefore, may be unfamiliar, but the characters, I Lloyd. The reviewer could not have tages for families. May to December. read the book. These inane comments Cyril and Irene Harvey, Forksville, believe, will seem real to the young Pa. 18616 Tel. (717) 924-3655. reader, the growing-up pains familiar. are not a review at all. They do a great It isn't a negative or sad book; Ali, disservice to a charming story written the main character, acc<;>mplishes much with sensitivity, clarity and compas­ in the time covered by the story. sion. The main character is a Tunisian Counseling Service Young readers might see some connec­ boy. but he could just as well be thee Family Relations Committee tion between the American revolution or me, .no matter what our age. His of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of two hundred years ago and the problems are problems of life. For appointment call counselors Tunisian revolution of the 1950's. Far The book is a jewel and reading it t>.lwt»->»->»->»->»->»->»->:>>-»)-)))4))-))')-») and which are usually divisive in the communi ty. 1 would not uq~e the im· TRAIL•s END mediate abolition of established "Friends Schools.'' but 1 do not like KEENE VALLEY, NEW YORK 1194J to see new ones established, as I think A SMALL FAMILY INN IN THE HEART OF THE ADIRONDACKS that they violate the principles of democracy a nd of Quakerism. The joys of nature. the comforts of home. Hiking, bird-watching, skiing, soow shoeing, in season. It ts not that just "Friends Schools" Children welcomed and cared for-Send for folder tend to divide the community, all ELIZABETH G. LEHMANN, O"Dtr private schools do, and I cannot ob­ ject to some church schools which I ------, consider much worse than "Friends Schools" as long as the Society main­ Subscription Order Form f Friends Journal I ta ins schools under its name. I H ENRY W. RIDGWAY Please enter my subscription to Friends Journal, payment for which is enclosed. I Mickleton, NJ One year 0 $6.00. Two years 0 $11. Three years 0 $15. Aspiring Authors Please Note! (Extra postage outside the United States, $1 a year) 0 Enroll m~ a~ a Fri~nds Journal Associate. My contribution of S ...... is in addition CONSORTIUM PRESS of Washington, DC, to the subscnplion pnce and is tax-deductible. is actively seeking book-length manu­ scripts treating social, psychological and Name 0 0 • 0 • 0 • • 0 0 0 •• 0 • • •• 0 0 ••• 0 0 ••• • 0. 0. 0 0 ••• 0 • ••• ••••••••••••• 0 historical aspects of religion and theology, popularly written. Address •••• 0 •• 0 ••• 0 •• 0 •• • 0 •••••• • 0 ••••• • 0 •••••••••••••••• 0 0. 0. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to me at Consortium Press . City • 0 0. 0 •••• 0 0 0 ••••••• 0. 0 ••••••••••• ••• • ••••• 0 •••••• 0 ••• 0 0 • • • State Zip R2 1 Fifteenth Street NW, Washington, DC' 20005. Friends Journal, 152-A N. Fifteenth St.• Philadelphia 19102 DANIEL F. M cGRATH Washington, DC

372 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Address Correction Friends Around the World ROOTS AND FRUITS of Meditation (re­ viewed FJ 4!15) may be purchased Turning an Invisible Corner at 2002 Monroe St., Madison, WI, This issue was a classic Quaker ex­ 53704. by Rosemary M. Elliott ercise of reconciling two apparently FRANCIS D. HOLE irreconcilable viewpoints and reaching THE 1973 sOUTH AFRICA General Meet­ not only a united consensus, but a deep­ ing was not only better attended than ening of the spirit. Individuals or organi­ any previous General Meet~ngs, but Perhaps the most moving experience it also had the largest number of Af· of G. M. was when African attenders zations considering in­ rican Friends and attenders-four from opened a session on "What the Society vestment in socially the Eastern Cape, one from Cape of Friends means to me." Several Town, and six from Soweto Meeting, Friends also contributed. What moved constructive and desir­ Johannesburg. and humbled Friends was to hear how able enterprises who General Meeting was also blessed much the Soweto Meeting had meant would like to talk with with the presence of John and Jll/ne to African Friends and attenders. The Yungblut. June gave an enthralling silence had been a time of healing and an experienced invest­ account of the courage of American self-finding. The quality of contribu­ ment manager looking Friends involved in the civil rights tions turned the "session" into the for a limited number campaign and the anti-Vietnam War atmosphere of a meeting for worship protest and the dilemmas they faced. and this sense of worship was en­ of investment accounts. hwnced by the spontaneous singing of John outJi,ned the difficulties man has Please Write To: in finding God, since in addition to hymns after the manner of Soweto the old question, "How can a good Meeting. DB God allow evil to happen?" there are For Friends who have not experi­ Box 73 enced it, this contribution by African others posed by the new perspectives Boston, MA 02101 provided by evolution and depth psy­ Friends to Quaker worship is not only chology. In spite of these difficulties, very moving, it also intensifies the John reassured us, we still have the sense of communion. knowledge that there is a Presence that Friends left this G. M. with a new FRIENDS' we can recognize in ourselves and in sense of purpose and identity. In some CENTRAL SCHOOL others. indefinable way I think we turned an OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 19151 For nine months South African invisible corner. It was not only the A Coeducational Country Friends have been concerned over a Africans who felt that this Meeting Day Schoo/ directive from the Department of was the most significant one of their Bantu Affairs that the Quaker Service lives. Five-year kindergarten through 12th Fund establish African auxiliary com· Grade; College Preparatory Curriculum mittees to run QSF projects, since most Founded in 1845 by the Society of Friends Discuss Sexuality Friends, our school continues to em­ of the work is directed to the African phasize integrity, freedom, simplic­ community. and gover.nment policy is "TODAY in country after country, pro­ ity in education through concern for to develop African responsibility for fessionals are reexamining those parts the individual student. African social work. These auxiliary of ourselves and our lives that relate THOMAS A. WOOD committees would eventually become to our being sexual ..." In the 1973 Headmaster independent welfare organizations run Rufus Jones Lecture, "Human Sexu­ under the regulations of the Bantu ality as a Dimension of Religion," Affairs Department. It became clear Mary Calderone, Friend, physician and that if Friends were to alter the QSF grandmother, helped Friends to put SANDY SPRING constitution to bring it in line with this reexamination of sexual values FRIENDS SCHOOL government policy it would mean es· into perspective. Her one-hour lecture, tablishing subcommittees run as agen· sponsored by the Religious Education SANDY SPRING, MD. 20860 cies for government policy rather than Committee of Friends General Con­ Coeducational, Grades 10-12 according to Quaker principles. After ference, was given at Sandy Spring Boarding and Day many months of study by every branch (MD) Meetinghouse on April 27. A uniquely diversified program de­ a.nd meeting we were ready to make Following the lecture, members of signed to demonstrate the momentous decision that to follow the committee and of its Working • life itself as a religious experience; this directive would be contrary to the Party on Human Sexuality, coming • individual growth to its greatest po­ basic faith and principle of Friends. from seven FGC yearly meetings, met tential ; The Meeting decided to seek an in· with Mary Calderone to explore the • personal involvement in today's terview with the Secretary of the De­ meaning of this issue for our meetings. challenging environment; partment of Bantu Affairs to try to Participants found unity in discern· • commitment to disciplined, service­ clarify the issues at the same time they ing a .need for discussion of various centered Jiving. drafted a memorandum to send to him aspects of human sexuality in our meet­ C. Thornton Brown, Jr., with the new constitution if he re­ ings, in their committees, in religious Headmaster quests it. The new constitution defines education programs and in our meeting and clarifies the relationship of QSF communities. Friends recognized sex­ "LET YOUR LIVES SPEAK" and the General Meeting. uality as one of the divine endow-

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 373 ments of the human being, to be ourselves and others, that we not feel a book exhibit on sexuality is to be cherished and developed, even as we inhibited when the Spirit moves us to established by the Religious Education cherish and develop our intellectual speak in meeting of our sexual experi· Committee. endowments. ences or through sex-related metaphors. The Working Party will continue to Concern was felt that we should Smaller groups discussed how to work to produce materials presenting a seek to be open to individual differ· explore questions of sexuality in our Friendly perspective on questions of ences in attitudes and experiences in interpersonal and intergroup relation­ human sexuality, seek out facilitators sexual matters, that we should be care· ships, in religious education, in various to assist in our monthly meetings and ful to avoid committing injustice against parts of our meeHng structures, and to establish further retreats and work· people whose sexual behavior varies through our concerns and disciplines. shops on the subject. from our own, that we should express Tape recordings and printed copies Mary S. Calderone is executive di­ our sexual nature in ways that enrich of the lecture are available from the rector of Sex Information and Educa· rather than damage the whole life of Friends General Conference office, and tion Council of the United States (SIECUS) and a member of Man· hasset Monthly Meeting in New York. Readings in prophetic, Christ centered Quakerism ROBERT A. MARTIN, JR. for individuals and groups: Fellowship Endowed at Bryn Mawr The Peace Testimony: "Christ is the Root" by Marshall Hodgson-15 cents each postpaid; 12 for · $1.00 THE FIRST HENRY JOEL CAOBURY FEL· postpaid. LOWSHIP at Bryn Mawr College is the gift of Mrs. G. Howland Chase of A Quaker View of the Christian Revelation, Washington, DC, an alumna and di­ by John H. Cu rtis- 15 cents each postpaid; 12 for $1.00. rector-at-large of the College. Early Prophetic Openings of George Fox, The Cadbury Fellowships, awarded to graduate students in the humanities, selections from the first part of his Journal-35 cents each post­ are the contribution of directors and paid; 10 for $2.00 postpaid. former directors of the College to Bryn Available from Mawr's major funds campaign, .and are named in honor of Henry Joel Cad­ Tract Association of Friends, . bury, who accepted in 1947 the Nobel 1515 Cherry Street, Peace Prize on Behalf of the American Philadelphia 19102 Friends Service Committee and the Friends Service Council of Great Brit­ ain. Each fellowship is endowed through gifts of $ I 00,000 each. pendle hill A Double Anniversary A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION MT. TOBY MEETING, Leverett, MA, cele· brates its 50th anniversary in 1974, Do you seek an educational community providing ... the same year the town observes its • Spiritual renewal 200th. The predecessor of Mt. Toby Meeting was the Amherst Meeting for • Personal growth Worship founded in 1924. Tentative • Meditation plans for the observance include write­ • Creative expression ups of the history of the Pelham and • Independent study Warwick Meetings that existed in the • A rich and ~aried curriculum 1800's; plays by the First-day School on the first Quaker in the area and his Are you ... persecution the Baptist preacher and the Quaker young people in Pelhalll • At a crossroads in life and the Quaker and the non-Quaker; a • Re-evaluating educational goals public observance (with "Known • On sabbatical Speaker") in connection with the Town • Preparing for meaningful service of Leverett; and a display of old books, contemporary books, pamphlets and • Looking towards retirement testimonies on Quakerism. Perhaps the time has come for you to consider Pendle Hill. A Change at Wilmington Autumn, Winter, and Spring Terms HARRY J. TISCHBEIN, JR., executive as­ sistant to the president of Wilmington College, will become vice president for Write or phone: Dorothy Rods_ers, Pendl"e Hill, students and ombudsman in September. Wallingford, Pa. 19086, (215) 566-4507. He has been director of development at Wilmington since 1966.

374 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Classified For Sale Books and Publications WHO BUYS THE GUNS? an informational Advertisements packet on Friends and war taxes, prepared by INQUIRIES INVITED: A few individual lots in Young Friends of North America, including a Pocono Mountain lake family community. Box practical suggestions for Friends troubled over M-518, Friends Journal. taxation for war. $1.50/ ea. YFNA, 133 W. 14th Opportunities St., 3rd Fl., NY 10011. Write about consignment orders for thy meeting. Positions Vacant A PRIMER FOR PUBLISHERs-Quaker GIVING FOR INCOME. The American Friends Sheets to the Wind by Robert N. Cool. Also (Quaker) Service Committee has a variety of "The Journal of a Poor Vicar." 60-page volume, life income and annuity plans whereby you can DIRECTOR OF NURSING. A Large Qualr.er re­ $1. The Observatory Press, 217 Pleasant St., transfer assets, then (I) receive a regular income tirement community now under construction in Providence. Rl 02906. for life; (2) be assured that the capital remaining Philadelphia suburbs seeks mature, skilled nursing at your death will go to support AFSC's world­ administrator. Person will be in charge of Health wide efforts to promote peace··and justice; (3) Center with 30 beds for skilled care and out­ Wanted take an immediate charitable income tax deduc­ patient facilities to serve over 300 residents of tion; and ( 4) be relieved of management responsi­ the community. Good salary and modern fringe bility. Inquiries kept confidential and involve no benefits. Reply Box 193 Chadds Ford. PA 19317, STAMPS related to Quaker persons, events, obligation. WRITE: AFSC Life Income Plans, with letter and resume describing qualifications. history, etc. Harold Walker, 602 N. 7th Street; 160 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia 19102. Marshall, IL 62441. HISTORICALLY-MINDED RETIRED COUPLE PENDLE HILL offers a managed retained income to live in Burlington County Historical Society "GENEALOGY OF HENRY AND MARY plan which ;can speak to your present needs and headquarters, Burlington, NJ. Free living quarters BROSIUS." Send condition and pnce to John its future needs. Contact: Brett White, Pendle and utilities, plus salary. Call or write Rodman W. Miller, 6266 Union Ave., N.E., Alliance, OH Hill, Wallingford, PA 19086. Zwirncr, 300 Shrewsbury Road, Riverton, NJ 44601. 08077 ( 609-829-0520). PLAN YOUR VACATIONS, RETIREMENT in FURNISHED HOUSE OR APARTMENT in our developing liberal cooperative community in EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, residential treatment Philadelphia area by sabbatical professor and North-Central Arkansas. Beautiful lots, large lake center for children in northern California. Ex­ family on shoestring, Sept. to June. Eric Schoon­ nearby. Tumbling Shoals Estates, P.O. Drawer perience with children and administration. over, 156 Post Road, Wakefield, Rl 02879. (401) 268, Naperville, IL 60540. Resume to Nancy Boggs, Selection Committee, 789-6528. 604 College Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS 1 would like to urge Friends- to write a codicil into their wills JR. ACCOUNTANT for large Quaker Retire­ Vacation that five percent (5%) of their gross estate be put ment Community in New Jersey Suburbs of into an irrevocable trust-the income only of Philadelphia. Write or call William Martin, CAPE MAY, NJ. Newly-renovated luxury I and which will go to help maintain our local monthly Executive Director, Box 366; Medford, NJ 2 bedroom apartments. Large, sunny livingroom; meetings; the monthly meeting to freely exercise 08055 (609-654-3000). Modern kitchen and bath. Laundry. 4-minute its will and judgment as to how the income will walk to beach. $1,750-$2,000, June I 5-Sept. IS or be used: $17S-$200 per week. The Dormer House, 800 I ) Our membership generally is declining, with RESIDENT BUSINESS MANAGER NEEDED. Columbia Ave., Cape May, NJ. 609-884-7446. a marked absen~e of young people to carry on Financial background. Responsibilities include the responsibility which we presently shoulder; accounting, payroll, purchasing, and mass mail­ 2) Membership in the Society of Friends, and ings. Contact: Emily Grizzard, Pendle Hill, Too late to Classify religion in general, should be a free institution, Wallingford, PA 19086, (215) 566-4507. unencumbered by the continual reminder of the ARTIST, (Friend) desires job in or ncar Friends need for worldly possessions; WARM, FRIENDLY SWITCHBOARD operator school children (5, 6) can attend. Degrees­ 3) In fact, the per capita costs to each monthly with poise and initiative, ability to work under English Art School, 12 years commercial art. meeting have not only risen, but can be expected pressure, needed by Sept. I. Some typing, other Currently newspaper artist. Melissa Clement, to rise-thus burdening the future generations clerical work. Reply to Rowland Leonard, Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, N. C. 28304. with financial pressures with which they may not Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1515 Cherry St., be able to cope. Signed: John M. Barney, Media, Phila. 19102 (215-LO 8-4111). NEWTOWN, PA. Friends Home and Chandler PA. Hall Nursing Home-full-time caretaker and PERSON OR TEAM to cook simple, nutritious light maintenance worker needed. Apartment meals in friendly surroundings for 200 people. furnished. Hourly rate. Write or call Ronald For information, write or call Sar.dy Spring Hengst, Chandler Hall, 215-968-4786. Schools Friends School, Sandy Spring, MD 20860 (301- INFORMATION WANTED ABOUT JACK 774-745S). NUTLEY of Tonbridge, England, for book about him. M. T . Somanoah, 20 leery St., Forest THE MEETING SCHOOL, Rindge, New Hamp­ FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE seeks Side, Mauritius. shire 03461 - communal, coeducational, college an ASSISTANT SECRETARY - a committed preparatory. Farm and family livina. Grades 10 to Friend experienced in working with committees LONDON "Kenyon" 23 Sutherland Avenue. 12. For information, write Joel Hayden. and prepared to work in fields of religious London W.9. Room and breakfast $6.00. With education, editing and publishing, and promo­ private bath $7.50. Other meals if required. LEARN SPANISH IN MEXICO. If you really tion. Opening in September. Contact Howard W. Bartram, 1520 Race St., Philadelphia, 19102. Pleasant gardens, TV. room. Convenient theatres wam to learn Spanish intensively and economi­ and shops. Tel: 01 286 9665. cally, start any Monday at CIDOC. For catalog on language school and de-schooled academy, ANY WOMAN TRAVELER needing companion. write: CIDOC, APDO 479, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Positions Wanted Second half August. Friends Journal, Box H- 572. JOHN WOOLMAN SCHOOL, Nevada City, Calif, 95959: _college_ preparatory, art (pottery, YOUNG FRIEND seeks experience working in COORDINATOR OF ACTIVITIES, Bucks weavmg, drawmg, patntlng), garden. Located in Friends (or likeminded) secondary or elementary Quarterly Meeting. Includes work with Quarterly the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Maximum, school. Subsistence salary or room and board Meeting committees with an emphasis on youth 65 students. 916-273-3183. needed. Write Noreen Winkler, SIS West End activities. Understanding of Friends Faith and Avenue, New York 10024. Practice and an ability to get along well with others necessary. For further information con­ YOUNG FRIEND will house-sit and care for tact Micheal Levingood, RD I, Newtown, PA Accommodations Abroad pets in Moorestown-Haddonfield (New Jersey) 18940. area for summer months. Jeff Dunn, 65 N. 34th St., Phila. 19104. 215-349-9831. ------LONDON? Stay at THE PENN CLUB, Bedford Place, London, W.C. I. Friendly atmosphere Additions to "Coming Events" Central for Friends House, West End concerts. Personal t~eaters. British Mustum, university, and excur: 7/15 Gathering of Friends of the stoos. Telephone 01~36 4718. SINGLE BOOKLOVERS, with members in 42 Upper Missouri River Basin area, Augus­ states, enables cultured, marriage-oriented single, tana Commons Bldg., Augustana Coli., widowed or divorced persons to get acquainted. Sioux Falls, SD, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Potluck Services Offered Box AE, Swarthmore, PA 19081. dinner; discussion with John Robinson, superintendent, Kansas Yearly Meeting, MARTELL'S OFFERS YOU friendliness and REUPHOLSTERY AND SLIPCOVERs-serving warmth as well as fine foods and beveraaes. Old­ on Missions and Service Conference in Delaware County, Chester County, Montgomery est restaurant in Yorkville. Fireplace-sidewalk London, program for children. Contact County, Main Line, Germantown and Wilming­ cafe. Serving lunch daily. Saturday and Sunday Ron Mattson, 3208 Portland Ave., S., ton area. More than forty years' experience. brunch. American-continental cuisine. Open seven Thom Seremba, Collingdale, Pennsylvania 19023. days a week until 2 a.m. 3rd Ave., comer of Minneapolis 55407 or R.D. Mabbs, 2307 Telephone 215-586-7592. 83rd St., New York City. 212-861~110. "Peace." S. Center St., Sioux Falls, SD 57105.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1I 15, 1973 375 July !!-Singles and Families in Search of Community. Bob Blood. August 8-Canadian Young Friends, July 15- What do we do now: Prisons, Perth, Ontario. Write Jenny Head, 520 Courts, Police, Schools, Health Care? Coming Events Cambridge St., Apt. 4, Ottawa, Ontario. Steve Stalonas and Gail Haines, coordina­ August 8-Iowa, Oskaloosa, lA. Write tors. Bernard L. White, Box 522, Oskaloosa, IA July 22-Exploring Creative Movement: August 52577. Toward Spiritual Growth Through Dance. August 8-Kansas, Friends University Nancy Brock and Christopher Beck. 25-Young Friends of North America Wichita, KS. Write Maurice A. Roberts, July 22- A Retreat. Robert Scholz and 1973 Conference, Colfax Interfaith Cen­ 2018 Maple, Wichita, KS 67213. Janet Shepherd. ter, Colfax, IA. Write Ron Lord, Box 853, August 8-Western, Plainfield, IN. July 29-Fostering and Nourishing the Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. Write Robert Cope, 203 S. East St., Creative. A week with Edith Wallace. Plainfield, IN 46168. August 5-Dialog Between Men and Yearly Meetings: August 9- North Carolina, Woodland, Women: Struggle for the Interhuman. NC. George C. Parker, Woodland, NC July 11-Alaska, Kotzebue, AK. Write Russell and Janet Long, Demaris Wehr, 27897. Guilford Dudley. Samuel T. Williams, Sr., Kotzebue, AK August 9-North Carolina-F, Guilford 99752. College, Greensboro, NC. Write Ruth R. AFSC Camps and Conferences: July 28- New England, Geneva Pt. Hockett, Box 8328, Greensboro, NC Center, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. Write 27410. July 13-Weekend Retreat for Families Gordon M. Browne, Jr., Box 586, Cotuit, August 11-lndiana, Earlham College, Wri te AFSC, 346 Acoma St., Denver, CO MA 02635. Richmond, IN. Write Lymon B. Hall. 80223. July 28-New York, Silver Bay, NY. 1403 Briar Rd., Muncie, IN 47304. July 14-Midwest Summer institute. Write Miriam K. Brush, 15 Rutherford August 13-Wilmington, Wilmington Write AFSC, 407 S. Dearborn St., Chi­ Pl. , New York 10003. College, Wilmington, OH. Glenn A. cago, IL 60605. July 30-Pacific, St. Mary's College. Reece, Box 1194, Wilmington College, July 14-Peace Workers Family Camps. Moraga, CA. Write Edwin A. Sanders, Wilmington. OH 45177. Write AFSC, 43 12 S.E. Stark St., Port­ t'i208 Temple City Blvd., Temple City, CA August 14-Canadian, Niagara Chris­ land, OR 97215. 91780. tian College, Niagara Falls. Ontario, Can­ August 5-Rocky Mountain Family August 3-Baltimorc, Western Mary­ ada. Write Burton S.W. Hill, 60 Lowther Camp and Youth Institute. AFSC, 4211 lanci College, Westminster. MD. Write Ave., Toronto. M5R 1C7, Ontario, Can­ Grand Ave., Des Moines, lA 503 I 2. John M . Sexton, 17100 Quaker Lane, ada. August I 0-lnstitute. Write AFSC, 48 Sandy Spring, MD 201!60. August 14- lowa-C, Whittier, IA. Inman St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Write Mary E. Autenrieth, RR I, Paulina, August 12 - Summer Camp. Write lA 5 1046. AFSC, 2160 Lake St., San Francisco, CA August 14-Northwest, Newberg, OR. 94121. The Write Dorwin E. Smith, PO Box 190. August 12-Michigan Family Camp. Newberg. OR 971 32. Write AFSC, 1414 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Unspoiled August 15-Illinois, McNabb, IL. Write Ml 48104. Robert L. Wixom, 812 Maplewood Dr., August 19-People Camp. Write AFSC, Columbia, MO 65201. 807 S.E. 4th St., Minneapolis, MN 5544 1. Resort August 15- Jamaica, Seaside, Happy August 26-Family Camp and Institute. Grove, Jamaica. Write Ernest Nugent, II Write AFSC 48 Inman St. , Cambridge, Caledonia Ave. , Kingston 5. Jamaica. MA 02139. W.I. August 17-Central, Central Frs. Camp Grounds, Muncie, IN. Write Arthur Hol­ lingsworth, Box 215, Westfield, IN 46074. Announcements August 22 - Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region. Malone College, Canton, OH. Harold B. Winn, Damascus, Births OH 44619. August 22-0hio-C. Stillwater. near BRIGGs-On March 30, a son, AsA Barnesville, OH. Write Edward N. Kirk, MICHAEL BRIGGS, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R2, Columbiana, OH 44408. Briggs. Thomas Briggs is a member of Poughkeepsie, NY, Meeting. At Powelf Hou~e. Old Chatham. N Y 12136: NISS-On May 6, a daughter, MILDRED Youth Center ELIZABETH NISS, to James and Martha Mohonk July !- Living on Earth Niss, members of 15th Street (New York MOUNTAIN HOUSE July 13- Workers Weekend City) Meeting. July 17-Learning Basic Skills August 8 - Simplicity and Outdoor RIIS-On April 9, a son, CHRISTIAN Tired of pools? Swim in a jewel­ Skills. DouGLAS Rns, to Douglas N. and Mary like lake. Take part in sporting August 21-Music and Art Camp M. Riis. The mother is a member of events scheduleJ for fun instead of Westbury, NY, Meeting. The maternal stress. Three nature walks each Main House grandparents are members of Campus week, hikes, barbecues, hayrides. July 5-Quaker Theological Discussion Meeting. Wilmington, OH. Be out of doors all day every day, Group-Theme, Christ As Prophet. enjoy stimulating programs every July 12-Re-evaluation Counseling. Marriages evening, eat well, and sleep as you July 17- Training for Small Group haven't in years. Leadership LONGSTREl H-GUMMERE-On April 28, August 4- Unstructured Quaker Living. at Haverford, PA, Meeting, MARTHA OoM­ Antique Car Show ... 7/21 August 10- The Inner Life in All of FORT LONGSTRETH . daughter of Helen Cad­ Tennis Tournament ... 7/ 23-27 Life. bury Bush, and JOHN FLAGG GUMMERE. Putting Tournament ... 7 /30-8!3 August 17- The Relevance of Quaker- ism Today. SWEENEY-WALTON-On April 28, at Call (212) 233-2244. or write: August 21-Encountcr and Silence. Middletown Meeting, Lima, PA. CAROLE MARGARET WALTON, daughter of Joseph At Pentlle Hill, Wallin~:fortl, P A /9086: M O H ON K M OUNT AIN HOUSE H. and Margaret S. Walton of Media, Jul y 1- Nonviolencc, Revolution and PA, and JOHN J. SWEENEY, son of Helen 90 ml/u / rom N .Y.C . NYS Thru••Y £ .,1 1& Sweeney, Philadelphia, PA, and the late LAK E MOHONK· NEW PALT Z. N.Y. 1H 61 Vi ~i on s of a New Society. Charles Walke r. Coordinator. Cornelius Sweeney. The bride and her

376 July 1/ 15, 1973 FRI ENDS JOURNAL parents are members of Middletown Meet­ Surviving are his widow, the former third child of a family of seven children. ing. Virginia Percy; a son, Dr. Edward P. Orphaned at a rather early age, a !ender WILSON-CLOSE-On April 22, under the Rich Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York; a concern for each other devel

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1 I 15, 1973 377 SAN JOSE- Meeting, 11 a.m. ; chi ldren's and adults' classes, 10 a .m. ; 1041 Morse MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS Street. SANTA BARBARA- 59! Santa Rosa Lane. just off San Ysidro Rd ., Montecito Alaslca DAVIS--Meeting for worship, 9:45 a.m., (Y.M.C.A.) 10 a.m. 345 L St. Visitors call 753-5890. SANTA CRUZ- Meeting for worship, FAIRBANKS--Unprogrammed worship, FRESNO-Meeting every Sunday, 10 a.m., Sundays, 10:30 a.m. 303 Walnut St. Clerk, First-days, 9 a.m., Home Economics College Y Pax Dei Chapel, 2311 E. Shaw. 688-6831 . Lounge, Third Floor, Eielson Building. Dis­ cussion follows. Phone: 4 79-680 I. Phone: 237-3030 SANTA MONICA-First-day School at 10, HAYWARD- Worship, 11 a.m., Old meeting at 11. 1440 Harvard St. Call 451- Chapel. 890 Fargo, San Leandro. Clerk 3865. Argentina 658-5789. VISTA- Palomar Meeting, 10 a .m. Clerk: LA JOLLA- Meeting, 11 a.m .. 7380 Eads Gretchen Tuthill, 1633 Calle Du lce, Vista 92083. Call 724-4966 or 728-2666. BUENOS AIRES--Worship and Monthly Avenue. Visitors call 296-2264 or 454- Meeting, one Saturday each month in sub­ 7459. WESTWOOD (West Los Angelesl-Meet­ urbs, Vicente Lopez. Phone: 791-5880 ing 11 a.m., University Y.M.C.A., 574 (Buenos Aires>. LONG BEACH- Meeting for worshi p, 10:00 a.m .. religious education. 11:30 Hilgard (across from U.C.L.A. bus stop). a.m. 647 Locust . 431 -4015 or 430-3981. 472-7950. LOS ANGELES--Meeting, 11 a.m., 4167 WHITTIER- Whitleaf Monthly Meeting, So. Normandie. Visi tors call 296-0733. Administration Building, 13406 E. Phila­ Arizona delphia. Worship, 9 :30 a.m.: discussion. MARIN- Worship 10 a.m., Mill Valley 698-7538. FLAGSTAFF-Unprogrammed meeting, 11 Community Church Annex, Olive and a.m., 402 S. Beaver, near campus. Mary Lovell. DU 3-5303 Campbell, Clerk, 310 E. Cherry Ave. 77 4- 4298. MONTEREY PENINSULA-Friends Meet­ PHOENIX:...._Sundays: 9 :45 a.m., adult ing for worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., 1057 study; 11 a.m., meeting for worship and Mescal Ave., Seaside. Call 394-9991 . Colorado First-day School, 1702 E. Glendale Avenue, ORANGE COUNTY-Worship 10:30 a.m .. BOULDER- Meet ing for worship, J 0 a.m.; 85020. Mary Lou Coppock, clerk, 6620 Univ. of Cal. at Irvine, Parking Lot 7. First-day School, 11 a.m. Margaret Ostrow, E. Culver, Scottsdale, 85257. PALO ALTO-Meet1ng for worship, 11 494-9453. TEMPE-Unprogrammed, First-days 9:30 a.m., First-day classes for children, 11 : 15, DENVER- Mountain View Friends Meet­ a.m., Danforth Chapel, ASU Campus. 967- 957 Colorado. ing, worship 10 to 1 1 a.m. Adu lt Forum 3283. PASADENA-526 E. Orange Grove (at 1 1 to 12, 2280 South Columbine Street. TUCSON-Friends Meeting, 129 N. War­ Oakland). Meeting for worship, Sunday, Phone : 722-4125. ren: Sunday School, 10 a.m. ; worship 10:30 a.m. {semi-programmed) 11 a.m. Clerk, Harry Prevo, 297-0394. REDLANDS---M e e t i n g and First-day School, 10 a.m., 114 W. Vine. Clerk: 792- TUCSON- Pima Friends Meeting (Pacific 9218. Connecticut Yearly Meeting), 739 E. 5th Street, Wor­ ship, 10:00 a.m., Nelle Noble, Clerk, RIVERSIDE-Unprogramed worship and HARTFORD-Worship 10 a.m., June 24- 6741 Tivani Drive, 298-7349. First-day School , 10:30 a.m. Call 784- Sept. 9, 144 S. Quaker Lane , W. Hartford. 2279 or 683-4689. Phone: 232-4125. SACRAMENT0-2620 21st St. Meeting for worship Sunday, 10 a.m.; discussion NEW HAVEN- Meeting, 9:45a.m. Conn. California 11 a.m. Call 457-8923. Hall, Yale Old Campus. Phone: 288-2359. BERKELEY -Unprogrammed meeting. SAN FERNANDO- Family sharing 10 a.m. NEW LONDON-622 Williams St. Wor­ First-days 11 a.m., 2151 Vine St., 843- Unprogrammed worship, 10:20 a.m. ship, 10 a.m.; discussion, 11. Clerk: Bettie 9725. 15056 Bledsoe St. 367-5288. Chu, 720 Williams St., New London 06320. Phone, 442-7947. CLAREMONT - Worship, 9:30 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO- Meeting for worship, Classes for children. 727 W. Harrison First-days, 11 a.m., 2160 Lake Street, NEW MILFORD-HOUSATONIC MEET­ Ave., Claremont. CA 91711. 752-7740. ING: Worship 1 1 a.m. Route 7 at Lanes­ ville Road. Passbook Accounts Savings STAMFORD-GREENWICH-Meeting for 0 Interest paid from date of Certificates worship and First-day School, 10 a.m. Westover and Roxbury Roads, Stamford. deposit to date of withdrawal 2 years-$5000 5 % Clerk, Peter Bentley, 4 Cat Rock Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut. Telephone: 203- TO 9-5545. STORRS--Meeting for worship, 10 -a.m., . corner North Eagleville and Hunting Lodge bNSDOWNE rEDERfll Roads. 429-4459. SY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION WATERTOWN-Meeting 10 a.m., Water­ town Library, 470 Main Street. Phone: HOME OFFICE: 32 S. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, PA 19050 MA- 6-2900 274-8598. LAWRENCE PARK OFFICE: At Lawrence Rd. Ent., Lawrence Park Center, WILTON-Meeting for worship, and First­ Broomell, PA EL 3-2900. not stop ancl see us day School, 10 a.m., 317 New Canaan Wby toclay? Road. Phone: 966-3040. Martin- Clark, FRED A. WERNER, President clerk, phone: 743-5304.

378 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL ST. PETERSBURG-Meeting 10:30 a.m. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - Meeting for Delaware 130 19th Avenue, S. E. worship, 11 a.m., 71 4 W. Green St., Ur­ bana. Phone: 344-6510 or 367-0951 . CAMDEN-2 miles south of Dover. Meet­ ing and First-day School 1 1 a.m. 697- Georgia 6910; 697-6642. Indiana CENTERVILLE-Center Meeting, one mile ATLANTA-Worship and First-day School, BLOOMINGTON- Meeting for worship east of Route 52 at southern edge of 10 a.m., 1384 Fairview Road N.E., Atlanta 10: 15 a.m., Moores Pike at Smith Road. town on Center Meeting Road. Meeting, 30306. Margaret Kaiser. Clerk. Phone: Call Norris Wentworth, phone: 336-3003. First-day, 11 a.m. 634-0452. Quaker House. Telephone: 373-7986. FORT WAYNE- Unprogrammed worship, HOCKESSIN- North of road from Yorklyn, 10 a.m. Clerk, Edna L. Pressler. Phone: at crossroad. Meeting for worship, 10:30 AUGUSTA-Meeting for worship and 489-5297 or 7 43-0616 for meeting lo­ a.m., First-day School, 11 :10 a .m. First-day School, 10:30 a.m., 340 Tel­ cation. fair Street. Lester Bowles, clerk. Phone: NEWARK-Worship, Sunday, 10 a.m., 733-4220. HOPEWELL-20 mi. W. Richmond, Ind.; New London Community Center, 303 New between 1-70, US 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur London Rd., Newark, Delaware. Hawaii Wright Rd, 1 Y4 mi. S., 1 mi. W. Un­ ODESSA-Worship, 1st Sundays, 11 a.m. programmed worship, 9:30, discussion, HONOLULU-Sundays, 2426 Oahu Ave­ 10:30. Ph. 476-7214, or 987-7367. REHOBOTH BEACH- 5 Pine Reach Road nue. 9:45, hymn sing: 10. worship; 11:15, INDIANAPOLIS--Lanthorn Meeting and Henlopen Acres, 227-2888. Worship: adult study group. Babysitting, 1 0: 15 to First-day 10 a.m. Sugar Grove. Unprogrammed worship, 10 11 . Phone: 988-2714. · a.m. Sugar Grove Meeting House. Willard WILMINGTON-4th & West Sts .. Meeting Heiss. 257-1081 or Albert Maxwell, 839- 10:30 a.m.; School RD. , Meeting 9:15 4649. a.m. Phone 652-4491 or 475-3060. Illinois RICHMOND--Clear Creek Meeting, Stout CARBONDALE- Unprogrammed worship. Memorial Meetinghouse, Earlham College. Sundays, 10 a.m., usually at the Student Unprogrammed worship, 9: 15 a.m. Clerk, Christian Foundation, 913 S. Illinois. Mary Lane Hiatt 962-6857.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1/ 15, 1973 379 Maine LAWRENCE- 45 Avon St., Bible School, Nebraslca MID-COAST AREA-Regular meetings for 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m., Monthly Meet­ ing first Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Clerk, Mrs. LINCOLN-3319 S. 46th. Phone: 488- worship. For information telephcne 882- 4 178. Sunday Schools, 10 a.m., worship, 7107 (Wiscasset) or 236-3064 (Camden). Ruth Mellor, 189 Hampshire St., Methuen, Mass. Phone : 682-4677. 11. Nevada PORTLAND - Forest Avenue Meeting, NANTUCKET- at 10:45 a.m. in old meet­ Route 302. Unprogrammed worship and ing-house on Fa ir Street, until September LAS VEGAS--Paradise Friends Monthly First-day School, 10 a.m. Phone: 773- 16. Meeting; unprogrammed worship, 11 a.m., 6964. Adult discussion, 11 :00. 3451 Middlebury Ave. 457-7040. SOUTH YARMOUTH, CAPE COD-North VASSALBORO QUARTERLY MEETING Main St. Worship and First-day School, RENO-Meeting for worship 11 a.m., meetings and worship groups: Brooksville , 10 a.m. Phone: 432-1131 . First-day School. and discussion· 10 a.m., Friends House, 560 ' Cranleigh Drive, Camden, Damariscotta, East Vassalboro, WELLESLEY--Meeting for worship and Franklin, Industry, North Fairfield, Or­ Telephone 323-1302. Ma d address, P.O. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m., at 26 Ben­ Box 602, Reno 89504. land, Orono, South China, Winthrop venue Street. Phone: 235-9782. Center. For information about times and activities, contact Paul Cates, Vassalboro WEST FALMOUTH, CAPE COD-Rt. 28 New Hampshire Q.M. Worker, East Vassalboro, ME 04935 A, meeting for worship, Sunday 11 a.m. (Tel. 207 -923-3078). CONCORD-Adult study and sharing, 9 WESTPORT-Meeting Sunday, 10:45 a.m. a.m., worship, 1 0 a.m. Children welcomed Central Village: Clerk, J. K. Stewart Kirk­ and cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Maryland aldy, Phone: 636-4711 . Center, 19 N. Fruit St. Phone, 783-6382. ADELPHI- Near University of Maryland. WORCESTER- Pleasant Street Friends DOVER - Dover Preparative Meeting - 2303 Metzrott Road. First-day School, Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street. Meeting Worship 10:30 a.m. Central Ave. at 10:30 a.m. ; worship, 10 a.m. Deborah for worship each First-day, 11 a.m. Tele­ Tra key St. Lydia W illits, clerk. Phone : James, clerk. Phone, 422-9260. phone: PL 4-3887. 868-2629 (Durham). ANNAPOLIS--Worship, 11 a.m., former HANOVER- Meeting fo r worship, Sunday St. Paul's Chapel, Rt. 178 (General's Hwy.) Michigan I 0:45 a.m. Friends Meeting House, 29 Rope Ferry Road. Phone: 643-4 138. and Crownsville Rd., Crownsville, Md. Lois ANN ARBOR - Worship-Sharing, 9:30 Cusick, clerk, (30 1-757 -3332>. a .m. ; Meeting for Worship, 10; Adult Dis­ MONADNOCK - Worship I 0:45 a.m., cussion, 11 : 15. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill BALTIMORE- Worship 11 a.m.; classes, Uuly-Aug. 9:30) First-day School same St. Clerk: John Musgrave, 2460 James, time. Library Ha ll, Peterborough, Enter off 9:45. Stony Run 5116 N. Charles St. ID (phone: 761-7264). 5-3773, Homewood 3107 N. Charles St. parking lot. 235-4438. DETROIT - Friends Church, 9640 Sorren­ New Jersey to. Sunday School, 10 a.m.; worship, 11 BETHESDA- Sidwell Friends Lower School, ATLANTIC CITY- Meeting for worship a.m. Clerk, William Kirk, 16790 Stan­ and First-day School, 11 a.m., South Car­ Edgemoor Lane & Beverly Rd. Classes moor, Livonia, Michigan, 48154. 10: 15; worship 11 a.m. Phone: 332-1156. olina and Pacific Avenues. DETROIT-Meeting, Sunday, 10:30 a .m., BARNEGAT-Meeting for worship, 11 EASTON- Third Haven Meeting and First­ University Center, W. Kirby at Anthony day School, 11 a.m., South Washington St. a.m. Left side of East Bay Ave., travel ing Wayne Dr. Correspondence: Friends east from Route 9. Frank Zeigler, clerk, 634-2491 ; Lorraine School in Detroit, 1 100 St. Aubin Blvd. Claggett, 822-0669. June to Sept., wor­ 48207. Phone: 962-6722. CAPE MAY BEACH-Near Grant St. jetty, ship, 9:30 a.m. 9 a.m., weather permitting, through Labor EAST LANSING--Worship and First-day Day weekend. (Under the care of Seaville SANDY SPRING--Meetinghouse Road, at School, Sunday, 1 p.m. Discussion, 2 p.m. Monthly Meeting.> Rte. 108. Worship, 9 :30 and 11 a.m.; All Saints Church library, 800 Abbot Rd. first Sundays, 9:30 only. Classes, 10:30. Call ED 7-0241. CROPWELL-Oid Marlton Pike , one mile west of Marlton. Meeting for worship, UNION BRIDGE-PIPE CREEK MEETING GRAND RAPIDS--Friends Meeting for I 0:45 a.m. (Except first First-day). (nearJ-Worship, 11 a.m. worship. First-days 1 0 a.m. For particulars call (616) 363-2043 or (616) 868-6667. CROSSWICKS - Meeting and First-day School, 10 a.m. KALAMAZOO-Meeting for worship, 1 0 Massachusetts DOVER- First-day School, 11: 15 a.m. ; ACTON-Meeting for worship and First­ a.m. ; discussion, 11 a.m., Friends' 'Meet­ ing House, 508 Denner. Call Fl 9-1754. · worship 11 a.m. Quaker Church Rd. , just day School, Sunday, 10:00 a.m., Women's off Rt. 10. Club, Main Street, Sibylle J. Barlow, Clerk (617) 369-9299. Minnesota GREENWICH-Friends meeting in historic Greenwich, six miles from Bridgeton. AMHERST-NORTHAMPTON-GREENFIELD MINNEAPOLIS - Unprogrammed meeting First-day School 10:30 a.m., meeting for -Meeting for worship and First-day 9 a.m., First-day School 10 a.m., Pro­ worship 11:30 a.m. Visitors welcome. School 10:30. Mt. Toby Meetinghouse, grammed meeting 11 a.m., W. 44th Route 63 in Leverett. Phone 584-2788. Street and York Ave. So. Phone: 926- HADDONFIELD-Friends Ave. and Lake 6159 or 332-5610. St. Worship, 10 a.m. First-day School fol­ BOSTON-Worship 11 :00 a.m.; fellowship lows, except summer. Babysi tting provided hour 12:00, First-day. Beacon Hill Friends ST. PAUL- Twin Cities Friends Meeting. during both. Phone: 428-6242 or 429- House, 6 Chestnut Street, Boston 02108. Unprogrammed worship, 9 and 11 a.m. ; 9186. Phone: 227-9118. programmed activity or Friendly conver­ sation, 10. Friends House, 295 Summit MANASQUAN-First-day School 10 a.m., BOSTON-Village Street Friends, Bos­ Ave. 222-3350. meeting, 11 : 15 a.m., Route 35 at Mana­ ton's first, 48 Dwight St., First-day, squan Circle. 3:45 p.m. Missouri MEDFORD-Main St. First-day School, KANSAS CITY- Penn Valley Meeting, 10 a.m. Union St., adult group, 10 a.m., CAMBRIDGE-5 Longfellow Park (just off 306 West 39th Street, 10:00 a.m. Call meeting for worship 10:45 a.m. Brattle Street, west of Harvard Square) 931-3807. One M~eting for Warship during summer MICKLETON- Meeting for worship, 1 0 beginning June 17 through Sept. 9. Visi­ ST. LOUIS--Meeting, 2539 Rockford Ave. a.m., First-day School, 1 1 a.m. Kings tors welcome. Telephone 876-6883. Rock Hill, 11 a.m. Phone: 721-0915. Highway, Mickleton, N. J.

380 July 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL MONTCLAIR - Park Street and Gordon­ BINGHAMTON - MeetinQ , 10 a.m. ROCHESTER - Meeting and First-day First-day School, 11 a.m. except July & Facu lty Lounge, Harpur Library Tower. School, 11 a.m., 41 Westminster Road. August, 10 a.m. 201-744-8320. Visitors 648-6339 or 785-0167. ' welcome. ROCKLAND- Meeting for worship and BUFFALO-Meeting and First-day School, First-day School, 11 a.m., 60 Leber Rd. , MOORESTOWN-Main St. at Chester Ave. 1 1 a.m., 72 N. Parade. Phone TX 2-8645. Blauve lt. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Oct. through May (except Dec. and March). Meeting CHAPPAQUA-Quaker Road (Rt . 120). RYE- Milton Rd .. one-half mile south of for worship 9 a.m. (9 :30 a.m. June Meeting fo r worship and First-day School, Playland Pky. , Sundays, 10:30 a.m.; some through Sept.) and 11 a .m. Visi tors we l­ 10 :30 a.m. 914-238-9894. Clerk: 914- Tuesdays, 8 p.m. come. 238-9031 . SCARSDALE- Meeting for worship and MOUNT HOLLY- High and Garden CLINTON- Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m., First-day School, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. Streets, meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. Ki rkland Art Center. On-the-Park. UL Clerk, Harold A. Nomer, 131 Huntley Visitors welcome. 3-2243. Drive. Ardsley, N.Y. 10502. NEW BRUNSWICK- Meeting for worship CORNWALL-Meeting for worship, 11 :00 SCHENECTADY - Meeting for worship, and First-day School, 1 1 a.m., Quaker a.m. Rt. 307, off 9W, Quaker Ave. 914- 1 1 :00 a.m. Old Chapel, Union College House, 33 Ramsen Ave. Phone: 545-8283. 534-221 7. Campus. Phone 518-456-4540. PLAINFIELD-Meeting fo r worship and ELMIRA- 10:30 a .m. Sundays. 155 West SOUTH GLENS FALLS--Friends Meeting, First-day School 10:30 a.m. Watchung 6th Street. Phone, 607-733-7972. 27 Saratoga Ave. Bible School, 9 :30 a.m.; Ave., at E. Third St., 757-5736 . Open worship, 10:30. Don Stanley, Pastor. Monday through Friday 11 :30 a.m.- FLUSHING - Meeting for worship, 11 1:30 p.m. a.m.; open house, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sun­ ST. JAMES, LONG ISLAND- Conscience days, 137-16 Northern Blvd. Bay Meeting, Moriches Rd . Worship and PRINCETON- Meeting for worship, 9 :30 First-day School, 1 1 a .m. and 11 a.m. Summer, 9:30 only. First-day GRAHAMSVILLE--Greenfield & Never­ School, 11 a.m. Quaker near Mercer St. sink. Worship, 1:30, Sundays, in Meeting SYRACUSE- Meeting for worship at 821 921-7824. house. Euclid Avenue, 10:30 a.m. Sunday. QUAKERTOWN- Meeting for worship HAMILTON - Meeting for worship Sun­ WESTBURY, LONG ISLAND - Unpro­ and Fi rst-day School, 11 a.m. Clerk, Rob­ day, 10 a.m. Chapel House, Colgate Un iv. grammed meeting for worship, 11 a.m. ert M. Cox, R.D. Box 342, Frenchtown, Junior Meeting through High School, N. J. 08825. Phone, 996-4491 . ITHACA- I 0 a.m., worship, First-day 10:45 to 12: 15. Jericho Tpk. and Post School, nursery: Anabel Taylor Hall, Sept.­ Avenue. Phone 516 ED 3-3178. RANCOCAS--First-day School, 10 a.m., May. 256-4214. meeting for worship, 11 a.m. JERICHO, LONG ISLAND-Unprogrammed RIDGEWOOD- Meeting for worship and worship, 11 a.m., Old Jericho Turnpike. North Carolina First-day School at 11 :00 a.m., 224 High­ ASHEVILLE - Meeting, French Broad wood Ave. LOCUST VALLEY, LONG ISLAND - YWCA, Sunday, 10 a.m. Phone Phillip Matinecock Friends Meeting for Worship, Neal, 298-0944. SEAVILLE- Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. Sundays, 11 a.m., Duck Pond & Pi ping Ma in Shore Road, Route 9, Cape May Rock Rds. CHAPEL HILL- Meeting for worship, 11 County. Visitors welcome. a.m. Clerk: Robert Mayer, phone 942- MANHASSET, LONG ISLAND- First-day 3318. SHREWSBURY-First-day School, 10:30 School, 9 :45 a.m.; meeting, 11 a.m. a.m., meeting for worship, 11 :00 a.m. Uuly, Aug. 10 a.m.) Northern Blvd. at CHARLOTTE-Meeting for worship, 10:30 Uuly, August , 10:00 a.m.). Route 35 and Shelter Rock Road. a .m., adult forum, 11 :45 a.m. 2327 Re­ Sycamore, Phone 6 7 1-2651 or 431-0637. mount Road. Phone 399-8465. NEW PALTZ - Meeting Sunday, 10:30 SUMMIT- Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. ; a .m., Elting Library, Main St. 658-2363. DURHAM- Meeting 10:30 at 404 Alex­ First-day Sc hool, 1 1: 15 a.m. 158 Southern ander Avenue. Contact David Smith 489- Boulevard, Chatham Township. Visitors NEW YORK- First-day meetings for wor­ 6029 or Don Wells 489-7240. welcome. ship, 9 :45 a.m., 11 a.m., 15 Rutherford Pl. (15th St.J, Manhattan. Others 11 a.m. FAYETTEVILLE-Meeting 1 p.m., Quaker TRENTON- Meeting for worship, 11 a .m., only. House, 233 Hillside Ave. Phone the Arn­ Hanover and Montgome ry Streets. Visi tors 2 Washington Sq . N. ings, 485-3213. welcome. Earl Hall, Columbia Universi ty 110 Schermerhorn St. Brooklyn GREENSBORO- Friendship Meeting (un­ WOODSTOWN- First-day School, 9 :45 Phone 212-777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5) programmed). Guilford College, Moon a.m. Meeting for worship, 1 1 a.m. N. about First-day Schools, Monthly Meetings, Room of Dana Auditorium, 11 a.m. Judith Ma in St., Woodstown , N. J. Phone 358- suppers, etc. · Ha rvey, clerk. 2532. ONEONTA-First and Third Sundays, New Mexico 10:30 a.m., 11 Ford Avenue, Phone 433- 2367. ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting and First-day School, 10:30 a.m., 815 Girard Blvd., N.E. POUGHKEEPSIE-249 Hooker Ave. 454- Personal Supervision Marian Hoge, clerk. Phone 255-9011 . 2870 . Silent meeting, 9 :3.0 a.m. ; meeting of a Firm Member school, 10:30 a.m.; programmed meeting, GALLUP- Sunday, 9 : 15 a.m., worship at 1 1: 15 a.m. (Summer meeting for wor­ 102 Viro Circle. Sylvia Abeyta clerk ship, 10 a.m.J Fyfe Auer 863-4697. • . & PURCHASE- Purchase Street (Route 120) FUNERAL HOME at Lake Street, Purchase , New York. First­ SANTE FE-Meeting Sundays 11 a.m., day School, 10:45 a.m. Meeting, 11 a.m. 7047 GERMANTOWN AVE. Olive Rush Studio, 630 Ca~yon Road, Clerk, Walter Haase, 88 Downs Ave. , Santa Fe . Miriam Stothart, clerk. Stamford, Conn. 069Q2 ; 203-324-9736. CHestnut Hill 7-8700 James E. Fyfe Charita L. Aaer QUAKER STREET-·Mid-October to Mid· New Yorlc April. Unprogrammed worship followed by ALBANY - Worship and First-day School, di scussion, 8 p.m., second and fourth Cremation service available 1 1 a.m., 727 Madison Ave. Phone 465· First-days, Cobleskill Methodist Church 9084 . lounge, Cobleskill, N. Y.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1/ 15, 1973 381 GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO - WILMINGTON-Friends Meeting, Mul­ Wheatland Shopping Center, 1 Y2 miles NEW GARDEN FRIENDS' MEETING: Un­ berry and Locust Sts.: 10-10:45 a.m., west of Lancaster. Meeting and First-day programmed meeting 9 :00 ; Church School, Meeting for Celebration; 10:45-11 :30 School, 10 a.m. 9:45; meeting for worship, 11 :00. a.m., Adult and Youth Learning Experi­ Martha G. Meredith, Clerk, David W. Bills, ences; 10-11 :30 a.m., Children's Program. LANSDOWNE - Lansdowne and Stewart Pastor. Lawrence Barker, minister, (513) 382- Aves., First-day School and Adult Forum, 2349. 9:45 a.m. ; worship, 1 1. RALEIGH- Meeting I 0:00 a.m., 120 Woodburn Road. Clerk, Steve Routh, 834- Oregon 2223. LEHIGH VALLEY -BETHLEHEM-on Route PORTLAND-MULTNOMAH MONTHLY 512 one-half mile north of route 22. WINSTON-SALEM-Unprogrammed wor­ MEETING, 4312 S. E. Stark St. Worship Meeting and Firs!·day School, 10 a.m. ship in Friends' homes, Sundays, 11 a.m. 10 a.m.. discussions 11 a.m. Same ad­ Call F. M. James, 919-723-46~0. dress, A.F.S.C., Phone: 235-8954. LEWISBURG-Vaughn Literature Bldg. Library, Bucknell U. Worship, 11 a.m., Pennsylvania Sundays, Sept. thru May. Clerk, Ruby E. Ohio Cooper, 7 17-523-0391 . CINCINNATI-Community Friends Meet­ ABINGTON-Greenwood Ave. and Meet­ ing (United) FUM & FGC . Summer sched­ ing House Road, Jenkintown. Assembly, MEDIA-125 West Third Street. Meeting ule: Unprogrammed worship 10:00; 3960 9 :45 a.m. ; First-day School, 10; worship, for worship, 10 a.m. Winding Way, 45229. Phone (513) 861- 11:15 (small children included first 20 4353. John Hubbard, clerk, (513) 271- minutes). MEDIA-Providence Meetinq. Providence 1589. Road, Media. 15 miles west of Phila., BRISTOL- Meeting for worship and First­ meeting for worship, 1 1 a.m. CLEVELAND-Meeting for worship and day School, 11 a.m., Market and Wood. First-day School, 11 a.m., 10916 Mag­ 788-3234. MERION-Meetinghouse Lane at Mont­ nolia Dr. 791-2220. CHESTER- 24th and Chestnut Streets. gomery. Meeting for worship 11 a.m., CLEVELAND-Community Meeting for Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. First-day School 10:30, Adult class 10:20. worship, 7 p.m. at Friends School, 18019 Baby sitting 10: 15. Magnolia, University Circle Area. Elliott CONCORD- at Concordville, on Concord Cornell, Clerk, 932-8049 or 321-7 456. Road one block south of Route 1. First-day MIDDLETOWN-Delaware Co .. Route 352 School 10 a.m.-11: 15 a.m. except sum­ N. of Lima. Pa . Meeting for worship, 11 DELAWARE-at O.W.U. Phillips Hall. 10 mer. Meeting for worship 11:15 a.m. to a.m. a.m. Twice monthly unprogrammed meet­ 12. ing for worship. Contact Mary Lea Bailey, MILLVILLE - Main Street. Worship, 10 369-4153 or Dottie Woldorf, 363-3701. DOLINGTOH-M~kefield-East of Dolington a.m., First-day School, 11. a.m. A. F. Solen­ on Mt. Eyre Road. Meeting for worship berger, 784-0267. KENT-Meeting for worship and First-day 11 :00-11 :30. First-day School 11:30- School, 10:30 a.m., 1195 Fairchild Ave. 12:30. MIDDLETOWN- At Langhorne, 453 West Phone: 673-5336. Maple Avenue. First-day School 9:45 a.m., DOWNINGTOWN-BOO E. Lancaster Ave­ meeting for worship, 11 a .m. N. COLUMBUS--Unprogrammed meeting. nue

382 I uly 1 I 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL PHOENIXVILLE- SCHUYLKILL MEET­ YARDLEY-North Main St. Meeting for Virginia ING--East of Phoenixville and north of worship 10 a.m., First-day School follows juncture of Whitehorse Road and Route meeting during winter months. CHARLOTTESVILLE- Janie Porter Barrett 23. Worship, 10 a.m. Forum, 1 1: 15. School, 410 Ridge St. Adult discussion, 10 a .m.; worship, 11. PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and South Dalcota First-day School 10:30 a.m.; adult class LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting 11 :45 a.m., 4836 Ellsworth Ave. SIOUX FALLS--Unprogrammed meeting, First-day School 10:00 a.m., meeting for I 0:30a.m., 2307 S. Center (571 05), 605- worship, 11:00 a .m. PLUMSTEAD-Worship 9:30 a.m. July 338-5744. 8-Aug. 12, Ferry Rd. between Danboro McLEAN- La ngley Hill Meeting, Sunday, and Gardenville, Bucks County. Tennessee 10:30 a.m. Junction old Route 123 and PLYMOUTH MEETING--Germantown Pike Route 193. and Butler Pike. First-day School, 10:15 NASHVILLE- Meeting and First-day RICHMOND-First-day School, 9:45 a.m., a .m. ; meeting for worship, 11: 15 a.m. School , Sundays, 10:00 a.m., 1108 18th meeting 11 a.m., 4500 Kensington Ave. Ave. S. Clerk, Hugh LaFollette. Phone: Phone 359-0697. QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meet­ 255-0332. ing, Main and Mill Streets. First-day ROANOKE-BLACKSBURG - Genevieve School, 10 a.m., meeting for worship, WEST KNOXVILLE-First-day School, 10 Waring, clerk, 3952 Bosworth Dr. , Roan­ 10:30 a.m. a.m., worship, 11 a .m. D. W. Newton. oke 24014. Phone, 703-343-6769. RADNOR-Conestoga and Sproul Rds., Phone: 588-0876. lthan. Meeting for worship and First-day WINCHESTER- Centre Meeting-203 N. Washington. Worship, 10:15. Phone: 667- School, 10:30 a.m. Forum 11: 15 a.m~ Texas 8497 or 667-0500. READING--First-day School, 10 a.m., AMARILLO-Worship, Sundays, 3 ~o~ . m .. meeting 11 a.m. I 08 North Sixth Street. 3802 W. 45th St. Hershel Stanley, lay Washington SOLEBURY- Sugan Rd., 2 miles NW of leader. Classes for children & adults. CHEYNEY-Meeting for worship, Sunday New Hope. Worship, 10 a.m.; First-day AUSTIN- Worship and First-day School, 11 a.m. Koinonia House. School, 10:45 a.m. Phone: 297 - 505~. 11 a.m. Forum, 10 a.m., 3014 Washing­ SPRINGFIELD- N. Springfield Road and ton Square. GL 2-1841 . Wiiiiam Jeffreys, SEATTLE- University Friends Meeting, Old Sprouj Road. Meeting 11 a.m. Sun­ clerk, 476-1375. 400 1 9th Avenue, N.E. Si lent worship and First-day classes at 11. Phone: ME 2-7006. days. DALLAS--Sunday, 10:30 a.m .. Park North STATE COLLEGE- 318 South Atherton Y.W.C.A., 4434 W. No rthwest Highway. Street. First-day School, 9 :30 a.m.; · meet­ Clerk, George Kenney, 2137 Siesta Dr. FE ing for worship, 10:45 a.m. 1-1348. West Virginia STROUDSBURG-!-Meeting for worship at EL PASO-Worship and First-day School, CHARLESTON-Worship, First-days, 10- the Stroud Community Center. 9th and 9 a.m. Esther T. Cornell, 584-7259, for 10:45 a.m., YWCA, 1 1 14 Quarrier St. Main Sts., first and third Sundays, 10 a.m. location. Raymond Stone, clerk. Phone 342-377 4 Visitors mt>re than welcome. for information. HOUSTON- Live Oak Meeting, worship SUMNEYTOWN-GREEN LANE AREA - and First-Day School, Sunday 11 a.m., Unami Monthly Meeting-Meets on Wal­ Peden Branch YWCA. 11209 Clematis. Wisconsin ters Rd., Sumneytown. Morning and even­ Clerk, Polly Clark, 729-3756. ing worship alternating First-days, fol­ BELOIT-See Rockford, Ill inois. lowed usually by potluck and discussion. LUBBOCK-Dale Berry, clerk. For meet­ For information, call 234-8424. ing time and place, call 747-5553. GREEN BAY-Meeting for worship and SWARTHMORE-Whittier Place, College First-day School, 10 a.m. Phone Barbara SAN ANTONIO- Unprogrammed meeting McClurg, 864-2204. campus. Adult Forum and First-day School , for worship, 1 1 a.m., First-days, Central 9:45 a.m. Worship, 11 a.m. Y.W.C.A. Phone 732-2740. MADISON - Sunday, 1 1 a.m., Friends UNIONTOWN- R.D. 4, New Salem Rd. , House, 2002 Monroe St., 256-2249; and off Route 40, West. Worship, 11 a.m. Utah Yahara Meeting, 619 Ri versi de Dri ve, Phone: 437-5936. 749-7255. LOGAN - Meeting, 11 a.m., home of UPPER DUBLIN- Ft. Washington· Ave &. MILWAUKEE-II a .m., First-days, 2319 Allen Stokes, 1722 Saddle Hill Dr., 752- E. Kenwood Blvd. 414-272-0040; 4 14- Meeting House Rd ., near Ambler, Worship 2702. and First-day School, 1 1 a.m. 962-2100 Call for alternative t ime June­ August. VALLEY-West of King of Prussia; on Vermont Old Rt. 202 and Old Eagle Scheel Road. OSHKOSH-Sunday, 1 p.m., meeting and First-day School and Forum, 10:00 a.m. First-day school, Neuman Center, UW-0 BENNINGTON -Meeting for worship, campus, cor. Irving and Elmwood. (except summer); meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30 a.m., Bennington Library, 11 :15 (summer, 10) . 10 1 Silver Street, P.O. Box 221, Benning­ WAUSAU-Meetings in members' homes. WEST CHESTER- 400 N. High St. First­ ton •. Vt. 0520 1. Write 3320 N. 11th or telephone: 842- day School, 10:30 a.m., worship, 10:45. BURLINGTON-Worship, 11 a.m. Sunday, 113Q. WILKES-BARRE- North Branch Monthly back of 179 No. Prospect. Phone 802- Meeting. Wyoming Seminary Day School, 985-2819. 1560 Wyoming Avenue, Forty-Fort. Sun­ day School, 10:15 a.m., Meeting, 11 :00, MIDDLEBURY - Meeting for worship, through May. Sunday 11 a.m., St. Mary's School, Shan­ The Penington non Street. 215 EAST FIFfEENTH STREET, WILLISTOWN - Goshen and Warren NEW YORK 10003 Roads, Newtown Square, R.D. # 1, Pa. PUTNEY-Worship, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Meeting for worship and Firstcday School, The Grammar School, Hickory Ridge Rd. The Quaker residence in a desirable 10 a .m. , Forum, 1 1 a.m. location. Limited transient space avail­ SHREWSBURY - Meeting. Worship Sun­ able for short periods. Write or tele­ WRIGHTSTOWN- First-day School, 9:30 day, 11 a.m., home of Edith Gorman, phone Richard Clark for reservations. a.m.; worship, 1 1. Route 413 at Wrights­ Cuttingsville, Vt. Phone, 492-3431 or Liz Phone: 212 475-9193 town. Yeats, 773-87 42.

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