QUAKERS AND WAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1941, Page 6

QUAKERS AND WAR

E\c-n a casual acquaintance «h, the history of the SocietyOtSttS would make it quite clear to *S? Dipper that Quakers do not their attitude to -war became? desire for personal safety!-.! quote from Christian ftS being the second part 0 f «tas3£, Discipline of the Religious Soffi Friends :_"\Ve do not surwJs faithfulness to our prma3e«ias always ensure personal safetF £ from it: we are called to fflfe ence which does not count then* . . Christ demands of us flat* adhere without swerving, to<E methods of love, and therefore a, seeming conflict should arisetatni ihe claims of His service andS if the State, it is to Christ tl*s supreme loyalty must be given/ifor ■ver the consequences. Wewnffl lowever remember that whatetS >ur highest loyalty to GodiS lumamty is at the same time™ highest loyalty that we caxTmfr o our nation." I think "J«u Digger would find Quakers, m ess of dancer, succouring thenar nctim m the invasion he nicta* because they believe that aRI ove and creative Jove onlv enfl F. J wo V d of ,he scourge of war. Mar I add that to-<lay such workisheinr indertaken by English FrJeaoHifl he latest news of German FWenfe' via America i says that they area* I iding facilities for improving theit I >f prisoners of war. Love fewsa I ace, colour or creed "•""»»■ g A. R. W. GREGOM. I