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Sirs: Your article on Quakerism [TIME, Nov. 18] is not only well researched and ably documented but it also caught the essentials of the Religious Society of Friends as a movement. Noteworthy is your reference to the Quaker method of conducting business. Not as well known as the meeting for worship, the meeting for business is original and unique...
Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government...
...Quaker Economist Balch helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at The Hague in 1915, served on Henry Ford's abortive peace mission in 1916, later lost her Wellesley professorship for pacifism. As the WILPF's honorary president, she still crusades for its principles. She explains her vigor by a quotation: "My grandfather used to say that an old woman is as tough as a boiled owl." Recovering from bronchial asthma in a Wellesley hospital last week, she was delighted at the "genuine honor-my friends have been trying...
...From Philadelphia the split spread, resulting in bitter lawsuits, un-Quakerly polemics. Even today some Orthodox Friends look askance at the indifference of many Hicksites to formal theology. Some Hicksites feel an "uneasiness" at Orthodox attitudes. But the conciliatory principles of Friends, and above all the joint management of such Quaker ministrations as the American Friends Service Committee, have made a healing of the breach inevitable, however slow...
...traditional Quaker ministry is unpaid, drawn from the rank & file of the meeting, any member of whom could theoretically qualify. But today many meetings - chiefly west of the Appalachians - employ regular pastors † One non-Quaker deeply affected by Elias Hicks was Walt Whitman. He considered Hicks's preaching one of the great experiences of his boyhood, kept a picture of Hicks in his bedroom as long as he lived...