February 1, 1972 Quaker Thought and Life Today The contributors to this issue CLIFFORD NEAL SMITH, a member of De Kalb, lllinois, FRIENDS Preparative Meeting, has a degree in accounting and was the auditor of an American firm abroad. "Authorities in JOURNAL the accounting profession are revising practices in many areas," he writes, "and I hope they will eventually move February 1, 1972 in the direction suggested by my article. So far there has Volume 18, Number 3 been only one article in the technical literature on social accounting." Friends Journal is published the first and .fif.teenth _of each month PAUL GRIMLEY KUNTZ is professor of philosophy in Emory (except in June, July, and Au~st, when 1t IS publis~ed monthly) by Friends Publishing Corporation at 152-A North Fifteenth Street, University and in 1970-1971 was a fellow in the Woodrow Philadelphia 19102. Telephone: (215) 563-7669. (Temporary Wilson International Center for Scholars, The Smithsonian office address: 112 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia 19102.) Friends Journal was established in 1955 as the successor to The Institution. He has written a number of articles and sev­ Friend (1827-195S) and Friends lntelligencer (1844-1955). eral books on philosophy. He is a member of Atlanta ALFRED STEFFERUD, Editor Monthly Meeting. JOYCE R. ENNIS, Assistant Editor DEAN FREIDAY is chairman of the Christian and Interfaith DAVID PERRY, Editorial Assistant MYRTLE M. WALLEN, MARGUERITE L HORLANDER, Business Relations Committee of Friends General Conference. A NINA I. SULLIVAN, Circulation Manager member of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, Monthly Meeting, he BOARD OF MANAGERS Daniel D. Test, Jr., Chairman edited Barclay's Apology in Modern English. He is past Richard P. Moses, Treasurer master and present chaplain of Wall Lodge 73, Free and Mildred Binns Young, Secretary Accepted Masons. 1969-1972: Paul Blanshard, Jr., Len Cadwallader, Walter Kahoe, Richard P. Moses, Ada C. Rose, James B. Shuman, JOY BELLE CONRAD-RICE is an activist for women's rights Eileen B. Waring, Gordon D. Whitcraft and is vice-president of the Seattle chapter of National 1970-1973: Laura Lou Brookman, Helen Buckler, Organization for Women. She was a member of the Wash­ Mary Roberts Calhoun, Richard J. Crohn, A. Alexander Morisey, Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Opal Gooden, . ington State Youth Commission. She has published a num­ Francis Hortenstine, William B. Kriebel, Walter H. Partym1ller. ber of articles, book reviews, and essays. She attends 1971-1974: Carol P. Brainerd, Miriam E. Brown, University Monthly Meeting, Seattle. William Hubben, Margaret B. Richie, Daniel D. Test, Jr., Eleanor B. Webb, Elizabeth Wells, Mildred Binns Young. NOW AND THEN is the pen name of Henry J. Cadbury, Subscription: United States, possessions: one year $6, two years Quaker historian and theologian. He is a member of Cen­ $11, three years $15. Foreign countries (including Cana.da and tral Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Mexico): one year $7, two years $13, three years $18. Smgle copies: 35 cents, unless otherwise noted. Sample copies are sent SCOTT CROM, a member of Rock Valley Monthly Meeting, on request. Rockford, Dlinois, is a professor of philosophy in Beloit Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. College. He has written two Pendle Hill Pamphlets and Copyright © 1972 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Requests to reprint excerpts of more than two hundred words should be was clerk of his Meeting. He has been on the staff of addressed to the editor. Pendle Hill. Friends Journal Associates are those who add not less than five JOY MARSHALL is an eligibility worker for the welfare dollars to their subscriptions annually to help meet the over-all cost of publication. Contributions are tax-exempt. department of Tulare County, California. She is deeply concerned about her husband's work in housing for low­ Contents income families in the San Joaquin Valley- the undertak­ ing that caused the family to move from the Philadelphia area six years ago. A member of Lansdowne, Pennsyl­ Friends and the Venetian Idolatry-Clifford Neal Smith 76 vania, Monthly Meeting, she attends Visalia, California, Nonresident Member-John L. P. Maynard ....... ...... 77 Worship Group. As Long as Love Remains-Paul Grimley Kuntz ............ 78 KENNETH JOHNSON is an associate professor in the Uni­ versity of Suffolk. He has written many essays and poems Catholics and The New American Bible-Dean Freiday . 79 that have been published in magazines and anthologies. A Quaker Portrait: Floyd Schmoe- Joy Belle Conrad-Rice .... 81 He is "an avid movie-goer and sports enthusiast and likes Precedents to Current Concerns, Barbados, 1686-Now and Then 83 to take long walks and bike rides." This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made-Scott Crom . 84 CANDIDA PALMER is associated with Quaker Theological A Shelter of Peace-Joy Marshall . 85 Discussion group and its publication, Quaker Religious Thought. She came to the United States from New Zealand · The Rare and the Plentiful-Kenneth Johnson . 85 by way of England and the 1952 Friends World Confer­ Notes on Biblical Hope-Candida Palmer . 86 ence, during which she met her husband, Vail Palmer. Poetry by Herta Rosenblatt, Emilie Carstens, Raymond Paavo THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE COVER, taken by C. Hadley Arvio, Thomas John Carlisle, William Gray, Stanley Smith, of Ithaca, New York, is a view of the campus of Thomas Bennett, and Crystal Palmer Ithaca College, site of the 1972 General Conference for Reviews of Books . 88 Friends. A description of the campus and nearby recre­ Letters to the Editor . 92 ational areas is on page 95. For the first time, the conference will be in an isolated Friends Around the World ...... .................. ... .. 95 location; there will be few persons on the campus who are Reports by Annette Carter, Horst Briickner, Janet Edmunds, not directly involved with Friends. Emphasis will be placed Betsy Eberhardt, John Daniels, Barbara G. Nnoka, and Virgie on developing a community within each housing unit of Bernhardt Hortenstine twenty participants. The overall theme of the conference Sufferings, Coming Events, and Announcements ............. 107 is, "Where Should Friends Be Pioneering?" 74 February I, 1972 FRIENDS JOURNAL and that Yahweh your God brought you out from there Today and with mighty hand and outstretched arm; because of this, Tomorrow Yahweh your God has commanded you to keep the sabbath day. Money, Again Honour your father and your mother, as Yahweh your WE FEEL REGRET every time we hear of the growing God has commanded you, so that you may have long life financial difficulties of religious magazines and of the and may prosper in the land that Yahweh your God gives death of some of them. We are all the poorer when the to you. bell tolls. You shall not kill. The Christian Century announced a sharp increase in You shall not commit adultery. its subscription price (even with it, a yearly deficit of You shall not steal. more than one hundred thousand dollars is foreseen) and You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. gave several reasons why it and similar magazines are You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, you shall having a hard time: An increase of one hundred forty-six not set your heart on his house, his field, his servant­ percent in postal rates for religious periodicals (but twen­ man or woman-his ox, his donkey or anything that is ty-five percent for third-class mail rates); lack of success his. in efforts to reduce deficits through special fund raising; Times change, we thought. So do words and emphasis, and an escalation of all publishing costs ("combined with but not morals and the codes people are called to live by. a stock market recession and a religious depression"). "To sum up the whole matter: fear God, and keep his A rejoinder might be that the magazines deserve to commandments, si nce this is the whole duty of man." suffer or die-they have outlived their usefulness or have Paul wrote to the Corinthians: "And now abideth faith, become overly dull. For The Christian Century, though, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is and for some others (including, we hope, Friends Journal) charity." For "charity" one can read one of a number of that is not true. "On every side," the editors wrote, "we words: caritas, dearness, compassion, love. are gratified by testimony that the Century is more ecumenical, more lively, more needed than ever." Miscellany Two Guides V SOME SENTENCES from an article in The New York Times by Leonard Orland, professor in the Law School TO MAKE SURE they are still there, we looked up the ten of the University of Connecticut: commandments in one of the new translations of the "In the beginning, prisons housed the untried who, if Bible. found guilty, were beheaded or hung or, if more fortunate, This is the part of Deuteronomy we read in The Jeru­ whipped or maimed and then set free. One hundred and salem Bible: fifty years ago, the reformers, principally Quakers, urged You shall have no gods except me. prison as an alternative to death to enable the wicked in You shall not make yourself a carved image or any solitude to see the error of their ways and to reform. likeness of anything in heaven above or: on earth beneath "Since that time, we have been dehumanizing, brutaliz­ or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down ing, and punishing, all in the name of 'treatment'.... to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a "To date, no nation in the world has enacted the jealous God and I punish the fathers' fault in the sons, the standard minimum rules into positive law. To date, no grandsons and the greatgrandsons of those who hate me; American state has enacted any code of rights for prisoners.