【英文读物】The Message and Mission of Quakerism
32页1、【英文读物】The Message and Mission of QuakerismFOREWORD The two addresses which compose this book were delivered at the Five Years Meeting of the Society of Friends held in Indianapolis, Indiana, from October 15th to 22nd, 1912. They were listened to with profound interest and appreciation, and were approved by a Minute which also ordered their publication, in order that the wider group of Friends, and all others who are interested in the message and mission of a religion of this type, might have the
2、 opportunity to read them. It is a plain duty of any religious body to put its truths into circulation, and to reinterpret again and again the vital principles by which its members live and work. Here in this little book will be found in convenient form a fresh and illuminating expression of the truths, principles and ideals of present-day Quakerism and some of the practical problems confronting the modern world which the application of these truths, principles 4and ideals might solve. The reade
3、r will discover that the writers live in the Twentieth Century and that they are “speaking to the condition” of the age. Rufus M. Jones. Haverford, Pennsylvania12th mo. 9th, 1912 PART I THE ESSENTIALS OF QUAKERISM BY WILLIAM C. BRAITHWAITE Introductory Words It is with great diffidence that we from England venture to speak to the American Yearly Meetings. Our circumstances and the problems we have to face are often so different that it would be presumptuous in us to feel that we had advice on ma
4、tters of detail that would deserve very great attention from you. But when it comes to our common history and to the common inheritance we have in the principles and faith of the Society of Friends, we may speak freely. We represent the main body of those who call themselves “Friends.” The Yearly Meetings from which we come connect by continuous history with the first Quaker Churches of two hundred and fifty years 12ago. Of course when we compare ourselves as we are now, with the first Friends,
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