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  • #6 Functional Poverty by Mildred Binns Young (1939). Young presents the basic call to what is called radical simplicity or voluntary poverty growing out of her own experience of living among both the wealthy and those in involuntary poverty.
  • #27 Sources of the Quaker Peace Testimony by Howard Brinton (1941). Friends’ social testimonies form a unit derived from a common source: the direct insight of the soul into the nature of Truth and Goodness, interpreted through Divine Light.
  • #28 Barclay in Brief edited by Eleanore Price Mather (1942) For more than 200 years, Robert Barclay’s “Apology for the True Christian Divinity (being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers),” first published in 1676, was considered the most authoritative exposition of Quaker belief and practice, a synthesis of personal religious experience and the historical context of religion. This is Eleanor Price Mather’s condensation of Barclay’s “Apology,” with a preface by Howard H. Brinton
  • #29 The Inward Journey of Isaac Penington: An abbreviation of Penington’s Works by Robert Leach (1945). A condensation of the 1400-page, 1761 edition of Isaac Penington’s work, with a discussion of God, free will, and justification.
  • #42 The Discipline of Prayer by Frederick Tritton (1948). Practical guidance to preliminary discipline, aspects of prayer, contemplation, intercession, and prayer in everyday life.
  • #51 Worship by John Woolman edited by Herrymon Maurer (1950). Excerpts from this influential Quaker’s writings.
  • #54 Prophetic Mnistry by Howard Brinton (1950). The basis of Quaker ministry is the prophetic insight arising out of silence and delivered in brevity.
  • #58 Ten Questions on Prayer by Gerald Heard (1951). The whole problem of prayer involves our unavoidable praying for others.
  • #59 Quaker Strongholds by Caroline Stephen (abridged) , edited by Mary Gould Ogilvie (1951). A Friend by convincement considers the basic doctrines of Quakerism. Selections from the author’s classic book on the subject, first published in 1891. 
  • #60 Promise of Deliverance by Dan Wilson (1951). A person must be regenerated by the power of God to overcome the human condition.
  • #64 Of Holy Disobedience by A. J. Muste (1952). The individual must be committed to Holy Disobedience against war-making and conscription.
  • #65 Reaching Decisions: The Quaker Method by Howard Brinton (1952). The Society of Friends’ answer to the question, “How can a free fellowship based on Divine guidance from within set up any form of church government providing direction from without?”
  • #66 The World in Tune by Elizabeth Gray Vining (1952). Vining writes about different types of prayer reflecting on one or more of her own favorite prayers within each category.
  • #71 Let Your Lives Speak by Elfrida Vipont Foulds (1953). In a speech at the Tercentenary Conference of the Religious Society of Friends, an English Quaker recreates the summer of 1652.
  • #81 The Personal Relevance of Truth by Thomas S. Brown (1955). Truth is a life-giving relationship to Reality, and the search for Truth is the search for life itself, asserts this Quaker educator.
  • #88 Nonviolent Resistance: A Nation’s Way to Peace by Cecil Hinshaw Pendle Hill (1956). Addresses the problem of meeting evil on the national level.
  • #94 Loyalty by Oath: An Essay on the Extortion of Love By Hallock Hoffman (1957). The loyalty oath depends on fear for its power. The author contends that people should be possessed by love, not fear.
  • #101 To the Refreshing of the Children of the Light by Geoffrey Nuttall (1959). An English Congregational minister sends an Open Letter to Friends.
  • #109 Another Will Gird You: A Message o the Society of Friends by Mildred Binns Young (1960). Young challenges Friends to live more faithfully in a world that does not honor our values and priorities.
  • #110 The Covenant of Peace: A Personal Witness By Maurice Friedman (1960) The author traces his life and thought from the Biblical covenant to the covenant of peace.
  • #113 An Openig Way by Dan Wilson (1961). Using Barclay’s statement on an enabling way, the author reflects on growing up and being opened to truth.
  • #115 Mysticism and the Experience of Love by Howard Thurman (1961). The religion of the inner life, or mysticism, is life affirming and reaches its highest goal in love.
  • #116 The Candle, the Lantern, the Daylight by Mildred Binns Young (1961). How the teachings of Jesus inspired the writer’s life.
  • #118 Visible Witness: A Testimony for Radical Peace Action by Wilmer Young (1961). Jailed as a protester against war, the author reflects on his 70 years outside prison.
  • #125 Children and Solitude by Elise Boulding (1962). Is it possible to drown children in a constant flow of stimuli, allowing no time for inward growth?
  • #127 Thou Dost Open Up My Life: Selections from the Rufus Jones Collection edited by Mary Hoxie Jones (1963). Chosen from this well-known Quaker’s writings by his daughter, Mary Hoxie Jones. The Rufus Jones collection is housed in the Haverford College Library.
  • #138 An Apology for Perfection by Cecil Hinshaw (1964). “The fields are white unto harvest, the time is now, and God waits to endow us with power commensurate for our work.”
  • #271 Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community, by Sandra Cronk (1991).
  • #340 A Song of Death, Our Spiritual Birth: A Quaker Way of Dying, by Lucy Screechfield McIver (1998). As a Cadbury scholar at Pendle Hill, the author researched 17th-century & modern experiences of death & dying among Friends. She offers here a first piece of that research that gives guidance for pastoral care in our meeting communities.
  • #365 The Authority of Our Meetings is the Power of God by Paul Lacey (2003). The author sees Quakers at a crossroads in dealing with issues of authority and power in church governance and offers some assessment of the costs of traveling one way or another. He challenges Friends to find their balance between tolerance of diversity and corporate unity.
  • #374 The Practice of the Love of God by Kenneth Boulding (2004). “Dare to love God! Dare to practice that love everywhere in God’s family, seeing the divine likeness in everyone, mixture of earth & heaven though we be!” This 1942 William Penn Lecture to Philadelphia YM (Orthodox) was re-released in 2004 with a new introduction by Elise Boulding.

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