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This ancient text on tithing still looks sensible to Quaker Perry Hayden, an energetic mill executive of Tecumseh, Mich. Five years ago Hayden launched a dramatic experiment to prove that tithing works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot 4 by 8 ft. Each year he has given a tithe (one-tenth) of the crop to the church, resown the rest. This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels...
...Last week Russian-born Bartender Bitle, 42, went into common pleas court in Philadelphia to make it legal. He found he had failed to reckon with the descendants of another immigrant, one William Biddle, a shoemaker who served in Oliver Cromwell's army, served a jail term for Quaker preachings, and beat William Penn to the New World...
...itself on record was a group prodded by members of the frankly pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. Sixty religious and educational leaders (including Professor Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Professor Henry J. Cadbury of the Harvard Divinity School and Professor Rufus M. Jones of Quaker Haverford College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese are not all entirely evil...
...there were other letters, too. One offered him a job as a gardener. Another read: "Do not fear. ... If you request protection you will get it." One day a group of strangers turned up in his yard. Their leader identified himself as a Quaker, a member of the Friends Service Committee. While neighbors peered, the Quakers cut the lawn, painted out the offending signs, swept the porch. Beaming, Shigeo Nagaishi rushed out with Coca-Cola and cookies, told his good neighbors he had decided to stay in Seattle...
...Arthur, a devout Quaker, lifelong teetotaler and bachelor, more philosopher than scientist, devoted his speculations mostly to the borderland between science and religion. Interested in the questions that science could not answer, he once remarked: "What do we really observe? Relativity theory has returned one answer-we only observe relations. Quantum theory returns another answer-we only observe probabilities...