The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-12
FINE LECTURES BY
DR.. RUFUS NJ. JONES
Editor of 1.-The American
Friend" Spoke in Richmond
Sunday and Yesterday.
A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR
BRILLIANT SCHOLAR
ALL HIS ADDRESSES WELL At
TENDED AND HIGHLY iNSTRUC-
TIVE-BRiEF SYNOPSIS OF
THEM is GIVEN.

Rufus M. Jones, editor of the Am
| erican Friend and number of the
| faculty of Haverford college in accor-
| dance with the directions of the Five
| Years Meeting of Friends, delivered
four lectures in this city Sunday and
yesterday. His opening address was
delivered at the East Main street
Friends church Sunday morning, the
| subject being on George Fox and
| his life and teachings.
/ In the evening he delivered a lee
i ture at the South Eighth street
Friends church in which he told of
The Message of The Primative Qua
kers of the World
Rufus NJ. Jones third lecture. given
/ Monday morning at Earlham college,
was on the subject, Some Contribu-
| tons of Quakerism to the Progress of
| the World"
| He said that he had nothing new
and original to present at that time
| but rather a collection of well-known
| things. In part as follows:
There are many gains to the race
which we Friends have helped to Sc
cure.
1 ThSt-SSudhtIloI1 10 Il
religion of Veracity. Prof. James, of
Harvard university, has called the
Quaker religion religion of vera
| city The Friends would substitute
| nothing for the real knowledge and
experience in their own lives.
acknowledgement conception of
worship. This is another great contri-
button to the world. God and man
actually meet in the soul of man.
There should be nothing in the meet
ing for worship which does not fur
Their the meeting of the soul with
God
''Third-Friends contribution to the
religion of joy. The Puritan life was
serious for the outcome of the battle
with evil was uncertain.
'.Fourth-Quaker devotion to ideals.
The Quaker has persistently lived for
ideals and when the time for it he
has consistently died for them.
.'Fffth-Quaker estimate of the
worth of man. The Quaker fought
his battle for the divine right of men,
Quakers have been in the lead III civ
ic reform in many large cities of Eng
land as we'll as in the late struggle in
Philadelphia. One Friend of Rich
mond has been very prominent in
these lines of reform, Timothy Mich
olson.
Sixth--The Quaker experiment in
government. The experiment to make
a more complete democracy than had
ever been before, has now become a
fact in PENNSYLVANIA. shere are now
nine Quakers in the British House of
Parliament.
"Seventh-Friends in the field of
education Geo Fox started a school
in which he wanted everything civil
and useful in creation at ALL
Schools have always gone with
Friends settlements. Cornell and
Johns Hopkins universities and
Bryn Mawr college were all founded
by Quakers and besides there are
nine Quaker colleges and universities
in the United States.
Friends recognize the divine right
of women. Before God, gifts and
personality are the only things that
count Sex makes no difference.
These then are some of the contri-
buttons of the Friends to the progress
of the world
Last evening at Earlham he deliver
ed his fourth and last lecture on
Message of Quakerism for the Pres
ent Century" In part he said Early
Quakers did not think of themselves
as set but sought to receive the
apostolic religion and chose as their
sacred word. Truth We can not
hope to survive as a church on our
birth gains alone We are compelled
to propagate our truths We must have
some truth to propagate