The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-31

oned, fined and banished the Quakers,
but did not rival the personal cruelty
Of the Puritans and Dutch.
In Maryland the Friends were perse-
cuted. yet their sufferings were small
compared with those of their brethren in
other colonies.
During the seventeenth century the
| Friends in the Caro1inas very in
| f1uental, their influence reaching its
height in Governor Aarchdale, whose
memory is still venerated. On his re-
turn to England, in 1885, he was elected
to parliament from the borough Of Chip
ping Wycombe. and was the first Quaker
| elected to a seat in that body. 'a
| or course the eliminating point Of
Quaker Influence in America The
Holy Experiment Of that man whom John
Fiske rightly calls the greatest of the
proprietary governors-William Penn.
| What he accomplished is SO well known
| that it is needless to dwell upon it here.
| During the revolution the Friends suf-
fered much. Many of their younger men,
bers broke away from the society's dis
cfpline and joined the patriot army, thus
involving the society in internal conten-
tion Neither army spared the Quaker 8
possessions. because while he refused to
assist the Americans with war taxes he
was still more bitterly, opposed to the
! British invader. Yet as soon as the war
was over the Friends accepted the result.
Their difference with their fellow citizens
had not been as to the result desired but
as to the means for obtaining that result.
Friends Work Against Slavery.
More important than the opposition of
the Friends to all war; more important
than their work for the Indian, has been
their influence against slavery.
The first decided action looking towards
emancipation was taken by the German
Friends at Germantown, Philadelphia, in
1888, but the most noted apostle Of free
dom the charming and sanity John
Woolman. From these beginnings the
sentiment grew until, in 1887, there was
not a slave in the possession Of an &C
knowledged Quaker.
The Manumission society was estab-
lished by Friends in North Carolina, in
1916, chiefly through the efforts of Charles
Osborn. This North Carolina Friend was
the first man in America to proclaim the
doctrine Of immediate, and unconditional
emancipation. Osborn proclaimed his
doctrine" says George w. Julian, "wher
William Lloyd Garrison was only years
old. and nearly nine years before that
doctrine was announced by Elizabeth
Hayrick in England. Visiting Boston, Os.
born could hear Of no abolitionists, but
he made the acquaintance. at his board
ing house. Of William Lloyd Garrison
whose attention was thus first directed
to the subject Of abolition ~ -
In the eighteenth century both til,
. English Friends and those in the north
ern states of America turned their iatten
ton to trade. The sect thus becam,
known in England as ''the meek ant
money loving Quakers.'' ..-.. +. -
The gathering of war clouds in the nine
teenth century drove southern Friends b,
thousands from Virginia and the Carroll
mas. The whole west was thus populated
with these God fearing: liberty lovin,
people. T.. q u :.e ~ 49,, > ~. :
. Work for Education. ..-.
The American Friends have always en-
gagged actively in the work of education
George Fox had directed schools to b.
opened where youth could be laugh
everything useful in crea ton prett!
institutions Of learning founded or aidet
by Friends have been Providence school
Haverford college, Westown school il
New England; New Garden Boarding
school. in the south; Earlham college, il
Indiana; Penn; Whittier Wilmington AM
Pacific colleges; Francis university; Brow
university; Bryn Mawr college, and John
Hopkins university.
In literature, besides many Quake
writer's of considerable local note and de
nominational fame, John G.. White
stands prominent as a poet Of the Who'll
. world. -
: Having from the first accorded woma
her true place in the Gospel we hav
sent forth women who have become prom
inent in every branch Of Christian effor
. as Sabbath school workers. presidents 9
w C. T. u unions, and other societies
as teachers, missionaries and ministers
s The notable activity of the Friends a
present is their endeavor to meet the sa
loon problem. The society has decide
to issue a call for a conference of all tn
churches to consider the liquor questio
at the city of Washington in 1906