Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a handful of Friends wore plain bonnets or broad-brimmed black hats, but the use of the oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were...
Like other Quakers, unaccustomed to the light of publicity, he was afterwards upset .to see his diplomatic slip in print. Two of Japan's 700 Friends talked to reporters before the press agent of the conference, nervous John Reich of the Friends Service Committee, could stop them. Said Quaker Seiju Hirakawa: "The present invasion of China by Japan is motivated by a militaristic clique which is trying to protect the Manchukuo experiment ... a colossal failure. Ninety per cent of Japan is against the present undeclared war. . . ." Said Ryumei Yamano: ''In Japan we have no freedom of speech...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...
Last Sunday Friend Jones spoke to the Conference and the world on an international radio hookup. Said he. "Quakerism as a way of life partakes of a universal spirit. . . . It is a movement at heart mystical, i. e., seeking fellowship with God. . . . Quakers . . . are bound to keep humble and to recognize their littleness. The Quaker philosophy of life sees in a human spirit something that of all things in the universe, is most like that ultimate reality we call God, Who is Spirit. Spirit like ours cannot come from anything else than Spirit...
...Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer (1748-1810) preached doctrines which smacked of Unitarianism, seceded from the Society of Friends to form his own group. *As much as members of a tolerant faith may be, U. S. Friends are currently incensed at the makers of Old Quaker Whiskey, and at advertisements for Old Taylor Whiskey which lately featured a picture and a poem of Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier...