September 15, 1973

Quaker Thought and Life Today

. .. We find ourselves today confronted with what "civiliu·tion" is to mean in this post-war world. Have we perhaps left behind forever the comfortable world in which the free individual can be captain of his own soul. .. ? Or is man -and woman too - to be ... ruled as the wheel rules the spoke ... for the ends of a completely seculari:ted state? A secularized world ... is not enough. It will not do. We cannot live that way.- From "Rufus Jones Speaks to Our Time" Perspectives on the Movement FRIENDS ("Moving Toward a New Society," the second of two JOURNAL articles offering different viewpoints on the nonviolent social change movement, is written by Berit Lakey, a September 15, 1973 member of the Movement for a New Society's Move­ Volume 19, Number 15 ment Building Collective. Further information can be requested from the Collective at 4722 Baltimore Ave., Friends J ournal is published the first and fifteenth of each month (except in June, J uly, and August, when it is published monthly) Philadelphia, PA 19143.) by. Friends Publishing Corporation at 152-A North FifteeRth Street, Phtladelphta 19102. Telephone: (215 ) 564-4779. (Temporary office address: 112 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia 19102. ) IT FELT LIKE CHEATING. Friends Journal was established in 1955 as the successor to The But with only an afternoon to Friend (1827-1955) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955 ) . spare, we had no choice but to drive if we wanted to get lAMES D. LENHART, Editor to the top of Mt. Evans. It is exhilarating to stand on a JOYCE RoLL E ENNIS, Managing Editor NINA I. SULLIVAN. Circulalion Mana~er mountaintop that is over 14,000 feet high. It is awe­ JOHN F. HtM MEI.EIN. M ..GUE RI TE L. HORLANDER, and LOIS F. ONEAL, Office Staff inspiring to see peak after peak equally tall on the horizon.

BOARD OF M ANAGERS But, it is disappointing, infuriating and scary not to be 1971-1974: Carol P. Brainerd, Miriam E. Brown William H ubben Margaret B. Richie, Daniel D. Test, Jr. (Chairma'n), ' able to see clearly from one mountaintop to another at Eleanor B. Webb, Elizabeth Wells, Mildred Binns Young (Secretary). the height of 14,000 feet because of a blanket of pollution 1972:1975: Paul Blanshard. Jr., Charles J. Cooper (Treasurer), in the air. There is just no place to "get away from it alL" Barrmgton Dunbar, Walter Kahoe, Patricia McBee Sheeks, Ada C. Rose, James B. Shuman, Eileen B. Waring. Gordon D. Whitcraft. My excursion to Mt. Evans took place during the 197.1-1976: Laura Lou Brookman, Helen Buckler. Celebration of the Movement for a New Society near Mary Roberts Calhoun, Richard J. Crohn, A. Alexander Morisey, Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Opal Gooden, Denver in June. We gathered from all over the U.S. and Francis Hortcnstine, William B. Kriebel, Walter H. Partymiller. had participants from Europe and Asia as well. For three CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Alfred Stefferud, Frances Williams Brow in. days about 60 people took part in the MNS Network Wilham Hubben, Richard R. Wood. Meeting, and for the next three days 125 people par­ Subscription: United States, possessions: one year $7.50, two years $14, three years $20. Foreign countries ( including Canada and ticipated in the loosely structured Celebration. We met to Mexico): add $1 for postage. Single copies: .40 cents; samples sent on request. continue building a community of people who are looking Information on and assistance with advertising is available on for radical changes in our society and who are committed request. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply en­ to nonviolent tactics. We met to continue developing our dorsement by Friends Journal. common vision of a new society and to inspire each other Second Class Postage paid at Philadelphia, PA and additional offices. to struggle with the old order. Copyright © 1973 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Reprints of any article are available at nominal cost. Permission should be It has taken MNS two years to come to its first con· received before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. tinental Celebration. It seems like a natural point to stop and look back to our origins. Many readers of Friends Contents Journal will recognize Movement for a New Society as the successor to A Quaker Action Group. AQAG was started High School ROTC: From Books to Bazookas- Bob Seeley 452 in 1966 by a group of Quakers who agreed that radical nonviolent action (sometimes civil disobedience) was Christ and the Canada Geese- Marinus Van Weele 453 needed in opposition to the policies of the U.S. govern­ The Collapse of Democracy in the Philippines- ment. The most widely known AQAG project was the Richard L. Deats ...... _ ...... _ . . 454 three voyages of the Phoenix with medical supplies for North and South Vietnam. 0. M. with a B.- 2-Noah Vail ...... 456 In 1971 AQAG laid itself down in favor of Move· Friends and Non-Christian Religions- Ralph Slatten ...... 457 ment for a New Society. Instead of being one group with Fruits of the Peaceable Kingdom-Now and Then ...... _ . 458 members spread out over a large area, we now have many small groups of people who live close to each other and Abraham Joshua Hesche!: Build a Life like a Work of Art- can share more than monthly business meetings. Each Robert K. Greenleaf ...... 459 of these local groups is autonomous, but is tied in with Reviews of Books ...... 461 other groups that have a similar vision and strategy through the MNS network. Cinema-Robert Steele ...... 466 A number of people who were not Quakers were Letters to the Editor ...... _ . .. _...... 468 attracted to AQAG for its radical position and actions. We found it quite possible to work together without agree­ Friends Around the World ...... 470 ing on the religious dimension of our lives, and so it was Announcements and Coming Events ...... 473 natural to drop the Quaker label when we became Move­ ment for a New Society. At this time there is no MNS THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE COVER of old farm carts was taken at Rockport, MA, by Carol Murphy of Swarthmore, PA. (continued on page 472)

450 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL The First Word Or these words of his from Pathways to the Reality of God: "As the sap flows through the branches of the vine and vitalizes the whole organism ... so through the Rediscovering Rufus lives of men and women, inwardly receptive, the life of God flows, carrying vitality, awakening love, creating BEFORE I became a Friend, I had heard and read much passion for goodness, kindling the fervor of consecration more of Rufus Jones than of George Fox, John Woolman and producing that living body, that organism of the Spirit, or any other Quaker whose faith and works I later came that 'blessed community' which continues through the to know. Through a few of his 50-odd books, Rufus Jones centuries the revelation of God as love and tenderness and introduced me to the positively deep and deeply positive eternal goodness." aspects of Quakerism that he so brilliantly and convincingly But how to bottle it, so to speak, and carry it with me articulated. His interpretations of mysticism, of God's as the days in Maine became harder to recall? Here, too, abiding presence and of our need to open ourselves to the Rufus gave the formula. In The Faith and Practice of the Light all spoke precisely and profoundly to my condition Quakers he wrote: "Experience, then, is the Quaker's as I was seeking a faith to live by. Many years later, Rufus starting-point. This light must be my light, this truth must Jones' writings continue to provide insight into the good, be my truth, this faith must be my very own faith. The the right, the healing nature of God. Harry Emerson key that unlocks the door to the spiritual life . . . belongs Fosdick's title of his selected works remains apt, Rufus to the individual soul that finds the light, that discovers Jones Speaks to Our Time. the truth, that sees the revelation of God and goes on Now, after spending two weeks in Rufus Jones' boy­ living in the demonstration and power of it." hood country at South China in Maine, I can better under­ Ultimately, Rufus seems to be saying, finding the light stand some of the sources of that positive, optimistic, is up to me. I didn't need to go to Maine to realize it, but faithful outlook that characterized everything about the perhaps going will help me continue to seek it in myself. man. We'll see . . . JDL As I remember looking across the fields and woods from the porch of the cottage he himself cut the wood for and helped build more than 50 years ago, I can still see the Seven Queries breeze dappling the waters of China Lake that are as pure oo vou MAKE a place in your daily life for inward retire­ now as they were then and recall feeling that God indeed ment with the divine spirit? was close at hand and that all was right with the world. Do you endeavor to advance your spiritual growth by There, for anyone to see as the green hills converged at prayerful consideration of the Bible and other spiritual "the Narrows" to squeeze the lake into two sections, was literature? the kind of water gate that one could truly appreciate. Do you cherish that of God within you that gives love and And the next morning, while my canoe drifted down power and adds growth to your life? Heron Creek and the only breaks in the silence came Are you sensitive and obedient to the leadings of the Holy from bullfrogs, birds and an occasional bass breaking water Spirit? as it sought breakfast, I felt as much at peace with the Do you remember the need to pray for others, holding world and with myself as I ever will. It was not difficult them in the presence of God? to sense how this type of environment could help produce Are you careful to keep your outward activities from ab­ a man like Rufus Jones. sorbing time and energy that should be given to spiritual Yet like Rufus, I had to leave the beauty and the peace growth? of Maine and return to the real world. I learned very Do you strive for the constant realization of God's pres­ quickly-on the car radio, in fact-that a Quaker Presi­ ence in your life? dent was being legally and literally forced to stop bombing (Selected by Helen Hole from London, Philadelphia and Cambodia, that the real Watergate was of muck and mire, New England Yearly Meeting Queries and used at a not greenery and scenery, and that the sounds of human P

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High School ROTC: From Books to Bazookas by Bob Seeley THE END OF INDUCTIONS last January has meant growth in These glowing descriptions are a distortion of the real the voluntary mmtarization of America. Maintaining a world of high school ROTC. That world is, to put it huge military force-even one of "only" 2.3 million­ mildly, bizarre. All services devote hours of instruction requires either a draft or widespread public support for to drill and military courtesy; the Navy, for example, military institutions. For the present, at least, the Pentagon requires 72 of 180 sessions to be concerned with drills, has opted for the latter. One ominous corollary has been commands, and ceremonies. Military dress and deportment expansion of military training programs in the nation's high - i.e., uniforms, "straight" haircuts, and submissiveness schools. to authority-are stressed, much to the delight of harrassed The Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) and threatened school officials. program is on the march. During 1972 there was a 40% Probably the least attractive aspect of JROTC is the increase in Navy units, a 25% increase in Marine Corps weapons training included in the Army and Marine Corps units, and a 15% increase in Air Force units. The Army's programs. The Army program includes extensive target program alone enrolls 107,000 cadets. Legislation to raise practice with .22 caliber rifles and official encouragement the number of JROTC units from 1200 to 1800 will very to join the National Rifle Association. The Marine Corps likely be introduced in the Congress by this winter. program is nothing short of astonishing. It includes drill This quiet growth may signal the beginning of a new with such rifles as the M-1 and M-16, in addition to the and highly sophisticated recruiting strategy to replace the .22. To complete their acquaintance with modern weap­ draft, or it may be a way of selling the "virtues" of onry, Marine JROTC cadets spend several sessions at a military training to prepare the public for a future re­ convenient military base training with such larger fire­ sumption of inductions. It is, in either case, an efficient power as the bazooka and flamethrower. way of indoctrinating hundreds of thousands of Americans JROTC weapons training is repugnant, but the JROTC at a highly impressionable age. view of history may be far more destructive to students It is also excellent public relations for the military. in the long run. Army cadets, for example, learn of the Here is how the Army describes its JROTC program to Wounded Knee massacre as a "dramatic" and successful parents: "Participation in JROTC .. . can give (your operation in the "pacification" of the Indians (the quoted son) the ... confidence he'll need, whatever his life's words are those used in the Army JROTC history text) . work. The leadership, courtesy, and respect he learns will Navy cadets learn that the country cannot survive with­ always serve him well." out seapower; Air Force cadets, that air power is the Among other assets, the Army says, JROTC cadets sine qua non. All cadets learn that every United States war "develop organizational knowhow." They learn to be "self­ has been both defensive and humanitarian, and that the reliant," to "know what teamwork means." The course, cause of freedom has always triumphed-with, of course, however, does not merely instill military values: its 14- to the aid of the particular service running the program. 17-year-old cadets "learn military history, the military That such indoctrination is a primary purpose of the role in current events." They "develop a full appreciation program is clear not only from the public relations en­ of our national heritage." And, in the Army and Marine comiums to "acquainting students with national security programs, they learn marksmanship. issues," but from the fact that JROTC by its very nature cannot educate officers. Only graduates of college-level Bob Seeley, a member of Plymouth, PA, Meeting, is editor of ROTC or active-duty Officer Candidate School can qualify the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors News Notes as officers. Since many JROTC units are located in work­ and a CCCO staff writer. He spent two years doing alternate ing-class high schools where college attendance after grad­ service with the American Friends Service Committee. uation is still the exception, the major product of most

452 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL JROTC courses is increased student receptiveness to the military. Christ and the Canada Though touted as an educational program, JROTC is Geese considered of questionable value by many knowledgeable educators. Curriculum is filled with distortions, and "cit­ by Marinus Van Weele izenship training" with a military orientation is, at best, ON AN UNFORGETTABLE late afternoon in mid October, I undemocratic. Citizens' groups in places like Salem, OR, stood on a hill overlooking Horicon Marsh in Eastern and Smithsburg, MD, have defeated attempts to introduce Wisconsin. As far as my eyes could see, there was the JROTC by convincing their school boards that the pro­ splendor of the autumnal colors, and toward dusk huge gram's costs outweigh its benefits. flocks of Canada geese settled in the marshes for the Friends concerned about JROTC can draw hope from night. The music of the honking, the beautiful sunset the experience in those communities. JROTC is vulnerable. shining through the brilliant colors of autumn made clear The militarization of the high schools can be stopped by the presence of God. concerted efforts. Such national groups as the Fellowship Later that evening, I sat in my study and found another of Reconciliation, the Mennonite Central Committee, and kind of beauty-! reread Rufus Jones' The Flowering of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors-as Mysticism, one of his best books, although written in his well as many local peace groups and regional offices of later years. Noting that it was dedicated to Rudolph Otto, AFSC-are beginning counter-JROTC programs. I turned to Otto's book, The Idea of the Holy, wondering The growth of JROTC poses a challenge to the peace what this German teacher of theology of another genera­ movement which, while less brutal than the draft, is, if tion had to say about Quakerism. anything, more potentially damaging to sanity in U.S. Otto begins a chapter with a quotation from Charles policy. The struggle against it is an area in which Friends Lamb's essay, A Quaker's Meeting, "stillborn silence, thou have much to contribute. art flood gate of the deeper heart." . . Otto describes the three stages of devottonal stlence: Our Younger Daughter I) The reward of an initial period of preparation is realized in a moment of gracious, intimate presence, Our younger daughter "The Lord's Visitation of His People." This realiza­ Loves women, is Lesbian, tion is a sacrament, and what flows into or out of it Finds strength and wholeness must be termed sacramental. because she loves, is gay. II) Next is the silence of waiting. This waiting is not a There are no right words dumbness in the presence of Deity. It is an expecta­ For what she feels. tion of the spirit and its message. The message may Her feelings flutter, be vocal, but there may be no utterance at all of Soar, fall, rise again. thanksgiving or exhortation. The Eternal was present They take the form of birds. in the stillness, and His presence was palpable We, her parents, without a spoken word. Loving her as we love ourselves, III) The consummation of the sacrament is the achieve­ Would not hinder the flight. ment of unity-i.e. fellowship and communion, an inward oneness and fellowship with the invisible Our daughter frightens. present reality and the mystical union of many indi­ She is fearful of snares, of cages. viduals with one another. She treasures freedom beyond all treasure. Friends are turning to all sorts of religious cults­ She is a woman, open in womanhood. especially to Buddhism. Those seeking guidance from Feelings of tenderness Buddhism emphasize its techniques of meditation. Even Are soft in her body. neurophysiologists are showing a peripheral interest and Women bring forth the blossoming now, describe the electroencephalographic changes that can oc­ And she feels good. cur during Zen or Yoga exercises. She touches honesty and will not hide. Digging further I reread The Buddha and The Christ, The rocks are jagged. by B.H. Streeter, a contemporary of Otto and Jones. We falter, her father and I, Streeter points out the profound difference in back­ We who gave her being ground between Jesus and Buddha. Jesus viewed the worl.d In our union together. as having a beginning and a goal. Sakyamuni (Buddha ts But the choice of the difficult, a title as is the word "Christ") viewed the world as an Above pain, above happiness, illusion that waxes and wanes in endless recurrent cycles. Is a choosing of life. Through the endless movement runs the law of Karma or Whatever her way reincarnation. She has freedom to be. Marin us Van Weele is medical director of Lakeside Lab· oratories in Milwaukee, WI. He is a member of Chesterfield Meeting, Trenton, NJ.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 453 The Collapse of Democracy in the Philippines by Richard L. Deats

ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1972 President Ferdinand Marcos de­ clared martial law in the Philippines, terminating that nation's claim to being "the showcase of democracy in Southeast Asia." Once America's only colony in Asia, the Philippines became independent in 1946 and even at the height of the powerful Huk rebellion in the late 1940s, she retained her democratic institutions. Despite wide­ spread failures-rampant graft and corruption, pervasive social injustice, a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and internal rebellion-from independence until 1972 the Philippines maintained a vigorous free press, freedom of assembly, speech and religion and a deep de­ Photograph by Takao Akiyama votion to education and political democracy. Both Buddha and Christ were men of great compassion. By 1972 Marcos, a two-term president, had made some The road of compassion in the life of Buddha led to en­ impressive accomplishments in the areas of "rice, roads lightenment and Nirvana; in the life of Christ it led to and schools" but his handling of administration none­ the Cross. theless evoked widening discontent. After Marcos' sec­ To both Buddha and Christ, the supreme problem is ond term began, it was discovered that he had spent huge that of human suffering and pain. To Buddha all life is amounts of public funds getting himself re-elected. He suffering- a reward for misdeeds in a former incarnation. and his followers were enriching themselves enormously If one is blessed in this life with happiness and comfort, at the public's expense and his policies were leaving un­ that circumstance is a reward for good behavior in a touched the deep social injustice throughout the archipel­ former incarnation. To Christ, human suffering is linked ago. As Fr. Edicio de Ia Torre put it, "There is a vicious with moral evil. Why do the innocent suffer in this world, cycle of wealth-education-power of the elite vs. the and why do dishonesty and corruption seem to prosper? poverty-ignorance-powerlessness of the masses." Because of sin. The Philippines has been dominated by 7,000 families, Pain, suffering, and hurt contribute to alienation. The which, in tum, are linked by marriage and alliance to the object of Eastern meditation is for human souls to be­ 50 "top" families. Ninety percent of the wealth is in the come at one with the Absolute. Christian mysticism does hands of ten percent of the people; 1.4 percent of the not have this goal. Jan van Rysbroek gives the simile very households have incomes of over $2,000 a year, while 78 well: "As the pan is heated by the fire the pan does not percent of the households earn less than $500 a year. become the fire, and the fire does not become the pan." Devaluation of the peso, soaring inflation and massive In our search for identity the human soul does not become unemployment and underemployment have added greatly the Divine. to the burdens facing the people. Because of profit­ Alienated mankind with all its moral evil and suffering hungry lumbermen, the Philippines has the most rapid can achieve humanness through the mystical love of rate of deforestation of any nation in the world; as a re­ Christ. "That which is of God in every man" can be sult much of the countryside is devastated. Land disputes potentially redeemed by the love of Christ. As George between Muslims and Christian settlers in Mindanao have Fox said, "The Lord coming to teach His people Him­ broken out into a pocket civil war that could engulf all self." To understand the love of Christ is to grasp Jesus' the archipelago's southernmost islands, where tradition­ meaning of a merciful, forgiving God, and this is the bound Muslims have always been wary of the central life of Christ present in our workaday world. government. Throughout the country the plight of the William Blake wrote: tenant farmers has become more desperate. Land reform "When the rich learned pharisee/ Came to consult him has been given lip service but has not been implemented. secretly,/ Upon his heart with iron pen/ He wrote, 'Ye These conditions produced deepening revolutionary must be born again.' " discontent throughout the country. In northern Luzon the Driving home one evening, I saw a bumper sticker­ New People's Army (the NPA) began as a tiny band of "Honk if you love the Lord Jesus." Later that evening in Maoists calling for the overthrow of the republic. In the a reverie, in my mind's eye, I could see Rufus Jones, colleges and universities, among the intellectuals and the Rudolph Otto, B. H. Streeter and Jesus speaking about Richard Deats, Director of Interfaith Activities of the Fe/low­ the meaning of the love of Christ in this world. I thought ~·hip of R econciliation, taught J-ocial ethics at the Union The­ I could hear Jesus say with a wry smile, "Well, I guess ological Seminary in the Phillipines from 1959 until 1972, the Canada geese love me most of all." under the Board of Missions of the United Methodist Church.

454 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL labor movement, reformist and revolutionary ideas gained Phillipines. Sullivan was deeply involved in planning in force. From the Christian sector, there arose groups American policy and implementing programs in both such as the Christian Socialists, the Federation of Free Vietnam and Laos during the 1960's). Farmers and Lakas Diwa (the Tagalog translation of the Before martial law was declared, the Philippines had Gandhian concept, "soul-force" ). convened a Constitutional Convention to write a new Rather than going to the root cause of such protests, constitution for the country. When this task was finished, Marcos responded to these developments with a "mailed­ there was to be a national referendum on whether or not to fist" policy designed to bring order to the country. The accept the new constitution. The referendum was never army, the constabulary and the police were strengthened, held; instead Marcos convened hastily set up citizens' and dissent was increasingly stifiled as Marcos began assemblies across the country. In the martial Jaw atmos­ branding more and more of his critics as communists. phere, debate on the issues involved was clearly controlled, Finally, Marcos declared martial law, saying that this and the assemblies voted overwhelmingly to adopt the measure was necessary to save the country from revolu­ new constitution, which will change the Philippines from a tionaries being aided by a foreign power (presumably presidential to a parliamentary-style government. Marcos China). He moved quickly, arresting thousands, closing will serve as both president and prime minister during the down the newspapers, television and radio stations, es­ transition period, which may last indefinitely. tablishing strict censorship and rigid controls. These Meawhile, the Muslim rebellion in the south has moves had their greatest effect, not on communists whose spread and shows no signs of letting up. The government party had been outlawed for years anyway, but on non­ says the rebels are on the run, but critics ask, "Which communist critics of the government. As in South Viet­ way are they running?" nam, the population was viewed as either progovemment or procommunist. Opposition senators and congressmen, As in no place else in Asia the churches have a promi­ nent voice in the country (almost 90 percent of the pop­ labor leaders, intellectuals and media people found them­ selves in prison, some with grave charges of treason, ulation declares itself to be Christian). The response of the others with no specific charges. Some clergy, including churches, therefore, will be a key factor in future develop­ several foreign missionaries, were arrested; many others ments. The most significant response to martial law w~s were put under surveillance. The Philippine army moved a statement made by 17 Roman Catholic bishops and to crush the NPA in the north and, following the search­ 17 religious (including a few missionaries) who stated in and-destroy practices developed in Vietnam, over 100 an open letter to Marcos: villages were forcibly evacuated, creating upwards of "We know (our people) will not suffer for long . the 50,000 refugees. curtailment of their fundamental rights, and we fear that In fairness it should be noted that there have been some this repression will lead to greater ills than you set out to accomplishments since martial law, even if they are so correct. In our honest judgment we believe this fact alone clearly outweighed by the bad. Quite a few corrupt of­ to be a great injustice." ficials have been jailed and many time-serving government A few other courageous statements have been made by employees have been fired. A drive has been launched Catholic bishops, although they are a minority in the against smugglers and drug pedlars. Efforts have been hierarchy. Protestant leadership has generally been willing made to clean up Manila and to curb lawlessness. Some to go along with martial law. Obviously many church steps to implement land reform have been made. leaders will go along with whatever the government does, The 800 Ameriean companies in the Philippines, with just as they did during the Japanese occupation, and just a combined investment of $2 billion or more, were re­ as culture-bound Christians do in any country under assured after martial law took effect that their investments whatever regime is in power. were safe-this despite the fact that last summer the There may yet come to the fore, perhaps, Filipino Philippine Supreme Court reaffirmed that American prop­ Helder Camaras and Martin Niemollers and ordinary erties acquired under the Constitution's odi~us "parity" clergy and laity who will keep alive the gospel's radical provision would have to be transferred to Filipino hands demands for freedom, justice and love. If there is to be by July 3, 1974 as originally stipulated. (For years na­ a radical, nonviolent alternative to both the fascist de­ tionalists have been pointing out that for U.S. business velopments in the power elite and the Maoist call for interests to have "parity" in a small developing country bloody revolution, the church is in a position to point the like the Philippines places Filipinos at an enormous dis­ way. advantage in their own land.) This clear judicial victory Dark days are ahead for the Phillipines. For a year or for nationalist development has now been sidetracked. two or three, repression will probably be able to hold The United States government has continued to provide the lid on things. The Marcos government may soon be military aid for the Philippines since martial law. Pub­ issuing glowing official reports about great economic licly it has not clearly embraced Marcos nor has it criti­ progress, just as Brazil's government does now. But so cized these dictatorial developments. This quiet support long as freedom is denied- and if the government does has succeeded in not arousing the critics of Marcos not begin to make real progress in treating the nation's abroad even as it has provided him with weaponry. basic ills- the unrest and dissatisfaction will only deepen, (Editor's Note: Somewhat ominous is the appointment and the Philippines may go the way of Uruguay or, God of William H. Sullivan as American ambassador to the forbid, even Vietnam.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 455 new insights; the new insights have to come from some­ Reflections on a Rainy Day where (we know where all the new problems come from, don't we?), and as we get long on judgment we may run Noah Vail short of ideas. If, as we are told, God has chosen the foolish of this world to confound the wise, then it may 0. M. with aB. - 2 be important to be wise enough to be confounded oc­ casionally. SEVERAL READERS have inquired why I am so insistent, in And so it appears that wisdom may after all consist the depths of my anthropomorphism, on retaining the first in being supportive of the not-yet-wise in their efforts, and adjective of the Old Man with a Beard. in keeping one ear open for good new ideas, and the After all, they reason, if I am willing to waive all con­ other ear open for bad new ideas, and everything in siderations of sex and hirsutuosity (that's a word?) and between alert to help them learn to make that elementary reduce my apprehension of God from Old Man with a distinction. Unless we can remember that pre-judgment Beard to just plain Wise Old Person, why not go all the is not quite the same as good judgment, we are perhaps way and describe that apprehension merely in terms of not so wise as we think we are. Wise Person? But then we knew that already. Would that the answers to all questions were so simple: There is no such thing as a Wise Young Person. Won't You for God's Sake There are Wise Old Men (with and without Beards) . Listen? There are Wise Old Women (likewise). But I have never Won't you for God's sake met a Wise Young Person (regardless) . Give me a little of your time, Young persons can be smart, intelligent, clear-sighted, Lend me a temporary ear? quick-witted, sensitive, energetic, idealistic, enthusiastic, And I mean for God's sake but not wise. Wisdom is a quality that grows on people For it is God I sing slowly, like moss. (Unfortunately more of us grow moss Preach and pray to than wisdom.) Whether I write about landscape This raises the difficult question of how we old folks are or myth, to deal with all those unwise young people. Legend or lady, Obviously the simplest solution, not unknown even in Boredom or ecstacy, Quaker circles, is to push them off in a corner and tell Doubt or sure knowledge. them politely (Friends are always polite, especially when I am if truth be told we are being most nasty) to shut up until they are old Fixed on Him. enough to have developed some wisdom. He possesses me in all things, Before plunging ahead with that brilliant tactical ma­ He holds in His hand neuver, however, we ought to consider the obvious fact The spinning maniac world that God, who is presumably even wiser than we, seems Offering it home and healing. to let them talk a lot. And since there is probably, in the You have only to listen. philosphical long run, no such thing as wasted effort in Won't you for God's sake listen? the creation (however unobvious this may be to us) , it Hey, you sir! must be assumed that God even listens to them. There What about a fix on the true vine? must be a reason. FREDERIC V ANSON One possible explanation may be that wisdom seems to grow only by trial and error (which is merely another Brooklyn Meeting phrase for experience, though some of us experienced This is still the Borough of Churches. old folks who recognize many trials but no errors don't Into our quiet meeting come the bells like to admit it) . I once met up with an aging turtle Marking the quarter-hours. who had got through life without ever sticking his neck St. Nickolas? St. Boniface? out, as a result of which (a) he had never got anywhere, St. John's? not even to a lady turtle, (b) he had a lot of moss growing For blocks around we hear them. on his back, and (c) he looked so much like a stone that Stretching awake or reading the I dropped him into the mushy spot in my driveway for papers ballast. Being ballast may be a satisfactory form of ex­ Kneeling in prayer or waiting the istence for a conservative-minded turtle, but somehow I light doubt it's what God intended for him. We hear the bells. Then, too, there is the possibility that not all the good St. Constantine? St. Ann's? Our ideas in this life are necessarily the product of wisdom. Lady? Grace? Some of them may come from other, more youthful, No need to name the source. qualities. Wisdom, after all, is mainly a matter of bringing We have the sound. the judgment of experience to bear on new problems and JEANNE ELLIN

456 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Friends and Non-Christian Religions by Ralph Slotten I AM OFTEN ASKED how I, as a Friend and as a teacher of the history of religions, relate my strongly Christ­ centered Quakerism to my strongly liberal views concern­ ing the non-Christian religions of the world. I am troubled that many liberal Friends seem to identify Christ-centered­ ness with fundamentalism and attitudes of intolerance and rigidity. Hopefully, the Quaker emphasis upon witnessing to personal experiences of faith will justify these private views of mine about this apparently painful topic. The Society of Friends seems to have two mutually op­ posed common tendencies. On the one hand are those who may perhaps be described as spiritualistic (as distinct from rationalistic) Unitarians. On the other hand are the evangelical Friends, many of whom are strongly literalistic and authoritarian about the Bible. Both, I believe, have something vital and valid to contribute. In a healed and renewed Society we might expect to develop a new breed of Friends who know how to combine Rodin: The Hand of God (Rodin Museum, Philadelphia) strongly evangelical language with equally strongly liberal and nonliteralistic attitudes. The evangelical language tion, from a Christian perspective, comes primarily through is essential because it communicates, however distortedly, Bibli~al salvation history, but it also can come through the historic symbols of the Christian Quaker message it­ creative reason, wherever man makes use of it. Each re­ self, including the theological basis of the Society as a ligion is a unique application of man's creative reason to people called out by God. an originative revelation, (the other side of the coin of As a liberal and evangelical Friend, I understand Jesus discovery), which is also unique. Thus, if I say that Christ as the authority of ChristianityI Quakerism. Not Christianity is unique, I also affirm the unique character the Bible! Not the Pope! Not the Bishops! Not the Church and worth of every religious tradition. Councils! Also not the personal religious experience of Risking oversimplification, let me suggest that Christi­ the privatized, atomized individual! Rather, the Living anity is the unique religion of the Person (that is, Jesus Christ; who is not so much within as among His People, Christ, who is the paradigm or model of the uniqueness and who is also transcendent in His relationship to them! of each and every person). Since Christianity is, after By Jesus Christ I understand the man Jesus of Naz­ all, a Jewish religion, Jews also appreciate the worth of areth, so far as we can have historical knowledge (admit­ the person. Still, it is not the same thing, because the tedly very little) of him. But primarily I mean Jesus of revelatory basis of Judaism-and its creative center-is Nazareth in his total personal, historical and spiritual not the Person but (the ethnic) Community. For Islam impact as the source of a radical interrogation of human the creative center might be the Word (the Qur'an) . The values. I also mean Jesus of Nazareth as the person spe­ creative center of Hinduism is Dharma, an impossible cially set aside for a particular task (the meaning of the word to translate, which means caste duty, among other word "Messiah" or "Christ"), which is to communicate things, but which also means something like the proper the love of God and the worth of each human being. I hierarchical order of things, with metaphysical realiza­ mean Jesus of Nazareth as the event through which God tion at the top of the social, intellectual and spiritual broke/ breaks/ will break through the perversity of the pyramid. The creative center of Buddhism is Enlighten­ human will, emotional syndrome, and intellect to re­ ment. shape the world according to Christ-love. As a historian of religions I am so emphatically in­ Are there other valid revelations, other good and true volved with all of these wonderful expressions of the religions? Yes, of course, because God has been and is human spirit that I am inevitably not only a Christian, at work among all peoples, inspiring, guiding, revealing. but also something of a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Bud­ In Biblical language God is the judge of all mankind, but dhist. I am convinced that each tradition realizes some as­ He judges, (discriminates as to wisdom and folly) not to pect of human possibilities that is both valid and needed condemn the world, but to save it. His ways remain in the divine-human economy. Still to blur the differences, opaque to man except as He reveals Himself. This revela- that is to say, to deny the unique character of each tradi­ Ralph Slotten, associate professor of religion at Dickinson Col­ tion, far from being an advanced and enlightened atti­ lege is a member of Harrisburg, PA , Meeting and is on its Wor­ tude, is actually a posture of disrespect both to one's own ship and Ministry Committee. Quaker/ Christian faith and to the faiths of others.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 457 "Quaker" medal from Great Religions of the World series, by Presidential Art Medals, Inc.

Fruits of the Peaceable Kingdom

Letter from the Past-267

COINS AND POSTAGE STAMPS are often associated with each much to correct in it but evidently without much suc­ other as collectors' interests. These letters have often cess. The cause of several of the defects is not far to been associated with the latter. Perhaps coins have had seek. They can be traced to the influence of Jan de less connection with Quakerism, or perhaps the writer Hartog's The Peaceable Kingdom, a bestselling novel. has less expertise with them. I know of course about the For example, the booklet says: solid gold medals that accompanied the Nobel Peace "Fox's wife the former Margaret Fell was an evan­ Prize to the Friends Service groups in 1947. Apparently gelist in her own right. In 1653 her first husband, in 1757 a silver medal was produced celebrating the Justice Fell, took her on a tour of the Lancaster Castle friendship of the Pennsylvania Quakers and Indians. It prison in an effort to dissuade her involvement with the is pictured and explained in Robert Vaux, Anthony Quakers. Instead of seeing what her future would be Benezet. I happen to own a copy of a bronze medal for should she continue her present course, she saw six William Penn issued by the Continental Bank and Phila­ children in a dark filthy dungeon. She eventually moved delphia Convention and Tourist Bureau in 1969 for his into their cramped cell, offering spiritual comfort and 325th birthday. educating them. In order to keep her promise to stay with Presidential Art Medals, Inc. of Vandalia, Ohio, has one 11-year-old as he was hanged, she went onto the completed a series of medals for each president of the scaffold and publicly declared herself a Friend." This United States to date. They include the Quakers Herbert accurately repeats de Hartog. Hoover and Richard Milhous Nixon, and these also I It was July, 1972 in these pages that Eleanor Stabler have seen. Now the same company has undertaken a Clarke called attention to the historical inaccuracies of series on the great religions of the world. Twenty-five the novel. She said then quite correctly: "The story of religions and their leaders are to be commemorated. Margaret's work for the children in Lancaster prison Each medal is obtainable in bronze, silver or gold. About is pure fiction." And she continues: "I am inclined to be­ half way through the process the Society of Friends has lieve that the author's imagination has borrowed from now been reached, and the medal is reproduced herewith. another famous Quaker woman, Elizabeth Fry, 1780- On one side is an imaginative portrait of George Fox; 1845, who worked with women prisoners and taught on the other two Friends sit facing each other in plain their children." The booklet indeed once refers to Quaker costume. The wording of the several phrases "Elizabeth Fell Fox's prison reform movement" and "to intended to characterize Quakerism is understandable and help the inmates of London's Brixton Prison, the worst in suitable. The script "Gffox" is not his own signature, London." This quotation is in what he calls a "Historical though similar to one that has long passed for his. Each Note" between Part I and Part II. medal, we are told, is accompanied by "a comprehensive, Those of us who were immediately aware of the novel's informative 20-page booklet by Dr. David Poling, cov­ difference from history welcomed Eleanor Clarke's ering the complete history of the particular faith." timely warning, but I never expected the novel's influence The rest of this letter will deal with the booklet on the would be shown so promptly. The booklet may have been Religious Society of Friends Quakers. It has much fa­ written even before that warning. It plainly underscores miliar and accurate information, but parts of it are the dangers that lurk in the misleading features of The strangely inaccurate. A copy of its text was submitted Peaceable Kingdom. to officers of Friends General Conference, who found Now AND THEN

458 September 15, 197 3 FRIENDS JOURNAL Abraham Joshua Heschel: Build In the intervenirlg years there were many meetings: a Life like a Work of Art some with our families, with his gracious wife, Sylvia, and their lovely daughter, Susannah, at their home and by Robert K. Greenleaf ours. Occasionally there was a family event at the semi­ "WHAT MESSAGE have you for young people?" asked Carl nary when he would loan me a yarmulke, and we would Stern of NBC in concluding a television interview with all meet around the festive table with the faculty for one Rabbi Abraham Joshua Hesche! shortly before his of the great Jewish celebrations. Then there was a mem­ death last December 23. orable visit to a Benedictine Monastery where the Abbot "I would say let them remember that there is a mean­ was his special friend, and Abraham and I spent the ing beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little day having our meals and participating in the religious deed counts, that every word has power, and that we services with the Brothers. can-every one-do our share to redeem the world in Abraham Hesche! was born ir1 Warsaw irl 1907, des­ spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all dis­ cendant, on both father's and mother's sides, from a long appointments. And above all, remember that the mean­ line of Hasidic leaders. He grew up in the closed world of ing of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art." Jewish piety. A biographer writes that "at the age of ten His academic title at Jewish Theological Seminary was he was at home irl the world of the Bible, he had ac­ Professor of Ethics and Mysticism. And the title be­ quired competence in the subtle dialectic of the Talmud, spoke the man. He was ethical to the core of his being and had also been irltroduced to the world of Jewish mys­ in the deepest religious sense. And he was a through~ ticism, the Kabbalah. The understanding for the realness going mys~ic in his insistence on the primacy of unique of the spirit and for the holy dimension of all existence present existence, no two moments ever alike. "True in­ was not primarily the result of book learning but the sig~t," he once wrote, "is a moment of perceiving a sit­ cumulative effect of life lived among people who 'were uatwn before it freezes into similarity with something sure that everything hinted at something transcendent; else." that the presence of God was a daily experience and the My friendship with Abraham Hesche! began many sanctification of life a daily task.' " ~ea.rs a~o when I went to his office at the seminary to At twenty he entered the University of BerLin. By 1936 mv1te h1m to address a group of young business execu­ he had earned his Ph.D., and established himself as tives with whom I would be working the following sum­ scholar, writer, and teacher. He was then chosen by Mar­ mer at Dartmouth College. We wanted our students to tin Buber as his successor at the Judische Lehrhaus. In explore the subject of ethics through a firsthand examina­ 1938 he was expelled by the Nazis to Warsaw, and in tion of the thinking of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish 1939 he escaped to London where he established the theologians. After a long, absorbing discussion he ac­ Institute for Jewish Learning. In 1940 he joined the fac­ cepted- because it was a new challenge, not like the ulty of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati where he many invitations to speak that came his way. He wanted stayed for five years before coming to New York. to learn about the ethical involvement of these executives. Rabbi Hesche! wrote extensive scholarly works in four And he wanted to learn much of it before he met with languages and was fluent in two others. When asked them. To satisfy his need, and to my own great profit, how he knew when he was at home in a language, he there _were three or four long sessions in his office that replied, "When I dream in it." spring. An enduring friendship was forged in these dis­ One of his best known writings in English is an im­ cussions. pressive book, The Prophets. In his last television inter­ Our guests were asked to speak as long as they wished view he said of this work, "I spent many years on it. And, at an evening session, with discussion held for a leisurely really, this book changed my life. Because, early in my seminar the next morning. Abraham talked for two hours life, my great love was for learning, studying-the place and held this group of sharp, ambitious young execu­ where I preferred to live was in my study with books and tives on the edges of their chairs. When he closed there wr_iting and thinkirlg. I've learned from the Prophets that was polite applause, and he and I said goodnight. The I have to be involved in the affairs of man, in the affairs next morning one of the group said to me, "You did not of suffering man . . . . I think that everyone who reads see what happened when you and the Rabbi left. We sat the Prophets will discover that the Prophets really were there glued to our chairs irl silence for five full minutes. the most disturbing people who ever lived .... If I were Finally one of us broke the spell with, 'Well, fellows, to say what challenges me most in the Hebrew tradition it we've had it. The prophet Amos was here. He stepped is the high view it takes of the nature of man .... The right out of the Old Testament.'" Such was my intro­ tragedy of our educat\on today is that we are giving some duction to Abraham Hesche!. easy solutions: Be complacent, have peace of mind .... Robert K. Greenleaf, who resides in Petersborough, NH, is a No! wrestling is the issue; facirlg the challenge is the member of Monadnock Monthly Meeting there. He is a consultant issue." with businesses, universities and foundations since retiring as His activist life after his book on the Prophets was a Director of Management Research for the American Telephone remarkable transformation. He marched with Martin and Telegraph Company. Luther King at Selma. A news account quotes him as

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 459 saying, "I prayed with my legs as I walked." He was co­ chairman of Clergy Concerned About Vietnam and par­ ticipated in demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere. Wherever the action was these last ten years, there you were likely to find Abraham Hesche!. The protesting Old Testament Prophet really came alive in him. All the while, though, there was a steady outpouring of theological writing. And he also found time for his friends, especially his non-Jewish friends who learned to call on the Sabbath when he would be at home with his family. He was a "fun" man, stimulating to be with. There were always Hasidic stories. I will never lose the sound of his voice in, "My friend, let me tell you a story-" One of Abraham Heschel's later accomplishments was his intervention in the Vatican Council to question Cath­ olic positions regarding Jews. He wanted to end once and for all the Catholic mission to convert the Jews and their position on Jewish guilt in the Crucifixion. He worked closely with Cardinal Bea and had audiences on these matters with Pope Paul. Shortly after his death, Pope Paul quoted Abraham in a sermon. In 1965 he became the first Jew ever to be appointed as visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary. Abraham Joshua Hesche/ There his classes drew more students than any previous visiting professor in the school's history. need, a shared feeling of not being supported in this His theological writing was judged unique by critics. sense of the mystical by the religious sentiment of our He had compared Judaism to "a messenger who forgot times. the message" and to "a well guarded secret surrounded His was the more poignant feeling of need because he by an impenetrable wall." His writing was a determined was the more disturbed-as one would expect of any effort to recover the message and to breach the wall. This European Jew who survived the Nazi regime. And in comes through and gives his writing a prophetic quality our last meeting, which I left feeling that I would not to Jew and non-Jew alike. "The root of religion is what see him again because he seemed so frail, we covered to do with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to ground that we had explored many times before. This do with awe, wonder, and amazement. Religion begins time he asked, plaintively, "Why do so many of the with a consciousness that something is asked of us . . . . great religions which had their origins in the mystery It is in the awareness that the mystery we face is incom­ come ultimately to be social service agencies, or in their parably deeper than we know that all creative thinking religious life to be preoccupied with form and concerned begins." more with the container than the content?" My con­ His lifelong credo was simply expressed: "Just to be sidered reply at that last meeting was, "In the Quaker is a blessing. Just to live is holy." tradition, the answer to that question lies beyond the I have often wondered what was the bond between mystery where one does not ask. In the face of these him and me. I shared neither his scholarship nor his ex­ conditions, one simply builds anew. We are called to clusively Jewish theology. We did meet at the level of listen for the prophetic voi~es who have the rebuilding social concern: he with his political activism and I with message for these times so that we can support and en­ my efforts to reconstruct within the system. Each was courage them." I believe that Abraham in his later years interested in and respected the other's involvement, and was listening-really listening for a new prophecy for both realized that these were separate paths that could these times. not be merged. On Monday of his last week Abraham hand delivered But the firmer bond, and one of profound meaning to his publisher the manuscript of his book, Passion for to me, was the shared belief that the highest level of Sincerity. On Wednesday, despite his ailing heart, he religious experience is awareness of oneness with the journeyed to Danbury, Conn., where he waited in the mystery-as be would say, the feeling of awe and won­ snow and rain to greet his friend, Philip Berrigan, on his der and amazement. When I was in the presence of this release from prison. He returned to his last class at the good and gentle Rabbi and was suffused by the warmth seminary and came home Friday evening utterly ex­ of this feeling, I was lifted above all the differences that hausted. He died quietly in his sleep early on the Sab­ divide men, differences that divided the two of us when bath-as any devout Jew would wish to do. we descended into the realm of -concepts, language and His friends were consoled to recall his often quoted practice. What kept our friendship close was a common words, "For a pious man it is a privilege to die."

460 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL critical assistance of Douglas Steere. Reviews of Books The book is written for those who "would like to appropriate religious in­ sights, especially [but not exclusively] Tsars, Mandarins, and Commissars: A China Diary. By Charlotte Y. Salisbury. Christian insights . . . without violating History of Chinese-Russian Relations. Walker and Company. 210 pages. their own integrity." It makes three HARRY SCHWARTZ. Doubleday Anchor $6.95 basic assumptions: (1) "Personal prayer Book. $2.50 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO to China, and social responsibility belong to­ GIVEN the complexity and longevity of read this book. For those of us who gether." (2) The essential contribution Sino-Russian relations, Tsars, Manda· may never get there, it provides a which the Church can make to ·society rins, and Commissars meets a need for subjective, vivid description of Chinese is "a sense of the transcendant power a lay understanding of this most im­ we would like to meet. For those plan· of God (over and above, and at times portant problem. Undoubtedly any ef­ ning to go, the author has provided against, the forms of society)." (3) fort to present a full and accurate pic­ guidebook-type lists of do's and don'ts. "Words such as 'Christ,' 'the Holy torial of Russian-Chinese relations From late May to early July, 1972, Spirit,' 'God' may be used, so far as from the 16th century would require Charlotte Salisbury had the good for­ prayer is concerned, interchangeably"­ a massive volume, yet Harry Schwartz tune to accompany her husband, New and "companions" of other faiths are has given the reader as thorough an York Times associate editor Harrison seeking in other ways "to respond to understanding as could be expected. E. Salisbury, on an extensive tour of the Eternal Spirit." Fully half the book is devoted to China. Her focus is far more on the To pray, begin within! Get beneath Soviet-Chinese relations from 1950. In people than the politics of China. the surface of life and to the depths terms of contemporary understanding, The reader gains penetrating views of of your being. You may make "the this period has represented the most the people's industriousness, commit­ somewhat startling discovery" that you difficult to comprehend. Seen by ment to "serve the people," involve­ want to be a loving, caring, concerned Americans as a period of monolithic ment in the Cultural Revolution. person-to build people up, not cut communist intrigue and world domillla· The diary reads like a series of in· them down. At the very deepest level tion schemes, the 1950's are described formal, daily letters. Thus, Charlotte you may encounter something awesome as a time of increasing tension between Salisbury shares occasional yearnings and even worthy of worship-the Christ the two great pillars of Marxist-Lenin­ for home and frequent musings. At who dwells within us. This is not the ism. Any student of politics will have the dinner with Chou En·lai, for ex­ whole Christ, but the 'personal Christ,' many old ideas placed in question. ample, she is dying to suggest that the whom we meet as the persons we are, The final pages are devoted to the Chinese kidnap Henry Kissinger until whose spirit "is intertwined with ours," revelations of the 1960's when Ameri· President Nixon ends the Vietnam con­ whose nature and truth are part of cans realized that relations between flict. She is depressed by the suppres­ ours. China and the Soviet Union were sion of intellectual inquiry and puz· Some updated 'queries': "What areas strained and hostile. The reader can zled by the Cultural Revolution. This of your life are most important to you understand, due to the earlier discus· book also has unique descriptions of - Your family life? Your professional sions, the depth of their antagonism. "don't-miss" sights in China. life? Your sexual life? Your community Schwartz assumes little in terms of I came away from this book feeling life? predictions and leaves most of the. c?n­ that I understood China more fully. "What are the areas in your life clusions to the reader. For those w1lhng With the author, I am impressed at you feel are just drifting pointlessly? to wade through some history, this how much we can learn from the Your marriage? Your family? Your book is an excellent primer on Russian­ Chinese. The Cultural Revolution may work?" Chinese relations. indeed have moved a vast population John Coburn also affirms that "the JACOB DRESDEN to an enviable unity and unprecedented God of personal love and social justice selflessness. China Diary tells us some· China's Turbulent Quest. By HAROLD is the same God." The starkest chapter, thing about the human spirit in the "His death," adds existential reality to C. HINTON. Macmillan. $7.95 East, and leaves an anxious concern YEARS OF RESEARCH have resulted in other queries: "Were you there when for the spirit in the West. they crucified my Lord? Oh-some­ this valuable analysis of the many NORMAN H. WILSON critical events and issues during those times it causes me to tremble, tremble, years after 1949, closed to the West. A Life to Live-A Way to Pray. By tremble. Half of the book discusses the two JOHN B. CoBURN. Seabury Press. 153 "Were you there when big rats bit most determinative developments of pages. Paperback. $2.95 little babies on the floors of cold-water the Cultural Revolution: the growing AN EPISCOPALIAN has updated much of tenements while their older brothers Sino-Soviet rift, and the contest be­ the early Quaker message in a truly were shooting heroin in school toilets?" tween Mao Tse Tung and the in· inspirational way. John Coburn at­ Or when "hundreds of thousands of creasing revisionist faction. tended Cambridge (MA) Meeting oc­ young men, old men, young girls, old All revolutions are costly. What casionally when his duties as dean of women, children and little babes of actually happened, and three major The Episcopal Theological School per­ Asia-were slaughtered on the ground reforms are ably and vividly reported mitted. He resigned to teach in a Har­ and from the air? by two men, among others, with years lem street academy, then became rector "Were you there ...? of experience on the ground: Edgar of a N. Y. parish, and is now president "Where were you ...? Snow's "The Long Revolution," and of the House of Deputies of his denom­ "Are you here ...? William Hinton's "Hundred Day War." ination. An extended acknowledgment "Where are you?" JOSEPH E. PLATT credits the encouragement and helpful DEAN FREIDAY

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462 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL standing of the problems and moods port on cystic fibrosis in an 8-year-old. the reconstruction of early Christianity. of the seriously ill, but too often these Even the letters from his mother and ft makes Jesus himself more sacra­ professionals are poorly prepared to from the boy himself are couched in mental, more mystical and more magi­ function in this role. restrained, almost clinical, language. cal than the picture of him now held The author's concept of learning is Perhaps, however, the most poignant hy scholars and most Christians. Such modern. Instead of "telling" the reader, statement of the problem is to be found a reconstruction of early history fits he introduces a topic and suggests some in the chapter written by the co-author, some of the usual conclusions of New related relevant aspects thereof. The Dr. Kutscher, and his wife, about the Testament scholarship, but is otherwise reader (preferably a small discussion last days of Sigmund Freud's life. rather revolutionary. One waits with group of readers) thinks about the sug· A few pages from the discussion fol­ interest to see whether other scholars gestions, accepts or rejects them, adds lowing the panel presentation are also will follow Morton Smith's line of .new ones, gaining deeper understanding appended. These, too, comment on the reasoning-so modestly but persuasive­ and insights. There is no one right or subject from several points of view ly presented. A more technical volume wrong position stated. The reader is Here is a striking sample by one of on the same subject is in process of given an adventure in thinking that the doctors who was commenting inter publication by the Harvard University could lead to two conclusions: alia on Sigmund Freud's case: Press and may be expected very soon. 1. The art of living and the art of ". . . For about ten years I have HENRY J. CADBURY dying are closely interrelated; to heen discussing that people should In the Fog of the Seasons' End. By live fully is to accept dying as an separate the concept of prolonging ALEX LA GUMA. The Third Press, integral part of living. life from prolonging the act of dying. Joseph Okpaku Publishing Company, 2. "He who would save his life must A few situations caused me to reassess Inc. New York. 181 pages. lose it." this statement. While speaking at Union THE AUTHOR , an African Colored bear­ To the reviewer, Neale's Art of Dying Theological Seminary to about 700 ing a Spanish name, writes from exile admirably meets the need of any study­ women who were active workers on in London. According to the book discussion group seeking deeper mean­ behalf of the school, I mentioned that jacket he is a leading spokesman against ings and insights into living and dying. when one sees that there is really no apartheid, since 1948 the legal enuncia­ JOHN R. CLARK hope one should switch from a very tion by the South African Government active treatment form to a more sup­ of rigid separation of its 3,800,000 Caring for the Dying Patient and his portive, comforting one and give na­ White and 17,600,000 non-White pop­ Family. Dr. AUSTIN H. KUTSCHER AND ture a freer hand. There was a very, ulation. At various times before he MICHAEL R. GoLDBERG, Eds. Health very elderly woman sitting in the au­ was exiled he suffered impris01nment Sciences Publishing Corporation, 451 dience next to my wife. She did not and solitary confinement. Greenwich St., New York 10013. 71 know that the person to whom she was The prologue of the novel sets forth pages. $3.95 going to speak was my wife, and she the horrifying atrocity meted out to THE OVERALL IMPRESSION one has of said simply, "He would not say that if an educated, gentle-mannered, older this booklet is that it is honest, or tries he were older." Bantu leader. Elias Tekwane, of the to be; either is a large mouthful these Finally, an appendix mentions the Underground Movement. He is arrested days. It comprises the proceedings of a film which concluded the conference: and tortured by the Security Police conference held on March 12, 1971 by How could I not be among you, the with brutal beating and specially de­ Tulane Medical School with the Foun­ thoughts of a poet stricken with leu­ vised electrodes. As he conti.nues to dation of Thanatology in New Orleans. kemia. It is available from Perpetual refuse to reveal the names of his co­ The authority and conviction carried Motion Pictures Inc., 160 Madison workers and their meeting places, the by this document lies, perhaps, in the Avenue. New York 10016. torture increases until his life is gone. fact that it does not proceed from a M. c. MORRIS Apartheid, as it is practiced today "religious" body. Medical people are with exceeding efficiency, is shown to talking to their colleagues. The bars The Secret Gospel; The Discovery and affect every aspect of the lives of every are down. There is no need for the Interpretation of the Secret Gospel ac­ Bantu, Colored, and Asian (mostly "conspiracy of silence" about death. cording to Mark. By MoRTON SMITH. Indian) in the country. The author re­ Yet one is reminded of the book by the Harper & Row. 148 pages. $5.95 veals these tragedies through detailed German physician, Dr. Killian, Hinter A FEW YEARS AGO the author found in episodes involving several leaders of uns steht nur der Herrgott. This sen­ a monastery library near the Dead Sea, the resistll!nce underground movement, sitive surgeon, whether in crucial mo· copied onto the back pages of a sev­ as well as through events at the gov­ ments at the operating table or in talk­ enteenth-century printed book, a frag­ ernment native commissioners courts, ing with his patients or their families, ment of a letter from Clement of Al­ where people who violate pass regu­ was always acutely aware of a higher exandria, a writer of the Second Cen­ lations, in even the slightest way, are power standing behind him, ready to tury. This in turn referred to and tried by White security police and help in guiding his actions. In the pres­ quoted a secret gospel written by St. fined or imprisoned. This story bears ent monograph, one cannot help but be Mark. That had evidently connection the validity of first-hand experience. aware of a similar influence, call it with our gospels of Mark and John The book should lead its readers to honesty or responsibility or humani­ and pointed to secret rites as being in­ explore further the simultaneous move­ tarianism or religion or what you will. itiated by Jesus himself. ments some three hundred years ago Anyone who can read pages 39-44 with Morton Smith with a delightful auto­ of Bantu, overland from the north­ dry eyes deserves some kind of com­ biographical honesty relates the effects east, and of White Europeans from the puterized medal. Yet there is nothing of this discovery on his own develop­ southern shores, into the area now mawkish or maudlin in this case re- ing conclusion and its implications for named the Republic of South Africa.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 463 Both peoples found it occupied only Ground. This beautifully written book by tribes of Bushmen and Hottentots. is fascinating and disturbing and one To round out the understanding, one of the most important books in years should also delve into recent writings on South Africa. Stand and Deliver! of exiled White South Africans living Is South Africa a police state? Carl· When a strong concern on First-day in London and New York. In these, son gives his answer in terms of the Brings thee slowly to thy feet, one discerns the change from the dis· Terrorism Act of 1967, which "pro­ When thee strives for oratory, ciplined, nonviolent defiance campaign vided that the security police could ar· Do not stutter or repeat. of 1951 to the conviction now widely rest and detain any person on suspicion held that only the method of violence of terrorist activities .... Do not drop thy head and mumble, can win. Many years ago, General "The law obliged the detainee to Or thee never will be heard, Jan Christillin Smuts wrote: "For better prove his innocence beyond reasonable So the sitters on the benches or for worse, the old Africa is gone, doubt . . . . Should any defendant Fail to get a single word. and the White man must face the situ· succeed in being acquitted, the act Thy word may be important ation he himself created." provided that the defendant could be LUANNA J. BowLES redetained and charged again for the To a Friend who wants to hear, So raise thy voice and utter No Neutral Ground. By JoEL CARL· offense arising out of the actions he had already been charged with . . . . What thee says, both loud soN. Thomas Y. Crowell. 382 pages. "The security police were given ab· and clear. $8.95 ~olute powers above the courts, above BEFORE COMING to the United States in There's just no use in standing there the law, and above any individual. In 1971 as an exile from South Africa. And talking to thy shoes. law. the only person to whom the Joel Carlson devoted his life as a law· Thy thoughts may be electric­ security police were bound to answer yer to defending African victims of But thee's really blown thy fuse! was the very minister who had pro· apartheid laws. His very moving book vided for and authorized these com· is an account of his experience. I Then there are those whose hearing plete powers being given to his secret heartily recommend No Neutral Is not what it used to be, police." Whose hand-cupped ear should What led Joel Carlson, who loved show thee The South Africa dearly, to leave? There That thy words have gone agley. was the intimidation. He was subjected Unspoiled to harrowing treatment as a result of his So, slow it down. Talk louder, involvement as a civil rights lawyer: And let thy thoughts be known. Resort hugging of his office and home, hate There may be some rare harvest letters, bombing of his house. shootings From the seed which thee into his office, threatening night phone has sown. calls, harassment of his staff and seiz· PHILIP MYERS ure of his passport. But something else had been growing inside him. After twenty years of defending Africans he came to see that "my opposition to Africans tried many types of nonvio­ the regime. carried on witllin its frame· lence, but all that resulted was a suc­ work. helped to maintain the status cession of repressive laws and depriva­ quo. The irony of the situation was tion of previously held political, edu· that my work was assisting the regime cational and residential rights. After to present an overall image, at home Sharpeville the blacks seemed beaten and overseas, of judicial integrity and until very recently, when they un· Mohonk a fair legal system. I was, in fact, part dertook a number of strikes. MOUNTAIN HOUSE of the facade of democracy in South The doughty band of 100 predomi· Africa. The basic truth was that the nantly white South African Friends are October is the month of incom­ structure of the system in South Africa carrying on admirable humanitarian parable beauty in the Shawangunk was beyond repair. It was too rotten, work with Africans. What can, what Mountains. While the woods blaze too unjust, too cruel to be salvaged. should Friends outside South Africa with colorful foliage, the old­ The violence it perpetrated on people do? fashion gardens continue to en­ every day could be abolished only by Like South Africa itself, Joel Carl· chant with their kaleidoscopic overturning the regime, which then son's No Neutral Ground is a severe brillance. Two long weekends­ would have to be totally rebuilt." test for a Friend's commitment to non· Columbus and Veterans - are How long can 4 million whites hold violence. made for your enjoyment. Or exclusive power over 18 million blacks? FRANK LOESCHER attend Photographers Holiday, What about nonviolence? What about 10/ 8-12. Friends? Can majority rule be achieved The Great Church-State Fraud. By C. Call (212) 233-2244 or write: nonviolently? STANLEY LOWELL. Robert B. Luce, In the early part of this century Inc. 224 pages. $7.50 MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE Gandhi and the Indian community in THE PERIODICALLY RECURRING Struggle 90 md~olrom N .Y.C . NYS T/uuw•y £.,1 16 South Africa tried nonviolence. And for financial support of church-related LAKE MOHONK· NEW PALTZ. NY. l2S61 up to the time of Sharpeville in 1960 institutions, notably the Catholic pa-

464 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL rachial school system, keeps the public ican society from that point onward sky in 1918: "America and Russia may aware of the issue of the separation of must be such as to keep that ill-gotten have different aims, but if we have church and state. In addition to the wealth concentrated among the few. common stations on the same route, I support from federal funds for colleges Faces may change, names may change, can see no reason why we cannot travel and medical schools, the support of sec­ but the numbers in possession of the together in the same car, each having tarian hospitals and missionary insti­ gains must remain constant. Small. the right to alight when so desired." tutions by the Peace Corps is arousing This monopoly is sanctified in the It didn't work out his way, of course, increasing resistance. A p~IZZiing situa­ name of "free enterprise." Petty felons, and Trotsky himself was soon out of tion in the support of Catholic hospitals, political wise-guys, peace-makers. smart the car. for example, centers around their strict niggers act and speak in ways which, This book is suitable for those who prohibition of abortion-a practice that if multiplied, could dislodge this ac· like to underline and mark margins. It federal authorities favor. Some church cumulation and force it to change covers the intellectual scene in France, institutions have turned secular in ap­ hands. in which case American society Germany, Britain, and America, with pearance in order to receive public would he something else. As things a last chapter on China. The author funds, yet their boards may consist en­ stand, prisons, or some form of in­ has an anti-Stalin bias and is ungenerous tirely of Catholic priests, as in the case carceration, must endure in America. to those apologists for Russia motivated of Duquesne University. A large num­ Imprisoned in America does contain by naivete. The style is often lively and ber of sectarian institutions, Catholic, selections by a few prisoners who dis­ the use of perjorative words calls forth Episcopal, and Baptist, are benefiting play political savvy: Nat Turner has a expostulations from the reader. On bal· from the Urban Renewal program. In tiny spot as does George Jackson, the ance, however, the scope is helpful for a number of cases the distribution of Chicago Eight (collectively), Attica perspective, especially for those whose surplus food for the needy has served prisoners and Sacco and Vanzetti. age precludes firsthand knowledge of proselytism here as well as abroad. The Omissions ahound, though. Huey New· the euphoria Russian Revolution ideals use of public funds for the purposes of ton, Eldridge Cleaver and the Rosen­ created among liberals in the 20's, the the churches parallels a decline in mem­ hergs. just to name a few. The greatest moral bind in the 30's in the choice be· bership in and contributions to the resister of World War II, Elijah Mo· tween failing capitalism, fascism, and churches. The growing indifference of hammad, is singularly absent. One of communism, the realization in the 40's the public is strengthened by its con­ his followers, to be sure, is allowed to that Western Imperialism was pushing demnation of the use of federal funds speak, but who has more damning evi· Russ ia and developing nations into a while the situation of the churches in~ dence against America than Elijah? corner, and the paranoia of the 50's. tensifies their pressure to avail them­ And who has suffered more in utter Perhaps most disconcerting to Friends selves of public funds. anonimity in American prisons to be· is one sentence in a description of This book is amply documented. The come one of the most revered leaders former witch hunts in America: "And author, a clergyman and leader in the in the black community? then with the consent of President movement to maintain the separation of That omission alone would give the Wilson, the Quaker-Vigilante Attorney state and church, is thoroughly at horne anthologist low points. General A. Mitchell Palmer instigated in his chosen field. STERLING B. JAMES. WILLIAM HUBREN ex-prisoner New Issue Imprisoned in America. Edited by Prime Time. By ARTHUR GILBERT. Ci· CYNTHIA OwEN PHILIP. Harper & tation Press. $2.85 MULTIRACIAL HOUSING Row. $6.95 FOR A NURSERY SCHOOL teacher's de· THESE SELECTIONS of writings of pris· light, Arthur Gilbert has written his AS AN INVESTMENT oners cover a period of 197 years, but feeling and experience with children's o PARTNERS IN there is no sense of history about the early learning years. 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Send for free prospectus. Blacks now speak of the history of MIRIAM E. BROWN James Farmer & Morris Milgram America in ways which are disquieting Partners in Housing, DEPT. FJ-4 even to many who claim to be in sym· The Fellow-Travellers, A Postscript to 8702 Crispin St., Phila., Pa. 19136 pathy with the idea of the abolition of the Enlightment. By DAVID CAUTE. Name ______prisons. A band of early Europeans Macmillan Company 380 pages. $8.95 stole themselves some land, broke the THIS SLOW-READING, fact-packed book Add ress ______back of a race of people to develop it, handles material that was once con· City ______State __z,p __ imported peasants from their own troversial, the Old Left. The title may country to maintain it, and kept the raise hackles in America. The author This ad is not an offer to sell. nor a solicitation o spoils for themselves. offers to buy these secur~t1es. 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FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 465 the notorious raids which bear his equal education: absurd. Doggedly the film pursues United name". The material naturally deals with an States involvement on behalf of Ameri­ This book sometimes falls prey to emotionally-charged situation, and the can Corporations in Latin American and thus illustrates the intellectual ten· combination of photographs and text governments. Names are named such dency to compartmentalize and explain serve well to interpret the author's as United Fruit Company, Rockefeller, life according to preconceived notions. feelings with regard to these subjects. and Chase Manhattan Bank. Mitrione In seeing only polarity and either/ or The author states: "The purpose of has been named Philip Michael San­ distinctions, the undergrid of aspiration this study is not to give conclusion but tore. He is powerfully played by Yves is often hidden and a more creative rather to help the reader become in· Montand. He is an official of the "third path" lost. Being against a com· volved with the people in a real school Agency for International Development mon enemy differs from being for an nnd study how each situation within (AID) who says that his work has to ideology. the confines of that school affects 'who do with communications and traffic. In real life choice is often indistinct; they are'." His kidnapper-investigators have evi­ Caute quotes Cecil Day Lewis: "It is For one who has been only periph· dence that proves beyond a doubt that the logic of our times/ No subject for erally associated with formal education his work is to collaborate with the immortal verse/ that we who live by for some years, I feel he accomplishes police to protect and support American honest dreams/ Defend the bad against his purpose in large measure. The edu­ investments and corporations. Labor the worse." cational system is portrayed as a unions, students, and others perceive NANCY BREITSPRF.CHER bureaucracy; the individuals who par­ that the American aid is a cover for the ticipate are revealed as being very exploitation of the people. Carlos Who Is The School? Photographs and human. Ducas, a reporter, sums up the pre­ Text by MICHAEL J. SEXTON. The THEODORE H. MATTHEISS dicament when he tells an American Westminster Press. 93 pages, $8.95 official: "Be it when drinking beer, THE AUTHOR spent a year teaching in Cinema swallowing aspirin, brushing his teeth, a "better,'' "typical" inner·city school cooking his food in an aluminum pan, in Denver, Colorado. This book is one by Robert Steele turning on the radio, shaving, using his result of his experience. refrigerator, or heating a room, every Consisting primarily of photographs, CONSTANTIN COSTA·GAVRAS' State of citizen in my country (the unnamed most very good, with just enough text Siege strikes home. While the film was Latin American country) contributes to provide understandable background shot in Chile and the subject is the daily to the development of your material, the book seeks to establish killing in 1970 of Dan A. Mitrione, economy.... " what happens to people-children, an American official working in Uru­ The film holds no punches. A hope teachers, administrators-in one school. guay, Washington seems to be behind for democracy in the world is that this Various classroom situations and ac­ the images on the screen all the time. film which exposes American collusion tiVities are covered as well as such With this film, Costa-Gavras has com­ in oppressing and profiteering can be matters as the faculty meeting; the pleted his trilogy of films on battles shown in the United States. The film dress code; authority-the bedrock of between justice and political machina­ ramifies many uncomfortable feelings the academic class: polarization; and tions. He says he wants to make a dif­ about our relationships to Cuba, the the school; architecture: penitentiary ferent kind of film now, but a picture torture that has gone on in Vietnam, gothic; limits of the good teacher; that would be called simply Watergate the CIA, the FBI, the corruption of the academic class: polarization and could logically be his next film. governments, American foreign policy, "fighting the enemy in every possible TRAIL•S END way for the fundamental values of KEE!"E VALLEY, ~'l:W YORK ll94J Christian civilization," facism, and A SMALL FAMILY INN police who are trained to function like IN THE HEART OF THE ADIRONDACKS "'terrorists." The joys of nature. tbe comfo rts of home. State of Siege received the Prix Hiking, bird-watching, skiing, snow shoeing, in season. Delluc, the most prestigious film award Children welcomed and cared for--Send for folder in France. Franco Solinas, author of ELIZABETH G. LEHMAI'o'N, O"n•r the screenplay for The Battle of Algiers, wrote the script. He and Costa-Gavras did research for the film in Uruguay ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL and procured tapes made by the kid­ Jenkintown, Pa. 19046 napper-investigators with Mitrione. The music is written by Mikis Theodorakis, 886-4350 a Greek composer in exile, who wrote the music for Costa-Gavras' Z. The "Is it possible to educate the senses ir. structure of the film is one long flash­ back, which is intercut with the ques­ the direction of openness, of responsive­ tioning of Santore. From the beginning ness to things around? . .. Is it possible of the film, we know that Santore has been killed, but there is much tension to make more people m ore human? in relating circumstances which led to - WILLIAM STRONG the revolutionaries' decision to commit violence.

466 September ]5, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL not be done regionally to the con­ Letters to the Editor tinental federation. (3) A third principle would be the extension of the land grant college edu­ cation policies to householders and res­ New Models for Government must be gradual. A. N. Whitehead said idents everywhere so that every citizen WHEN YOU FRAMED (FJ July 1/ 15) (I paraphrase from memory): during can acquire for himself and his com­ with bold lines the letter "Control over periods of fundamental change the jaws munity the benefits of past civilizations the Executive," you gave something an of hell open at the same time that and new research. emphasis that is deserving of it. Friend heaven comes into view. In short, one The spirit of any new "Declaration of James Osgood recommends the original danger is hysteria; and history taught Interdependence" should be imbued Mother of Parliament remedy. A re­ our own forefathers that it pays to with the importance of community-its cent letter to the New York Times avoid its ravages. "within" and "without" obligations to recommended the Swiss system (where I submit three elements to those who humanity and all its potential yet to they rotate the presiding officer and are interested in amending or gradually be realized. For only with such spirit hardly anyone remembers who is pre­ revising the U.S. Constitution: shall we be energized to do what is siding at the moment.) (I) Instead of dedicating our nation's possible. Our ship of state almost had a take­ efforts to "ourselves and our own If William Penn were alive he would over of the Hitlerian type-although posterity" exclusively or in such an ex­ have had his draft plans published by masked because of the continental clusive way, we need to dedicate our­ now. He would be lobbying wherever giantism that characterizes both our selves to the interests of all peoples on it would be effective. And (here is economy and federal government. All the planet; and to relate our nation to where we all come in) there would be that remained was to increase the hard­ theirs accordingly-as a Constiutional Quakers nourishing the grassroots of hat support (through advertising?) and principle, calculated to best advance his plan's application. to put the "softheads" (read "decent­ our own local interests. JoHN McCAULEY minded") down to a point where they (2) A second inherent Constitutional Newtown, PA no longer oppose. principle should be that of participation However, to head off any further in planning at all levels. The French A Defense of Federalism trends away from democracy, I pro­ call this regional planning, but their I WAS INTERESTED in Bill Samuel's let· pose that we not only look back at old definition requires that the higher level ter (FJ 5115), in which he states that models but rather (a la William Penn) plans be submitted to local levels and world government is not the answer to creatively erect models that are suitable vice versa-so that there is mutual the problem of war. to the modem world environment. accord in the final decision. Under this I wonder if Mr. Samuels has read Any such model, suitable to present principle it may be required to divide Benjamin Seaver's leaflet, "Three Defi· demands, must have three elements the present federal power among 5 or nitions of Peace"? This and other built into its constitution (see below); 7 regional states-leaving, as our fore­ pamphlets turned me into an ardent and the transition toward its adoption fathers intended, only things that can- federalist years ago and I have never GEORGE SCHOOL

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FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 467 since seen any compelling reason to yet so deep- Who Sang the Lord's Prayer? turn away from that view. Radiant in strength to those of us THE "LORD'S PRAYER" was sung during Granted that "a fundamental change who grope the final meeting for worship at the in human values is needed," isn't it true Our way, even of those bereft of hope General Conference for Friends in that the early rule of the gun in our Until they speak with him who has, Richmond, IN, in a way I've never American West was replaced by laws himself and courts, that our forefathers re­ Gone through the agonies of heard before. I am a singer and would like to have placed the Articles of Confederation passion and of loss the music, mostly to sing for myself, (which loosely linked together 13 fully Long since as well as recently, and but also to share with my meeting if sovereign states) with a Constitution has emerged the spirit so moves me. I'd like to have establishing our federal government to With faith untouched, not only the singer's name and address, so I furnish the machinery to settle con· in the Lord- could find out how to get the music. flicts between the states without vio­ But in the young, the old, lence? What is so good about the present the kind, the bold, Lu NIETZ anarchy on the world level? Should we In man and mankind- purged at last 219lh Louisiana Ave. all be anarchists? to do God's will. Apt. 7 World government by itself will never He sat so still. But vibrant was his reach Perrysburg, OH 4365/ insure enduring world peace, but it When finally he got upon his feet Another In-law Heard From can be a big help. Its founders must for speech: and can see to it that the world gov­ "God's power holds us all in thrall. AND I am very fond of Elizabeth Wat­ ernment is wisely and justly formed His power- light. His guidance- son (FJ 5/1). Also Ralph Slotten as our own Constitution was. Are we to strength: ( FJ 2/ 1). But there is no point in believe all inspiration and genius for Ours but to ask. Quite limitless! continui.ng to publicize this mutual this sort of endeavor died with our fore­ No bounds of place or time or space. admiration society round-robin unless fathers? Let thy God speak, in joy of thine, there is something to be learned from FRANCES EVANS LAYER or stress. it. I think there is. Mesa, AZ He loveth thee!" I always appreciate and learn from He sat, and bowed his head in prayer. Elizabeth's writings, although I am The golden halo was not there. frequently puzzled as to how she gets An Oversight It had sl ipped down across his breast to where she is, considering where she EDITOR'S NOTE; The following poem in part starts. I expect she has the same about Howard Brinton was overlooked And now encircled his heart. trouble with my poetry. At least one of in putting together the tribute to him REBECCA TIMBRES CLARK us must be intellectually confused. that appeared in the July 1/15 issue. Moorestown. NJ Most likely we both are. But then no­ body ever went to hell over a little In Meeting (To Howard Brinton) Worship on the Eastern Shore intellectual confusion. The Meeting settled into silences Some Friends think that honest dif­ MEETING FOR WORSHIP in the manner So deep-so tangible. In imagery ferences of opinion are necessarily re­ of the Religious Society of Friends is My fingers crept to touch the sun- flections of some deep-seated antago­ held in the Alumni House, Washington motes nism, or at least of lack of regard. College, Chestertown, Maryland, most Dancing through the slatted blinds Lewis Benson was once told by a Friend First-days at 11 A.M. It might be that "you are all wrong about Rufus And down in slender shaft until advisable for Friends traveling through Jones. I had tea with him last week they made the Eastern Shore to contact me at 301- and he is a very charming man." This A halo 'round a venerable head already 778-9835, since we meet on a regular is a good example of the tendency in 'Circled by an aureole of silvered hair. basis mostly during college sessions. many quarters to take all our dif­ And there I found repose of heart. JOHN P. RAYSIK JR. ferences personally (a sure sign of un­ This Friend, so quiet of demeanor, Chestertown, MD certainty about our own views). I think this also throws light on the Passbook Accounts Savings frequent charge that Rob Tucker is trying to "exclude" people. Rob is not 0 Interest paid from date of Certificates trying to exclude anybody; he is trying 5 %deposit to date of withdrawal 2 years-$5000 to convert people to a viewpoint he finds more cohesive and powerful than the alternatives. Is there something illegal about this in our great free rEDERRL . Society? Would Friends rather not be ~NSDOWNE ~ SY stimulated to re-examine their presup­ SAVINGS J:lNO LOAN ASSOCIATION oositions? In which case, of course, the HOME OFFICE: 32 S. lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, PA 19050 MA- 6-2900 Journal will also have to forego con­ tributions from Elizabeth Watson, who LAWRENCE PARK OFFICE: At Lawrence Rd. Ent., Lawrence Park Center, forces me to re-examine mine. Broomall, PA EL 3-!900. Why not stop and see us today? Some day Friends will have to come up with a mature theology which in­ FRED A. WERNER, President cludes the so·called exclusivists without

468 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL excluding those so-called inclusivists ciate with happy people, healthy peo­ vate schools - Friends schools and who appear to want to exclude the so­ ple, spiritual people and you will find others - that private schools, and called exclusivists. I don't think we are yourself lifted up. You will be equally Friends schools in particular, have a going to find it except within the frame­ subject to the contagion of their ideals special function in that they are free work of Christian faith, but I am will­ and mood of joy. I try to recall that to experiment, unbound by state red ing to discuss even that point with any­ when I find myself in the dumps, as tape, prescribed books, curriculum, one who, like Elizabeth and Ralph and it were. He also said-"Why get dis­ routine, etc. My two children who went Rob, doesn't think serious discussion is couraged because you make 1000 mis­ to Putney found a world of music. a violation of our historic peace tes­ takes trying to live up to your ideals? My younger two who went to The timony. A person without ideals makes 10,000 Meeting School found a world of co­ J. H. McCANDLEss mistakes." operative reliance. They all graduated Alburtis, P A It helped to build my outlook on summa and got admitted to the best life. colleges, and they are all on their own Another Vigil Continues EDWIN 0LDENDORPH feet, working hard, helping each other, LOS ANGELES Music Center's Silent St. Louis, MO getting along. Peace Vigil continues into its seventh A Mortgage for Education Friends schools I have known have year as Uncle Sam still donates bombs not been "divisive" in their commu­ downwards in the interest of world HERE is an education tuition sugges­ nities. Perhaps some snobbish private peace. tion ... [that] may appeal to Friends. schools are. But for the most part Westwood Meeting and Los Angeles I am told it is completely new. It seems Friends schools have contributed joy Meeting are united in continuing this to solve most of the problems of financ­ and comradeship and advancement. vigil that was omitted from your list ing higher education. My hope is that Fighting forest fires, teaching children (FJ 711-15). Friends interested in this field will to read, to pick out tunes on a musical No wonder modem friends are Quak­ criticize it in full. instrument, lecturing on the peace ers for peace. Will it be only pieces The idea is super simple; viz., to testimony, demonstrating the ways of of peace? offer government bonds (based on the the quiet life. Down-grading one­ CLIFFORD NORTH MERRY idea that there is no asset more im­ upmanship. I agree that we should seek Los Angeles, CA portant to a democracy than a well­ to establish this curriculum in courage, educated citizen) to students willing to resolution, action and tenderness at Variations on the Golden Rule have them redeemed from future in­ public schools. come deductions similar to Social Se­ IN COMMENT on Helen Hammarstrom's JUNE MELLIES RENO curity. letter (FJ 51 15), "No Corner on the Cornwall Bridge, CT JOSEPH LUCAS Golden Rule," let me offer a few forms Cocoa Beach, FL Rachel Carson Trust of that Rule to be found in some of the Attempted Downgrading THE woRK of the Rachel Carson Trust major religious traditions, adapted from for the Living Environment, Inc., de­ a study made by Jeannette Griggs of I AM AMAZED that yatisfied that an Those who wish to contribute or to whatever you wish that men would do overwhelming majorit:1 of all qualified receive more information may contact to you, do so to them." historians, including those who claim the trust at 8940 Jones Mill Road, From the Koran (about 600 A.D.): to be atheists or agnostics, would Washington, D.C. 20015. "Let none of you treat your brother acknowledge that Jesus Christ had a SHIRLEY A. BRIGGS in a way he himself would dislike to far greater impact upon the world and Washington, DC be treated." mankind than did an) 100 men all to­ HUGH J. HAMILTON gether that she could select from the Claremont Meeting greatest who ever lived. BUY ANY BOOK It seems to me that H religious journal A Better Outlook on Life should not contribute to the attempted IN PRINT READING the quotation from Robert downgrading of Jesm Christ. Visit or CaD Ingersoll (FJ 41 15) "Kindness is the HARRY M. PREVO sunshine in which virtue grows,'' re­ Tucson FRIENDS BOOK STORE minds me of Ingersoll's encounter with Pro Friends Schools 302 ARCH sr. Swami Vivekananda. He explained to HENRY RIDGWAY (FJ July 1115) posed PHILADELPHIA 19106 Vivekananda that if he himself had so many questions on Friends schools created the world he would have made in a mere three paragraphs, it is dif­ Telephone: MA 7-3576 health contagious instead of disease. ficult to reply. Hours: Weekdays 9-5; To which Vivekananda replied that I feel, as a reporter in education and Saturdays, 10-4 health is indeed contagious. Just asso- a mother of children educated in pri-

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 469 FRIENDS' Friends Around the World CENTRAL SCHOOL OVERBROOK, PHILADELPHIA 19151 The Newest Yearly Meeting From Friends School in Japan A Coeducational Country WE ARE INDEBTED to the late Howard Day School in the World Brinton for making available a booklet Five-year kindergarten through 12th ELGON YEARLY MEETING, formally or· entitled "Silent Meeting at Friends Grade; College Preparatory Curriculum ganized this year. is the newest associa­ School" (Tokyo, Japan), from which Founded in 1845 by the Society of tion of F riends Meetings in the world. the followi ng selections are taken. Tra· Friends, our school continues to em­ It is located in the highlands at the ditionally, a twenty-minute silent meet· phasize integrity, freedom, simplic­ foot of Mt. Elgon. The constituent ity in edocation through concern for ing is compulsory for all seven hundred the individual student. meetings, formerly part of East Africa students at Tokyo Friends School. It is Yearly Meeting, share a common re­ held, rather formally, in the aud i toriu~ . THOMAS A. WOOD gional, ethnic and linguistic bond as Headmaster Almost two years ago, some expen· well as spiritual fe ll owship. Regional mental silent meetings were held in and ethnic distinction, rather than doc­ each of three senior English classes. trinal differences, warranted the estab­ They differed from " ... the usual all· SANDY SPRING lishment of Elgon Yearly Meeting. school silent meeting ... in five ways: For many years Bungoma Meeting 1.) Students could choose to attend FRIENDS SCHOOL has sought to build a new meetinghouse or not. SANDY SPRING, MD. 20860 and to pioneer a Quaker educational 2.) The groups were small. leadership program in the Elgon area. J .) The silence was longer than Coeducational, Grades 10-12 However, most Quaker resources have usual, lasting about 40 minutes. Boarding and Day heen allocated to Friends work at Kai ­ 4.) We pulled our chairs together A uniquely diversified program de­ mosi in the south. The Evangelical and sat facing each other in a signed to demonstrate Friends Association, 11120 E. Jefferson circle. • life itself as a religious experience; Ave., Detroit, M l 48214 (Gerald Quinn, 5.) We shook hands around the • individual growth to its greatest po­ business manager), is coordinating an circle." tential; effort to raise from American monthly The following excerpts from the • personal involvement in today's meetings $5,000. to build a yearly hooklet reflect some of the students' an· challenging environment; meetinghouse as an educational and ad­ swers to questions asked subsequently • commitment to disciplined, service­ ministrative unit in the rapidly growing by the teachers: centered living. Bungoma community. "The first time that I went to silent C. Thvmton Brown, Jr., Zebedee Muchocho, a prominent meeting, I felt how dully time passed Headmaster Kenyan educator who recently visited for me. I couldn't help moving and "LET YOUR LIVES SPEAK" America seeking aid for the Friends chatting. l couldn't understand the Intermediate College at Kaimosi, hopes meaning of silent meeting at all. Now to establish a similar educational­ I can't understand yet, but I don't chat medical complex within the verge of with anybody dudng the silent meeting. Counselin~ Service the new Elgon Yearly Meeting. I suppose it is important for our life Family Relations Committee CARL DAVIDSON that we have a silent time, because we of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are too busy to think of important mat· For appoinlfTU!nl call counselors A Meeting Reborn between 8 and 10 P.M. ters."-Yuko Toke "I can't say which (a small group or a Christopher Nicholson, A.C.S.W., BARNEGAT, NJ, MEETING, which dates Germantown, VI 4-7076. back to 1767, celebrated its reestab­ large group) is better. But I think it is lishment, after a 70·year lapse, as a the condition of each member's mind Helen H. McKoy, M.Ed., German­ which makes the meeting good or bad." town, GE 8-4822 monthly meeting, at a meeting for worship and picnic lunch on June 10. - Masumi Shimada Annemargret L. Osterkamp, A.C. Friends from many other New Jersey ''As I wanted to be empty, I was pres· S.W., Center City, GE 8-2329 and Pennsylvania meetings attended, as ent at the silent meeting. . . I tried Holland McSwain, Jr., A.C.S.W., well as members of several other de­ hard to think nothing, but my head West Chester, 436-4901 nominations. All are welcome to join was filled up with my favorite popular Ruth M. Scheibner, Ph.D., Ambler, Barnegat Friends for worship Sundays song, and I became sleepy little by 643-7770 at 11. little. I slept happily in the room which was very warm and quiet. Suddenly my Josephine W. Johns, M.A., Media, Of Pipes and Theories Pa., LO 6-7238 hand was clasped by the next person. "The society which scorns excellence I woke up clearly, with much regret." Valerie G. Gladfelter, A.C.S.W., - Akiko Ohori Willingboro, N. J., 609-871-3397 in plumbing as a humble activity and (May call her 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.) tolerates shoddiness in philosophy be­ cause it is an exalted activity ... will "rf more Friends would practice tem­ David Harley, A.C.S.W., Bethlehem perance in speaking, other Friends Area, 215-437-1396 have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy . . . neither its pipes nor would not have to practice total Consultants: Ross Roby, M.D., abstinence." - Central Philadelphia Howard Page Wood, M.D. its theories will hold water."- from Ann Arbor M eetinf? newsletter. Meeting Newsletter.

470 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Three Pointers

coon ADVICE by Fritz Perls in the Mt. Toby (MA) Meeting .newsletter: "Friend, don't be a perfectionist. Per· fectionism is a curse and a strain. For you tremble lest you miss the bull's eye. You are perfect if you let be. "Friend, don't be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes are not sins. Mistakes are ways of doing something different, per· haps creatively new. "Friend, don't be sorry for your mistakes. Be proud of them. You had the courage to give something of your· self. It takes years to be centered; it takes more years to understand and to be now. U ntil then, beware of both ex· tremes-perfectionism as well as in· stant cure, instant joy, instant sensory awareness. Until then, beware of any helpers. Helpers are con men who promise something for nothilng. They spoil you and keep you dependent and One of 228 families in Kafue, Zambia, sit outside the home they and others immature." helped build with the help of Right Sharing of the World's Resources, a program of the Friends World Committee for Consultation. Administered by the American Friends Service Committee, this self-help housing program enables residents to finance the purchase of building materials, add improvements and extensions to their homes, build a four-room school and eventually will provide a community health clinic.

From Southern Africa Inward and Outward

"THE POINTS I feel are at issue (regard· VIRGINIA O'ROURKE, writing on "Center­ ing the church and violence) are that ing Down" in the Berkeley (CA) Meet· if they condemn terrorism, they must ing Newsletter, quotes from Howard Friendsville Academy also condemn the use of military force Brinton, who said in 1943: "For Friends A Friends Secondary School to maintain white supremacy and the most important consideration is privilege. If it is wrong to use violence not the right action in itself, but a • A coeducational Friends Boarding to overthrow an unjust society, it must right inward state out of which right School, grades 7-12. Established also be wrong to use violence to main· action will rise. Given the right inward 1857. State accredited, general tain that unjnst society. state right action is inevitable. Inward and college preparatory curricu­ " . .. A great deal of thinking is state and outward action are component lum. Limited enrollment. required to isolate the contributory in· parts of a single whole." She sees in • A small school community that gredients to conflict situations. Once the meeti-ng for worsh ip a microcosm emphasizes personal responsi­ some more thinking has been done, ... of the problematic world of a "cacoph· bility and family sensitivity. then the steps needed to implement ony of demands and of discords" that • A total program designed to give the peaceful resolution of conflict will needs to be balanced by spiritual nour· youth new opportunities to over­ require the wholesale support of the ishment for strength and courage. She come limitations to personal. churches, who will be required to re· suggests reviving midweek home wor· social, educational growth. educate their members into an under· ship and fellowship meetings on a • A curriculum guided by the standing of cause and cure. rotating basis followed by potluck sup· Quaker concept that learning is " ... We (also) need to maintain a pers with a geographic grouping de· life itself, with special projects channel of communication with the termined by zip code. In this way she and off-campus involvement. government, so that they may know and feels the right inward state, which will • Stressing individual growth and if possible understand what it is we lead to the right outward action, can realization of a personal freedom are trying to do . . . Obviously you best be nourished, building as it does that acknowledges and accepts cannot legislate to turn a nation of on family-to-family and person-to-person logical limits, self-control. and insecure. frightened people into pac­ relationships. personal responsibility. ifists. You can only encourage the people who can see that pacifism is It is in what we value FRIENDSVILLE ACADEMY something positive to try and work Not in what we have College Street out what it requires .. . " That the test of us resides. Friendsville, Tennessee 37737 RosEMARY ELLIOTT, in From a brochure Southern Africa Quaker Newsletter issued by Woodstown, NJ, MeetiTIK

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 471 Convincement work, but some of us are learning to To those of us who are involved in seek out those within the network who the workings of MNS, the Network Just a plain and simple place share our need for a spiritual base. Meeting and the Celebration in Col­ People meeting face to face The Quaker roots of MNS are evi­ orado were remarkable for several Silent in worship dent in some of our practices. Con­ reasons. It was planned by people living Filling a post sensus is the common decision-making in different parts of the country. There I need no Sacraments process in most groups and in the Net­ was no one leader or leadership struc­ They are the Host. work Meetings. Simplicity in li festyles ture, and yet all the work got done. -usually beyond most current Quaker r believe this was accomplished be­ Not a Cathedral, not a Church practice-feels imperative to all of us. cause the planning committee (enlarged Only people on a search Forthrightness in dealing with others to seven on the site) dealt with matters Seeking some answers was one of the themes stressed at our that needed attention between sessions Listening for Thine gathering in Colorado. And, of course, and got volunteers to take on necessary I need no Sacraments active opposition to injustice and vi­ jobs.· We all did our stint in the kitchen This is the wine. olence anywhere is basic. and ate well, but simply. Jt was a re­ Thank you God for friendly faces lief to notice that participation in busi­ ness meetings was fairly equal both in Thank You God for simple places Local vs. National Temples of people quality and quantity between men and Bright inward light AQAG became known for its cam­ women. At the same time it was clear paigns with a national focus. Most that we still have a way to go before I need no externals sexism is entirely a thing of the past. I know this is right. people in MNS are not opposed to national campaigns, but find their or­ CAROL BLOTZER YOLK ganizing and action efforts better used on the local level at this time. Last Help in a Crunch Moving Toward a New Society year one of the MNS groups in Phila­ delphia spearheaded the attempt at The Network Meeting serves as our (continued from page 450) Leonardo, NJ, to blockade ammunition "Yearly Meeting"-a time when people ships headed for Vietnam. Later AFSC from autonomous groups came to­ group that is specifically Quaker, al­ took over the coordination of blockades gether to work out mechanics of how though there is no reason why that in other parts of the country. In we best can relate to each other (we'll should not be possible. At present there Eugene, OR, MNS people are known have an internal communications col­ is no agreement on the need for a for graphic actions in opposition to lective). One of the decisions made in spiritual dimension to our common war taxes. Colorado was the provision for mutual There is no effort within MNS to help between groups in a time of get everybody to work on the same "crunch." Since we want our commit­ issues. This is partly because we realize ment to each other to be more than pendle hill that the list of problems that need to casual, we spent considerable time I be attacked is a long and complicated struggling with the question of what A Quaker Center for participation in the MNS Network Study and Contemplation one. People with different talents, in­ I terests, and local conditions need to means. decide for themselves where their ef­ During the Celebration which took forts will be most useful. However, we place for three days immediately fol­ The last work of a great Quaker do ask each other to judge the validity lowing the Network Meeting, there was of our actions in terms of their long­ more time to pursue issues of concern THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY range effects and to consider how they to us as individuals. About 20 work­ OF QUAKERISM tie in with a global perspective rather shops were held on topics ranging from than a purely local one. Will people strategies for social change, to radical nutrition, macroanalysis, human sex­ by Howard H. Brinton at the bottom have more control over their own lives as a result of our work? uality (the best attended), nonviolence How do our plans affect people in training, aikido self-defense, etc. And The beliefs of Fox, Barclay, and Penn developing nations? there was volley ball, of course, and as based on the Gospel of John-a The MNS Network has no full time singing, and a campfire, and walking summation of Quakerism, presenting the staff. The members of the Movement in the beautiful woods, and finding Society of Friends as a prophetic link Building Collective work as volunteers new kindred spirits, and rousing argu­ ments, and a lot of generous affection. between the past and the future. or receive subsistence grants. They act as a clearing house for information and All for the total price of $3.00 a day. try to stimulate the growth of the net­ When we returned to the office in Price $3.00 work and the exchange of ideas with Philadelphia, we found a letter from a other groups. The document that rep­ group in Sacramento, California, that WRITE: Eugene Norcross- Renner, resents most of the "homework" done wants to join the MNS Network. They Pendle Hill Publications, Walling­ by MNS people so far, Revolution: A are heavily involved with the United ford, PA 19086 Quaker Prescription for a Sick Society, Farmworkers' struggle and want to start is distributed by the Movement Build­ a Life Center. That is the sort of news ing Collective, which also stocks other that makes it exciting to come to work! Movement-related items. B ERIT M. LAKEY

472 Septembe r 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL Classified Opportunities ~mlng Events

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Friends Conference at Massanetta Springs FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS I would like Boolcs and PuiJiications Conference Center, Harrisonburg, VA. to urge Friends-to write a codicil into their wills Information and reservations: Evelyn that five percent (5%) of their gross estate be put SACRAMENTS-for Meeting discussion groups, into an irrevocable trust-the income only of selected outreach, etc.: Latest issue of Quaker Bradshaw, 1732 Byron St., Alexandria, which will go to help maintain our local monthly Religious Thought gets it all together on this VA, 22303. Must register by October 5. meetings; the monthly meeting to freely exercise difficult testimony. prints or reprints five essays its will and judament as to how the income will from liberal. conservative, evangelical Friendly be used: viewpoints. S 1.00 per copy, 10% discount ten or I) Our membership generally is declining, with more, from QRT' c/ o J. H. McCandless. Manager. 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If you really want to loarn Span1sh intensiv_ely _and economi­ back to Rome, LEATRICE WONG BRAID, cally, start any Monday at CIDOC. For cataloa WOMAN OR COUPLE to care for elderly aged 57. Born in Hawaii, she married on languaae school and de-schooled academy, woman Friend part time. Room, board and Andrew Braid in China in 1943 and write: CIDOC, APDO 479, Cuernavaca, Mexico. small salary. Rural Quaker community near Philadelphia. Call Joe or Sylvia Taylor, Taylor served with him in the Friends Ambulance JOHN WOOLMAN SCHOOL, Nevada City, Lane, Riverton, NJ. Tel: 609-829-4992. Unit. They later worked at organizing Calif. 95959 : colleae preparatory, art (pottery, cooperatives throughout many parts of the weavina. drawina. painting), aarden. Located in the foothillS of the Sierra Nnadas. Maximum, world. At the time of her death, they 65 students. 916-273-3183. Wanted were involved in the Food and Agricul­ tural Organization of the UN in Rome, APARTMENT OR SMALL HOUSE in quiet, Italy. Surviving are her husband and Services OHered rural location near Philadelphia commuter lines three children, Angus, Nancy and Marion. for Quaker couple ( AFSC) with baby. Box B-573, Friends Journal. RE-UPHOLSTERY-SLIPCOVERS Serving Del­ TYSON-On June 1, aged 91, BERTHA aware County (PA), Westchester area, German­ HAVXHURST TYSION, at the Sheppard-Pratt town-Main Line. Northern section Delaware state. Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Born in West­ Telephone 215-586-7592. More than forty years' For Sale bury, Long Island, she married Chester J. experience. Tyson, one of Adams County's pioneer WRITERS: "UNSALABLE" MANUSCRIPT? INQUIRIES INVITED: A few individual lots in fruit growers, in 1901. Surviving are nine Try Author Aid Associates. Dept. FJ, 340 East a Pocono Mountain lake family community. Box of her twelve children, twenty-two grand­ 52nd St., New York, 10022. M-518, Friends Journal. children and eighteen great-grandchildren.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 473 SAN FRANCISCO- Meeting for worship, Forst-days, 11 a .m., 2160 lake St reet. 752-7740. MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS SAN JOSE- Meetong , 11 a.m ; chol dren's and adults' classes, l 0 a.m. : 104 l Morse Street. Alaslca DAVIS--Meeting for worship, 9 :45 a.m., SANTA BARBARA- 59 ! Santa Rosa Lane. 345 L St. Visitors call 753-5890. JUSt off San Ysidro Rd ., Montecoto ANCHORAGE- 4600 Abbott Rd., 1 p.m., FRESNO-Meeting every Sunday, l 0 a .m ., (Y.M C. A. ) l 0 a .m . Sundays. Hilds, 27 4-0288. College Y Pax Deo Chapel, 231 l E. Shaw. SANTA CRUZ- Meeting for worshop, FAIRBANKS--Unprogrammed worship, Phone: 237-3030 Sundays, l 0:30 a .m . 303 Walnut St. Clerk, First-d

474 September 15, 197 3 FRIENDS JOURNAL Delaware URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - Meeting for Georgia worship, 11 a .m .. 71 4 W . Green St., Ur­ CAMDEN-2 miles south of Dover. Meet­ ATLANTA-Worship and First-day School, bana. Phone: 344-6510 or 367-0951 ing and First-day School 1 1 a.m. 697- 10 a.m., 1384 Fairview Road N.E. , Atla nta 6910; 69.7-6642. 30306. Margaret Kaiser, Clerk. Phone: Indiana 634-0452. Quaker House. Telephone: CENTERVILLE ~Center Meeting, one mile 373-7986. BLOOMINGTON-Meeting for worship east of Route 52 at southern edge of 10: 15 a m., Moores Pike at Smith Road. town on Center Meeting Road. Meeting, AUGUSTA-Meeting for worship and Call Norris Wentworth, phone: 336-3003. First-day, 1 1 a.m. First-day School. 10:30 a.m., 340 Tel­ fair Street. Lester Bowles, clerk. Phone: HOPEWELL-20 mi . W. Richmond. Ind.; HOCKESSIN- North of road from Yorklyn, 733-4220. between 1-70. US 40; 1-70 exit Wilbur at crossroad. Meeting for worship, 10:30 Wright Rd. 11;4 mi. S., 1 mi. W. Un­ a.m., First-day School, II: 10 a.m. programmed worship, 9 :30, discussion, 10:30. Ph. 476-7214, or 987-7367. NEWARK- Worship, Sunday, 10 a.m., Hawaii New London Community Center, 303 New HONOLULU- Sundays, 2426 Oahu Ave­ INDIANAPOLI~Lant ho rn Meeting and London Rd .. Newark, Delaware. nue. 9:45, hymn sing; 10, worship; 11 :1 5, Sugar Grove. Unprogrammed worship, 10 a.m. Sugar Grove Meeting House. W illard ODESSA-Worship, 1st Sundays, 1 1 a.m. adult study group. Babysitting, 10: IS to 11. Phone: 988-2714. Heiss, 257- 1081 or Albert Maxwell, 839- 4649. WILMINGTON- 4th & West Sts .. Meeting 1 0;30 a.m.; School Rd., Meeting 9: IS RICHMOND-Clear Creek Meeting, Stout a .m. Phone 652-4491 or 475-3060. Illinois Memorial Meetinghouse. Earlham College. Unprogrammed worship, 9 : IS a.m. Clerk. CARBONDALE-Unprogrammed worship. Mary Lane Hiatt 962-6857. Uune 20- Sundays, 10 a.m., usuafly at the Student Sept 19, 10 a.m.) Christia n Foundation, 913 S. Illinois. District of Columbia Phone. 457-6542 or 549-2029. WEST LAFAYETTE-Meeting for worship June and July 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, WASHINGTON-Meet:ng, Sunday, 11 CHICAG0-57th · Street. Worship, 1 1 Lounge, Univ. Presbyterian Church. a.m.; worship group, 9 a.m.; adult discus­ a.m .. 5615 Woodlawn. Monthly Meeting Clerk, Merritt S. Webster (7 34-4772). sion, 10 a.m.- I 1 a.m.; babysitting, 10 every first Friday, 7:30 p.m. Phone: BU a.m.-12 noon; First-day School, II a.m.- 8-3066. 12: 30 p.m. 2111 Florida Ave. N.W., near Iowa Connecticut Ave. CHICAGO-Chicago Monthly Meeting, 10749 S. Artesian. HI 5-8949 or BE DES MOINE~Meeting for worship, 10 WASHINGTON- Sidwell Friends Library 3-2715. Worship 11 a.m. a.m .. classes, 11 a.m. Meeting House, -Meeting, second Sunday, II :00, during. 4211 Grand Ave. Phone 274-0453. school year, 3825 Wisconsin Avenue. CHICAGO- Northside (unprogrammed). N. W. Worship 1 0 a.m. For information and IOWA CITY-Unprogramed worship, 11 meeting location, phone: 477-5660 or a.m., 311 N. Linn, Iowa City. Phone 338- 327-6398. 7250. Clerks. Pam and Mark Stewart, phone 338-2062. CRETE- Thorn Creek Meeting, 10:30. 700 Exchange. 312-481-806,4!. Florida Kansas DECATUR-Worship 11 a.m .. Phone Mil­ CLEARWATER-Meeting 10:30 a.m., dred G. Protzman, clerk, 422-9116, for WICHITA-Uni versity Friends Meeting, Y.W.C.A .. 222 S. Lincoln Ave. Phone: meeting location. 1840 University Avenue. First-day School 733-9315. 9:45 a .m ., Meeting fo r worship 11 :00 DEKALB-Meeting, 10:30 a.m., 424 Nor­ a .m. Richard' P. Newby, Minister; Thomas DAYTONA BEACH-Sunday, 10:30 a.m. mal Road. Phone: 758-2561 or 758-1985. Swain. Director of Christian Education. 201 San Juan Avenue. Phone: 677-0457. Phone 262-04 71 . DOWNERS GROVE-(west suburban Chi­ GAINESVILLE-1921 N.W. 2nd Ave. cagol-Worship and First-day School Meeting and First-day School, 11 a.m. 10:30 a.m., 5710 Lomond Ave. (3 blocks Kentuclty west of Belmont, 1 block south of Maple). JACKSONVILLE-Meeting 10 a-.m., Phone: 968-3861 or 665-0864. LEXINGTON-Unprogrammed worship and Y.W.C.A. Phone contact 389-4345. First-day School, 4 p.m. For information. EVANSTON-1010 Greenleaf, UN call 277-2928. LAKE WALE~At Lake Walk-in-Water 4-8511 . Worship on First-day, 10 a.m. Heights. Worship, 11 a.m. 676·5597. LOUISVILLE-Meeting for worship 10:30 LA. .KE FOREST-Worship 10 a.m. at Meet­ a.m. Children's classes 11:00 a.m. 3050 MIAMI-CORAL GABLE~Meetin~. 10 ing House. West Old Elm Road and Ridge a.m., 1185 Sunset Road. Thyrza Allen Bon Air Avenue. 40205. Phone: . 452- Road. Mail address Box 95, Lake Forest, 6812. Jacocks, clerk, 361-2862; AFSC Peace Ill. 60045. Phone area: 312, 234-0366. Center, 443-9836. PEORIA-GALESBURG - Unprogrammed Louisiana ORLANDO-WINTER PARK- Meeting, meeting 10 a.m. in Galesburg. Phone: 10:30 a.m., 316 E. Marks St., Orlando. 343-7097 or 245-2959 for location. BATON ROUGE-Worship, 10 a.m., Wes­ Phone: 24 1-6301. ley Foundation, 333 E. Chimes St. Clerk: QUINCY-Unprogrammed meeting, 10:00 Quentin A. L. Jenkins; telephone: 343- PALM BEACH-Meeting, 10:30 a.m., 823 a.m. Phone; 223-3902 or 222-6704 for 0019. North A St., Lake Worth. Phone: 585- location. 8060 or 848-3148. NEW ORLEAN~Worship Sundays, 10:30 a.m., Community Service Center, 4000 SARASOTA-Meeting for worship, First­ ROCKFORD-Rock Valley Meeting. Sum­ day School, 11 a.m., Music Room, College Maguine Street. For information, tele­ mer meetings in members' homes. For in­ phone 368-1146 or 822-34 11. Hall. New College Campus. Adult discus­ formation, call 964-0716. sion, 1 0 a.m. L-eon L. Allen, clerk. 7 43- 9683. For information call 955-9589. Maine SPRINGFIELD--Worship, 10 a.m. Phone MID-COAST AREA-Regular meetings for ST. PETERSBURG--Meeting 10:30 a.m. Robert Wagenknecht, 522-2083 for worship. For information telephc:ne 882- 130 19th Avenue, S. E. meeting location. 71 07 (Wiscasset) or 236-3064 (Camden).

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 475 PORTLAND - Forest Avenue Meeting, 1 0 a.m., worship 11 a.m .. Monthly Meet­ Route 302. Unprogrammed worship a,;d ing first Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Clerk, Mrs. Nevada First-day School, 10 a.m. Phone: 773- Ruth Mellor, 189 Hampshire St ., Methuen, LAS VEGAS--Paradise Friends Monthly 6964. Adult discussion, 11 :00 . Mass. Phone: 682-4677. Meeting ; unprogrammed worship, 11 a .m.,.. 3451 Middlebury Ave. 457-7040. Maryland SOUTH YARMOUTH, CAPE COD- North Main St. Worship and First-day School. RENO-Meeting for worshi p 11 a.m .. ADELPHI-Near University of Maryland. 10 a.m. Phone: 432- 1131 . First-day School. and discussion 10 a.m., 2303 Metzrott Road. First-day School, Friends House, 560 Cranleigh Drive. 10:30 a.m.; wo rship, 10 a .m. Deborah WELLESLEY --Meeting for worship and Telephone 323-1302. Mad address. P.O. James, clerk. Phone. 422-9260. Sunday School, 10:30 a .m., at 26 Ben­ Box 602, Reno 89504. venue Street. Phone: 235-9782. ANNAPOLIS--Worsh•p, 11 a.m ., former St. Paul's Chapel, Rt . 178 (General's Hwy.) WEST FALMOUTH, CAPE COD--Rt. 28 New Hampshire and Crownsville Rd., Crownsville, Md. Lo•s A, meeting for worship, Sunday 11 a.m . Cusick, clerk, <30 1-7 57 -3332). CONCORD--Adult study and sharing, 9 WESTPORT-Meeting Sunday, 10:45 a.m. a.m., worship, 10 a.m. Children welcomed BALTIMORE- Worship 11 a .m.; classes, Central Vi'llage: Clerk, J. K. Stewart Ki rk­ and cared for . Merrimack Valley Day Care 9 :45. Stony Run 5116 N. Charles St. ID aldy, Phone: 636-4711. Center, 19 N. Fruit St. Phone, 783-6382. 5-3773. Homewood 3107 N. Charles St . 235-4438. WORCESTER - Pleasant Street Friends DOVER - Dover Preparative Meeting­ Meeting, 90 1 Pleasant Street. Meeti ng Worship 10:30 a.m. 141 Central Ave. BETHESDA-S•dwell Fnends Lower School. for worship each F~r s t - day , 11 a.m. Tele­ Caroline Lanier, clerk. Phone: (207) 439- Edgemoor Lane & Beverly Rd. Classes phone: PL 4 -3887. 9311. 10: 15; worsh1p 11 a.m. Phone: 332-1156. HANOVER- Meet•ng for worshop, Sunday EASTON- Third Haven Meeting and First­ Michigan 10:45 a .m . Froends Meetong House. 29 day School . 11 a.m ., South Washington St. ANN ARBOR - Worship-Sharing, 9 :30 Rope Ferry Road. Phone: 643-4138. Frank Zeig ler, clerk, 634-2491 ; Lorra ine a.m.; Meeting for Worship, 10; Adult Dis­ Claggett, 822-0669. June to Sept., wor­ MONADNOCK - Worshtp 10:45 a.m .. cussion, 11 : 15. Meet•nghouse, 1420 Hill

476 September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL through Sept.) and 11 a.m. Visitors wel­ come. MOUNT HOLLY - High and Garden Streets, meet1ng for worship 10:30 a.m. Visitors welcome. NEW BRUNSWICK-Meeting for worship and First-day School, 11 a.m., Quaker House, 33 Ramsen Ave. Phone: 545-8283. PLAINFIELD-Meeting for worship and Fi rst-day School 10:30 a.m. Watchung Ave., at E. Third St., 757-5736. Open Monday through Friday 11 :30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. PRINCETON-Meeting fo r worship, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Summer, 9:30 only. First-day School, 11 a.m. Quaker near Mercer St. 92 1-7824 . QUAKERTOWN - Meet1ng for worship and F~rst-day School, 11 a.m. Clerk, Rob­ ert M. Cox, R.D. Box 342, Frenchtown, (Courtesy Grace S. Yaukey) N.J. 08825. Phone, 996-4491. CHAPPAQUA-Quaker Road (Rt. 120). POUGHKEEPSIE-249 Hooker Ave. 454- RANCOCAS--F~rst-day School, 10 a.m., Mcctmg for worsh1p and F~r s t -day School, 2870. Silent meetmg, 9 :30 a.m.; meeting meetmg for worsh1p, 11 a.m. 10:30 a .m. 914-238-9894. Clerk: 914- school, 10:30 a.m.; programmed meeting, 238-903 1. 11: 15 a.m. (Summer meeting for wor­ RIDGEWOOD- Meeting for worship and ship, 10 a.in.l F~rst-day School at 11:00 a.m., 224 High­ CLINTON- Meeting, Sundays, 10:30 a.m., wood Ave. K~rkland Art Center. On-the-Park. UL PURCHASE- Purchase Street (Route 120) ·3-2243. at Lake Street, Purchase, New York. First­ SEAVILLE-Meeting for worship, 11 a.m. day School, 10:45 a.m. Meeting, 11 a.m. Main Sho re Road, Route 9, Cape May CORNWALL-Meeting for worship, 11:00 Clerk, Walter Haase, 88 Downs Ave., County. Visi tors welcome. a.m. Rt. 307, off 9W, Quaker Ave. 91 4- Stamford, Conn. 06902; 203-324-9736. 534-2217. SHREWSBURY-First-day School, 10:30 QUAKER STREET - Mid-April to Mid­ a.m., meeting for worship, 11 :00 a.m. ELMIRA- ! 0:30 a .m. Sundays. 155 West October. Unprogramed worship at 11 a.m. (July, August, 10:00 a.m .). Route 35 and 6th Street . Phone, 607-7 33-7972. each First-day. Meetinghouse in Quake r Syc'!more, Phone 671-2651 or 431-0637. FLUSHING - Meet ing for worship, 11 Street village on NY Rte. 7, four miles SW SUMMIT- Meeting for worship, 11 a.m.; a.m.; open house, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sun ­ of junction with US Rte. 20. F~rst-day School, 11: 15 a.m. 158 Southern days, 137- 16 Northern Blvd. ROCHESTER - Meeting and First-day Boulevard, Chatham Township. V1sitors School, 11 a.m., 41 Westminster Road. welcome. GRAHAMSVILLE- Greenfield & Never­ sink. Worship, 1 :30, Sundays, in Meeting ROCKLAND-Meeting for worship and TRENTON- Meeting for worship, 11 a.m., house. First-day School, 11 a.m., 60 Leber Rd., Hanover and Montgomery Streets. Visitors Blauvelt. welcome. HAMIL TON-Meeting for worship Sun­ day, 10 a.m . Chapel House, Colgate Univ . RYE-Milton Rd .. one-half mile south of WOODSTOWN-First-day School, 9 :45 ITHACA-! 0 a.m., worship, First-day Playland Pky., Sundays, 10:30 a.m.; some a.m. Meetmg for worship, 11 a.m. N. Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Main St., Woodstown, N. J. Phone 358- School, nursery: Anabel Taylor Hall, Sept.­ 2532. May. 256-4214. SCARSDALE-Meeting for worsh1p and JERICHO, LONG ISLAN D-Unprogrammed F~r st-day School, 11 a.m. 133 Popham Rd. worship, 11 a.m., Old Jericho Turnpike. Clerk, Harold A. Nemer, 131 Huntley New Mexico Dnve. Ardsley, N.Y. I 0502. LOCUST VALLEY , LONG ISLAND - ALBUQUERQUE-Meeting and Fi rst-day Matinecock Friends Meeting for Worship, SCHENECTADY - Meeting for worship, School, 10:30 a.m., 81 5 Gi rard Blvd., N.E. Sundays, 11 a.m., Duck Pond & Pipi ng 1 1 :00 a.m. Old Chapel, Un 1on College Ham Brown, clerk. Phone 256-934 5. Rock Rds. Campus. Phone 5 18-456-4540. GALLUP-Sunday, 9 : 15 a.m ., worship at MANHASSET, LONG ISLAND-First-day SOUTH GLENS FALLS--Friends Meeting, 102 Vi ro Circle. Sylvia Abeyta, clerk. School, 9:45 a.m.; meeting, 11 a.m. 27 Saratoga Ave. B1ble School, 9:30a.m.; 863-4697. Uuly, Aug. 10 a.m .) Northern ~lvd. a t worship, 10:30. Don Stanley, Pastor. Shelter Rock Road. ST. JAMES. LONG ISLAND- Conscience SANTE FE- Meeting Sundays, 11 a.m., NEW PALTZ - Meetmg Sunday, 10:30 Bay Meeting, Monches Rd. Worship and Olive Rush Studio, 630 Canyon Road, First-day School, 11 a.m. Santa Fe . Miriam Stothart, clerk. a.m., Elting Library, Ma1n St. 658-2363. NEW YORK- Fi rst-day meetings for wor­ SYRACUSE-Meetmg for worship at 821 ship, 9 :45 a.m., 11 a.m., 15 Rutherford Euclid Avenue, 10:30 a.m. Sunday. New Yorlc Pl. (15th St.J, Manhattan. Others 11 a.m. WESTBURY, LO NG ISLAND - Unpro­ ALBANY -Worship and First-day School, only. grammed meetmg for worsh1p, 1 1 a.m. 11 a.m., 727 Madison Ave. Phone 465· 2 Washington Sq. N. Junior Meeting through High School, 9084 . Earl Hall, Columbia University 10:45 to 12: 15. Jencho Tpk. and Post 110 Schermerhorn St. Brooklyn Avenue. Phone 516 ED 3-3 178. BINGHAMTON - Meetin~l. 10 a.m. Phone 212-777-8866 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5) Faculty Lounge, Harpur library Tower. about First-day Schools, Monthly Meetings, 648-6339 or 785-0167. suppers, etc. North Carolina ASHEVILLE - Meeting, French Broad BUFFALO- Meetmg and First-day School, ONEONTA-Worship and First-day School YWCA, Sunday, 10 a.m. Phone Phillip I I a.m., 72 N. Parade. Phone TX 2-8645. 10:30 a.m., 11 Ford Ave. Tel: 433-2367. Neal, 298-0944.

FRIENDS JOURNAL September 15, 1973 477 CHAPEL HILL- Meeting for worship, 11 WILMIHGTOH- Froends Meeting. Mul­ Wheatland Shopping Center, 1 Y2 miles a.m. Clerk: Robert Mayer, phone 942- berry and Locust Sts.: 10- 10:45 a .m .. west of Lancaster. Meeting ;md First-day 3318. Meeting fo r Celebration; 10:45-11:30 School, 10 a.m. a.m., Adult and Youth Learning Experi­ CHARLOTTE- Meeting fo r wo rship, 10:30 ences: 10-11 :30 a.m., Children's Program. LANSDOWNE - Lansdowne and Stewart a.m., adult forum, 1 1: 45 a.m. 2327 Re­ Llwrence Barker, m1n ister, (513) 382- Aves., First-day School and Adult Forum, mount Road. Phone 399-8465. 2349. 9 :45 a .m .; worship, I I . DURHAM- Meeting 1 0:30 at 404 Alex­ Oregon LEHIGH VALLEY-BETHLEHEM-on Route ander Avenue. Contact David Smith 489- PORTLAHD-MULTNOMAH MONTHLY 512 one-half mile north of route 22. 6029 or Don Wells 489-7240. MEETING, 4312 S. E. Stark St. Worshi p Meeting and First -day School, I 0 a .m. 10 a .m., discuSSIOns 11 a.m. Same ad­ FAYETTEVILLE- Meeting 1 p.m., Quaker dress. A.F .S.C.. Phone: 235-8954. LEWISBURG-Vaughn Literature Bldg. House, 233 Hillsi de Ave. Phone the Arn­ Library, Bucknell U. Worship, 11 a.m., ings, 485-3 213. Sundays, Sept. tlvu May. Clerk, Ruby E. Pennsylvania Cooper, 717-523-039 1. GREENSBORO - Friendship Meeting (un­ ABINGTON-Greenwood Ave. and Meet­ programmed). Guilfo rd College, Moon ing House Road, Jenk1ntown. Assembly, MEDIA- 125 West Third Street. Meeting Room of Dana Auditorium, 11 a.m. Judith 9 :45a.m. : First-day School, 10 : worship, for worsh ip, 10 a.m. Harvey, clerk. 1 1: 15 (small children included first 20 GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO - minutes). MEDIA- Providence Meetino. Providence HEW GARDEN FRIENDS' MEETING: Un­ Road, Media. 15 miles west o f Phila., programmed meeting 9:00; Church School, BRISTOL- Meeting fo r worship and First­ meeting for worship, 11 a.m. 9:45 ; meeting fo r worship, 11 :00. day School, 11 a .m ., Market and W ood. Martha G. Meredith, Clerk, David W . Bills, 788-3234. MERION- Mee tinghouse Lane at Mont­ gomery. Meeting for worship 11 a .m ., Pastor. CHESTER- 24th and Chestnut Streets. First-day School 10:30. Adult class 10:20. Meetmg fo r worsh1p, 1 I a.m. RALEIGH - Meeting 10:00 a .m., 120 Baby sitting 10: 15. Woodburn Road. Clerk, Steve Routh, 834- CONCORD-at Concordville , on Concord 2223. Road one block south of Route 1. First-day MIDDLETOWN- Delaware Co .. Route 352 N. of Lima , Pa. Meeting for worsh ip, 11 WINSTON-SALEM- Unprogrammed wor­ School 10 a.m.-11 : 15 a.m. except sum­ ship in Friends' homes, Sundays, 11 a .m. mer. Meeting for wo rship 11 : 15 a.m. to a.m. Call F. M. James, 919-723-4690. 12. MIDDLETOWN- At Langhorne, 453 West DOLINGTOH-Makefield- East of Dolington Maple Avenue . First-day School 9:45 a.m .. on Mt. Eyre Road. Meeting for worship meeti ng for worship, 11 a.m. 11 :00-11 :30. First-day School 11:30- MILLVILLE - Main Street. Worship, I 0 Olrio 12:30. CINCINNATI- Community Friends Meet­ a.m., First-day School, 11_ a.m. A. F. Solen­ ing (United) FUM & FGC. Summer sched­ DOWHIHGTOWN- 800 E. Lancaster Ave­ berger, 784-0267. ule: Unprogrammed worship 10:00; 3960 nue

September 15, 1973 FRIENDS JOURNAL 478 PHOENIXVILLE- SCHUYLKILL MEET­ WRIGHTSTOWN- Forst-day School. 9 :30 PUTNEY- Worship, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. ING--East of Phoenoxvolle and north of a.m. ; worshop, I I. Route 4 13 at Wrights­ The Grammar School, Hickory Ridge Rd . juncture of Whitehorse Road and Route town. 23. Worshop, 10 a.m. Forum. 11: 15. YARDLEY- North Maon St. Meeting for SHREWSBURY - Meeting. Worship Sun­ PITTSBURGH-Meeting for worship and worship I 0 a.m .. Forst -day School follows day, 11 a.m., home of Edith Gorman. First-day School 10:30 a.m.; adult class meeting during winter months. Cuttingsville, Vt. Phone, 492-3431 or liz 11 :45 a.m., 4836 Ellsworth Ave. Yeats. 773-8742. PLUMSTEAD- Worship 9:30 a.m. July Virginia 8-Aug. 12, Ferry Rd. between Danboro Rhode Island and Gardenville, Bucks County. CHARLOTTESVILLE- Janoe Porter Barrett WESTERLY - 57 Elm St. Unprogramed Sc hool. 41 0 Rodge St. Adulr do scussion. PLYMOUTH MEETING--Germantown Pike worship, 11, except June through Sept. , 10 a.m.; worshop, 1 I. and Butler Pike. Forst-day School, 10: 15 10:30. Sunday School, 11. a.m. ; meeting for worship, 1 1 : 1 5 a.m. LINCOLN- Goose Creek United Meeting Fi rst-day School 10:00 a.m .. meeting for QUAKERTOWN- Richland Monthly Meet­ South Dalcota worship, 1 1:00 a.m. ing, Main and Mill Streets. First-day School, 10 a.m., meetong for worship, SIOUX FALLS--Unprog rammed meeting, McLEAN- Langley Hill Meeting, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m., 2307 S. Center (571 05), 605- 10:30 a.m. Junction old Route 123 and 338-5744. Route 193. RADNOR- Conestoga and Sproul Rds .. !than. Meeting for worship and First-day Tennessee RICHMOND-First-day School, 9 :45 a.m .. School, 10:30 a.m. Forum 11 : 15 a.m.• meeting 11 a.m ., 4500 Kensongton Ave. NASHVILLE - Meetong and First-day Phone 359-0697. READING--First-day School, 10 a.m .. School, Sundays, 10:00 a.m., 1108 18th meeting 1 1 a.m . I 08 North Sixth Street. Ave. S. Clerk, Hugh LaFollette. Phone: ROANOKE-BLACKSBURG - Genevieve 255-0332. Waring. clerk, 3952 Bosworth Dr .. Roan­ READING--Maiden Creek Meeting, E. of oke 24014. Phone. 703-343-6769. Rt. 61, 10 mi . N. of Reading. Turn E. in WEST KNOXVILLE- First-day School. 10 Leesport. Sundays until Sept. 2 , 10 a.m. a.m.. worshop, 1 1 a.m. D. W. Newton. WINCHESTER- Centre Meeting-203 N. Phone: 588-0876. Washington. Worshop. 10: 15. Phone: 667- SOLEBURY- Sugan Rd .. 2 miles NW of 8497 or 667-0500. New Hope. Worship, 10 a.m.; First-day Texas School, 10:45 a.m. Phone: 297-5054. Washington AMARILLO-Worship, Sundays, 3 ~.m .. SPRINGFIELD- N. Springfield Road and 3802 W. 45th St . Hershel Stanley, lay CHEYNEY- Meeting for worship, Sunday Old Sprouj Road. Meeting 11 a.m. Sun­ leader. Classes for children & adults. 11 a.m. Koinonia House. days. STATE COLLEGE- 318 South Atherton AUSTIN- Worship and First-day School, SEATTLE- Universi ty Fri ends Meeting, Street". First-day School, 9:30 a.m. ;· meet­ 11 a.m. Forum, 10 a.m., 301 4 Washing­ 4001 9th Avenue, N.E. Silent wo rship and ing for worship, 10:45 a .m. ton Square. GL 2-1841 . Wiiiiam Jeffreys, Forst-day classes at 11. Phone: ME 2-7006. clerk, 4 76-1375. STROUDSBURG--Meeting for worship at West Virginia the Stroud Community Center. 9th and DALLAS--Sunday, 10:30 a.m .. Park North Y.W.C.A., 4434 W. Northwest Highway. Main Sts., first and third Sundays, 10 a .m. CHARLESTON- Worship, First-days, 10· Visitors more than welcome. Clerk, George Kenney, 2137 Siesta Dr. FE 1- 1348. 10:45 a.m ., YWCA, 1114 Quarrier St. SUMNEYTOWN-GREEN LANE AREA - Raymond Stone. clerk. Phone 34 2-3 7 7 4 Unami Monthly Meeting-Meets on Wal­ EL PASO-Worship and First-day School, for information. ters Rd ., Sumneytown. Morning and even­ 9 a.m. Esther T. Co rnell, 584-7 259, for ing worship alternating First-days, fol ­ location. Wisconsin lowed usually by potluck and discussion. HOUSTON- Live Oak Meeting, worship BELOIT- See Rockford, Illinois. For information. call 234-8424. and Forst-Day School, Sunday 1 1 a.m., SWARTHMORE- Whittier Place, College Peden Branch YWCA. 11209 Clematis. GREEN BAY -Meeting for worship and campus. Adult Forum and First-day School , Clerk, Polly Clark. 729-3756. First-day School, 10 a.m. Phone Barbara 9 :45 a .m. Worship, 11 a.m. McClurg, 864-2204. LUBBOCK-Dale Berry, clerk. For meet­ UNIONTOWN- R.D. 4, New Salem Rd., ing time and place, call 747-5553. MADISON - Sunday, 11 a.m., Friends off Route 40, West. Worship, 11 a.m. House, 2002 Monroe St., 256-2249 ; and Phone: 437-5936. SAN ANTONIO- Unprogrammed meeting 11:15, Yahara Allowed Meeting, 619 for worship, 11 a.m., First-days, Central Riverside Drive, 249-7255. UPPER DUBLIN- Ft. Washington Ave &. Y.W.C.A. Phone 732-2740. Meeting House Rd., near Ambler, Worship MILWAUKEE-II a.m., First-days, 2319 oand First-day School, 11 a.m. Utah E. Kenwood Blvd. 414-272-0040; 414- 962-2100 Call for a lternative t ime June­ VALLEY-West of King of Prussia; on LOGAN - Meeting, 11 a.m., home of August. Old Rt. 202 and Old Eagle School Road. Allen Stokes, 1722 Saddle Hill Dr., 752- First-day School and Forum, 10:00 a.m. 2702. OSHKOSH-Sunday, 1 p.m., meeting and (except summer); meetino for worship, First-day school, Neuman Center, UW-0 11 :15 (summer, 1 0). Vermont campus, cor. Irving and Elmwood. WEST CHESTER-400 N. High St. First­ WAUSAU-Meetings in members' homes. day School, 10:30 a.m., worship, 10:45. BENNINGTON- Worship, Sunday 10:30 Write 3320 N. 11th or telephone: 842- a.m., Bennington Library, 101 Silver St., 1130. WEST GROVE - Harmony Rd. Meeting P .0 . Box 221, Bennington 0520 1. for worship, 10 a.m., followed by Adult Class 2nd and 4th First-days. BURLINGTON- Worship, 11 a.m. Sunday, back of 179 No. Prospect. Phone 802- Meetings that wish to be listed are en­ WILKES-BARRE- North Branch Monthly 985-2819. couraged to send in to Friends Journal the Meeting. Wyoming Seminary Day School. 1560 Wyoming Avenue, Forty-Fort. Sun­ MIDDLEBURY - Meeting for worship, place and time of meetings for worship, day School, 10: 15 a .m., Meeting, 11 :00. Sunday 11 a.m .. St. Mary's School, Shan­ First-day School, and so on. The charge through May. non Street. is 35 cents a line per insertion.

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What about the Miracle seed. Its what a little-easier for 55 million anothers discovery. Limited Test Ban Treaty? scientists call a crossbreed children. (You've heard of The UN has nearly The Non-Proliferation of grain that keeps millions UNICEF, haven't you?) wiped out malaria in the Treaty? The Outer Space of people from starving The UN has taught tropics. Treaty? Because of them, to death. 600,000 in underdeveloped And supports over we breathe a little easier. CSM. A special corn countries new skills to 40,000 health centers. The UN has kept meal for poor children who work with. The UN wants special crisis after crisis eat nothing but starches. It And provides modern islands for wildlife. from growing into war. gives them the protein equipment to help people 359 species disappeared The UN saved 22 they need. develop their countries. from this earth. 922 may temples from the floods The UN discovered lndependenc:e for 60 die along with them. in Egypt. copper in Panama. colonial territories. The UN planted And a few other Valuable minerals in Women's political 50,000 trees on the plains treasures from the .fl oods the Red Sea. rights. Before the UN, half in Algeria. The UN can in Florence. And the world's largest the world deprived women make barren land blossom. The UN is trying to supply of fresh water a vo te. A drug control fund. keep Venice above water. underneath the Sahara Earth Watch. A To stop narcotics from even A global weather Desert. (Only 1 1~o of our monitoring system that entering a country. system. To warn against water can safely be used.) checks pollution before it Relief. Hundreds of cyclones. And hurricanes The UN has trained kills us. thousands of tons of food at sea. 60,000 teachers. The UN brings even to victims of disasters. The Regulation of radio And provides children enemies together to talk UN sent 45 ships full and TV frequencies. One with books, school desks, over problems we all have. of food, clothes and nation won't cut off another. papers and pencils. And Like polluted waters, medicine to Bangladesh. A common tongue for shoes to walk to school in. disease. And the list could go aviation. All pilots and The UN vaccinates The UN is a clearing on. But we ran out of room. controllers speak the same children against TB and house for world So now how language. (English.) smallpox. cancer research. One about a good word for the Imagine if they didn't. The UN has made life scientist won't duplicate good work.

October 24 is UN Day. Want to know even more about the UN? Send $1.00 for our booklet to • UN We Believe, 33 East 43rd Street, New York, New York 10017. .