Synopses & Reviews
Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHILDREN OF LIGHT In Honor of Rufus M. Jones EDITED BY HOWARD H. BRINTON NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY - MACMILLAN COMPANY M. tights reserved no part of this book may be produced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and printed Published January, 1938 First Printing. FOR RUFUS M. JONES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY For all that thou hast given to thy friends Of wisdom and delight, in word and book, Rufus, our hearts give thanks; nor can we look Rightly for that rich gift to make amends: Untold remain man's greatest debts to man For there are heights and depths no thought can plumb: Upon the mount of God the mind is dumb, Silence alone may say what no word can. Man in the inward stillness learns to pray, Joining in fellowship with those above On whom doth shine the light of heavenly day. No word we know can speak the thought of love, Ever that best word must unspoken be: So mutely, gratefully, we think of thee. T. EDMUND HARVEY CONTENTS ( Chapters approximately in chronological order of subjects with similar subjects grouped together) PAGE Sonnet to Rufus M. Jones. T. Edmund Harvey v Introduction. Howard H. Brinton ix I. William Penn's Christian Quaker. Herbert G. Wood i II. William Penn, Constitution Maker. Francis R. Taylor 25 III. Personality Types of Two Quaker Leaders. Catharine Cox Miles 55 IV. The Problem of Edward Byllynge. PART i. HIS CONNECTION WITH CORNWALL. L. Violet Holdsworth 85 V. The Problem of Edward Byllynge. PART n. HIS WRITINGS AND THEIR EVIDENCE OF HIS INFLUENCEON THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF NEW JERSEY. John L. Nickalls 109 VI. Hebraica and the Jews in Early Quaker Inter est. Henry Joel Cadbury 133 VII. Latin Works of Friends. Anna Cox Brinton 165 VIII. The Mennonites and the Quakers of Holland. William 7. Hull 189 IX. Joseph Hewes, the Quaker Signer. Charles Francis Jenkins 211 X. New England Quakers and Military Service in the American Revolution. Arthur /. Mekeel 241 vii viii CONTENTS PAGE XL Quakerism and Home Life: An Eighteenth Century Study. Isabel Grubb 277 XII. The Quaker Contribution to the Old North west. Harlow Lindley 305 XIII. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. ( 1786-1845): A Footnote to Elizabeth Fry: Quaker Heroine. Janet Payne Whitney 331 XIV. Timothy Nicholson, Candle of the Lord. Walter C. Woodward 355 XV. Stages in Spiritual Development as Exemplified in Quaker Journals. Howard H. Brinton 381 List of Works of Rufus M. Jones 407 Index 413 INTRODUCTION The essays in this book have been written by students of Quaker history in honor of Rufus M. Jones. They are presented on his seventy-fifth birthday as an affectionate tribute of gratitude and admiration to one who has con tributed more widely than any person now; living to knowledge and understanding of the history of the So ciety of Friends. A sheaf of philosophical essays might have been prepared in recognition of Rufus Jones as a philosopher. Expositions of religious thought might have honored him as a religious thinker. Discussions of Quaker efforts at solving social problems might have been ap propriate because Rufus Jones has for so many years served as chairman of the American Friends Service Com mittee. We who write this book are able to commemorate only one aspect ofRufus Jones's many-sided life and schol arship. Our essays are strictly historical. But in honoring Rufus Jones as historian we look up to him as more than an historian. His writings in Quaker history glow with a meaning which is of cosmic and ultimate significance. The history of a small nation was used by the writers of the Old Testament to set forth the ways of God with man. We feel that Rufus Jones has, in a measure, used the history of a small Christian sect to define, in terms of today, the nature of divine-human relationship. In his hands history has becom