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Articles inQuakerVerioàkâs By Edwin B. Bronner Concern In "Divine Election," Richard Heath Hendricks compares the beliefs of Robert Barclay, John Calvin, and James Arminius concerning salvation.—Oct., 1964, pp. 15-27. The Friend Amy E. Wallis tells about the history of Friends in the Newcastle area in "The Setting of London Yearly Meeting, 1964."—June 19, 1964, pp. 743-746. In "250 Years of Godalming Meeting House," Walter Macdonald Wigfield tells the early history of Friends in this location in Surrey.—July 17, 1964, pp. 861-863. Friends Journal In "Painter of Peaceable Kingdoms," Walter Teller provides us with a vignette of Edward Hicks.—June 15, 1964, pp. 271-272. Letter from the Past Number 208, entitled "A Quaker Honest to God," points out that this phrase was used by Anthony Benezet in the eighteenth century, long before the Bishop of Woolwich published his book.—July 1, 1964, pp. 298-299. George A. Walton records his "Recollections of Past Conferences" in the Friends General Conference Issue.—Aug. 1, 1964, pp. 338, 356. Letter from the Past Number 209, "An Alternate Birthplace for Quakerism ," summarizes the facts which indicate that George Fox began to make converts several years before 1652.—Aug. 15, 1964, pp. 378-379. Howard Brinton provides some background in Quaker history in an essay entitled "How the Queries Evolved."—Sept. 15, 1964, pp. 421-423. In Letter from the Past Number 210, "Five Postscripts," Henry J. Cadbury adds information to Letters 189, 198, 201, 203, and 207.—Sept. 15, 1964, pp. 426-427. In Letter from the Past Number 211, "Who Paid for Woolman's Coffin?" two John Bisphams are distinguished from one another, and it is pointed out that the younger one paid for Woolman's coffin.—Nov. 1, 1964, pp. 494-495. Richard Wood outlines some of the early history of Quaker education in Philadelphia in an essay entitled "Early Friends Schools—'Public' and 'Select'." —Nov. 1, 1964, pp. 498-499. In Letter from the Past Number 212, "Individual Faithfulness," Henry J. Cadbury describes an interview in the White House with Herbert Hoover.— Nov. 15, 1964, pp. 524-525. Lydia Caroline Cadbury publishes "A Quaker Girlhood" in three parts, describing her life at Westtown and as a young Friend early in the twentieth century.—Nov. 15, pp. 519-521; Dec. 1, pp. 550-553; Dec. 15, 1964, pp. 577-580. Letter from the Past Number 213, "George Fox on Christmas," quotes a comment written in shorthand which has recently been deciphered, denouncing those who engage in debauchery at Christmas time.—Dec. 15, 1964, pp. 573-574. In "Hannah Kilham, Rediscovered," Edwin B. Bronner explains the new interest in this Quaker educator and refers to a letter in which she described her interest in the Seneca language as well as African languages.—Jan. 1, 1965, pp. 8-9. Friends Quarterly "Thomas Mullen and Robert Barclay on the Ministry" by Ronny W. Eskreis discusses the task of the modern Friends minister in the light of the writings of Barclay.—Oct., 1964, pp. 542-550. 62 ...

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