The Quaker reader /
West, Jessamyn.
Provides insights into the Quaker faith through an anthology of extracts from the writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, composed between 1650 and 1962.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-538).
Provides insights into the Quaker faith through an anthology of extracts from the writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, composed between 1650 and 1962.
Part One: The Beginnings. "By Their Gods Ye Shall Know Them" / Gerald Bullett -- "That All May Know the Dealings of the Lord with Me..." / George Fox -- "For of Light Came Sight" / William Penn -- "The Little Quaking Lad" / Joseph Besse -- "They Teach Dangerous Principles" / Joseph Besse -- "There is a Spirit That Delights to Do No Evil" / Willem 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 Utterance of Persons Who Were Plain" / Rufus M. Jones -- "...More Dispensations of Life and Mercy than One" / Isaac Penington -- "...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 Dress and One Colour" / Margaret Fell -- "Turn Thy Mind to the Light" / Robert Barclay -- "We Are But Men Whom They Offend" / John Bellars -- "War and Christianity Are...Opposite Ends of a Balance" / Jonathan Dymond -- Part Two: The Quakers Established. "I Was Taught to Watch the Pure Opening" / John Woolman -- The Religion of the Quakers / Voltaire -- "...Gay without Levity,...Cheerful without Loud Laughs" / Hector St. John de Crèvecœur -- Comrade Iwan Visits Friend John Bertram / Hector St. John de Crèvecœur -- "Stitch Away, Thou Noble Fox" / Thomas Carlyle -- 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.
Part Three: Quakers in the World. "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 M. Jones / Elizabeth Gray Vining -- "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 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 -- "The little Spark That Hath Appeared" / Robert Barclay.
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