Articles in Quaker Periodicals

64QUAKER HISTORY ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Barbara L. Curtis Evangelical Friend Writing in the issue for February, 1972, Anna Nixon gives an account of mission work in India by American Friends for over 75 years. "Foothold for the Lord" (pp. 12-14) is about activities at Bundelkhand where Everett and Cadierine Cattell spent many years before World War II in missionary work. The Friend William M. Glynn, headmaster of Newtown School from 1949-1961, reflects on the history of Quakers in Ireland and relates this to the current tragic religious situation there.—Feb. 18, 1972, p. 184. The history of the Joseph Rowntree Trusts is described by Richard S. Rowntree in two articles. Objectives of the founder are considered in the first part and discussion of social service grants for study in areas of controversy takes place in the second part.—Feb. 25, March 3, 1972, pp. 217-219, 251-252. "The Beginning of Friends' Work in China," an unsigned article, gives the contributions of the Davidson family to mission work in China from 1886 to the present time.—March 17,1972, pp. 323-324. D. Elton Trueblood gives a summary of his address at Great St. Mary's Church in Cambridge on Whit Sunday this year on the topic, "The Two-fold Secret of John Woolman." —June 2, 1972, pp. 668-669. Friends Journal "The Compleat John Woolman" by Edwin B. Bronner tells die story of the many editions of the Journal of John Woolman. This account is specifically related to the publication in November, 1971, of Phillips Moulton's The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman. —Jan. 15, 1972, pp. 12-13. Alexander C. Purdy writes an article "The Apostle Paul and George Fox: a Comparison." This contains some historical material.—Jan. 15, 1972, pp. 47-48. "Baptism in the Holy Spirit: 1772" by Carlisle Davidson comments on an interesting excursion into earlier Quaker literature not often examined today. He recapitulates the conversion experience of Nicholas Wain as a young man at the Market Street Meeting House, as taken from Wain's own account given in Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Friends, Philadelphia, 1870. —April 1, 1972, p. 235. The seventy-fifth anniversary of die establishment of the hospitality center for Friends in New York City is the occasion for a piece about The Penington by Grace L. Hubbard. —April 15, 1972, p. 265. ...