23.01 Advices IV, ¶4, 1964.
23.02 No cross, no crown, 2nd edn, 1682, part 1, ch5 §12; William Penn, A collection of the works, 1726, vol1, p296; Select works, 1782, vol2, p53.
23.03 H G Wood, ‘The nature of Christian responsibility for the industrial and social order’, Friends quarterly, vol13 (1959-1961), pp19-20; quotation from Horace Bushnell.
23.04 Eva I Pinthus, ‘Faith and politics hand in hand?’, The Friend, vol145 (1987), p483.
23.05 William Charles Braithwaite, The second period of Quakerism, 1919, p596.
23.06 Lucy F Morland, The new social outlook (Swarthmore lecture), 1919, p45.
23.07 Testimony of Marsden MM concerning John Bright, YM Proc, 1889, Appendix C, pxii.
23.08 Roger Wilson, ‘Silver and gold have I none’, in Jim Platts & David Eversley, eds, Public resources and private lives, 1976, pp225-226.
23.09 Michael Sorensen, Working on self-respect, 1986, p55.
23.10 Gordon Matthews, ‘Mixing prayer and politics’, The Friend, vol147 (1989), p717.
23.11 ‘To the present distracted and broken nation’, 1659, Edward Burrough, The memorable works of a son of thunder, 1672, p604.
23.12 Harvey Gillman, A light that is shining: an introduction to the Quakers, 1988, pp48-49; 2nd edn, 1997, p56.
23.13 William Charles Braithwaite, The second period of Quakerism, 1919, pp596-597.
23.14 ‘A plea for the poor’, 1763, ch3 and ch13 , John Woolman, The journal and major essays, ed Phillips P Moulton, 1971, pp241, 262.
23.15 Pierre Ceresole, Vivre sa vérité: carnets de route, 2nd edn, 1950, pp194, 196; translated by Edward Dommen for the 1994 Revision Committee.
23.16 ‘Foundations of a true social order’, approved by London Yearly Meeting 1918, and printed in London YM Proc, 1918, pp80-81. The quotations in the preamble are from John Woolman, ‘A plea for the poor’, ch10, in The journal and major essays, ed Phillips P Moulton, 1971, p255.
23.17 Joseph Rowntree, from an essay ‘Pauperism in England and Wales’, 1865, quoted in Anne Vernon, A Quaker business man: the life of Joseph Rowntree, 1836-1925, 1958, p64.
23.18 Joseph Rowntree, memorandum to the Rowntree trustees, 1904, quoted in Anne Vernon, A Quaker business man: the life of Joseph Rowntree, 1836-1925, 1958, p64.
23.19 Query 20, 1964.
23.20 Letter from Richard Allen, The Friend, vol142 (1984), pp765-766.
23.21 Minute 30 of London Yearly Meeting 1987, London YM Proc, 1987, p225.
23.22 Martin Wyatt, ‘Responding to poverty’, Gifts and discoveries: phase 2A, 1988, unit 4, background paper 3, p4.
23.23 Richard Hilken, ‘First steps towards a housing testimony’, Friends quarterly, vol 27 (1992-1993), p160, with additions by the author, 1993.
23.24 Extracts from the minutes and advices of the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in London, 1783, p227. Minute of Yearly Meeting 1727 (see manuscript minutes, vol6, pp457-458). The minute reaffirms the answer given by the YM correspondents to Friends of Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, 17 vi [August] 1713, and to Friends of Pennsylvania, 3 viii [October] 1715.
23.25 Epistle of YM 1772, repr in Epistles from the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in London…from 1681 to 1857, 1858, vol2, p10.
23.26 Yearly Meeting, An address to the inhabitants of Europe on the iniquities of the slave trade, 1822 , pp8, 10.
23.27 Minute 27 of London YM, 1958, London YM Proc, 1958, p238.
23.28 Reginald Sorensen, An analysis of slavery, 1966, pp6-7.
23.29 James Challis & David Elliman in association with the Anti-Slavery Society, Child workers today, 1979, pp1, 3, 170.
23.30 Introduction to London Yearly Meeting session ‘The contagion of torture’, London YM Proc, 1974, p49.
23.31 Statement adopted by FWCC at its 13th triennial, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1976.
23.32 Ursula Franklin, Perspectives on Friends’ testimonies in today’s world (Sunderland P Gardner lecture), 1979, pp3-4.
23.33 Unpublished writing by Meg Maslin, 1990.
23.34 Testimony of Purley & Sutton MM concerning Dorothy Fell Kenworthy Case, 1979, London YM Proc, 1979, p167.
23.35 Epistle from London Junior YM, 1988, London YM Proc, 1988, p259.
23.36 Statement of intent on racism, made by Meeting for Sufferings on behalf of London Yearly Meeting, 1988; the wording differs slightly from that in London YM Proc, 1988, pp57-58.
23.37 Jonathan Griffith, ‘The meaning of severe disability’; paper delivered at a QSRE conference ‘Attitudes to disability’, Birmingham, 14 November 1981, duplicated typescript.
23.38 Carol Gardiner, ‘Thinking about Yearly Meeting’, Quaker monthly, vol68 (1989) pp169-170, with minor amendments by the author.
23.39 Lucretia Mott, speaking at the Women’s Rights Meeting, West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1852, quoted in Margaret Hope Bacon, Lucretia Mott speaking: extracts from the sermons and speeches (Pendle Hill pamphlet 234), 1980, p14.
23.40 Epistle of the First International Theological Conference of Quaker Women held at Woodbrooke, 1990, [Conference proceedings] 1990, p4.
23.41 Lucretia Mott, ‘Memoranda on herself’ (undated, after 1840) quoted in Margaret Hope Bacon, Lucretia Mott speaking: extracts from the sermons and speeches (Pendle Hill pamphlet 234), 1980, pp7, 8.
23.42 Pauline Leader, ‘A sexist view’ in QHS & Woodbrooke College, Freeing each other: a Quaker study pack on sexism, 1986, sheet B28.
23.43 Elizabeth Bathurst, The sayings of women...in several places of the Scriptures, 1683, p23.
23.44 Quaker Women’s Group, Bringing the invisible into the light (Swarthmore lecture), 1986, p4; and Quaker Women’s Group advice and query in QHS & Woodbrooke College, Freeing each other: a Quaker study pack on sexism, 1986, pD51, quoting Quaker Women’s Group newsletter, no 10 (January 1982), f 8.
23.45 Tessa Fairweather, ‘Glad to be in Leeds’, Young Quaker, vol39 (1993), no4, p12.
23.46 Letter from Susan Rooke-Matthews, The Friend, vol151 (1993), p953.
23.47 Grigor McClelland, And a new earth (Swarthmore lecture), 1976, p83.
23.48 Parker J Palmer, A place called community (Pendle Hill pamphlet 212), 1977, p27.
23.49 Martin Wyatt, ‘Faith in the people’, QSRE journal, vol8 (1986), no3, pp21-22.
23.50 Jonathan Dale, ‘Who is my neighbour?’, QSRE journal, vol10 (1988), no 3, pp20-21. The extract as printed is amended by the author.
23.51 Testimony of Hertford & Hitchin MM concerning Stephen Hobhouse, 1961, London YM Proc, 1962, pp70-71.
23.52 Deborah Haines, ‘Living in harmony with Heaven on earth’ in John L Bond, ed, Friends search for wholeness, 1978, p139.
23.53 David Eversley, ‘Conclusion’ in Jim Platts & David Eversley, eds, Public resources and private lives, 1976, pp244-245.
23.54 Jim Platts, ‘Towards wholeness’ in Jim Platts & David Eversley, eds, Public resources and private lives, 1976, pp192-193.
23.55 Rachel Jackson, ‘Small business: big rewards’, QSRE journal, vol12 (1990), no1, p20.
23.56 Jane Stokes, ‘Work from a family perspective’, in QSRE, Life and work: some Quakers look at work and its place in our lives, 1992, pp20-21.
23.57 Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited, preamble to revised Articles of Association, 23 March 1963.
23.58 Testimony of Hereford & Radnor MM concerning Arthur Basil Reynolds, 1961, London YM Proc, 1961, p185.
23.59 Testimony of Kingston MM concerning Percy Cleave, 1958, London YM Proc, 1959, pp197-198.
23.60 Testimony of Southampton & Portsmouth MM concerning Joan Frances Layton, 1990, London YM Proc, 1991, pp151-152.
23.61 Epistle of London YM 1911, London YM Proc, 1911, p166-167.
23.62 Edward W Fox, Quakers and modern industry: a dialogue about human relations, 1969, p25.
23.63 Helen Edwards, ‘Balancing family and work’, The Friend, vol150 (1992), pp435-436.
23.64 Unpublished writing by Jane Stokes, 1992.
23.65 Grigor McClelland, And a new earth (Swarthmore lecture), 1976, pp72-73.
23.66 Gerald Littleboy, ‘Service: an interpretation for Quakers’, London YM Proc, 1946, p52. (Quotation from Christian practice, 1925, §6, p166, drafted by 1925 Revision Committee.)
23.67 George Clarke, People, technology and unemployment, 1973, p1.
23.68 John Bellers, An essay towards the improvement of physick, 1714, p37; repr in George Clarke, ed, John Bellers: his life, times and writings, 1987, p204.
23.69 Shipley N Brayshaw, Unemployment and plenty (Swarthmore lecture), 1933, p101.
23.70 Minute 19 of London Yearly Meeting 1978, London YM Proc, 1978, pp311-312.
23.71 George Fox, Journal, ed J L Nickalls, 1952, p520 (entry for 1668).
23.72 Epistle of Bristol Yearly Meeting 1695, quoted in A Neave Brayshaw, The Quakers, their story and message, 2nd edn, 1927, p182, 1953 edn, p211; not in 1st edn.
23.73 Janet Scott, in Elizabeth R Perkins, ed, Affirmation, communication and co-operation: papers from the QSRE conference on education, July 1988, 1988, pp73-74. The order of some sentences has been changed.
23.74 Friends Schools Joint Council, Quakers and their schools, 1980, p6. The Isaac Penington quotation is from An examination of the grounds and causes which are said to induce the Court of Boston, in New England, to make that order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers, 1659, p84; repr in Isaac Penington, Works, 1681, part 1, p240; 1761 edn, vol1, p321; 1784 edn, vol1, p444
23.75 Barbara Windle, in Elizabeth R Perkins, ed, Affirmation, communication and co-operation, 1988, p108.
23.76 D June Ellis, ‘Are we being educated?’. Presidential address to the Guild of Friends in Education, 1981, duplicated typescript, p2.
23.77 Sarah Worster, in Elizabeth R Perkins, ed, Affirmation, communication and co-operation, 1988, pp86-87.
23.78 Barbara Windle, in Elizabeth R Perkins, ed, Affirmation, communication and co-operation, 1988, pp107, 106-107.
23.79 Caroline C Graveson, Religion and culture (Swarthmore lecture), 1937, pp21-22.
23.80 William Fraser, Einige Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten der Erziehung (Richard L Cary Vorlesung), 1973, pp13-14; translation by William Fraser.
23.81 ‘On schools’ [probably 1758], John Woolman, The journal and essays, ed A M Gummere, 1922, p392; not in John Woolman, The journal and major essays, ed Phillips P Moulton, 1971.
23.82 Written by John Guest, 1987, for the 1994 Revision Committee.
23.83 From a paper read at the meeting of Friends Educational Society, 1841, and printed in FES, Five papers on the past proceedings and experience of the Society of Friends in connexion with ...education, 1843, pp96-97. The passage is from a document written by one of the proprietors of a school for girls in York, founded in 1784.
23.84 Eva I Pinthus, Peace education, [1983], p2, based on the introduction to a session of London Yearly Meeting 1982.
23.85 Janet Gilbraith, ‘Hope and imagination’, in QSRE, Learners all: Quaker experiences in education, 1986, pp62-63.
23.86 A just and righteous plea presented unto the king of England, 1661, p24, repr in Edward Burrough, The memorable works of a son of thunder, 1672, p786 (misnumbered 778).
23.87 William Robertson, Life and times of John Bright, 1892, vol2 p266 (speech in the House of Commons, 17 July 1882); see Hansard, 3rd series, vol272, col 722 ff.
23.88 T Edmund Harvey, ‘The individual and the state’, in Friends World Conference 1937, Official report, p36.
23.89 Statement presented to London Yearly Meeting 1915, by young men of enlistment age, printed in London YM Proc, 1915, p193.
23.90 Statement issued by Meeting for Sufferings, 7 xii 1917, and printed in London YM Proc, 1918, p9.
23.91 Epistle of London YM 1990, London YM Proc, 1990, p235.
23.92 Minute 157 of Adjourned London Yearly Meeting, 1st month 1916, London YM Proc, 1916, pp241-242.
23.93 ‘The Society of Friends and military conscription’, adopted by Meeting for Sufferings, 6 iv 1945, London YM Proc, 1945, pp34-35.
23.94 Drafted by 1911 and amended by 1925, 1959 and 1994 Revision Committees.
23.95 Harold Loukes, The discovery of Quakerism, 1960, p118.
23.96 Select Committee on Capital Punishment, Report, 1930, §283; letter from John Bright to Martin H Bovee, Wisconsin, 3 January 1868.
23.97 ‘Statement on the death penalty’ contained in minute 39 of London Yearly Meeting, London YM Proc, 1956, p241.
23.98 Elizabeth Fry, Observations on the visiting of female prisoners, 1827, pp21-22.
23.99 Memoir of the life of Elizabeth Fry... edited by two of her daughters [Katherine Fry & Rachel Cresswell], 1847, vol2, p182; reprinted in Mrs Francis Cresswell [Rachel Cresswell], A memoir of Elizabeth Fry: by her daughter...abridged from the larger memoir, 1868, pp183-184; quoted in John Lampen, Mending hurts (Swarthmore lecture), 1987, p24. The passage, by Priscilla Buxton (later Johnston), relates to 1834.
23.100 Charles Tylor, ed, Memoirs of Elizabeth Dudley, 1861, pp72-73, (entry for 1818).
23.101 John Lampen, Mending hurts (Swarthmore lecture), 1987, pp71, 73.
23.102 Six Quakers, ‘A testimony against punishment’, Friends quarterly, vol23 (1983-1985), p472; repr from The Friend, vol141 (1983), p1425, with minor alteration. The passage was originally drafted in 1981 by the Friends who wrote Six Quakers look at crime and punishment, 1979.
23.103 John Lampen, Mending hurts (Swarthmore lecture), 1987, pp49, 53, 55, 57, 61, 63.
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