Articles in Quaker Periodicals

Articles in Quaker Periodicals By Lyman W. Riley The Friend L. Hugh Doncaster describes briefly the character and accomplishments of Samuel Gurney, "prince of merchants," brother of Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry.—June 22, 1956, pp. 563-564. "Tercentenary of a Meeting," by Frederick J. Tritton, tells of the establishment and some of the subsequent history of Kingston-uponThames Meeting.—Sept. 21, 1956, pp. 834-835. Friends fournal Edwin B. Bronner writes of "William Penn—Prophet of the Future," calling him, despite his faults, a great man and a great Quaker. The article is a shortened version of the 1956 Sunderland P. Gardiner Lecture at Canada Yearly Meeting.—June 30, 1956, pp. 406-407. In "The Biddies of Swarthmore College" Mary Sullivan Patterson lists the ten members of this family who, through four generations, served on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College.—July 14, 1956, pp. 439-440. "Moss Rose and 'The Peaceable Kingdom'" are paintings by Friends —the first by William Pegg of England, on china, the second by Edward Hicks of Pennsylvania, on canvas. Bliss Forbush says that each had an uneasy conscience about such an un-Friendly use of his talents; Pegg finally gave up painting but Hicks did not.—Sept. 15, 1956, pp. 591-592 Robert M. Crane presents, in "Growth and Strength in the Written Word," a brief survey of seventeenth-century Quaker literature.—Sept. 22, 1956, pp. 605-607. In "Friendly Philately" Maurice A. Mook describes in an informative way the issue of fourteen stamps commemorating Friends.—Nov. 3, 1956, pp. 703-704. Edmund Goerke recalls the story of "Quakers in Hungary—1662." William Moore and John Philly while on a religious visit to a Hutterite community in Hungary were arrested by the authorities as spies and suffered imprisonment for over a year.—Dec. 1, 1956, p. 771. The Friends' Quarterly George W. Edwards outlines the history of "Friends' Meetings in Westminster" during three centuries, 1656-1956.—July, 1956, pp. 125-128. 62 Articles in Quaker Periodicals63 Richard K. Ullmann makes a careful distinction between truth as objective factual knowledge and truth embodied in a life, or "the truth in which I find myself." He points out, in "The Meaning of 'Truth' Among Early Friends," that early Friends fairly consistently used the word "truth" in its profounder sense.—July, 1956, pp. 129-134. "Robert Lovell, the Quaker Pantisocrat" died in 1796 at Bristol at the age of twenty-four. Rayne Nickalls gives the little that is known of him —his association with Coleridge and Southey in planning their "Pantisocracy " in America, his marriage, and his death. She also prints one of his sonnets.—July, 1956, pp. 135-138. "George Fox's Conception of the Church," according to Lewis Benson, was an integral part of his message from the very beginning of his ministry. He preached the "gospel order" given by Christ and governed by him, into which all Christians must be caught up.—Oct., 1956, pp. 154-163. Ursula Somervill, in "A Quaker Minister Meets George Whitfield," presents two excerpts from the James Jenkins Manuscript Records of Friends House Library. One describes the Quaker minister Rachel Wilson, the other an interview between her and George Whitefield in which Whitefield expresses admiration for and some envy of the Quaker method of ministry.—Oct., 1956, pp. 186-187. The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society Publication of the "A. R. Barclay MSS" is continued from Vol. 44. Writers and recipients of these seventeenth-century letters are Francis Howgill, George Fox, Esther Biddle, John Smith, William Storrs, Samuel Hooton, William Gibson, Ellis Hookes, John Stubbs, Elizabeth Hooton, Isaac Rush, Ralph Frettwell, Mary Hampton, Laurence Steele, William Edmondson, Margaret Fox, and Charles Kerr, second Earl of Ancram.— 46(1954), 78-91. Additional letters by Richard Pindar, George Fox, Thomas Ellis, John Audland, Robert Sandilands, and Thomas Robertson are presented in Vol. 47 (1955), 78-87. Irene L. Edwards' 1954 Presidential Address to the Society, "The Women Friends of London," examines in detail the activities of the TwoWeeks and Box Meetings, from about 1660 to 1890. The women's meetings were designed principally to help needy Friends and others.— 47(1955), 3-21. "Bristol Friends and the...