Contributor
West, Jessamyn, ed.
Imprint:New York : Viking Press, [1962]
Description522 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:PART ONE: THE BEGINNINGS: England in the 17th century: "By their Gods ye shall know them" / Gerald Bullett -- The Message of George Fox: "That all may know the dealings of the Lord with me..." / George Fox -- The First Publishers of Truth: "For of light came sight" / William Penn -- The Convinced (I): "The little quaking lad..." / Joseph Besse -- "They teach dangerous principles" / Joseph Besse -- "There is a spirit that delights to do no evil" / William Sewel -- "I durst not mock him with a form" / Mary Penington -- "Now was all my former life ripped up" / Thomas Ellwood -- The trial of William Penn / William Penn -- "Mary Dyer did hang as a flag" / Horatio Rogers -- "I ventured my throat for my religion" / Daniel Roberts -- "... like slobbering beasts and swine" / Joseph Besse -- "... an offer of their own bodies" / Joseph Besse -- THE CONVICTIONS (I): "The utterance of persons who were plain ..." / Rufus M. Jones -- "... more dispensations of life and mercy than one" / Isaac Peninton -- "... According as the spirit teaches" / Isaac Penington -- "The book of cookery has outgrown the Bible" / William Penn -- "I am your loving friend" / William Penn -- "Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity" / William Penn -- "...As if God was an old man" / William Penn -- "All in one dess and one colour..." / Margaret Fell -- "Turn thy mind to the light" / Robert Barclay -- "We are bu men whom they offend" / John Bellers -- "War and Christianity are ... opposite ends of a balance" / Jonathan Dymond.
Note:PART TWO: THE QUAKERS ESTABLISHED: "In the service of the Gospel" : "I was taught to watch the pure opening" / John Woolman -- The Quaker observed: The religion of the Quakers / Voltaire -- "... gay without levity, ... cheerful without loud laughs" / Hector St. John de Crèvecœur -- "Stitch away, thou noble Fox" / Thomas Carlyle -- Birthright Quakers: First-day thoughts / John Greenleaf Whittier -- "It must be in the spirit, not of judgment, but of mercy" / Elizabeth Fry -- "Treat them as brethern, and not as slaves" / Joseph Clark -- The president of the underground railway / Fernando G. Cartland -- "Hurrah for Quakerism!" / Caroline Fox -- "The blood of Christ ... no more effectual than the blood of bulls and goats" / Walt Whitman -- "The fullness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass" / D. Elton Trueblood -- "... too late to become an abolitionist now" / Elizabeth Buffum Chace -- The little iron soldier / John Greenleaf Whittier.
Note:PART THREE: QUAKERS IN THE WORLD: Children of birthright Quakers: "Social layers of increasing splendor" / Logan Pearsall Smith -- "I am broad, broader, broadest" / Hannah Whitall Smith -- "Had Jesus what thee calls common sense, James?" / Helen Thomas Flexner -- "... A unique laboratory experiment which worked" / Rufus M. Jones -- The sense of the meeting / Rufus M. Jones -- I go to Philadelphia / Rufus M. Jones -- The mysticism of Rufus Jones / Elizabeth Gray Vining -- The Convinced (2): "Feeding upon the bread of life..." / Caroline Stephen -- "No other religion than the will of God" / Caroline Stephen -- "Not Quakerism but truth" / Caroline Stephen -- "Before they find it, they rest in authority" / Emil Fuchs -- "...invisible but existential" / William Hubben -- The Convictions (2) "The Society of Friends does not hide its light under a bushel" / Stuart Chase -- "To serve Christ, not to feel Christ..." / William Littleboy -- "For him that is joined to all living there is hope" / Douglas V. Steere -- "Go straight at it without leaning on any kind of intermediary help" / Teresina R. Havens -- "... a true friend in a totalitarian state" / Nora Waln -- "The earth is the Lord's" / A. Ruth Fry -- Comrade Ivan / Tom Copeman -- "Unity, with diversity" / anonymous -- "Silence helps the spirit in man" / Max Picard -- "The spirit of seeking" / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- "That little spark that hath appeared..." / Robert Barclay.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography.
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