Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung...
Also central to the Quaker view is the exasperating belief that a God of Love cannot be at the same time a God of War, that the injunction which gives Christianity its specific spirit is Christ's specific injunction not to use force...
...world's people" know what Quakers are up to when they sit, hands folded patiently, in hour-long silence. They are listening, as some Friends say, "in the silence of all flesh." For central to the Quaker view is the belief that man is a moral ruin, that only in the silent suspension of man's common activities can God "work in and direct the soul" as "by an invasion, a breaking in, a prevailing of the Divine...
...Detroit last week some 100 worshipers and two priests sang and prayed as silently as a Quaker meeting. They were participating in a mission for the deaf and dumb in St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church. Services were carried on in sign language by Fathers William Bernard Heitker and Raymond Charles Kalter...
Smith girls, drifting into pretty Northampton for college's opening last week, found the place in a town v. gown stew. A. Burns Chalmers, the college's pacifistic Quaker chaplain, is host to a 27-year-old mathematical physicist, Schuichi Kusaka, born in Japan, newly appointed to the Smith faculty. Kusaka was in Northampton with the approval of the FBI, but some townsmen had found his presence unfair "to those who have died...