Evening star., 1937-03-21
HOSPITAL TO OCCUPY SITE MADE FAMOUS BY FRIENDS
SCHOOL ATTRACTED LEADERS.
Meeting House Was Associated With Succeeding Periods of
Capital History and Had Distinguished Roser-Severa
Local Schools Were Taught by Quakers.

lived to years Of discretion, but the
four sons were weak, and not able
to walk after the ninth or tenth year;
and all died before the age OF 10.
Yet, we are told that their innocent
lives and resigned cheerfulness made
the care of them pleasant. His wife
being an only child, her parents in
vited him, soon after their marriage,
to live with them and carry on the
farm. This place became his home;
he attended the meeting at Jericho;
and beside the meeting house he was
buried at the close of his long and not
uneventful life ="
In one of his sermons Elias Hicks
says: AS many as are led by the
spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
What is the spirit of God? 1t is light
and life in the soul of man. He also
speaks of knowledge of love in our
own souls, adding, all that men or
books can do is to point us to this
great principle, which is only to be
known in our own souls. The way 70
arrive at a knowledge of this divine
love and the way to be enabled 10
fulfill the whole law is to love a. the
creation of God, and do right to all,
men and beasts
Again he speaks of this divine love
and divine light, which he says are
one, indivisibly one The Lord is love,
and love may be considered as COM
pretending all His power and all His
wisdom; but goodness is the most
proper term that we can apply Every
one, he says, is enlightened by the
same divine light that Jesus was en-
lightened with, and we receive it from
the same source. He had the fullness
of it as we have our several allot-
ments.
In his journal Elias speaks Of
Christ in us, the hope of glory, and
makes the bold assertion that : II the
varied names given in Scripture to
this divine light and life, such as EN-
manuel, Jesus, Sent of God, Great
Prophet, Christ our LORD, Grace, Unc-
ton, Anointed, etc, mean one and
the same thing, and are nothing less
nor more than the spirit and power of
God in the soul Of man. as his Creator,
PreServer, Condemner, Redeemer,
Savior, Sanctif1er and Justitier.'''
In 1879 the old Friends Building on
I street was removed and the present
structure erected.
At very early date the Quakers
selected a site for the interment OF
the dead, and laid out plot of ground,
near the Geological Park, g feet
square. Up until a few years ago this
burying ground was still in evidence,
though 1t had not been used for a
long while. 1t stood somewhat to the
rear of $500 Adams Mill road.
THERE have been many prominent
persons who have attended this
old meeting house, but the most nota :
/ Bile, of course, is former PTesiden,
Hoover, who Worshiped there when
he was in Mr.. Coolidges cabinet
| When he became President he more
frequently attended the Orthodo.
Friends Meeting House at Thirteenth
and Irving streets, and late in 1890
| transferred his membership to the
new stone meeting house at Florida
avenue between Phelps place and De
catur place. This is a plain building
quite in keeping with the Quaker idea
OF architecture. 1t has no steeple, nc
bell, no chimes and not even an organ
as the worship is carried on without
| music.
Mr.. Hoover, according to the man.
ner of speaking of Friends, was "borr
Friend His mother was a Quaker
preacher, we'll known in Iowa, where
she Travelled extensively. Mrs. Hoover
| the former Presidents wife. after hel
marriage joined the Friends faith, ane
when in Washington attended the
meeting even more often than did hel
! husband
The Sidwell Friends School, if any.
| thing, is better known than is ths
Meeting House, for here have attended
the children of many outstanding
| Americans and the sons and daughters
of many diplomatic representatives te
the United States from the following
countries: Argentina, Australia, Bo.