QUAKERS AND MUSKETS
TO THE EDITOR OB 1 THE PRESS. Sir, —The Governor of Rotary for New Zealand, in his speech to the National Rotary Conference on the European situation; is reported tP have said: “Had the Quakers not taken the musket with the Bible to America; the war-whoops Would have echoed over their burning villages.” The inference conveyed thereby is obvious, but I would submit unwarranted, in the light of early Quaker history in Pennsylvania. William Penn’s speech to the Indians When the first treaty was made was, according to Dixon, couched in the following Words: “The Great Spirit Who made you and me and all men knows that I and my children wish to live in peace and friendship with the Indians. It is hot ouf custom to use rifles or trust to the sword. We have come to you unarmed: we meet you on the broad pathway of faith and goodwill and are prepared to trust in yoiif friendship. . . .” To live in a spirit of love Which takes aWay the occasion for all wars has been the .endeavour of the Society of Friends (Quakers) since its inception. —Ybufs, etc., R. V. HUGHES. February 23, 1938.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 7
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