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Fritz Elchenberg in Retrospect •dltor-llaMI..., Among Friends Vinton Deming Auoolate •cltor Melissa Kay Elliott Art Director Measuring the Cost Barbara Benton Graphic Designer Daniel Leisen Advertising llaneger orne readers with a good memory will likely recall our "dot Timothy Back cover" on the front of the magazine several years ago. (For Circulation ...... those who have forgotten, it was the November 1, 1982, issue.) Carolyn Terrell S Advertising and Circulation Aulatant At the center of the front cover was a single dot representing all the Gay Nicholson 'rypeaettlng ..,._. firepower of World War II (three megatons); in the remainder of the James Rice and Denise-Nanette Robinson design were about 6,000 other dots, which represented all the ...... ,._. firepower existing in the world's nuclear weapons (18,000 megatons) . Jeanne G. Beisel 8ookkMper That was in 1982; the figure may be higher now. The graphic was a James Neveil very powerful one, and we received many requests to duplicate it for peace education purposes. Yolunt..,. Jane Burgess, Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, More recently, in the Winter 1988 issue of Friends Association for Bruce Hunt, Susan Norris, and Amy Weber Higher Education Newsletter, we spotted a little paragraph. I lloard of llanagera understand it is condensed from an Ann Landers column this past 1986-1989: Jennie Allen, (Secretary), Dean Bratis, year (signed "Frank A., South Plainfield, N.J.") I encourage Friends Helen Morgan Brooks, MarkCary,Sol A. Jacobson, to ponder the words and to seek ways to share them with others. Leonard Kenworthy, Mary Mangelsdorf, Linell McCurry (Clerk), Janet Norton, Elizabeth S. They help to place in a proper perspective, somehow, the enormous Williams expenditure by our nation for the military during the Reagan years. 1987-1990: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon Perhaps we can find opportunities in the coming months to share the (Assistant Clerk), Mary Howarth, Marcia Paullin, William D. Strong (Treasurer), Allen Terrell, words with presidential and congressional candidates: Mary Wood "I wonder how many people realize what a trillion is. If you were 1988-1991: Nancy Cocks, Sam Legg, Richard Moses, to count a trillion $1 bills, one per second, 24 hours a day, it would Harry Scott, Judith Randall, Alan Walker, Ellie White take 32 years. With $1 trillion, you could build a SiOO,OOO house for Honorarr llanegera every family in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahqma, and Iowa. Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young Then you could put a $10,000 car in the garage of each one of those houses. There would be enough left to build $10 million libraries and FluENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was established in 1955 as the successor to The $10 million hospitals for 250 cities in those states. There would be Friend (1827- 1955) and Friends lntelligencer enough left over to build $10 million schools for 500 communities. (1844- 1955). It is associated with the Religious And there would still be enough left to put in the bank, and from Society of Friends, and is a member of the Associated Church Press. the interest alone, pay 10,000 nurses and teachers, plus give a $5,000 bonus for every family in those states. President Reagan's Strategic • FluENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Defense Initiative, the Star-Wars anti-missile scheme, carries a price Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. (215) 241-7277. tag of $3 trillion." Sec.ond-class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. With these challenging words I leave you for a time. I will be on • Subscriptions: one year SIS, two years $29, three years $43. Add $6 per year for postage vacation and leave from the JoURNAL from mid-June until outside United States, its "possessions," September. During my time away, Melissa Elliott will be acting Canada, and Mexico. Foreign remittances should be in U.S. dollars or adjusted for currency editor. I look forward to greeting you on this page in the November differential. Sample copies $1 each; back issues issue-safely returned, I trust, from the Friends World Committee $2 each. Triennial in Japan. • Information on and assistance with We have just learned that the JoURNAL received an award of merit advertising is available on request. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply May 17 at the 1988 convention of the Associated Church Press in endorsement by FluENDS JOURNAL. Indianapolis. For our November 1987 articles-on the homeless, ACP Copyright © 1988 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Reprints of articles available at judges awarded FRIENDS JoURNAL honorable mention in the category nominal cost. Permission should be received of in-depth news coverage of a current issue. before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. Available in microfilm from University Microfilms International.

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2 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 FRIENDS Volume 34, No. 7 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Fritz Eichenberg In Retrospect 2 Among Friends Herrymon Maurer Throughout six decades his art has cried out for truth, 4 Forum nonviolence, and simplicity. 5 VIewpoint 11 Universalism: A Natural 28 Witness Development within Quakerism 29 Reports Ralph Hetherington Can Quakerism maintain its attraction to a variety of 30 News of Friends seekers? 31 Bulletin Board 13 Recovery from Grief 32 Books Elsa Martz One in four U.S. homes will experience a violent crime. A 34 Milestones Friend shares her painful journey. 36 Calendar 16 Through Understanding There Is 38 ClassHieds Love Lilith Quinlan The journey toward forgiveness demands that we confront our tragedies. Poetry 20 The Great Betrayal 10 The Peaceable William McCord Kingdom Recompense to Japanese Americans is long overdue. Keith W. Snyder 22 Building a Peaceable Kingdom In 19 Prayer Wartime Robert C. Murphy Stephen Zunes Experiments in participatory democracy in Western Sahara deserve Friends' attention and understanding. 26 Dance Cheerfully over the Earth Ann and Mark Friend A ministry of fellowship and good fun

Fritz Eichenberg's wood engraving, Ship of Fools, © 1980, Barbara Martz appears on the cover. It is used by permission of the artist. (page 13)

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 3 Fon1m

Criticism Denies Cures relaxation, meditation, and visualization exercise, imaging, meditation, and much to treat cancer; the observations and more, she confronted her disease with I'm not familiar with Kristine Nolfi or experience of Herbert Benson at Harvard every mental, physical, and spiritual her treatment (FJ Jan.), but I do know medical school (Your Maximum Mind); power she possessed. In a recent letter there are other approaches to the and more recently, Bernard Siegel's views she wrote: "This therapy is very intense treatment of cancer than that prescribed (Love, Medicine and Mirac/es)-as well on all levels. At times I feel like I'm by the medical profession. Many, such as as personal experience of Friends and dying and other times I feel like I am macrobiotics, are based on diet; others others-have shown that lifestyle, diet, being born or giving birth ... and so it make use of visualization, meditation, and even prayer and forgiveness are is a process, hard work-painful, and prayer. These approaches are equally potent prescriptions in the treatment, not invigorating, nauseating, euphoric, if not more effective for some people in only of cancer but many other life­ tearful, and joyous. I feel that my tumor their fights against cancer. threatening diseases. was a manifestation of an abscess on a Granted, in a time of vulnerability, Now that the role of mind-belief, badly infected, wounded heart. I am people tend to grab at any glimmer of prayer, love, forgiveness-are becoming happy to have such a loyal body, willing hope that crosses their path, and some of better understood and appreciated, it is and able to forgive and heal." Although these are false misleadings. However, I to be hoped that Friends will be open to it is too early to tell whether the cancer is think it totally unfair and very narrow­ resources over and above those offered · gone for good Gust as the success of minded to believe that the traditional by conventional medicine. More and allopathic treatment takes at least five medical approach is the only way to treat more physicians and health professionals years to assess), she has experienced a cancer and all others are fraudulent. are less certain nowadays that profound healing process which will conventional treatments such as surgery, change her life. Georgiana Lees radiation, chemotherapy, drugs, etc., are I also am not in a position to judge the Wonalancet, N.H. the only hope we can offer sufferers. The merits of the particular book in the patient who is confronted with a life­ advertisement under attack. However, to I come to the defense of Flu:ENDs threatening situation should be informed dismiss it out of hand because it does not JouRNAL and the advertisement about of the range of resources available and subscribe to the procedures of the cancer. In his letter (FJ March), Francis allowed to share in the decisions. medical establishment (a huge business W. Helfrick says he has no means of with a vested interest in keeping out more researching the claims made in the Mary Jo Uphoff natural, nonviolent, and less costly advertisement, but then he says, "they Oregon, Wise. alternatives), hardly seems in keeping have all the earmarks of fraud." with a Quaker outlook. The Flu:ENDs Such an attitude is woefully For some of us it is equally fraudulent JouRNAL should listen, as we listen in our unscientific and unfair. Kristine Nolfi, to claim that the only approach to cancer meetings, even to those whose path we who is the subject of the disputed ad, treatment is the invasive allopathic do not understand or may not be ready conducted scientific tests on herself after method. I would ask you to hear the to take ourselves. she contracted cancer of the breast. She other side, the case for the forms of Hanno Klassen cured herself by radically changing her nonviolent, holistic therapy, which Northfield, Minn. diet, and since then she has decisively include homeopathy and nutrition. helped many thousands of others in A physical breakdown is a signal from I was greatly disturbed by two letters distress by using the same approach. This our body, the physical vessel of our that appeared in the Forum calling for does not mean that this approach will be spiritual being. We can respond to the refusal of advertising of alternative successful in every case. message with fear and turn over cancer treatments. I believe Friends have After many decades in the use of responsibility for our healing process to a tradition of openness to all shades of orthodox medical procedures in treating the orthodox medical system, or we can opinion and to allowing people to cancer, the record shows a very high face the pain of our closest friend, our evaluate facts as they are presented by degree of failure in the long run. It is body, and deal with her lovingly. conflicting sources. Both the letters high time to give serious attention and Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy printed, one at Flu:ENDS JouRNAL's re­ trial to the dietetic approach. It has been may well kill the cancer, but they also quest, represented the bias of allopathic demonstrated that those who adopt a cripple the body's own ability to fight the medicine, which attacks all therapies or vegetarian diet with plenty of raw foods, malignant growth. All too often the experience not fitting into its limited with very few exceptions, remain free of underlying connection to our lifestyle and perspective. cancer. Of course, the rule of our spiritual state is not treated. There is a very human tendency to nonsmoking is also essential. Pancreatic This issue is particularly important to ignore or downplay the massive failures enzyme therapy has also proved to be me because my daughter, who had a of establishment medicine, which have effective. A bolstering of the immune malignant tumor removed from her moved more and more people to turn system is always in order. breast, chose to undergo an exhaustive elsewhere for help. I myself have been Robert Heckert and extensive holistic therapy. Appalled the victim of "approved" medical Philadelphia, Pa. by the violent process of surgery and the procedures in at least three instances that prospects of further mutilation and created problems for me that never poisoning of her system, she carried out existed before, or worsened conditions I I hope that Francis Helfrick and an intense search for alternatives until she had. And I know personally many other Samuel Burgess (FJ March) will not leave found a program that provided people who, after making the rounds readers with the impression thiH only individualized physical and from doctor to doctor, only getting sicker conventional medicine has the answer to spiritual/emotional guidance. In her six­ and sicker, finally found alternative, treatment of cancer. The success of Carl week program, which included a juice naturopathic care that diagnosed and Simonton's (Getting Well Again) use of fast, a cleansing program, massage, healed their illness.

4 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL VIewpoint

The point is not that we should refuse all treatment from physicians. The point A Testimony on Inner Light is that, as we do in other areas of life, we should be able to learn about all the available options from information Perhaps the major problem in the ner Light and our inner darkness? The provided by various sources and testimonies of the Religious Society oi answer is akin to living life itself; we must intelligent discussion of the issues raised. Friends is the testimony of the Inner Light take it one day at a time. However, out Certainly some alternative products may as the guide for living, thinking, and do­ of my own experience I can testify that be ineffective or puffed with misleading ing. We abjure Scriptures, speci~y there are some ways to find the guidance claims-the same, however, is true of educated ministers, church bureaucraaes, of the true Inner Light. much drug peddling by pharmaceutical and hierarchies as fmal authorities for our There is, above all, worship in truth entrepreneurs. But lacking evidence of lives. Instead of any of those, we espouse and in spirit which is built upon, arises deception or falsity, let us, the readers, the view that each individual should rely out of, and is an expression of faith that be the judges. FRIENDs JOURNAL is not on the Inner Light to direct him/ her to a living Spirit of truth communicates with necessarily endorsing everything understand rightly, to speak rightly, and our inner selves. This mystical form of advertised in its pages. Certainly there are to act rightly in every particular cir­ communication is often referred to as a some things that are antipathetic to cumstance of life. still inner voice, not one that necessarily Friends' principles. I don't suggest The problem with, and a fair criticism speaks with words or sound, but with a running ads for ROTC. But where the of, this emphasis on the Inner Light is deep, nonverbal sense of reality during questions are as complex as the ones sur­ that it can be perceived as placing ab­ times of prayer or meditation. For me, rounding medical care, let the advertisers solute value upon each individual's own it happens most reliably during un­ present their cases. Friends are bright, thought, beliefs, and impulses. In other programmed meetings for worship. thoughtful, and independent enough to words it can be seen as a purely rela­ A second way to fmd guidance of the decide for themselves how to care for tivisti~ value system. However, in­ Light is in the testimonies of faithful their own bodies. dividuals left to their own devices, friends, especially messages in meetings responding only to their own impulses, for worship. Jennifer Liberty Goodwin can wreak havoc or create unpleasantness A third way for finding guidance is in Hallandale, Fla. that hurts themselves, others, and the study of Scripture, as well as other world at large. The opposite value, religious writings. Kristine Nolfi's ideas regarding diet are dogmatism, produces another disaster­ Fourth, in childhood, I was taught based on truth. the way of believing and living under much about Jesus of Nazareth, and a More than 20 years ago, a number of which everything is subject to prescribed sense of him as a person has played a key doctors gave me up as being beyond their rules, the way that logically leads to de­ role in guiding me into the Light. When help. When one doctor told me I had mand for Scripture viewed as written we study the scriptural record of Jesus' about three weeks to live, my thought directly by the divine hand without in­ life, we gain clarity about the nature of was, "Oh no, it is not a doctor who will volvement of any mediating presence. the true Inner Light. I never saw Jesus in decide when I am to die, it is God. In Trying to live by dogmatic rules makes the flesh, but I feel that he was the Light the meantime, I had better see what I can a nightmare out of one's life. If we shun incarnate, just as I also feel we are the do for myself." the value of individuals living by their Light incarnate when we allow ourselves That was the turning point in my own Inner Light, we inevitably move to­ to be. illness. From that day, I seemed to be wards dogmatism. If we avoid dogmatism, The Religious Society of Friends does guided to everything I needed to help me. we open the door for people to believe not stand on the ground of either I read books regarding diet, I met people and do whatever they feel is right for relativistic individualism or church who shared useful information on diet. them. dogma. Nor do we stand on the ground Within a short time I began to feel and At the core of the resolution to this of either Scripture or fellow believers' see improvements. While my recovery dilemma is this view: the Inner Light is testimonies alone. We stand on the faith took time and effort, it was worth it. not based in each individual alone, and, that the Light of life shines within each Was it Emerson who said "God thus, not purely relative. The Inner Light and that Scripture and worshipful testi­ exists"? I do not doubt it. is, inst.;ad, the shining within of "the mony can nurture everyone. Stefni Dawn Light." The Light, like " the Word" of This faith makes each participant both Sun City, Calif. John in the New Testament, is the essen­ a leader and a follower within the circle tial light of all the world, the universe, of the faithful. and human experience. Bill Reynolds AIDS Relief Needed At the mention of the word human, it Chattanooga, Tenn. may seem that I am headed towards I was pleased to read your article humanism and back toward relativistic in­ "Seeking a Friendly Response to AIDS" dividualism. To the contrary, the Light in your February issue. Meeting and of human experience is not synonymous talking about issues brought to us by with all things in human experience. AIDS, however, is only a start. Human experience encompasses both Unfortunately, there are presently more Light and darkness. When we ac­ than 12,000 people living with AIDS in knowledge that darkness is also inter­ New York City alone. Most are acutely twined, we are led to this question: How ill. Human needs are overwhelming. In do we tell the difference between our In- this city alone we are faced with an continued on page 36

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 5 tc• en n Retrospect

by Herrymon Mourer

6 Ju/y 1988 FiuENDS JOURNAL he occasion of a retrospective Eichenberg's work but also to whatever Apologia and George Fox the rough exhibit of Fritz Eichenberg prints work is undertaken to respond to truth, but purposive passages of his Epistles. Tat the Associated American Artists inwardly and outwardly. Throughout The net effect is luminosity, that light in New York last year gives opportunity the course of 65 years, his art has which is revealed in simplicity and which for Friends to reexamine the impact followed truth's inward dictates and has in black and white reveals more color upon themselves of an artist of deeply turned away from the fashions and fads than does color. prophetic spirit. Throughout six of contemporary art that make most of Fritz Eichenberg writes: decades, Fritz Eichenberg, now 86, has even the best of it amount to little more been crying for truth, nonviolence, and than wallpaper. The decline of the arts came with the decline simplicity in an art unique in our times Simply to maintain such a stance is an of man's faith in his own creative powers .. . . for its form as well as its message. achievement. The worldy rewards of ar­ We hate to admit that we are confused, A Quaker, he has not addressed his tistic endeavor are given to those who desperately longing for direction. We seem work primarily to a Quaker audience originate and perpetuate fashions that to deny that man was made in the image of God and that we are meant to be creative nor to peculiarly Quaker topics, as has appeal to upper-class estheticism, too, each in our own way. often been the case with Quaker minis­ fashions that either sentimentalize crea­ Non-objective art . .. tries to ignore the try in this century. Rather, as a Quaker tion or else dehumanize and denigrate world of realities. It aims to erase any trace he has addressed the world with the the very look of it. By contrast, Fritz of representational form, escapes into a land vigor, the insistence, and the incisiveness Eichenberg's work is intended to speak of spatial shapes. Abstract art may well be of the early publishers of truth. In the to the condition of every man and every a subconscious dodging of moral respon­ classic luminosity of his wood engrav­ woman. It is set against the fashions and sibilities. We play with forms, textures, lines ings Fritz Eichenberg has overcome the conventionalities not only of worldly art and colors, as if unaware of the state of the problem of talking to ourselves that has but also of uncreative living. world, man's interdependence, his social and cramped Quakerism for almost three political struggles. centuries, overcoming it by making use The fragmentation and ugliness of modern Artists aware of social and political of the engraved line with a vigor com­ weapons are undoubtedly reflected in many works of modern art. We are all responsi­ struggles prominently include Honore parable to that of early Friends in mak­ Daumier, with his wide-ranging ing use of the spoken and written word. ble. Life and art cannot be separated. Whatever the follies of modern art, we have lithographic depictions of the oppres­ Ostensibly a wood-engraver and an il­ sions of bourgeois life, and Francisco de lustrator, which he supremely is, Fritz helped produce them; they are a mirror held before us. Whether we work in the field of Goya, whose aquatint series, The Eichenberg is a searcher of the inward human relations, in stone or wood, with pen Disasters of War, is a great and power­ human condition and a witness to the and paper, we have to try to bring order to ful denunciation of violence. In the Light that revivifies it. He writes: chaos, piece the fragments together, become realm of the pictured word, the in­ whole again, holy again. fluence of both these men on Fritz Art can never be sectarian. It must be univer­ Eichenberg has been deep. In the realm sal, a true instrument of peace that brings Many recent works of art are de­ people together in a deeper awareness of their of the written word, there have been scribable as accidental productions: they strong two-way influences, each of common joys and sorrows . . . . In our fight are done in media such as oil painting against war and violence, the arts should take which began when he was still a student their rightful place- " an instrument of Thy and clay modeling that allow the work­ in his native city of Cologne. Peace" -as St. Francis and Edward Hicks ing over of surface and structure until The first, springing from the novels expressed it in their different ways. a complicated gloss emerges, hiding of Russia's Dostoevsky and continuing triviality of structure and sloppiness of with the writings of such French The inward vigor of his work is direct­ surface. By contrast there are the severe ly apparent in the very look of it: witness and simple media such as fresco paint­ The Babe in the Manger the six wood engravings which illustrate ing, direct carving in stone, black and this article. A close examination is of white ink drawing with the pen or brush, use, for it reveals underlying qualities and the graphic procedures of litho­ which are essential not only to Fritz graphy on stone and engraving on wood. The work and thought ofFri tz Eichenberg has always These media-which demand been freely available to Friends. The JOURNAL's forethought, discipline, and patience­ colophon (the emblem used with our masthead) are also characterized by purpose: by the is his; many of his wood engravings have appeared previously in our pages. Quotations f rom his intent to speak truth. They reveal an writing are here drawn f rom the 1968 revised edi­ economy of means, a clearness of line tion of his Pendle Hill pamphlet, "Art and Faith " and form, and a simplicity and radiance (#68}, still available from Pendle Hill, as is "Art­ of structure that result from the ist on the Witness Stand" (#257). The wood engraving Ninth Hour appeared in the Pendle Hill demanding and almost unyielding pamphlet ofthat name by Gilbert Kilpack in 1951; nature of each medium. Imagine The Grand Inquisitor and The Peaceable Kingdom endlessly gouging out with engraving appeared in 1952 in the first edition of Art and tools the little emptinesses that bring Faith. A Friend since 1940, Fritz Eichenberg, who light and define form in Fritz lives in Peace Dale, R.I., is a member of Provi­ dence (R.I.) Meeting. Writer Herrymon Maurer Eichenberg's Ninth Hour. In somewhat has been active in Princeton (N.J.) Meeting and similar method Robert Barclay com­ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. posed the classic sentences of his

Flu:ENDS J OURNAL July 1988 7 The Dove and the Hawk Catholic thinkers as Charles Peguy and George Bernanos and Jacques Maritain, gave him a sense of oneness with tor­ tured humanity, and of the everpresence of the suffering Christ, the realities of which he emphasized in his continuing work with Dorothy Day in the Catholic Worker. The second, starting with Erasmus, the great Reformation humanist, and Lao Tzu, the old philosopher of ancient China, led him, in his own words, "to the Light Within, the Quiet Inner Voice of George Fox, the Quaker, and to the Peaceable Kingdom of Isaiah." From such centers his reading and his seeing widened to embrace artists rang­ ing from Albrecht Durer and Giotto to Jose Clemente Orozco, and writers ranging from Charlotte and Emily Bronte to Dylan Thomas and Edgar Allen Poe, not to mention the principal Russian writers. What he has seen and read, he has pictured in graphic illustra­ tions for many tens of books, some of which he has written as well as il­ lustrated. What eludes illustration, he has depicted in numerous individual drawings, lithographs, and wood engravings. And what he has pictured he has also taught, heading the graphic arts department at Pratt Institute in New York and the department of art at the University of Rhode Island, and serving in this way to a younger generation-as well as to older generations who admire him-as the great 20th century force in the graphic arts, both in this country and abroad. But he teaches not only ar­ tistic communication but purposive wor­ ship. He writes:

If the artist's work is his worship, if he earnestly desires to serve God and through Him, man, the artist will in the end achieve that peace of mind, that mastery of matter which will bring him to the foot of the Cross. He will leave behind him egotism, which causes an artist to rotate around himself in constant self-reflection, deadened to the labors, joys, and sufferings of his fellow men. Greed will have to go. Greed, which is hunger for the power that money can buy, Ninth Hour Wood engraving by Fritz Eichenberg.© 19Sllused by permission of the artist for prestige and fame, perpetuates itself and can never be satiated. Speed will have to go. Speed, which kills the craftsman and his From Fritz Eichenberg has come not the that he, like Hicks, recreates the work, which spoils the enjoyment of nature, cerebration of life but the celebration of Peaceable Kingdom in version after ver­ dulls our senses, prevents meditation and the maturing of a growing mind. it, evident in his depiction of trees, of sion. His animals are a delight to the In our world of growing tensions, in our animals, and of men and women. He is eye; at the same time they are so human civilization of fear and insecurity, it seems in awe of creation in all its aspects; he as to be deeply prophetic. The humani­ that voluntary poverty, as Christ and St. witnesses the eternal purposiveness of it. ty of his wise animals in the manger with Francis and Gandhi knew it, is the only way He is different in style from Edward the Babe seems even more marked than to remove entirely from our lives the causes Hicks, but he looks·at the life about him that traditionally ascribed to the wise of strife and frictions. with almost the same eye: so much so men.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 9 profoundly marked in the wood engrav­ ing of Christ in Fritz Eichenberg's il­ lustration for Dostoevsky's Grand In­ quisitor. To see this image is to implant it unforgettably within one's being as the portrayal of what might be called the person of Christ. (It is the same person who embraces the homeless at the foot of his cross.) The image is unforgettable because it somehow has in it what is beyond protrayal, the very spirit of Christ, in which there are compassion and love for the suffering and oppressed. These exist also for that sworn enemy of the true Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, and, by extension, for those current and casual enemies of Christ, namely ourselves. For the word of Fritz Eichenberg is living that remove the occasions of wars, a call to see our likeness to the Peter for oppressions, and outward encum­ whom the cock crow~, and for whom­ brances. Fritz Eichenberg writes: as for all who agonize-the spirit of Christ is present even in despair. It is a We must recapture what we have lost; we call to inward as well as social must fight for our faith, fight our way back The Grand Inquisitor redemption-either of these being im­ to God. We must become creative again, possible without the other-to the whole again, and aware of our respon­ From this celebration of life comes his simplicity, nonviolence, and meaningful sibilities for a new moral order. D prophetic call to the life of truth, to a turning away from violence and oppres­ sion and deceit. Against these he cries out with all the vigor of his art. But he does not simply denounce. He lifts up. His witness is a reaching up to the The Peaceable Kingdom Creator, an act inseparable from love of (For Fritz Eichenberg) his creation, one which lifts men and women out of evil. The force and vigor Fallow for many seasons since it felL of much of his work carries with it an The pearwood's now in flower: almost terrifying impact. His homeless A leopard liquid with feral grace are indeed abjectly homeless; his manger Lies quiet, nuzzled by a kid, is indeed set among the ruins of war; his dove is indeed linked in combat with his And Moses-like, a child raises serpent hawk; his Peter-our Peter-indeed From the dust; a dove soars down despairs at the cry of the cock. Underly­ From Heaven to bless the broken ground ing this immediacy, however, is a con­ Where smooth-skinned, furred, tinuing surge of inward vigor, a lasting Wooly and feathered friends witness to and delight in the constancy Gather in a joyous ring of light. and universality of truth. He penetrates close to the core of inward reality. Hence the temporal reality of his im­ Engraved in wood, ages. It has often been remarked that his The Word endures, and sows image of Heathcliff in his illustrations The seeds of light; for Wuthering Heights is the Heathcliff: Its printed Image shows, once seen, it returns unfailingly to mind There on the wall of the diningroom Keith Snyder, who attends whenever the book is read or Beacon Hill (Mass.) remembered. His depictions of the A leaf from the Tree of Life, Meeting, wrote this poem Peaceable Kingdom are unfailingly the Perpetually in bloom. after meeting Fritz Eichenberg at Beacon Hill vision of Isaiah. He participates deeply With graver in your seasoned hand, Friends House, where in whatever he illustrates, whether his You followed Isaiah's ploughshare, Keith was assistant direc­ own works or others, effecting a col­ Carving out the Promised Land. tor at the time. He is now laboration with even the greatest works studying English at the University of of the Spirit and illumining them with -Keith W. Snyder Massachusetts. freslr and piercing insights. This participation is particularly and

10 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL UNIVERSALISM: A Natural Development Within Quakerism

he Christian church used to hold, started to publish pamphlets and books and parts of it still do, that by Ralph Hetherington of a decidedly evangelical character. there is no chance of salvation for Philadelphia Meeting revised its Book of Tanyone who is not a Christian. More­ Discipline and made it a disowning mat­ over, the definition of a Christian car­ grate the others. But there is, in fact, no ter to deny the divinity of Christ, the im­ ried with it a theological requirement doubt that the mystics of every religion mediate revelation of the Holy Spirit, or that one must believe in the divinity of speak of the same truths. the authenticity of Scripture. These Christ, the virgin birth, and the physical There also seems to be no doubt that moves by Philadelphia Meeting worried resurrection of Christ's body after the early Quakers understood this fact very some Friends, because they thought that entombment. Nowadays the term Chris­ well. Belief in the reality of the Inward the primacy of the Inward Light over tian has a wider connotation. For exam­ Light which is available to all because Scripture was being called into question. ple, the Shorter Oxford English Dic­ there is something of God in everyone, Indeed, Elias Hicks in 1827led a sizable tionary states that the term refers to leads inevitably to the sort of univer­ body of Friends into separation over this "those who follow the precepts and ex­ salism expounded by early Quakers. Of issue. Meanwhile London Yearly Meet­ ample of Jesus." While the Society of course they did not use the term "uni­ ing was becoming gradually more evan­ Friends is plainly not Christian in the versalism." Instead, they wrote and gelical. London YM Epistle of 1827 con­ theological sense, it might reasonably be spoke about what they called "gentile tained the following passage: argued that the majority of Quakers are divinity." This referred to the fact that Christian according to the dictionary the Inward Light had always been avail­ Vital Christianity consisteth not in words but definition. able to men and women everywhere, in power; and however important it is that Quaker Universalists hold the view and that this source of enlightenment ex­ we have a right apprehension of the doctrine that while there is much of essential isted before the life and ministry of of the gospel, this availeth not, unless we are value in the Christian religion and what Jesus, and continues to be accessible to regenerated by the power of the Holy Spirit. it teaches, there is no reason to suppose those who have never heard of Jesus and that it is the only path to enlightenment, his teaching. This doctrine of gentile But, a mere nine years later, in 1836, nor the only means of achieving the King­ divinity was powerfully expounded in London YM Epistle had changed some­ dom of Heaven. Universalists would William Penn's pamphlet "The Chris­ what, for this passage appeared: not, however, maintain that all religions tian Quaker," published in 1669, so that are equivalent, nor that they teach the this has been part of the Quaker think­ ... jt has ever been and still is, the belief same doctrines, nor that they are equally ing from the earliest days. The fact that of the Society of Friends, that the Holy Penn and his contemporaries saw the In­ Scriptures . . . were given by the inspiration suitable for everybody. It seems clear of God ... and there can be no appeal from that each religion developed within its ward Light as the Light of Christ within, does nothing to detract from the uni­ them to any authority whatsoever . . . and own culture and was largely shaped by whatsoever man says or does, which is con­ that culture. But it is significant that versalism of their views. trary to the Scriptures, though under profes­ there seems to be a mystical basis to all The early Quakers were also in no sion of the immediate guidance of the Spirit, the great religions. It may be politically doubt about the primacy of the Inward must be reckoned and accounted mere convenient for the various religious insti­ Light over Scripture. It was this as much delusion. tutions to assert that theirs is the only as anything else that led to much of their true religion and to persecute or deni- persecution. During the Quietist period This second passage was later trans­ that followed, this view about the prima­ ferred word-for-word to the Richmond cy of the Inward Light over Scripture Declaration of 1887. Ralph Hetherington is retired, having taught was maintained. However, at the turn However, other influences were now clinical psychology at British universities for most of his life. A member of Leicester (England) of the next century, in the early 1800s, coming into play. Darwin's Origin of Meeting, he is currently secretary of the Quaker the influence of Methodism began to be Species appeared in 1859, and in 1860 Universalist Group in Britain. felt, and Quakers such as Henry Tuke seven distinguished Anglicans supported

FiuENDS JOURNAL July 1988 11 intelligent, informed, and scholarly criti­ noted, taken verbatim from the London world's yearly meetings were repre­ cism of the biblical texts. By 1884 three Yearly Meeting Epistle of 1836. Bevan sented. These Young Friends admitted anonymous British Friends published a Braithwaite took this back to London that at this meeting many of them felt document called "A Reasonable Faith," Yearly Meeting for endorsement. How­ challenged, enraged, intimidated, and which offered a lucid, honest, and ever, the meeting declined to approve offended as they encountered apparently forward-looking alternative to evan­ the declaration as being "too nearly a unbridgeable gulfs between their various gelicalism. This caused something of a credal statement" leaving "inadequate views. However, in their final epistle, storm at the time, but the document room for the primacy of the Inward they tell us they were "forced to recog­ was, in the main, well received, especial­ Spirit of Christ in the religious ex­ nize this same God at work in others ly when it was revealed that the three perience among Friends." This ended who call that Voice by different names anonymous Friends were in fact weighty the domination of London Yearly Meet­ and who understand differently who and respected individuals. ing by those of an evangelical turn of that Voice is." Later in their epistle they However, some Friends were, in turn, mind and paved the way for the great wrote: "Our priority is to be receptive appalled at the liberal turn of events in Manchester, England, Conference of and responsive to the life-giving word of Britain and, aided and abetted by two 1895, which led to the liberal revival of God, whether it comes through the writ­ English evangelical Friends, Joseph the Society in Britain and to a rational ten word-the Scriptures; the incarnate Gurney and Bevan Braithwaite, called and informed criticism of the biblical word-Jesus Christ; the corporate word texts. as discovered by gathered meeting; or Robert Barclay in his famous Apology, the inward word of God in our hearts which was the first sophisticated theo­ which is available to each of us who seek There is surely logical statement of Quaker beliefs, ad­ the truth." I do not think that there vanced two main assumptions underly­ could be a better expression of universal­ no occasion for ing Quaker belief. The first of these ism than this. Christocentric Friends asserted the primacy of the Inward Light We live in a secular culture, in a over Scripture. His second assumption culture which no longer regards the and Universalist was that there is an indissoluble link be­ Christian religion as relevant or even tween the Inward Light and the Jesus of credible. Yet there seems to be an up­ Friends to be at history. Quaker theologians such as surge of interest in religious experience odds, if both accept Howard Brinton have deplored the con­ and a repudiation of scientific material­ fusion between the historical Jesus as ism. Moreover, some sections of the the primacy of the described in the first three Gospels, and scientific community, notably in nuclear Inward Light. the eternal Christ of the fourth Gospel. physics and astronomy, are beginning to Fox and others in the first Quaker see a correspondence between the ideas period asserted that it was the Inward of physical science and mysticism. Con­ Light that helped us interpret the Scrip­ sequently, there is, in Fox's phrase, "a tures; indeed this was implicit in Bar­ great people to be gathered": people a conference in 1887 at Richmond, In­ clay's first assumption about the prima­ who are sincerely seeking the truth, peo­ diana, at which the famous Richmond cy of the Inward Light. If this is to be ·ple who would like to join a religious Declaration of Faith was adopted. The taken seriously, then the historical Jesus community of like-minded seekers if a Richmond Conference was convened, as as recorded in the Scriptures must also suitable one could be found. Many of much as anything, to counter a move by come under that scrutiny. It surely these seekers would surely find what some yearly meetings to introduce what follows that it cannot be asserted that they are looking for in the Society of they called "ordinances." These were, the historical Jesus as revealed in Scrip­ Friends because of its tolerance, its lack in fact, the sacraments of baptism and tures is inevitably linked with the Inward of creeds, and its conviction that every­ the eucharist. The latter was called the Light. However, the eternal Christ, the one is capable of spiritual growth and "supper" and the former was baptism Logos, which can be identified with the development. by water. The conference was therefore Buddha nature, the Brahman, and the Many people have lost patience with a genuine attempt to reassert fundamen­ Tao, can very properly be so linked. the perceived intolerance and narrow­ tal Quaker principles. Had these been Once we are over this problem of nam­ ness of sectarian religion and are the only contentious issues, there might ing, things seem to fall into place. disturbed by the mismatch between have been much less opposition from There is surely no occasion for theology and scientific discoveries. Yet other yearly meetings worldwide. How­ Christocentric Friends and Universalist they remain seekers. I believe the Society ever, the conference was also concerned Friends to be at odds, if both accept the of Friends answers a need in the world. with opposing Hicksite meetings, which primacy of the Inward Light. If there is It is here that the universalist element in had not even been invited to send dele­ to be an unhappy separation within the Quaker thinking becomes particularly gates to the conference. The Declaration Society of Friends worldwide, it will be relevant, for if we are seen as a religious of Faith, therefore, included a statement between those yearly meetings which sect only for Christians, such seekers to the effect that the main basis of adhere to the Richmond Declaration, will be deterred from joining us and we Quaker belief had to be scriptural and and those which do not. This tension shall have failed them. If we are secure that personal revelation in the shape of within the worldwide Society of Friends in our experience of the Inward Light the Inward Light had to be subordinate was felt most acutely at the meeting of and its power to lead us into all truth, to the authority of Scripture. The rele­ 300 Young Friends at Greensboro, North we and those who are attracted to us vant statement was, as I have already Carolina, in 1985 when most of the have nothing to fear. D

12 July 1988 FRIENDS JouRNAL t's a vivid scrap of memory. I clearly remember standing in my living room I listening to a news commentator and being horrified at a statistic: one in four Recovery U.S. homes will be touched by violent crime. Within the year, my family was one of those shaken by violence. Although death is a certainty in our lives, our systems of formal and re­ ligious education fail to provide a forum from Grief for examining aspects of death and grief. Losing someone in a sudden, vio­ lent death is traumatic, in the fullest sense of the word. On the chance that my words might possibly help someone, A Parent's I will share my experience. The telephone call at 4 A.M. on December 4, 1985, told me that my daughter Barbara had been killed in her Journey home by an unknown intruder. This

Elsa Martz, a lifelong Friend, is an editor and by Elsa Martz photographer. She recently moved to Cundy's Harbor, Maine, and joined Brunswick Friends Meeting. The photos used with this article are published in a book, which costs $17 (including postage) and is available from Elsa at 12 Lower Spruce Shore Road, Brunswick, ME 04011.

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 13 choice of words by her friend was in­ of those things that have helped me dur­ friends, a lecture by Elizabeth Kiibler­ credible. He had found her brutally ing the past two years. Ross. The five-week grief recovery pro­ murdered by a rapist in her home in San gram had "homework," which had real Francisco. How can a mother allow • Through some blessed insight, I came value for me: review the relationship those facts into her heart? It still brings up with the idea to make prayer flags for from day one (I went through 25 photo tears to my eyes. Barbara to be taken to the Himalayas. albums); list previous losses and think How did I cope? The pain and hor­ Buddhist prayer flags carry prayers to about how you dealt with them; list your ror increased by the hour. I was afraid Buddha on the wind, repeating the assets and liabilities for grief recovery; to ask questions: which was worse, my prayers over and over again, blessing all write your feelings in a journal; cry with imagination or the emerging facts? Soon living things. Some Buddhist prayer someone; and finally, do something nice my body went on automatic pilot with flags and some prayer flags of my own for yourself. a kind of cold numbness which lasted design have been hoisted in the moun­ • I have asked friends to help me for weeks. I was able to make the tains Barb loved and in the woods remember missing details. The last time necessary telephone calls to family; then around my home. Some of my flags I spent with Barbara was at Nancy's I called the San Francisco Friends carry the words of the song. Since Bar­ wedding. By talking about that Meeting. bara usually ended telephone conversa­ weekend, I have retrieved many happy When we arrived in San Francisco, tions with "see you later," other flags images. I use these to blot out the in­ the resident Friends and clerk were carry my prayer: "Dear Barb, I love you. voluntary images of her murder. I know waiting for us. Somehow, I knew in­ See you later. Love, Mom." Knowing that Barbara would not want me to keep stinctively that there were some words that prayer flags are flying for Barb in living out that awful scene, and I'm get­ somewhere that would help me. During the mountains she loved gives me a sense ting much better at turning it off. But our long talk that morning, various of peace. it's work. biblical and poetic phrases were offered • In addition to the loving support and • "How many children do you have?" but none touched my heart. However, shared grieving with my family, I was Three-always three, even though one later, after a beautiful memorial service, blessed with incredible support from is no longer here. I've learned to an­ visitors wrote in one of Barbara's Barb's friends-most particularly her ticipate this painful question and ward books, and the words I was searching two photography business partners. We it off by mentioning, in advance, my for appeared (a Quaker song): decided to put together an exhibit of daughter Nancy and my son David. On Barb's photographs. After choosing the the other hand, it is important to me photographs we thought she would like, that new friends-who are likely to May the longtime sun shine upon you, her partners made the prints: the exhibit become close friends-know that I have All love surround you, has been shown in California, Massa­ recently lost a daughter. And the pure light within you, chusetts, and Maine. • I was very apprehensive as the first Guide your way on. • With help from family and friends, anniversary of Barbara's death ap­ especially my daughter Nancy and son proached. How should I get through the David, I created and published a book day? What should I do? Be alone? Go For me, these words have a healing of Barbara's photographs to accompany for a long walk? Barb's friend, Sarah, power. I sing the song to myself, and the exhibit. With some gentle question­ had a beautiful solution. Across the often the tears flow. ing by a friend, I was able to articulate country, in our own homes, we lit Barbara was a professional photo­ a purpose of the book beyond a candles for Barb at 8:30 (EST). It grapher. She and I shared a love for the memorial and catalog. At the end of the brought us together in sharing our grief Himalayas, where she had trekked that book are these words: "If Barbara's ra­ and our loss-a powerful experience for previous spring with her friend, Sarah. diant smile warmed you, then smile many of us. We lit candles this past In preparation, Barbara had studied more. If her photographs touch you, December 4, and I expect to continue Buddhism and Tibetan culture; she then give freely of your own talents and this practice as a celebration of Bar­ loved the mountains and their people. skills. If you admire her determination, bara's life. She was a birthright Friend and an adult use your own strength as Barb did-give • How has my Quaker religion helped? member of the Cambridge (Mass.) of yourself to those around you. Be a I don't know. I do know that I used to Meeting. Barbara was a gentle, power for good." sit in meeting and thank God for my thoughtful, and considerate young • I keep a journal in the form of letters blessings. I asked God to "Please be woman, living without harm to anyone to Barbara. Someone had suggested that there and give me strength when I need and giving her talents in multiple ways. one reason to keep a journal is to be able you"-almost as if I were building up She touched many hearts in her 28 years. to look back and see progress in the credit. When the violence struck, I went We all must approach the grieving grieving. She was right; it is helpful. I immediately to the Friends and received process differently; however, on the keep Barb in my thoughts. I have filled the loving support needed to keep going. theory that this had certainly happened a large photo album with pictures of • As a firm believer that there is that of before, and there must be some specific her, and my home has many touches of God in everyone, how do I deal with the actions that would help, I eventually Barbara's life. evil in the world? What would I do with sought out a professional counselor. As • I continue to take advantage of any Barbara's killer if he were ever identified you might have guessed, there are no resources that come my way. Some and caught? Well, forgiveness is out of answers; so I just continued to follow work, some don't: counseling, books the question. That's all there is to it; I my instincts. I desperately needed to do from the library, a hospital-sponsored don't even consider it. I don't have something. I will share with you some grief recovery program, compassionate much faith in the criminal justice system

14 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL Stupa with Prayer Flags-Nepal (1985) but, if he is caught, I would not have • After the first year (and now, the sec­ for a cold drink." These meaningless ex­ him executed. One measure of my initial ond year), it is wonderful when someone pressions hurt: the words cause an in­ anger can be seen, however, by my com­ offers, at an appropriate time and place, stant jolt to my system. ment to the homicide inspector that the "How are you doing? Do you want to • Comments by friends which show they man be publicly castrated and locked up talk about Barbara?" I firmly believe still think about Barbara today as a forever. After being told that I should that tears are part of the healing process. whole person-not just about past in­ "deal with my anger," I went to a beach • I very seldom think about the cidents or about her murder-touch my and threw rocks and yelled at the killer. murderer, but it's amazing how many heart. "I do think of Barb sometimes One of the worst names I can think to people focus on the unknown killer. when I take photos now. I've got a great call him is "coward"-a man with a "Don't the police have any leads?" shot of a bed of water lilies in a knife attacking an innocent woman, tak­ "He's still out there?" Probably these Lanesville pit that made me think of ing the life of my daughter, in her own questioners don't know what else to talk Barbara: Lotus-Nepal-Fullness­ home. If I ever confront this man, how about, but this emphasis does not help Continuity of the Spirit-Eternity." can I possibly make him understand me in any way, and I give the shortest • And last, but most important, I have what he has done? answers possible. been especially strengthened by those • It helps when there is absolutely no letters in which the writer expresses a These are ways in which I have coped spoken or implied expectation that I profound belief. "Barbara is now where with my daughter's violent death. If you "should be over this by now," but we are all going-home!" "Barbara are in the same boat, perhaps they will rather an understanding that I will be had-still has, I hope-that rare match­ give you other ideas for your own heal­ thinking of Barbara and missing her for ing of gentleness and power that makes ing. My heart goes out to you. Since the rest of my life. She continues to be the rest of us take note. My own most of us don't know how to help an important part of my life. religious feelings have been murky for friends who have lost someone, especial­ • It helps immeasurably when my years, but I believe in a Higher Plane ly through a sudden or violent death, friends have made the effort to purge where that matching of gentleness and I've also tried to pay attention and keep from their vocabulary all slang expres­ power is perfected." ". . . find peace in track of what has (or has not) helped sions involving death, killing, murder. the memory of your wonderful times me. The following are the suggestions "They'll murder us if we're late." "I with Barbara and her perpetual spiritual I've collected. could have killed her for that." "I'd kill presence." 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 15 16 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL gh Understanding There Is Love by Lilith Quinlan cal battering. However, when there is no armor, my affirmation of that of God physical injury, as in my situation, the within me and within Benjamin. I could Editor's note: The following article was wounds are not visible and the reality is not find ways to protect myself from the written in response to Helen Mangelsdorf often denied by the perpetrator. So heal­ inroads of violence on my spirit. I ("A Query . . . , , FJ January 1988). It ing is slow. The times when I felt abuse left-out of self-respect, love for my was too long to include in our readers' directed at me seemed unbearable ad­ son, and with caring for my husband. Forum in April but seems appropriate ditions to the torment of my son Ben­ I had fallen, broken, into several to share at this time. jamin's suffering from a degenerative pieces: and healing has been a picking genetic disease. Over the last few years, up of parts of myself again. This moving our query, Helen, about fear and I have come both to more acknowledge­ toward wholeness has required that I do spiritual darkness has moved me ment of the violence and to more for­ several things: (1) be more kind, patient, Y to respond by sharing an experi­ giveness. I have also learned how com­ and trusting than ever before, of myself ence with violence and my wrestling with mon this experience is among parents of and God's creation; (2) feel my rage as fear, anger, and doubt. As I looked critically ill children. a victim and express it in creative, trans­ from the words describing your rape to Benjamin was a joyous, peaceful soul. forming ways: (3) avoid self-pity and ex­ the pictures from Rape Piece, I heard And watching his undeserved suffering ercise compassion by reaching out to echoes of pain and trauma which I ab­ was excruciating. I felt the range of others: mothers of profoundly handi­ sorbed with deep identification and feel­ human emotions and am still awed by capped children, battered women, and ing from my own experience six years the loving support of friends during the refugees from violence in Central ago: nine years of his life. I felt much anger America (whose testimonies, despite ter­ and found what Harriet Goldhor Lerner ror, continue to convert me); (4) lament I am poured out like water. says in The Dance of Anger to be true: the lies and powers which are evil in our and all my bones are out of joint; " Anger is a tool for change when it world and confess my doubt to God and my heart is like wax, challenges us to become more of an ex­ friends; (5) offer my experience to others it is melted within my breast; pert on the self and less of an expert on as a source of sharing and healing; (6) my strength is dried up like a others." increase my commitment to making evil potsherd, I had to confront not only my anger visible and empowering the voiceless to and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; but my powerlessness. I did come to ac­ speak. thou dost lay me in the dust of ceptance of my son's disease; then I had You query as a Friend. It was only death. to accept another wrenching experience­ after Benjamin's death that I joined a Psalm 22:14-15 (RSV) the dissolution of my marriage. All of Friends meeting, realizing that I had my loving-including working with a been of the persuasion most of my life. My experience was not the horror of therapist on my anger, taking care of I have found Friends, often courageous physical rape. For that I am grateful. myself and my son, pursuing my own in­ in the face of social evil, less candid in However, given the prediction that one terests, trying new communications facing the inner darknesses. We all know in five women in our society will be skills-then emotional divorce, strug­ that some Friends use silence as a place raped, I live in vigilant awareness, sad gling for patience, praying for a miracle­ to repress anger and hide cowardice as and outraged at your suffering and that proved futile. well as for a vehicle and opening for of all my sisters who are victims. It may have been admirable that I grace. Many of us who work for peace I have experienced emotional and understood the source of the violence, and justice are proud of the leadership psychological violence. This form of the process of our projecting inner of Friends in social justice movements violence invariably accompanies physi- darkness onto others, but it was not but would rather not acknowledge that helpful. I learned that words-or lack minorities-and some women who have Lilith Quinlan is a member of Baton Rouge (La.) Meeting and an attender at Clear Creek (Ind.) of them-can indeed kill. There was experienced violence-do not see our Meeting, where she is writing as part of her work nothing I could do to stop the negative "Lamb's War" as a serious engagement for nonviolent social change. labels which pursued, below my rational with the shootings, rapes, and murders

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 17 they live with every day. Some of us ing in silent prayer, the love of my pre­ reminds me of my son's songs, his love engage in a "sheep's war," perhaps for sent husband, Hoyt, and other friends. of life and his ability to rest in God's lack of recognition, for fear of the There are also sources dear to me before arms through trials I can only imagine. strength of the foe, both in the world my convincement. One of the main ones If I must face a rapist someday, I and within ourselves. has been the Psalms-desperate calls for hope I will be able to see him as a human When there is no place in our faith help from those sinking in spiritual being, miraculously included in the cir­ communities or in our hearts for pain­ alienation, cries of despair and lament cle of God's love. I doubt that I am ful realities, for doubt, questioning, for the power and glory of evil in this capable of this, since I draw my circles naming evil and confessing our par­ world, frustration at God for not send­ a good bit smaller. I hope when I die, ticipation in it, we feed inner fears. ing a sign of hope, doubts that God is I will die well, trusting in God's power Anger is only a secondary expression of listening at all, impatience with suffer­ to heal and resurrect. I'm not sure that the primary emotion of fear-fear that ing, waiting. And those songs of com­ I will, especially when I know that Jesus, God is not just, that we are powerless, fort, assurance, praise. Another help to before he died, cried out the question of fear of sharing our anguish, of being me has been the life-long knowledge that Psalm 22:1, "My God, my God, why vulnerable within the human communi­ evil is a constant reality in this world. hast thou forsaken me?" When I fail to ty. When I began working with children The third is the tradition of confession be as loving as I might, when I lose and mothers at a battered women's and devotional prayer. The healing courage, when I'm trying to pick up the shelter, I learned that the most frequent­ which I have experienced through the pieces of myself or looking down the ly recorded perpetrators in domestic presence of the Spirit of God in me, in road for some human savior to help me violence situations are members of three worship, in others has not occurred in back up onto the wall. ..the burdens lift groups: military, police, and clergy. a pure atmosphere which I can label as when I remember that all God requires This, I believe, reflects the tragic pain "Quaker" or in a set of habits, defini­ is that I try to be loving and faithful. For of people who perceive that their roles tions or how-to's. Rather, in the pull­ here I am whole. and salaries require repression of their ing on all the roots of my evil and inex­ Benjamin and I found peace for what human vulnerabilities and emotions. plicable suffering, in identifying with would be the last year of his brief so­ They often feel that the denial of pain slaves who have found the strength to journ on this earth. He was a teacher for simply enables them to continue neces­ become free people, in getting free of me, a Buddha-friend, chuckling and sary work. What resentment I harbor the bondage of silence to share my serene and patient in his cage of a body. is not at these individuals lashing out journey, and in listening for God's gen­ His loving spirit taught me that, as from hell but at the largely male­ tle guidance about how as a survivor I useful as trying to fit the puzzles of dominated systems which bury compas­ can use my strength to help others find theology together may be, the choices sion by training and paying people to heart in the midst of rage. we make toward fullness of life are speak publicly of love and justice while You are able to openly describe your ultimately questions of trust and faith. permitting them to take out their experience, to share it with thousands of When Benjamin died, he could no frustrations on their families. The re­ women. Yet you say that you "have not longer sing any of the nursery rhymes sults are the terrifying battlefields and emerged from the experience atrium­ we had sung together-such as Hump­ crusades on the "home front" about phant spiritual being." I know what you ty Dumpty. He was able to speak only which thousands of women fear to mean. Among the calmer dreams of one word. It was an adequate beatitude: speak and from which escape can be wading and fishing, there are still huge "Happy." life-threatening. tidal waves overwhelming, overpower­ I think it is time that we women, out I was not contorted into a role of ing me. But isn't "triumphant" just left­ of the strength we have gained from sur­ macho or holiness and therefore could over language and expectation from the viving violence, write some new scrip­ be where I was emotionally and days when we still looked for rescue and tures. Your Rape Piece seems to me an spiritually in responding to Benjamin's definition of wholeness to "all the king's illumination for such verses. Julia Emily situation. I struggled through denial, horses and all the king's men" in the Louisa Peebles has written "Psalm" cried for grace, found acceptance, and male-dominated kingdoms of this world? which expressed my hope: am moving toward inner wholeness. Your art exhibit and your query speak Even as a minister's wife, I knew that from the power of the oppressed who We trust that beyond the absence: the loving friends in my church com­ band together to pray for release from there is a presence. munity did not require me to wear a blindness and sing of woe and joy. God That beyond the pain: there can be mask. They knew that I would not ac­ says to me lately that living a more ful­ healing. cept the mask if they offered it. But then ly human life, holding evil up so that it That beyond the brokenness: there as a lay woman with another profession is visible, praying and singing through can be wholeness. it was perhaps easier for me to decline. it all are the most vital parts of the fight. That beyond the anger: there can My appreciation for what Friends have I believe that what Christ was sent to be peace. to teach has been deepened by this ex­ show us was that we can find God in our That beyond the hurting: there perience. My commitment to human very stumbling and imperfect humanity. may be forgiveness. liberation from the dishonesty and bond­ Recently, I did a childlike thing: I put That beyond the silence: there may age of heartless doctrine and procedure a stuffed Humpty Dumpty on my bed­ be the word. has intensified, as has my hope that room windowsill to remind me of the That through the word: there may more men, as well as women, will days when I was so broken, alienated be understanding. minister to each other. from my spiritual self. The jovial egg Some of my strength and resources also reminds me of my vulnerability in That through understanding: there have come from the wellsprings of heal- this world to other evil forces . And he is love. 0

IS July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL PRAYER

Thank You for hard, sweating skiing the still and glistening high country yesterday, and for Yes. And for short, restful sleep and bountiful hours for work today, and for Yes. Thank You for Lesson# one hundred thousand and four: THERE IS TIME FOR EVERYTHING, which in shorthand is written:Yes. Thank You for Time itself. the gift party-wrapped in Yes.

Thank You for Joy and for depression, hopelessness and despair into the corners of which You have slyly concealed a scattering of Yes: jewels in the mine waiting, crying, to be found. Thank You for body as soul and soul as body, for winning to us the oneness of life, which is Yes.

Which in words as The Word is: "Yes, you are as you are: there is no catch, there are no tricks; as you seem to be, so you are. And yet have I folded into you Mystery-that you may never be bored, for its exploration will last you your life . .

"And its exploration, piton and carabiner, climbs back toward Me, whence 'trailing clouds of glory [have you] come.' My smile and My thunder are Yes, and Yes shall sing to you all the days of your life."

- Robert C. Murphy © 1983

Robert C. Murphy is a physician, healer, peace activist, and writer in Sheridan, Wyo.

FRIENDS JouRNAL July 1988 19 Japanese-Americans en route to an internment camp, March 1942

his dignity, and his freedom for almost five years. Neither he nor any other Japanese-American was ever convicted of espionage or sabotage. (Five Cauca­ sian Americans were, in fact, sentenced The Great as Japanese agents). In the hysteria of Pearl Harbor, few questioned the unprecedented abroga­ tion of the civil rights of a racial minori­ ty. General John De Witt, architect of Betrayal the evacuation, dismissed the issue of imprisoning citizens by saying, "A Jap's a Jap ... You can't change him by giv­ ing him a piece of paper." The Los Angeles Times editorialized, "If mak­ by William McCord ing 1,000,000 [sic] innocent Japanese uncomfortable would prevent one scheming Japanese from costing the life n December 7, 1941, my and a scroll from President Truman, of an American boy, then let 1,000,000 brother, Don McCord, ferried a who praised him as "a patriot who died innocents suffer." 0 squadron of B-17s from Califor­ that freedom might live, grow, and in­ War-inspired and racial fanaticism nia to Pearl Harbor at exactly the mo­ crease its blessings." were not the sole motives for attacking ment when the Japanese attacked. He On December 8, 1941, the FBI Japanese-Americans. Some greedy survived and flew 25 missions over the knocked on the door of my future Americans merely wanted to gobble up Pacific. In 1942, his luck ran out over father-in-law, George Fujii, and shuf­ the businesses, farms, and homes of the the Solomon Islands and his plane never fled him off to jail in Seattle, where he victims. A California lobbyist for mass returned. My parents received his medals and other "undesirable enemy aliens" evacuation said, "We're charged with were confined in cages. (Later, the army wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish William McCord is a member ofRockland (N. Y.) shifted them to New Mexico, Montana, reasons. We might as well be honest. We Meeting and author of Paths to Progress and the and South Dakota.) Separated from his do. It's a question of whether the white forthcoming Voyages to Utopia. family, he lost his means of livelihood, men live on the Pacific Coast or the

20 July 1988 fRrnNDS JOURNAL brown men. They came ... to work, California upheld the rights of nisei as back to fundamental American prin­ and stayed to take over." citizens against the anti-Japanese pro­ ciples." Yet the U.S. government has On February 19, 1942, against the ad­ paganda of Governor Olson and the am­ never apologized to the former vice of his wife, President Roosevelt bitious attorney general, Earl Warren. prisoners. signed Executive Order 9066, authoriz­ In February 1942 Quakers in Los Now, the Society of Friends can once ing the War Department to exclude any Angeles aided Japanese-Americans in again come to the aid of unjustly treated person from "military areas." their forced "relocation" by establishing U.S. citizens. We live in an ambiguous Although only a tiny handful of Ger­ hostels, donating beds, and providing and potentially dangerous period when mans and Italians were touched, the San food. Japanese Americans are acknowledged Francisco Chronicle somberly warned: By March 1942, at the Puyallup camp (sometimes jealously) as a "model "The rights of any of us to live in our near Tacoma, Washington, Friends minority," and yet demands for "pro­ own homes, to move about, or the con­ Thomas Bodine and Floyd Schmoe con­ tectionism" increase, a crazed man kills ditions under which we may do so, are demned the new "center" as a mere a Chinese worker in Detroit (mistaking subject to the sole will of the command­ chicken pen, "four hutches to a row, six him for a Japanese), and auto workers ing officer." rooms to a hutch,' ' designed to hold chop Toyotas into pieces in revenge for As a result of this order, the army 8,000 human beings. The Friends pro­ " unjust" competition. rounded up the entire Fujii family along vided the only heating and electricity in The Civil Liberties Act of 1987, co­ with 120,000 other Japanese Americans. the compound. sponsored by Senators Robert Dole and Sixty percent were citizens while others, At Tanforan, a model camp often Pete Wilson, faced rough Congressional such as my wife's aged grandparents, shown off by army public relations, and presidential hearings. The act calls had lived in the United States for Quakers supplied stoves to warm small for an official apology and symbolic decades. babies, brought in truckloads of books, My wife, Arline, then eight years old and occasionally smuggled in forbidden and a sansei (third generation U.S. citi­ food and medicines. zen), packed a little bag and was es­ Nisei Friends such as Gordon Hira­ corted by federal marshalls to a prison­ bayashi, a conscientious objector in­ The Civil Liberties like camp in Tule Lake, California. She, terned at TuleLake and federal prisons, too, endured four years of imprison­ filed suit against the government for its Act of 1988 calls ment, surrounded by U.S. tanks, sol­ demand that he sign a selective service for an official diers with bayonets, barbed wire, and questionnaire specifically aimed at peo­ the scorn of "freedom-loving" U.S. ple of Japanese ancestry (FJ Aug. 1-15, apology and symbolic citizens. As the only way of rejoining 1985). Temporarily he lost and spent George Fujii, my wife's mother re­ another year in a federal prison. As a compensation to nounced her citizenship and that of her Quaker, however, he persisted and even­ children. The army finally allowed the tually played a major legal role in secur­ Japanese American family's reunion in a scorpion-infested ing some reversals of U.S. court deci­ camp in Texas. They traveled there in sions after the war. survivors of U.S. an enclosed train with the shades drawn. Quakers served as teachers and coun­ In 1946, after threatening exile to selors in the camps during the war. By internment camps. Japan, the govenment permitted the 1945, such Friends as California's Gerda family to return penniless but unbroken Isenberg and Josephine Duveneck har­ in spirit to Seattle. Outwardly, the Fu­ bored newly returned Japanese Ameri­ jiis survived and thrived. Like so many cans in their homes and helped them compensation to survivors among the Japanese-Americans of this period, the find houses and jobs in an environment 120,000 Japanese-Americans who-with­ children poured their energies into poisoned by discrimination. out charges or trial-suffered imprison­ education. (Arline now serves as Dean The United States government made ment. of Social Sciences at the City College of a few amends for its action. In the 1940s The act passed the Senate in April, New York; her brother, a Ph.D in and 1950s, the Supreme Court awarded but a veto from President Reagan could Chemistry, directs research for a major $37 million in claims to those who had kill even this modest gesture. Letters to firm; and her sister, with a master's in been thrown into concentration camps. the president from Friends would demon­ linguistics, teaches English in Tokyo.) This represented ten cents on each pre­ strate once again that human rights are Yet the nightmares of that intern­ World War II dollar for property losses. a priority in this country. ment-an attempted rape, suicidal epi­ Actually, adjusting for inflation, the The president's signing the bill would sodes, emotional degradation, andiacial Japanese Americans had lost between $1 help fulfill President Truman's post­ slurs-live on vividly in my wife's billion and $2.6 billion by 1988. The humous message to my brother: that memories. courts excluded any claims for loss of freedom will live, and grow, and in­ During the time when the United life, physical injury, decline in business crease its blessings in our country. 0 States in its "great betrayal" of Japa­ income, false imprisonment, and nese Americans, the Society of Friends psychological damage. While President Reagan visited Mos­ played an honorable role in attempting Finally, in 1975, President Gerald cow in early June, where he criticized to alleviate the ravages of an unconstitu­ Ford rescinded Roosevelt's executive Soviet leaders for their poor record in tional imprisonment. order, condemned internment as human rights, the Civil Liberties Act of Even before the war, the AFSC in "wrong," and pronounced it as a "set- 1987 still awaited his signature. - Ed.

fluENDS JOURNAL Ju/y 1988 21 Building a Peaceable Kingdom in Wartime the territory to the SADR in 1979, his past year, I had the privilege Morocco has since extended its claim to of being one of the few U.S. citi­ by Stephen Zunes this region as well.) T zens to have ever visited Western The political and administrative struc­ Sahara, a country in northwest Africa. ture of the Polisario Front and the As a political scientist concerned about douf, Algeria, where they have been SADR are based on participatory international law and U.S. foreign granted virtual autonomy by the democracy. Every citizen is a member policy, I had come to the area concerned Algerian government. Meanwhile, guer­ of a political committee and a functional about U.S. support for the Moroccan rillas of the Saharawi People's Libera­ committee based on 12 to 20 people. armed forces, which invaded the ter­ tion Army have continued their war These committees operate by consensus, ritory more than a decade ago and are against U.S.-backed Moroccan occupa­ with a representative of each committee keeping much of the territory under a tion forces. In 1976, the Polisario-the advancing to committees on higher brutal military occupation. Upon arrival national liberation movement­ levels. In addition, there are three mass at the refugee camps in western Algeria, proclaimed the creation of the Saharawi organizations which also have direct in­ however, I quickly focused my attention Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), put in decision-making, namely women, on the political and administrative which has maintained most of its offices students, and workers. Their highest system of the Western Saharan govern­ in the large areas of liberated territory political body is the Base Congress, ment, which runs the refugee camps and within Western Sahara, even as most of which is selected by the entire popula­ the liberated zones of the country. What the civilian population lives in its ad­ tion. They reject Marxist-Leninism­ I found was perhaps the most striking ministered refugee camps in exile. More which is the most common form of example on a national level of a govern­ than 70 nations re'Cognize the Western organization for such Third World ing structure truly based on human Sahara as an independent state, and the liberation movements-on the grounds needs and participatory democracy. In­ Organization for African Unity, the that it is authoritarian, based on atheist deed, it was in this Muslim land that I United Nations General Assembly, and and materialist values, and that it is experienced a renewed faith that there the World Court have called for the foreign to their culture and experience. really is that of God within every per­ recognition of Western Saharan self­ The functional committees through son, as I witnessed these people creating determination. (Although Mauritania which the refugee camps are adminis­ a model society under extremely harsh ceded its claim to the southern third of tered consist of: supplies and provisions, conditions. which distributes all food and basic Just prior to its scheduled independ­ necessities free of charge to the popula­ ence in 1975, the territory-then known tion, based on need; health and sanita­ as Spanish Sahara-was partitioned be­ tion, which keeps tabs on the popula­ tween Morocco and Mauritania. The tion's sanitary conditions and nutri­ subsequent invasion by Moroccan tional intake, makes referrals to health forces, which included widespread at­ professionals, and practices preventive tacks on civilians, forced the majority medicine and care for outpatients; of the population into exile in neighbor­ children, which administers the free and ing Algeria. Nearly 170,000 Saharawis universal day care and other children's live in a series of refugee camps spread programs; production, which operates out over an approximately 150,000- the worker-controlled manufacturing square-mile territory southeast of Tin- centers (primarily handicrafts for domestic consumption) and agricultural Stephen Zunes is an instructor in the Department centers (irrigated vegetable gardens); of Politics at Ithaca College and attends the Ithaca and judicial, with which I was par­ (N. Y) Meetif!g. ticularly impressed.

22 July 1988 FRIENDs JoURNAL The judicial committees deal with query put out at the time of our visit, practiced in Iran and many Arab states disputes as they may arise, largely for example, dealt with the roles of men as a distortion brought about by biases domestic or interpersonal in nature. and women during war time. of the indigenous cultures or Ottoman (There is very little crime as we know it, There is a conscious decision at decen­ rule. The Saharawis are perhaps the in large part because there is hardly tralization in administration. The world's most pure Arab society, being anything to steal.) Rather than institu­ refugee camps are divided into four direct descendants of Arabians who tionalizing adversarial relationships as is wilayas, essentially provinces-in-exile, migrated to the region more than a done in Western judicial systems, the each consisting of between 35,000 and millennium ago, having never been com­ Saharawis try to mediate disputes, us­ 50,000 persons. These in turn are divid­ pletely conquered and having rarely in­ ing impressive conflict-resolution skills, ed into six to ten dairas, or cities. The termarried with other peoples. As tradi­ to reach some kind of mutual agreement few permanent buildings are generally tional nomads, they have never known between the parties. If such efforts fail, reserved for schools, hospitals, and ad­ sultan or dictator. As a r.esult, Islam has the committee will send a recommenda­ ministration, with virtually the entire never been a state religion in the sense tion to the local cadi, an Islamic judge, population living in tents. The dairas are that political leaders have been able to who will make a ruling. If such arbitra­ separated by anywhere from a few hun­ use the faith as a means of justifying tion fails, further efforts at reconcilia­ dred yards to a couple of miles. The their power or society's unjust social in­ tion are attempted and the case moves wilayas are separated by anywhere from stitutions. The Islam of the Saharawis to a higher level. ten to 100 miles. There is complete is in many ways comparable to Chris­ Periodically, these committees will freedom of movement between the tianity before the conversion of Con­ discuss questions suggested by the camps, and the government provides stantine. Indeed, it was the vision of national-level judicial committee dealing free transportation with its limited reclaiming early Christianity from its with subjects about religious faith, in­ vehicles. manifestations in government which led terpersonal behavior, and Islamic law. Though Islam is the official religion George Fox to launch the Quaker Remarkably similar in form and content of the SADR, there are no mechanisms revolution in the 17th century. I found to what Friends would refer to as of enforcement. Religion is seen as a a startling degree of universalism among "queries," these serve the function of private matter between God and the the Saharawi Muslims, who expressed stimulating thought and action among individual. great interest in my descriptions of the general population. One recent Most Saharawis consider Islam as Quakerism.

F RIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 23 ~ ~ ~ 11\i,;,OI'I.ftr'Jtl Vi ~a•Jl.... 11~

Though virtually the entire popula­ necessity, and at no point did I see it be­ secretary of the Polisario was killed in tion is devoutly religious, I was surprised ing glorified. In the scores of songs and battle. The current education minister to see only one small mosque in the en­ dances we saw performed, not one ap­ was blinded in a firefight two years ago. tire refugee areas. My hosts explained peared to be praising warfare. The sim­ Even the current president has been that they would rather utilize their scarce ple toys of children were dolls and wounded four times. As a Friend, I can building materials for schools and trucks, not guns or any other kind of never completely accept armed struggle; hospitals. A mosque is fine if there are weapons. I saw no war games or murals yet I could not help but be impressed not other priorities and the population depicting great battles. This is a con­ that they seemed to approach the war in is settled, they reasoned, but since God scious choice. Several Polisario officials a manner which seems to have mini­ is everywhere, why go to the trouble of told how they did not want their new mized the damage on their society and constructing a fancy building? Instead, society poisoned by values of militarism. its values. there are areas marked off by stones in They wanted their children to be (Strongly committed to nonviolence a crescent shape which are especially children for as long as possible. as both an ethical principle and a reserved for praying. Even while traveling with the guer­ political strategy, I have often spoken Smoking is discouraged by the health rillas in the liberated zones of Western for massive nonviolent action as a committees, though many men continue Sahara, I could see little romance about means of liberation, even in areas where to indulge. Other than caffeine from the the struggle. Unlike the civilian sector, other Friends have resigned themselves strong, sweet green tea that is popular, there was a clear hierarchy of command, to the inevitability of armed struggle, there was no sign of any recreational perhaps inevitable given the nature of such as South Africa. I had brought an drug use, including alcohol. warfare. However, the officers did the abridged Arabic language edition of Though they are a nation at war for same mundane chores as the regular Gene Sharp's Politics ofNonviolent Ac­ their very survival, there was surprising­ troops. Greetings were done with hugs tion to the Western Sahara with the in­ ly little evidence of this in the camps. I rather than by salutes. Rejecting the tention of giving it to some Polisario of­ only saw two or three guns my entire Western tradition of politicians and ficials . After hearing repeated stories of time period there, a striking contrast to generals being at a distance from the the large-scale massacres of nonviolent refugee areas I have visited in other battlefield, everyone takes a turn protesters by Moroccan troops in the oc­ countries. War is perceived as a tragic fighting the invaders. The first general cupied territories, however, I decided to

24 July 1988 FRIENDS JoURNAL bring the book back home with me.) Perhaps it is Elise Boulding's analysis There is a clear commitment to which underlies why Friends have a equality. Since most of the able-bodied special obligation to support the men are in the armed forces, the large Saharawis. What the Saharawis are ac­ majority of civilian administrators are complishing runs so contrary to what women. I saw no evidence of sexist much of the world believes is "human behavior in everyday interactions, and nature" -that of greed, competition, women seemed perfectly open and com­ militarism, authoritarianism, inequality fortable talking and laughing in mixed -that it is crucial that we not allow this B.A. Degree-" Visit ing" Student Programs groups. Women have always played a experiment to die. Such experiments England - Costa Rica - Kenya major role in Saharawi society, so there have existed before-in Gandhian India - Israel - Japan - China is widespread acceptance of women ashrams, in the utopian Christian com­ Independent Study - Field Internships leaders today. Only during the brief munities of 19th century America, in Spanish colonial period were women collectives inspired by the Green move­ FRIENDS WORLD COLLEGE ever treated as second-class citizens, ment in Europe, and in Quaker-inspired Huntington, New York 11743 Tel.: (516) 54<}.1 102 denied their traditional rights for educa­ political communities today-but this is tion and work outside the home. the first time to my knowledge such an Literacy has thus become a major priori­ experiment has existed on a national ty for the Polisario: in the past twelve scale. Given the variety of cultures and FRIENDS' years, female literacy has soared from historical circumstances in which such CENTRAL less than 2 percent to well over 90 experiments have arisen, perhaps we SCHOOL percent. need not rely totally on faith that there Founded in 1845 The black minority appeared to be is that of God in every person. Perhaps A CO-EDUCATIONAL DAY SCHOOL fully integrated, and interracial families this phenomenon exemplified so clearly FOR GRADES K-12 were not uncommon. Even high officials by the Saharawis may make it possible lived in simple tents alongside everyone for the world to recognize that coopera­ 23-Acre Overbrook Campus else. No one gets paid: workers, soldiers, tion, equality, and participatory New 18-Acre Lower School Opening or government officials. All the basics democracy is really part of our divinely­ Fall 1989 in Wynnewood of life-food, housing, medicine, cloth­ inspired human nature. It is possible David M. Felsen, Headmaster ing, and necessary household items­ even under the most adverse conditions, For information: (215) 649-7440 are supplied free to everyone as they are and can thus be a model for the entire available. world. 68th Street & City LiDe Avenue, It is one of the poorest societies I have Pbiladelpbia. PA 19151 ever seen, which is not surprising given What Friends Can Do to Support Peace their conditions as refugees. Yet some­ and Justice in the Western Sahara: how they are determined to distribute • Write members of Congress encourag­ Bringing Friends' Concerns for Peace & Justice to what little they have equally. ing them to halt U.S. military aid to Congress Since 1943 Wnte. or cal (202)547-4343 Elise Boulding, writing in Fellowship Morocco and to withdraw U.S. military for actiOn suggestiOn tape. magazine several years ago on "Envi­ advisers as long as Morocco maintains sioning the Peaceable Kingdom,'' cited its military occupation of Western ~ the Saharawis as one of the world's Sahara. Also ask that further economic greatest "intentional experiments in aid be linked to entering negotiations creating peaceable gardens." She goes with the Polisario. on to describe how • Encourage the Friends Committee on National Legislation to make opposition to the U.S. role in the Western Sahara "I want to serve others ... " ... In the years from 1976 to the present, the Saharawis have gone from being a peo­ war a legislative priority. ple that were dying out, with children dying • Contribute to international relief ef­ Volunteer for a year with Friends by the hundreds every day, to being a forts for the Western Sahara. (Algerian peace education (Baltimore, etc.) vigorous healthy society. One hundred fifty economic aid, which has kept the a Quaker group home (Iowa) thousand people have reorganized themselves Saharawis from starving, is being cut inner city ministry (Des Moines) in their camp setting into a condition of back substantially due to the decline in social services and peace health and social purpose . . .. Drawing on oil prices.) North American relief efforts (volunteer household, Ohio) all their indigenous knowledge, they have are being coordinated by: The Western refugee assistance (various) created in the windy desert the kind of society Sahara Campaign, 2556 Massachusetts hunger advocacy (D.C.) they hope to recreate when they can go back Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. to their own country. They have done it and more under incredible conditions of difficulty and • Encourage the American Friends Ser­ stipend, room, board, medical suffering because they have a vision of their vice Committee to become involved in own future society as a sharing, peaceable the Western Sahara issue, both in sup­ for information: (317) 962-7573 one. Instead of killing each other for the plying humanitarian aid through their Quaker Volunteer Witness scanty food supplies, they have built up the international division and in addressing 101 Quaker Hill Drive physical and spiritual health of the whole the political situation as part of their Richmond, IN 47374 people. peace education efforts. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL July 1988 25 summer. We had no idea how our tour would be received, so we mailed 150 fliers to meetings between the two points. We received 30 invitations, many Dance of them coming within days of our mailing. The first year's tour was not a gathered event. We were a group of in­ dividuals working separately, for the Cheerfully most part, and rushing over new ground, both figuratively and literally. We learned about some things to avoid, including the fact that giving 13 per­ formances in eight days while traveling Over the Earth 1,600 miles was a bit too much. We also learned that we absolutely needed daily by Ann and Mark Friend gathering and centering. We also had a taste of what the tour could be. We visited a range of meet­ ings, urban and rural, large and small. Some had long histories with old meeting­ houses and facing benches. Others were - young, renting facilities and arranging folding chairs. We gathered a rich tapestry of experi­ ences along the way. We learned that Eastern Quakers had covered-dish meals while Midwest Quakers had potlucks, but every meeting, East or Midwest, served cream of mushroom green bean casserole with onion rings on top. We stayed at Quaker Hill Farm and received gifts of huge potatoes at the end of our tour of Quaker Acres Potato Farm. That such names were commonplace might not be terribly surprising unless you come from Northern Yearly Meet­ ing, where birthright Quakers are a rari­ ty. And just to visit the Quaker mecca, Philadelphia, see the Mary Dyer statue outside Friends Center, and walk the hallowed halls of the AFSC material aids program, was the fulfillment of a Quaker pilgrimage. We headed into the second year's tour with some refinements. We used more ance cheerfully over the world, General Conference Quakers, we wince planning and selected new and improved answering that of God in ev~ry­ at the sound of these words. We're purposes for our tour. In 1987 we dedi­ D one." For the past two years, almost at the point where these words, cated our tour to intervisitation, par­ the Friendly Folk Dancers have danced given some new light, roll off our ticularly between Quakers of Friends cheerfully in Friends meetings and tongues comfortably. United Meeting, FGC, and conservative churches from Des Moines, Iowa, to Being folk dance enthusiasts, we've varieties, and to providing opportunities Atlantic City, New Jersey. We find organized performances for the FGC for meetings to expose new people to ourselves both excited and a bit un­ gathering's festivals since 1984. When Friends in a fun and easygoing setting. nerved by the realization that we are some spectators remarked that we Our tour took us through Wisconsin, developing new frontiers in both Quaker should perform at their meetings, a seed Minnesota, and Iowa, enabling us to evangelism and ministry. As Friends was planted. We chose March of 1986 perform for and visit with all kinds of for our first tour, from Milwaukee, Friends. Mark and Ann Friend met while folk dancing. Wisconsin, as far east as Atlantic City, In many outward ways our second They lead a folk dancing group in Milwaukee, N~w Jersey, and back. We chose as our tour was like the first. The program con­ Wis., where they and their I Vl -year-old son, Chris, are members of Milwaukee Monthly Meeting. th~me an invitation to come to the sisted of a 30-minute performance of a They also lead teen retreats and oversee youth pro­ Midwest (where most of us were from) variety of international folk dances, grams for Northern Yearly Meeting. for the Carleton College gathering that followed by teaching and leading of

26 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL dances for everyone. Somewhere in the in the Religious Society of Friends. We course of teaching we presented our have plenty of committee interactions, worship experiences, and even friend­ Quaker Trivia Game. The game was our "1111s book is a fascinating first of its lighthearted and instructive way of shar­ ships. Sometimes fellowship squeezes its kind. Since the greatest task of our ing a little Quaker history with our au­ way into our agenda, but more often, time is that of avoiding a Sovtet­ dience, interesting for Quakers and non­ even in the silence, we are so busy pur­ Amertcan nuclear war that might end Quakers alike. (For example, what suing goals that we seldom meet the human species. what can be mouthwash is named after an important together to simply be a religious com­ more important than a collection of munity. By providing meeting com­ essays by both Amertcan and Sovtet Quaker scientist?) scholars who tackle the problems What changed for us on the second munities with a ready-made opportunity and, meeting on common ground, tour was the internal things, facilitated to gather, free of their usual work and enlighten us all and give us hope." by some outward disciplines. We divid­ agendas, we opened the way for fellow­ - Isaac Aslmov. Writer ed responsibilities, selected a clerk, and ship. This fellowship heightened the • ... the story of an extraordinary and held daily meetings for worship and awareness of God's presence in in­ exciting adventure in collaboration by business. Our worship and closing dividuals and in the meeting. We had a scholars and authors of the United glimpse of the joy that is part of the States and the Sovtet Union as they circles may have started out pro forma, - examine together the thesis that war but by the end of the week they became Peaceable Kingdom. simply does not work anymore.. .• nurturing and sustaining bedrock. An additional component of our - Mary Louise Smith. former Although we had as many hassles and ministry is to provide a new form of Republican National Chairman individual problems to deal with as the outreach for Friends. We feel that a first year, the corporate worship of our large percentage of FGC Quakers have second tour was a healing balm, giving wanted to introduce friends and ac­ us the strength to go out and do what quaintances to their spiritual communi­ needed to be done. We metamorphosed ty, but a visit to the Peace and Social from a group of people having and Concerns Committee, meeting for wor­ sharing fun, into a group engaged In ship, or meeting for business seemed a ministry, which included having and little too extreme a transition. We pro­ sharing fun. vide an alternative which is less pushy That word, ministry, is a bit uncom­ and more accessible to meetings which fortable to many of us, because of what wish to open their doors to visitors ministry means to most people in our without proselytizing. We have a focus culture. It's not just the abuses of the which provides a nonbusiness but term as demonstrated by television distinctively Quaker atmosphere. This evangelism. In part it's because we form of evangelism welcomes visitors Quakers believe in the universal without attempting to trick, trap, or ministry. But equally important is our convert them. distaste for the noun "minister," a per­ In many ways we are still in the son specially endowed to tend the flock dreaming stage, exploring our possi­ C 1988 Beyond War Foundation. Palo Alto. CA and interpret God's will. Quakers don't bilities. In March of 1988 our tour took Pabllabed almultaneously ID the like those who loudly proclaim " I've us to the New England region, in 1989 USA ID En&U... by Walker and found it,'' implying that others are lack­ we intend to tour the Pacific Northwest, Company, New York, and ID the Scmet UDiOD ID R11Mian ing something. Quakers believe that all and, if all goes as planned, 1990 will in­ by Proareu Publlablq, 11oecow have special gifts and talents to share, troduce England to the Friendly Folk .-- llaJIOnlerr- ---, so it feels presumptuous to say that we Dancers. We are also trying to grow and I Please send me BREAK1liROUGH I no longer need to seek our ministry change to reach more people. This year 1 _ Copy(ies) In hardcover@ $19.95 1 because we've already found it. Still, it we were shy by just a couple of men _ Copy(les) In paperback @ $9.95 I I I've Included $2. postage and handling feels to us that the Friendly Folk from having two tour groups, a goal (plus $.50 for each additional copy). N.Y.I Dancers have found their ministry. which we hope to reach in 1989. The Iand Calif. residents add sales tax. Some people may feel uncomfortable FGC gathering, where we recruit, I Total dae Walker aad ComJNUl,. .. I calling folk dancing a ministry. We organize, and practice, is fertile ground I $ __ .tobeJ*dbr. I wouldn't apply the word ministry to for making Friends from all areas of the C Check or m.o. enclosed I simply anything that makes people feel country, so our members are sure to I C Charge to A. E._ MasterCard __ 1 VISA _ Card Exp. Date 1 good. However much a good meal may cover more of the map each year. Card I ______" speak to thy condition," it takes We find ourselves in a vital growing I Print Name I special circumstances to turn it into a stage. We are in need of spiritually at­ I Signature I ministry. Some good meals are com­ tuned and visionary dancers. We are munion, some are simply good meals. looking for financial support which will I Address I In the course of our second tour, our enable us to enlarge the geographic l_:tty Sta~-=-~ _ ::J folk dance group became a community range and frequency of our tours. And, ~w~ Walker and Company and our tour became a ministry. finally, we hope to hear from those of 3;.z 720 Fifth AnDue '11M~ New York, NY 10019 Ann caught the glimmering of a meet­ you who share our enthusiasm and wish ing for worship message about two years to have the Friendly Folk Dancers visit ago, essentially that we need fellowship your meeting. 0

FluENDS JOURNAL July 1988 27 Witness Something We Can Do By Eleanor Brooks Webb

ince March of 1967, my husband and or two when we were out of the country and I have refused to pay the federal tax on someone else paid our bills for us. Sour phone bill. This is an unheroic and What to do with the withheld tax? We cer­ inconsistent witness to our conviction that tainly didn't want these bits of money to stay participation in war is wrong and that pay­ in our own operating funds. At first we tried ing for war preparations and for others' par­ to send it to the United Nations, in token of ticipation is likewise wrong. The singular vir­ our conviction that not war but international tue of this small witness is that it is something cooperation was and is the way forward. Not we can do. surprisingly, however, a financial officer at In 1967, our country was involved in the the UN felt they could not accept these con­ atrocity of the war in Vietnam. The draft was tributions and returned our checks to us. So the place where young men were confronted then we decided to add the amount of the by the war. The payment of federal taxes was unpaid tax to our other contributions to the the place where other thinking people could Friends Committee on National Legislation, not evade their own complicity. We had long with the idea that FCNL is the arm of the been convinced by such reasoning as Milton Society of Friends that works directly to Mayer's: "If you want peace, why pay for change policies of our government. We con­ war?" tinue to do this, stating this in every letter But nonpayment of taxes was difficult. My to the phone company. FCNL has not had husband was the breadwinner, and his salary a problem with accepting this money! was subject to withholding; the Internal Our local telephone company has been j Revenue Service usually owed us money at endlessly patient with us, simply notifying ~ the end of the income-tax year. Nonpayment the Internal Revenue Service of what we are ~ of tax was also illegal, and we're very law­ doing and giving us credit for the unpaid tax. .:::~ L------l abiding people; we try to stay within the There have been a few foul-ups over the speed limit, and we calculate our income years-the charge carried forward-but ters. When we began this witness, my hus­ taxes scrupulously. these were corrected with phone calls or the band was still active in his profession and When I frrst heard of phone tax resistance, next letter. very busy; I promised to do the letter­ I thought it was a foolish idea. The pennies In the early years of this saga, IRS made writing- although we both signed them. I of the phone tax were so trivial against the some effort to collect the unpaid tax. We do not write the same letter every month, and amount of the income tax! But discussion in received notices of unpaid tax, and replied sometimes I enclose a propaganda leaflet of Congress about the re-imposition of the that we didn't intend to pay it. We received some sort. It is a chore to think up a letter phone tax made it explicit that the reason for notices of intent to collect, and several times every month. We have felt that if we were this "nuisance" tax was the cost of war­ liens were issued against my husband's salary going to confront the law even in this tiny the war in Vietnam-and the tax was all tidi­ (for sums along the order of $4.73). We way we ought to keep a complete record, and ly calculated for us on each phone bill. The would get notices from the payroll supervisor we have probably eight inches of file folders penalties for so trivial a flouting of the In­ that such a lien had been issued and they had filled with telephone bills and carbon copies ternal Revenue Service would not likely be no alternative but to pay it; and we would of letters. unendurable. This was something we could write back saying we were sorry they had We began this witness in response to the do! been bothered with the matter, but we had horrors of the Vietnam War. I have wondered We agreed that we wanted to be as above­ no intention of paying the tax voluntarily, sometimes when it will be time to stop. Once board as possible about our action, to make and we gave the reasons- it was another op­ I thought that when the defense budget went it absolutely clear that we were not trying to portunity to say what our convictions were. down, I would feel we could stop this get away with something but rather inten­ A number of times we received notices of tax witness. That day hasn't come. For that mat­ tionally resisting an immoral demand. So we due that we couldn't reconcile with our ter, in some ways I feel as though the Viet­ wrote the phone company a letter each carefully kept records, and we would write nam War isn' t over. Our country has never month when we paid our bill, stating our IRS to that effect and ask for an explana­ looked at what we did and said "We were position, and we sent a carbon of each letter tion of the assessment. This often stopped wrong," and we've never made the repara­ to the district director of the Internal them cold. At least once when we were due tions we had agreed to. Revenue Service. That makes about 240 let­ an income tax refund, a few dollars were My husband and I aren't consistent in our ters so far, given that we slipped up a time deducted from it for "other unpaid taxes," witness. We haven't made the effort to get or something like that, which we assumed our MCI service arranged so that we have Eleanor and George Webb, members ofthe Mon­ was derived from the unpaid phone tax. In control of paying the tax (instead of thly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run (Md.), have the last few years we have heard nothing American Express, through which we are been active on many Friends committees. Eleanor from IRS except an occasional, apparently billed). I can't handle any more letters! is past clerk of the FRIENDS JoURNAL Board of random "notice of tax due," which we But if this is all we have energy and grace Managers; George serves on the Development wearily ignore. to do, then I'm glad we've followed the Committee of Friends General Conference. The biggest hassle in all this is those let- leading this far.

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World Council of our land and our traditions were much in­ Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, dicted, and the closing statement says that spoke about the inner landscape of Quaker Addresses Racism in the face of global racism "the response worship. In contrast to John, she emphasized of the churches has been a deafening si­ the idea of lives rooted in silent, expectant It's refreshing for Friends to be in any lence." listening. "Silence is the most eloquent religious gathering dominated by those not Jim Cavener spealcer in the fullness of the Word," Sandra white and English speaking. Not by said. She discussed three elements of spiritual minorities-no, these brown, yellow, red, experience: listening, Gospel order, and pro­ and black folk are a global majority and no Historic Quaker­ phetic witness to God's new order. "The small portion of the host city, Los Angeles, three can't be cut apart," she said. "To try where the World Council of Churches recent­ Mennonite Ties Renewed to do so is like hopping on one foot." ly held its International Consultation on Both speakers emphasized the historical Racism and Racial Justice. The speakers and On the 15th of February, 1688, at dimensions of their faith traditions. Sandra liturgists were from all over the world. Germantown, Pennsylvania, a group of drew parallels between the transformation in In keeping with World Council of Church­ Quakers and Mennonites eloquently declared England and the United States as a result of es' testimbny, there were a few exclusionary their opposition to slavery, which was then the Quaker challenge to organized religion. and rigid doctrinal statements from which commonly practiced in the North American In George Fox's quest for truth, he en­ many Friends would wish to distance them­ colonies. The declaration drew a parallel be­ countered individuals who could not see selves. Those were limited mainly to worship tween religious persecution and racial op­ beyond superficial things, such as the man experiences, which attempted to be inclusive pression. "In Europe, there are many op­ who recommended that Fox merely take in form, but were still heavily and absolute­ pressed for conscience sake: and here there tobacco as a cure for his spiritual longings, ly Christocentric. are those oppressed who are of a black col­ or another who became enraged when Fox In an era where many people live an ex­ or." At the time of this historic letter, and accidentally stepped on his flowerbed. Fox istence limited by the barbed-wire of bigotry, through the 18th and 19th centuries, Quakers himself shattered the old religion through the these were a few of the most painful and Mennonites still met together for wor­ finding of an Inward Voice and through the observations: ship at regular intervals. "gathering into a new order." • There is a lower percentage of U.S. blacks Three hundred years later, a group of Among the dimensions of the culture of in higher education now than ten years ago. about 25 Quakers and Mennonites met at listening that sprang out of 18th century • White teenagers are being trained for a race Laurelville Mennonite Church in Mt. Quaker life, Sandra emphasized "remember­ war in paramilitary camps in many regions Pleasant, Pennsylvania, on March 25-27 for ing that God is," centering, the dry times, of the country. a retreat devoted to "Quaker-Mennonite and the experience of God's presence. By • A baby born in 1988 in Havana, Cuba, is Spirituality." Scholars, historians, and lay acknowledging the reality of barrenness and more likely to live to the age of one year, persons met for silent worship, discussion darkness in the discipline of listening, she than is a baby born this year in Washing­ and reflection with the aim of re-establishing, brought sober realism to the discussion. ton, D.C. in a tentative and modest fashion, some of Members of a panel on Saturday evening • "English as an official language" cam­ the historic ties that have connected the two shared stories of their personal pilgrimages paigns, which exclude people from partici­ groups in North America. of the spirit. The Quakers present were pation in community and from access to John L. Ruth, filmmaker and Mennonite notably all Friends who had found their way social services, are increasingly effective. historian, led the group with a wide-ranging to the Quaker tradition from other • Violence is increasing against racial and talk about the early history of the Men­ denominations, not birthright Friends. ethnic groups, most rapidly against Asians. nonites and Quakers in North America. He The spirit of the retreat was one of recep­ • Native American treaties are broken or recalled that William Penn and George Fox tive, respectful exchange and mutual regard. altered while bumper stickers urge "Shoot traveled to Worms in 1677 to talk to the If there was perhaps too much care to avoid an Indian-Save a deer," or "Spear an Elector there and to meet with local Quakers exploration of historic and current dif­ Indian-Save a fish." and their Mennonite neighbors. Penn noted ferences between the two groups, there was • Klan and Posse Comitatus use rural white "a lovely, sweet and quiet sense of God nonetheless a sense that differences did not economic problems to foster hate groups. among them" at the meeting near Worms. exceed commonalities in importance. The • Atrocities against Central American native John pointed out that William Ames, a emphasis of the retreat was on spirituality, peoples continue under our government's contemporary Quaker missionary, converted a term much debated during the weekend, encouragement and support. Mennonites to Quakers-in fact, Quaker rather than on the social or political convic­ • Herbicides and pesticides are continuing to missions on the continent converted only tions and actions of either group. The retreat be used, endangering farmworkers of Mennonites. When Mennonites of that time nicely blended elements of Quaker and Men­ many origins, but mainly Latinos. became Quakers, John said, they received a nonite worship, through a cappel/a singing, • Self-determination of Hawaiian peoples gift of language-they became more vocal a Sunday morning sermon by Norma continues to be suppressed by economic than they had been before. Mennonites often Johnson of Newton, Kansas, and periods of and pseudo-legal means. found the Quakers perturbational; the silent worship. Similarly, the retreat enabled Quakers protested, where the Mennonites Friends and Anabaptists to listen to each It was stressed that combating racism should had merely wished to, but had submitted in­ other anew and to translate each other's faith not just be an exercise of words and paper, stead. John emphasized the eloquence of into words and deeds through mutual witness but an expression of energy and action­ Quakers, especially in their journals: their once again, resuming a dialogue that perhaps more than just "preaching to the commit­ facility at expressing spiritual experience in had never ceased, but had perhaps become ted." vivid language. almost inaudible for a while. At the conference, the religious structure Sandra Cronk, a Quaker teacher from J.D.Stahl

FiuENDS JOURNAL July 1988 29 ~ Scattergood T1I]'I:JIIIT Friends School News of Friends """_...... ; Established 1890 High School

with a Difference A change in the marriage laws of the the volcanic ror.k was reached, the work We offer solid. academic preparation for state of California now makes it possi­ had cost 5,000 colones, or about $1,000. college, training in good work habits. fun, supportive community life, creative and ble for Quaker couples to celebrate their The project is financed by Right Shar­ performing arts. Boarding students only, weddings in the manner of Friends, ing of World Resources, a program grades 9-12. Rte. 1, Box 32 thanks to efforts by the legislative action sponsored by the Friends World Com­ West Branch, Iowa 52358 group, Friends Committee on Legisla­ mittee for Consultation. (319) 643·5636 tion of California. For almost 20 years, Quakers had to fit their method of mar­ Spiritual concern for the earth and our riage into an obscure section of the responsibility toward it was expressed in Fyfe & Miller state's marriage laws for denominations a minute by those who attended a gather­ FUNERAL SERVICE with a "peculiar mode of entering the ing on unity with nature at Ben Lomond marriage relationship." The result was Quaker Center in California in 7047 Germantown Ave. discriminatory treatment, higher costs, February. The minute reads: "Our con­ Philadelphia, PA 19119 and difficulty in finding the records cern for the earth is a spiritual one. We (215) 247-8700 years later. Previous laws provided for feel the need to examine our faith and James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller marriages performed by an official, practice in the context of this concern. Simple earth burial such as a minister, rabbi, or justice of We invite and celebrate the light that and cremation service the peace. For Quakers and others who each meeting has to shed on this." available at reasonable cost. used a different form, the couple could Queries suggested for dealing with this make a written declaration of their mar­ concern are: Peace, unity, equality, har­ riage, signed by three witnesses. For mony, simplicity, mutual care, steward­ CREMATION Quakers often this meant altering the ship ... what do these mean in the con­ Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Fund wording on the form, and including text of a spiritual concern for the earth? will reimburse cremation costs. signatures by more than three witnesses Do we consider the Light within all life (Applicable to members of and occasionally county clerks refused spirit when we reflect on these basics? Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) to accept the tampering. In any case, the For lnformollon wrltt or ttltpbont RICHARD t'. BETI'S form had to be notarized, at a cost of The new director at Friends Center in 500-8 Gkn Echo Rood Phlladdphla. PA 19119 $5 to $10. Then it was recorded like a Whittier, Calif., will be Don Ashley, (liS) 147-3354 grant of real property in the property who fills the position previously oc­ registry-a place few people would cupied by Glenn McNeil. Don is a think to look years later when proof of graduate of Fuller Theology Seminary marriage might be needed for social and Azusa Pacific. He will work two security records, genealogy searches, or days per week at Friends Center and will inheritance matters. The new form is continue full time as pastor of Glendora similar to the standard marriage form, Friends Church. except that it requires the signatures of one or more people who witnessed the What do Walt Disney, Hank Aaron, ceremony, rather than the signature of Nancy Reagan, and Quaker farmer the person who performed the ceremony. John McC. Gibson have in common? The new certificate will be recorded in They have each received a Silver Buffalo the marriage registry, and there will be award from the Boy Scouts of America WESTIOWN no extra costs involved. for service to youth. John Gibson is 67 and lives in Drumore, Pa. A member of SCHOOL Well-digging is taking place under the the national executive board of Boy Westtown, PA 19395 guidance of Central American Friends Scouts of America since 1980, he has (215) 399·0123 Molly and Miguel Figuerola in a com­ served on numerous local, regional, na­ PK-10th Grade Day munity of displaced people, Canton del tional, and international committees in 9-12th Grade Boarding Nino, San Miguel, El Salvador. At last scouting. He also volunteers for local "I think Westtown is special because the word (and word travels slowly through health and historical agencies. He was people ore willing to shore, willing to these channels) the well was nearly 100 a career officer with the U.S. Navy. core, and willing to dare to be different. feet deep, nearly down to volcanic rock Altogether, 469 people have received the You con be your own person!" which will have to be blasted through Silver Buffalo award since it was first Betsy Brown '86 with dynamite. The dynamiting will be presented in 1926. Recipients include - For Further Information done by military engineers. The rest of nearly all U.S. presidents, Charles Lind­ Please Contact Henry Hom, the digging will be done by hand. The bergh, Booth Tarkington, Norman Director of Admissions walls of the well are reinforced with ce­ Rockwell, Bob Hope, Neil Armstrong, ment and bricks. Up to the point before Ralph Bunch, and Irving Berlin.

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• Sharing, skiing, sight-seeing, and fun will be on the agenda at YouthQuake '88, to be held in Denver, Colo., from Dec. 27 to Jan. I. Sponsored by 12 Friends organizations from throughout North America, the conference features a mixture of outdoor activity, speakers on religion, and time for participants to spend together and alone. Cost is $295 to $370 for lodging, breakfasts and din­ ners, one day of skiing or sight-seeing, airport transfers, and conference fees. For registration information, contact Sheila Bach, registrar-YouthQuake '88, $15 late fee for those registering after meetings that participate are asked to pay 12915 Poppyseed Court, Germantown, July 1. For information, contact Ron travel expenses for the leaders, plus a fee MD 20874. Registration increases in cost Powell or Irving Treadway, Box 327, for Pendle Hill's services. For that after July 25 and again after Sept. I. Lynn, IN 47355, or call (317) 824-1275. reason, planners suggest that meetings at some distance from Pendle Hill might • Exploring visions and approaches for • Do you have a story, a personal ex­ work out a circuit tour of such weekends implementing justice and peace will be perience to relate about Euell Gibbons? in their part of the country to share the focus of the Fellowship of Recon­ Such stories are needed to help celebrate travel expenses. Planners are willing to ciliation's 1988 National Conference in his involvement in founding the North work with meetings on cooperative ef­ Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 17-21. Bend State Park Nature Wonder Week­ forts . Pendle Hill-on-the-Road has held "Sound the Trumpet of Justice" is the end. The 20th anniversary of the Wonder successful weekends in Portland, Maine, theme. Speakers will include Coretta Weekend will be held Sept. 16, 17, and Hanover, N.H., and has plans for pro­ Scott King, Joseph Lowery, Maurice 18 at Cairo, W.V. Euell Gibbons was grams in Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. , and McCrackin, Baldemar Velasquez, and guest of honor at the weekend for the at Kerrville, Tex., this fall. For more in­ Anne Braden. Workshops, interfaith last eight years of his life. Organizers re­ formation, to express an interest, or ask services, children's and youth programs, quest that testimonials about him be for help, write to Pendle Hill-on-the­ music, and fellowship will be offered. 100-150 words in length and refer to Road at Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA The gathering is organized in coopera­ ways in which Euell touched people's 19086. tion with the Martin Luther King Center lives. Organizers are also interested in for Nonviolent Social Change and the hearing observations about how Euell's • A new coordinator is needed for Casa Southern Christian Leadership Con­ Quaker beliefs influenced his life. de los Amigos's Central American ference. For information, contact Fran Statements should be addressed to Refugee Program for emergency aid in Levin, FOR, Box 271, Nyack, NY Edelene Wood, 3404 Hemlock Ave., Mexico City. Donald Campbell, who 10960, or call (914) 358-4601 . Parkersburg, WV 26104. has coordinated the program for more than five years, turned 80 in mid-March • "Envisioning the Future of Quaker­ • Workshop proposals for the 1989 and has decided he would like to lay ism" is the theme of the 1988 summer Gathering of Friends General Con­ down his supervisory role in the refugee gathering of Young Adult Friends of ference are due by August 20. Next program and devote his time to the North America on July 24-31 at Scat­ year's theme will be "Currents of Faith, meeting's library (Biblioteca Jorge Fox). tergood School in West Branch, Iowa. Wings of Vision." For proposal forms The refugee program provides emergency The theme will be explored in work­ and additional information, contact money, clothes, blankets, subway and shops, support groups, Bible study, Workshop Committee for the 1989 bus passes, eyeglasses, and referral serv­ discussions, and worship-sharing. There Gathering, Friends General Conference, ices for those needing help. The person will also be time for music making and 1520-B Race St., Phila., PA 19102. who coordinates the program needs to playing together. The group is com­ have adequate command of Spanish, posed of Friends from throughout North • An opportunity to experience Pendle with some experience with refugees and America and a variety of Quaker back­ Hill wherever Friends live is being of­ a concern for peace in Central America. grounds. Most participants are between fered by the Pendle Hill extension pro­ The Casa offers a room, bniakfast, and the ages of 18 and 35, but there are no gram. "Pendle Hill-on-the-Road" pro­ a modest maintenance allowance for the age limits. There is a week-long gather­ vides weekend conferences and retreats person in the coordinator position. ing each summer, and weekend gather­ in cooperation with local meetings in Anyone interested should contact Ellen ings in the fall and spring. Cost for the various parts of the country. These are Gonzalez, Director of the Association, week at Scattergood will be $95, or $75 led by Pendle Hill staff members or by Casa de los Amigos, Ignacio Mariscal for those who camp, with an additional leaders of on-campus conferences. Local 132, 06030, Mexico, D.F. Mexico.

FluENDS JOURNAL July /988 31 Books

This is an important boo!< for meeting libraries and individual Friends. We need to by know our history to understand who we are and to learn from our mistakes. Dorothy T. Samuel Marty Grundy

Grieving: Marty Grundy is a member of Cleveland (Ohio) An Inward Journey Meeting.

In Brief Quakers in Conflict Our Quaker Ancestors By Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen By H. Larry Ingle. University of Berry. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc,. Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1986. 310 1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD, pages. $29.95. 21202, 1987. 136 pages. $17.50, plus $2. postage and handling. Not interested in This study of the 1827 separation within genealogy? Don' t let that stop you! As part U.S. Quakerdom is a very readable narrative of its genealogical how-to, this booi is a ..__.;.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;.a..,- ~ of the efforts of Hicksite reformers to up­ mine of information about Quakerism sel­ D..)f<)lhl' T. &amut" '§)t:P hold the ancient testimonies of the Society dom found in such a condensed and conven­ of Friends and carry on a reform begun ient form, offering such things as a glossary . ~6~1;/ before the Revolutionary War. It traces the of Quaker terms, important dates in the roots of division to differing. responses to Quaker movement (Did you know that five Dorothy Samuel writes out of the inner silence which follo'Ned the death of her changes in the world beyond Quakerism. yearly meetings predated Philadelphia Yearly husband William in 1981 . Emptied of While not definitive-it doesn't lay to rest Meeting?), and background and history of dreams, desires, goals and illusions of interpretations or puzzling questions raised the Religious Society of Friends. If, however, control, she sought no this-world es­ by other historians-it offers a great deal of you are interested in Quaker genealogy, this capes nor made any demands of God. new information on the reformers' attempts book is not just of interest, it is a must for Accepting the pain. going fully into the emptiness, she found God assumed to block the evangelicals from imposing, any but the most experienced. Types of the initiatives of her spiritual growth. through their control of the levers of power records, ·sources, how to read the record, Her carefully crafted faith was slowly in Philadelphia quarterly and yearly bibliography-it's all here, succinctly and transformed into deeper, revealed un­ meetings, their brand of orthodox Christi­ clearly organized. derstandings often tied to a long loved anity. Even more than arguments about the phrase or line. Here is no "return to nor­ doctrinal understanding of Christ and the malcy," but gentle movement into the Courage to Grow presence of God. Bible, however, Larry Ingle shows that the ISBN: 0.87839.()45.6 conflict concerned power and authority: who By Ruth Falwell. Quaker Home Service, was to wield it and to what ends. In a time London, 1987. 123 pages. £3.50/paperback. ------Please send _ _ copy(ies) of of great social and economic change, it was This New Zealand Quaker, "a wanderer Grieving: An Inward Journey a struggle about who was to define what from the Anglican fold," describes in a series $7.95 plus $1.25 shipping (Total $9.20) Quakerism was to be. of essays her introduction to a Quaker to: In some ways this is a disturbing book. It meeting for worship and her life as a Friend (Nome) is painful to read about our spiritual for more than 40 years. Her spiritual growth ancestors destroying the magnificent faith progresses from facing the dark side of life (Address) they inherited. The evangelicals destroyed it and learning to turn negatives into positives by discarding the distinctive Quaker to the interpretation of dreams and ac­ (City, State, Zip) understanding of the place of the Bible and cidents, thoughts on old age and grieving, 0 Check enclosed 0 Bill me the role of the Inward Christ. The reformers and the necessity for courage. Above all, her Order from: destroyed it by opening the door to the con­ essays are an appreciation of Quaker NORTH STAR PRESS cept that individuals are free to fashion their "stiWness." own personal faith and practice, thus disi of St. Cloud, Inc. carding corporate responsibility and the P.O. Box 451 understanding that the Light leads into uni­ Talking Across the World St. Cloud, MN 56302 ty. Both groups destroyed it by willful Edited by Robert Crossley. University Press 612-253-1636 disregard of the essential truth that Quaker of New England, Hanover and London, process only works when Friends gather in 1987. 382 pages. $27.95. This is the love story Money enclosed In U.S. funds. by check or tender humility, willing to sacrifice their per­ of a British conscientious objector, Olaf lntemotionol Money Order only. sonal opinion, certainty, and self-right­ Stapleton, who joined a Quaker ambulance eousness in the common search for divine unit in World War II, and his cousin, Agnes guidance. Miller, the daughter of an Australian who

32 July 1988 F'RIENDS JOURNAL How To Find The Right Match

The right school makes all the difference. At supported national conscription, as told in Oakwood you'll find an atmosphere that their letters from 1913 to 1919. Separated by challenges you to become your best. the war for five years, they write of historical Faculty nurture students through enriching events and personal thoughts that reveal a academic programs that stress educational world at war and its effect on society and a excellence and personal growth. Jove for each other that survived it all. Come, discover Oakwood-the right match for students who appreciate the difference the right school can make. Suicide: The Forever Decision By Paul G. Quinnett. The Continuum A Friends Co-Educational Publishing Company, New York, 1987. 151 Boarding and Day School pages. $16.95. This is a startling book! Writ­ Grades9-12 ten by a psychologist, it is in simple, basic • Small class size English, free of professional jargon, and it • Individual guidance is addressed, chapter by chapter, directly to • College prep curriculum • Diverse arts and sports programs the person considering suicide. This is a help­ • Scenic 60 acre campus yourself book, not a handbook for advisors • Busing available from local school districts or consultants. It does not preach at the troubled reader; rather it gives, step by step, Contact us to arrange a visit: practical, common sense ways the reader can Thomas A. Huff (914)462-4200 turn life around. The primary problem, of Admissions Office course, is how do you get someone consider­ 515 South Road ing suicide to sit down and read it? You Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 probably don't. So, if you are in a position where this problem does, or might, arise, become completely familiar with the book so you can offer suggestions to the would­ Oa1(!Dood be suicide victim. 04kwood ...-n.s Sludenls o(aU radol and rtl;g;ous backgrounds. School

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NEW! 1988-89 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CURRICULUM . from Joint Educational Development Broadly Graded Units available for grades 1-3 & 3-6 and Youth 7-12. Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence -Special Feature: Grades 1 & 2 written and edited by Friends. By Leo Tolstoy. New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., and Santa Cruz, Calif., -All quarters come with supplements for age adaption and Quaker practice. 1987. 426 pages. $12.95/paperback. -Ecumenical, yet sensitive toward Quaker language and faith. Non-sexist. Quakers, aware that the great Russian -Solidly rooted in biblical tradition with a vision to the future. novelist Leo Tolstoy was an ardent pacifist, -Focus on justice and peace. will welcome this book of 24 of his short -Easy lesson plans for teacher who must prepare in 50 minutes the night before. essays, detailing again and again his belief -Develops loving, supportive community-first with class, then meeting, and that making war is murder, that it is every Christian's obligation to refuse to fight and finally, the world. to kill, that the payment of taxes for military Available at the Gathering and in the 1988 FGC Publications Catalog coming to you in June. purposes is immoral, and that religious wars Teacher training available! are an absurdity. Although the examples Call Cynthia Taylor, Religious Education Coordinator, at the FGC office (215} 241-7273 . used are from the turn of the century, the impassioned prose resonates today.

F'IuENDS JOURNAL July 1988 33 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Kindergarten through 300 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade Milestones

The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school stressing high standards in academics, the arts and athletics. Penn Charter is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her fullest potential. Births CaldweU-Piers Hartsough Caldwell, on April II Applications from Quaker students and teachers are invited. in Woodland, Calif., to Barrett Scott Caldwell and Earl J. Ball Ill, Headmaster Shanta Hartsough Caldwell. His father is a member of Sacramento (Calif.) Meeting, his 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 mother a member of Madison (Wis.) Meeting. (215) 844-3460 Homan-Smlth-Melaura Homan-Smith on March 13 to Eve Homan and Selden W. Smith. Her father, a member of State College.(Pa.) Meeting, attends Chestnut Hill (Pa.) Meeting. ljer mother was on the Flu:BNDS JouRNAL staff from 1983 to 1986. Her paternal grandmother,Mae Smith,is a ~WOODSCOUR£•------member of State College (Pa.) Meeting. Marsden-Margaret Nunn Marsden, on Aprill9 Now available-New one-bedroom to William Marsden, Jr., and Ellen Jones Marsden, of London Grove (Pa.) Meeting. The maternal grandparents, G. Pownall and Margaret apartments for senior citizens Brosius Jones, are members of New Garden (Pa.) Meeting. Great-grandparents are Gordon P. Jones contact: of New Garden Meeting, and Mahlon G. and Dorothy Nunn Brosius of London Grove Meeting. Robert Smith, Administrator Mclntosb-Annick Michelle Mcintosh on April Friends Home at Woodstown 2 to Susan and Rod Mcintosh, attenders at Live Oak (Tex.) Meeting lWOCOSTOWN Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500 Marriages Brown-WUbelml-Lyle Wilhelmi and Madeleine Cadbury Brown, on May 23, 1987, in Richland, Wash., under the care of Miami (Fla.) Meeting. The bride and her father, Arthur Ellis Brown, are members of Miami Meeting. Deaths Brosius-May Whittaker Brosius, 88, on Feb. II in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. A lifelong member of Wilmington (Del.) Meeting, she was buried in the Friends Burying Ground in Homeville, Pa., where her late husband, Malcolm A. Brosius, is buried with seven generations of his family. She is sur­ vived by her daughter, Ruth B. Hancock; and one granddaughter. Czarnecld-Marguerite Czarnecki, on Feb. 16. Marguerite was of Swiss origin but spent most of her adult life in Paris, where she and her husband, Stephan, were pillars of France Yearly Meeting. During World War II, Marguerite was active in relief endeavors. After the war, she was in charge of Secours Quaker, the service that cared for Spanish refugees in the south of France, and for German prisoners of war, and French citizens who DELAWUE VALLEY F1uENDS ScHooL MOVING? had been jailed either because they didn't col­ a secondary school for students laborate with the Germans, or later because they with unique learning needs. Please let us know 8 weeks in advance. Send us your did. Later, Marguerite took over the administra­ tion of the School Affllliation Service of the The full college preparatory curriculum has address label If possible. intellectually challenging COUl'lle8 supported by American Friends Service Committee and ran it explicit teaching of organizational skills. Otherwise, be sure to Include for many years. Marguerite is remembered by U.S. Teacher student ratio Is 1 toS. Fine arts as well your name and old zip code and French Friends for her ability to keep people as outdoor education are integral to the pro­ as well as your new address. on track, often with words that wouldn't have been gram. accepted from anyone else, for her encouragement of people to enter lives of service, and for her ex­ For ittfo,..tiotJ c•ll: (215) 526-9595 Friends Journal ample of how a single person can entertain and Ott 1M c•,.,• of H•mms fllttior College 150 1 Cherry Street ittBryttMIIWI' Fhlla., PA 19102 make guests feel good about themselves and their ability to be of use to the world. Irene McHenry, Head (215) 241-7277 Hussey-Anno Rushmore Hussey, 88, on Aprill9 in Ithaca, N.Y. Born into a Quaker family, Anna

34 July 1988 FRIENDS JOURNAL AND SPEAKING OF SAINTS . .. Author, researcher would Uke to hear from in­ terested persons on the subject of saints and graduated from Westtown School and Mount is survived by a son, Alan, Jr.; a daughter, Shirley saintliness. This low·key, long·term, complete­ Holyoke College. She was a member of Friends Gittelman; seven grandchildren; and five ly confidential research project seeks your in­ Meeting in North Berwick, Maine, later became great-grandchildren. put on the following: a member of Gonic (N.H.) Meeting, and still later Sinclair-Katherine (Kay) Schott Sinclair, 66, in • What, to you; is a saint? (How do you define attended Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting while she lived Claremont, Calif. Born in California, she grew up this term/notion?) nearby. She did volunteer work with the Red Cross in a Quaker family and attended Westtown School. • Who, in your mind, is a saint? (Living, dead, in France and the United States. She is survived Known as a superb cook, she used that talent to famous, infamous, unknown) by a granddaughter, a grandson, and three great­ help others: at her Argonaut Inn restaurant she • What makes you think of someone as quali· grandchildren. encouraged the growth of young people who liv­ fying for sainthood? (Sacrifice? Martyrdom? McNeU-Elsie Collins McNeil, 82, on Feb. 21. She ed and worked there; friends going through dif­ Mysticism? Service? Etc.) was a member of Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting and ficult times were nourished by her, both spiritually • Can non-Christians be saints? (Why or Why is survived by her husband Gelston McNeil. A suc­ and literally; she guided Claremont Meeting's Not? Who, for example?) cessful teacher before she met Gelston, marriage monthly Sunday brunch. She is survived by two • Do you know of anyone, however distant plunged her into a lifelong whirl of Quaker serv­ daughters, Diane Burnworth and Deborah Reidel; in-knowledge, who seems to you, to behave ice. The couple worked together as directors of and three sons, Carl, Howard, and Steven. in saintly ways? (Please say who, describe Davis House in Washington, D.C., as organizers Williams-Ardith Emmons Williams, 84, on May why, etc.) of a self-help luncheon club for the elderly in Lon­ 4, in Greensboro, N.C. A birthright Friend, she • Did you, do you currently, aspire to saint­ don, England, and at the World Friendship Center was educated at Scattergood and Olney Friends hood? What happened? in Hiroshima. She also worked in a clothing relief schools. She graduated from William Penn Col­ • Anything else on your mind about this sub­ project for Vietnam and Korea war victims, and lege in 1931 and received a masters degree in ject or these questions? on other Quaker projects that touched the lives nursery school education from Mills College in of many in Japan, India, and Great Britain. At 1933. She taught at Haverford Friends School, was Pleatte write to: M. Slnetar, P.O. Box 1, other times she was a member of Mohawk Valley on the staff of Iowa State Teachers College, and Stewarts Point, CA. 95480 (N.Y.) Meeting and Friends Meeting of for five years she worked on the Swarthmore Col­ Washington (D.C.). Since 1985, she and Gelston Indicate if you'd be open to a follow-up tele­ lege Peace Collection. In 1974, she and John conference, providing your phone number had made their home at Friends House in Sandy Williams were married in the farmhouse which had Spring, Md. and area code if you are available. And, please been her home for 70 years. In 1977, they moved show this ad to anyone who may have interest Parry-James E. Parry, 88, on Feb. 13. He grew to Greensboro, N.C., and became members of in and knowledge of the subject. Thanks too. up in Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. When poor Friendship Friends Meeting. She is survived by her eyesight forced a change of careers, he moved to husband; three sons, Howard, Robert, and Ar­ a dairy farm in Biglerville, Pa., and became in­ thur; two daughters, Margaret Stevens and volved in Menallen Meeting. His wife, Susan, Virginia Lernmermann; her sister, Mary Smith; her mother of their three children, died in 1950. He brother, Alton Emmons; 12 grandchildren; and married Virginia Wright in 1954. She survives him, 13 great grandchildren. Small classes, strong as do a son, J. Thomas, and daughters Suzanne A notice of the death of Gertrude Barbara Laitin academics in a P. Lamborn and Doris P . Davenport. Friends . appeared in our May 1988 issue. Donald Laitin, supportive, caring Polk- Per/a S. Polk, 87, Oct. 28, 1987, at a son, has asked that this additional information environment empha­ Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. be shared: "Her Quaker roots go back to her Select sizing Quaker values. She was a long-time member of Mickleton (N.J.) membership in Flushing Monthly Meeting and A dynamic setting for Meeting. She served many years as treasurer and New York Yearly Meeting. During her attendance School overseer of Mickleton Meeting, and as a board there was strong spiritual sharing in the worship grades K-1 2 in the heart member of Woodstown Friends Home and of and life of that meeting. The meeting opened its of Philadelphia. Mullica Hill Friends School. She was also an ac­ heart and doors to refugees fleeing from World 17th and the Parkway, tive member of the Mickleton Garden Club. She War II in Europe." Philadelphia (215) 561·5900 Richard L Mandel. Headmaster Stuart land Sending us an item for Milestones? Director of Admissions Please make the data as complete as you can, typed, and double-spaced. When key information is lacking or illegible, we must go back to the source, and the item may be delayed or even lost. 0 For Births/Adoptions we need: For Deaths we need: Name of the child Name of the deceased Date of the event Name before marriage Parents' names Age Place of birth Date of death Parents' meeting affiliation Place of death Grandparents' names and meeting affiliation Meeting affiliation For Marriages we need: Place of residence Name of the couple Name of spouse Date of marriage Names of survivors Place of marriage Activities through which Couple's meeting affiliation Friends might have known Names of their parents the deceased Parents' meeting affiliation 0

35 Isn't II Nice Forum Calendar to Have a Choice? continued from page 5 English Times English Times Italic almost hopeless need for housing, nursing JULY Fnglish 11mes Bold and medical care, and food. Education is June 29-July 3-Ireland Yearly Meeting at needed. Counseling is needed. Newtown School, Waterford, Republic of Ireland. English Times Bold /talk Prophylaxis is needed. Condoms may For information, contact Ireland Yearly Meeting ENGIJSH TIMEs SMAIL CAPS cause some Friends discomfort, but I Office, Swanbrook House, Morehampton Road, believe that when Friends realize that Dublin 4, Ireland, or call 68-3684. English Times Multi-Lingual availability and knowledge of condoms is 2-9-Friends General Conference at Appalachian English Times Semi-Bold a life and death issue they will State University in' Boone, N.C. Theme will be Triumvirate Thin understand and get over their "Nurturing the Tree of Life: Cultivating Justice, uncertainty. Healing, and Peace." Panel discussions on the Triumvirate Personally I think that there should be gathering's theme and family violence. Elise Triumvirate Italic Quakers handing out condoms on the Boulding will speak on "Walking Cheerfully, street corners of our cities, because that Answering Joyfully." For information, contact the Triumvirate Bold would be lifesaving work, and lifesaving FGC office at 1520-B Race Street, Phila., PA Triumvirate Bold Italic work is part of our identity as individuals 19102, or call (215) 241-7270. Registration deadline 1'rlunlvlrate aa.ck and a religious community. Friends was June 10. Late registration, which may be should be thinking about AIDS relief on denied if there is no room, costs an additional $25. Triumvirate Multi-Ungual the scale of Friends relief services in 13-17-North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conser­ vative) at Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N.C. Trlumllrate 1•1'11 Europe between and after the wars. It is For information, contact Ray Treadway, 710 East time for us to wake up to the catastrophe Lake Drive, Greensboro, NC 27401, or call (919) Shown above are two of the twelve which surrounds us. This is difficult type families we have available 274-9608. when we are faced with human needs 19-23-Wilmington Yearly Meeting at Hiwassee Typesetting Services by which are so acute. It is difficult to find College, Madisonville, Tenn. For more informa­ just what we can do, but we must find a tion, contact Robert Beck, Box 1194, Wilmington Friends Publishing Corporation leading. We must ask and rely on the College, Wilmington, OH 45177, or call (5 13) (215) 241-7282 or 7116 service committee and we must ask and 382-2491. rely on ourselves. We must do what we 22-26--Friends Church Southwest Yearly Meeting have always done and call ourselves to at Rose Drive Friends Church, Yorba Linda, Calif. the Light. For information, contact Lind Coop, 6521 John Bohne Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90601, or call New York, N.Y. (213) 947-2883 . Expand your 23-29-Northwest Yearly Meeting at George Fox College, Newberg, Oreg. For more information, horizons Back in Print contact Howard Harmon, P .O. Box 190, Newberg, OR 97132, or call (503) 538-9419. at Mohonk.--. The generosity of readers of the 24-30-Ne'w York Yearly Meeting at Silver Bay JoURNAL in 1959 enabled Earle and Association, Silver Bay, N.Y. For more informa­ For comfort and hospitality in an tion, contact Joseph Vlaskamp, 15 Rutherford unspoiled natural setting. come to Barbara Reynolds to finance their appeal Place, N.Y., NY 10003, or call (212) 673-5750. Mohonk. in the heart of the of a conviction for defying a U.S. Navy 24-31- Young Friends of North America Gather­ Shawangunk Mountains. Our lake. regulation prohibiting freedom of the ing at Scattergood School, West Branch, Iowa. cliffs and miles of mountain trails are seas in the Pacific during the Bikini Workshops and worship to build a vision for the perfect for activities like golf. tennis. testing of the atomic bomb. They had future of Quakerism. Cost: $75-$95, plus SIS late swimming. riding. hiking and old­ sailed their world-encircling yacht fee for registering after July I. For information, fashioned carriage rides. too.Hearty Phoenix into the forbidden area; Earle contact Ron Powell or Irving Treadway, Box 327, meals. And special theme programs was in prison in Hawaii; their three Lynn, IN 47355, or call (317) 874-1275. that let you learn while enjoying the children were too young to help, and 27-31-North Pacific Yearly Meeting at Linfield peaceful surroundings. We're not they were unable to afford to appeal College, McMinnville, Oreg. For more informa­ artificial. just down-to-earth. In the their case. But with heartwarming tion, contact Anne St. Germaine, 20648 Novelty Hudson l3iver Valley. Exit 18. N.Y. response from letters in FluENDs JoURNAL Hill Road, Redmond, WA 98053. State Thruway. they met the expenses and won. Then Here's what's happening at Mohonk: Earle wrote a fascinating account of the story in The Forbidden Voyage, which Hudson Valley Heritage was soon out of print. Recently it has july 10-15 been reprinted by Greenwood Press, Inc., Stargazing c/ o Praeger Publishers, The Academic August 9-12 Building, Saw Mill Road, West Haven, Garden Holiday CT 06516-4117. When a voice from the August 28-September 2 facing bench at Newtown (Pa.) Meeting two weeks ago commented on the need .Mohonk for distracting children from war toys, it MOUNTAIN HOUSE was helpful to note that Earle Reynolds's A National Historic Landmark book is now available again, offering everything parents might desire for their Nev-i P.lltz. (212) 233-22A4 N.Y. 12561 (914) 255-1000 children today. Richard Post Newtown, Pa.

36 July /988 FiuENDS JOURNAL • Founded as Friends Seminary in 1849 • Quaker heritage has included Rufus Jones as principal • A country boarding and day school in the Maine woods • Co-educational, college preparatory AUGUST Grades 8-12 • Small academic classes; full arts and 1-6-Pacific Yearly Meeting at La Verne Univer­ cultural travel program sity, La Verne, Calif. For information, contact • Fresh air activities in varsity sports; Stratton Jaquette, 258 Cherry Ave., Los Altos, CA Grow in the Northern 1.91t horse riding/stable boarding opportunities 94022-2270, or call (415) 941-9562. For information: 2-6-Iowa Yearly Meeting at William Penn Col­ Oak Grove-Coburn School Kathy Hanson, Admissions Director Oak Grove-Coburn School lege, Oskaloosa, Iowa. For information, contact Vassalboro, Maine Vassalboro, ME 04989 (207) 872-2741 Del Coppinger, Box 703, Oskaloosa, lA 52577, or call (515) 673-9717. 3-6-IIIinois Yearly Meeting at IYM Meetinghouse, McNabb, Ill. For information, con­ tact Paul Buckley, R.R. #1, Dewey Ave., Mat­ teson, IL 60443, or call (312) 748-2734. 3-6-North Carolina Yearly Meeting at Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. For information, con­ CONCERNED? tact Billy M. Britt, 903 New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC 27410, or call (919) 292-6957. 3-7-Mid-America Yearly Meeting at Friends University, Wichita, Kans. For information, con­ tact Maurice A. Roberts, 2018 Maple, Wichita, KS 67213, or call (316) 267-0319. Consider 6-11-Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region, at Malone College, Canton, Ohio. For in­ formation, contact Robert Hess, 1201 30th St., NW, Canton, OH 44709, or call (216) 493-1660. 6-11-Ind.iana Yearly Meeting at Earlham College, A Peace Oriented Portfolio Richmond, Ind. For information, contact David R. Brock, 1403 Briar Road, Muncie, IN 47304, or call (317) 284-6900. 9-14-Baltimore Yearly Meeting at Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music, Winchester, PAX WORLD FUND, INC. Va. For information, contact Thomas H. Jeavons, 17100 Quaker Lane, Sandy Spring, MD 20860, or "The Fund endeavors through Its Investment objectives to call (301) 774-7663. make a contribution to world peace."- from the Prospectus 10-14-Iowa (Conservative) Yearly Meeting at Scattergood School, West Branch, Ind. For infor­ mation, contact John Griffith, 5745 Charlotte St., by investing In: Kansas City, MO 64110, or call (816) 444-2543. 10-14-0hio Valley Yearly Meeting at Earlham • non-war related Industries College, Richmond, Ind. For information, con­ • companies exercising pollution control tact Barbarie Hill, 6921 Stonington Road, Cincin­ • firms with fair employment practices nati, OH 45230, or call (513) 232-5348. • international development 10-14-Western Yearly Meeting at Western Yearly Meetinghouse, Plainfield, Ind. For information, Pax World is a no-load, diversified mutual fund designed tor those who wish to contact Robert E. Garris, P.O. Box 70, Plainfield, develop income and to invest in lite-supportive products and services. IRA and IN 46168, or call (317) 839-2789. Keogh plans available. Minimum investment: $250. 12-14-Central Alaska Friends Conference at This is not a solicitation in those states where the securities have not been qualified. Friends Retreat Center, Wasilla, Alaska. For in­ formation, contact Jim Cheydleur, P.O. Box 81177 College, AK 99708, or call (907) 479-5257. ------~A prospectus containing more complete information about Pax World Fund, 13-18-New England Yearly Meeting at Hamp­ Including all charges and expenses, will be sent upon receipt of this coupon. shire College, Amherst, Mass. For information, Read H carefully before you Invest. Send no money. contact R. Candida Palmer, 901 Pleasant St., Worcester, MA 01602, or call (617) 745-6760. To: 14-21-Canadian Yearly Meeting at Canadian PAX WORLD FUND, INC. 0 Send IRA Packet Union College, Alberta, Canada. For information, 224 State Street contact Frank Miles, 60 Lowther Ave., Toronto, Portsmouth, N.H. 03801 Ont. M5R 1C7, Canada, or call (416) 922-2632. 17-24-0hio (Conservative) Yearly Meeting at Please send me a free prospectus and Information on Pax World Fund. Stillwater Meetinghouse, Barnesville, Ohio. For Name------information, call Richard A. Hall, Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH 43713, or call (614) Address ------425-2877. City, State, ZIP------­ 19-27-Friends World Committee for Consulta­ tion 17th Triennial Meeting at International Chris­ Occupation ------tian University, Tokyo, Japan. For information, contact World Office, FWCC, 30 Gordon St., Telephone No. 0 Day______0 Evening------:-:-. London WCIH OAX, England, or call (l) FJ4 388-0497. ------

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F'IuENDS JOURNAL July /988 39 Announcing a New Paperback by Jack Powelson Dialogue with Friends

During 1987, Quaker economist Jack Pacifism, peace and justice Powelson visited seven Yearly Meetings Liberation Theology and other major Quaker gatherings, to Sandinista Nicaragua exchange ideas with Friends on inter­ Multinational corporations national issues of peace and justice. U.S. policy toward the Third World Dialogue with Friends is his journal of ''The rich are getting richer, this journey, written in simple, non­ the poor are getting poorer'' technical language. It follows his earlier "We are rich because they are poor'' book, Facing Social Revolution, on how Third-world debt a peaceloving Quaker may confront The Chinese revolution and the poor social injustice. The topics in Dialogue The Russian revolution and the poor with Friends are suitable for discussions Profits and "the system" in Quaker Meetings, schools, and Workers who own their businesses colleges: Food First: Hungry people who export food

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