Articles in Quaker Periodicals

Articles in Quaker Periodicals By Lyman W. Riley University of Pennsylvania Library The Friend (London) "Father of Railway Time-Tables" was George Bradshaw (18011853 ). Bernard Canter contributes a note on a few of his activities not connected with the railways.—Sept. 11, 1953, p. 845. Henry J. Cadbury finds, in "John Wesley's Relations with Friends," both agreement and controversy. Wesley thought the Quietist Friends of his own time were lacking in religious fervor.—Sept. 11, 1953, pp. 851852 . In "Friends and the Threats to Civil Liberties" Henry J. Cadbury summarizes some of the civil-liberty problems early Friends faced and mentions the means they used to meet them.—Oct. 16, 1953, pp. 955-957. Doris N. Dalglish writes a note "In Memory of Amelia Opie" (17691853 ), English novelist and poet, who joined the Society of Friends in 1825.—Nov. 27, 1953, pp. 1071-1072. Henry J. Cadbury describes "The Scene of 'Fierce Feathers' " and prints the earliest known written account (1786) of this encounter between Friends and Indians, at Easton Meeting, New York, in 1777.—Dec. 11, 1953, pp. 1151-1152. In "Revised Views of Quaker Origins" Henry J. Cadbury, reviewing recent American studies of seventeenth-century England, suggests that studying early Quakerism in its milieu may change our understanding of its nature.—Jan. 1, 1954, pp. 5-7. "Centenary of a Quaker Mission to Russia," by L. Hugh Doncaster, tells of Joseph Sturge, Henry Pease, and Robert Charleton, who were appointed by the Meeting for Sufferings in 1853 to deliver an address to the czar of Russia in an attempt to avert war between Russia and Great Britain.—Jan. 15, 1954, pp. 41-43. "John Bellers (1654-1725)" was a man ahead of his time in his proposals of help for the poor and for a European congress of nations. A. Ruth Fry contributes this note on a man "typical of what a Quaker should be."—Feb. 5, 1954, pp. 97-98. A summary of an address by T. Canby Jones on "Jesus Christ in the Message of George Fox" concludes that for Fox Christ was transcendent Saviour rather than immanent Principle.—Mar. 26, 1954, pp. 262-263. "Thomas Shillitoe—Christian Eccentric (1754-1837)" by Beatrice Saxon Snell describes some of the personal characteristics of this traveling Friend as well as his effective religious work—Nov. 5, 1954, pp. 11111113 . 63 64Bulletin of Friends Historical Association Friends Intelligencer "The Quakers' Text" (Letter from the Past No.. 146) is John 1:9: "That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world"; "Now and Then" reflects on its relation to the traditional Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light.—Aug. 7, 1954, p. 442. Emma H. Landon tells of a visit to Canada Yearly Meeting during which she worshiped in the old Yonge Street Meetinghouse, built 18081810 ; she gives the original minute from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting that established the Yonge Street Meeting in 1804.—Aug. 14, 1954, pp. 453454 . Letter from the Past No. 147 is on "Friends and the Healers"; it mentions two Friends who suffered from unidentified diseases: Anne, Viscountess of Conway, and John Greenleaf Whittier.—Sept. 11, 1954, p. 504. "Hurricanes and Steeplehouses" (Letter from the Past No. 148) includes the interesting speculation that the term "steeplehouse," for the early Friends, may not have been a term of opprobrium but merely the avoidance of the use of the word "church" for a building.—Sept. 25, 1954 pp. 530-531. The Friends' Quarterly Geoffrey F. Nuttall examines the relationship between "Early Quakerism and Early Primitive Methodism" as found in the lives and works of two Methodists, Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (17801851 ).—July, 1953, pp. 179-187. "Friends' Relationship to the British and Foreign Bible Society in its Early Years" by L. Hugh Doncaster tells of individual Friends who played a part in founding the Society and in spreading its branches throughout England and other countries. The author concludes that Friends' association with the Bible Society helped to bring them out of their "introspection" and into active Christian citizenship.—October, 1953, pp. 208-222. In "Quakerism as a Weapon: Complex Irony in Voltaire," Macdonald Emslie carefully analyzes the language of the four...