Word: quakerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...
...suggest that if you are trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
Never primarily evangelists, Quakers have lately scrutinized converts more carefully than ever, have delayed the admission of many a draft-age applicant. Their fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World...
Last week serious-minded, serious-mannered Quaker delegates opened their business sessions at Cape May with silent periods of meditation, conducted meetings with as little fuss as they do their worship. Exception: a speech by well-loved Frank Aydelotte (who last month left the presidency of Quaker Swarthmore College to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.) discussing Clarence Streit's Federal Union. His listeners applauded Dr. Aydelotte so loudly that other Friends, surprised, left round-table discussions upstairs, hurried to see what was the matter...