tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157449352024-03-13T14:32:08.145+00:00Stumbling blocks to stepping stonesA way of extending the spiritual autobiography project I have been engaged in for over 40 years and exploring where Quakers and my Inward Teacher have taken and are taking me.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-52400133175203883882023-05-31T11:30:00.000+00:002023-05-31T11:30:10.182+00:00A way forward<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09-_sRwHPyMd8pVA33VLa7TWWLf7YEqZ-hPKjM2sZgxpATFUCIofbfBVMlSI03633oYq5F_ZCocKRNbfN77Fh5-oXUpYrWU7NWMjdAw-Oq-HRxn9-KXAUEEHYnYASooop64KmcH4YSaKYnG1137-n2wNIyY56cQqvsLqSI1dKVhBqTL8uSQ/s572/In%20the%20Library.%20Thomas%20Pole%201806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09-_sRwHPyMd8pVA33VLa7TWWLf7YEqZ-hPKjM2sZgxpATFUCIofbfBVMlSI03633oYq5F_ZCocKRNbfN77Fh5-oXUpYrWU7NWMjdAw-Oq-HRxn9-KXAUEEHYnYASooop64KmcH4YSaKYnG1137-n2wNIyY56cQqvsLqSI1dKVhBqTL8uSQ/s320/In%20the%20Library.%20Thomas%20Pole%201806.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the Library. Thomas Pole. 1806<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I have been giving some thought to what effect Britain Yearly Meeting 2023 has had on me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I have been going to Yearly Meeting now, fairly regularly, for nearly 50 years. Sometimes it has been inspiring, sometimes difficult, even depressing, but I have kept on going as I always find something there to feed my spiritual life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">This time I found that, beginning with the introduction on the Book of Discipline Revision by <a href="https://youtu.be/dTywZl_TLog" target="_blank">Rosie Carnall</a>, I was often reminded of my good intentions which I had not followed up on. I meant to send in possible extracts to the committee, particularly from the 18th century which is woefully under-represented at the moment - but I have not got round to doing it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">As I listened to Rosie - and to William Penn - the words of the pragmatic 18th century Quaker John Bellers came into my mind. In 1714 he said '<span face=""Maiandra GD",sans-serif">He
that doth not write whilst he is alive can’t speak when he is dead.' Death is always a possibility but at 75 years old it feels closer than it once did. I have researched extensively and given talks and workshops on spiritual autobiography and 18th century Quakers. I have written blog posts on a variety of Quaker subjects but increasingly infrequently.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Maiandra GD",sans-serif">Sitting in the Yearly Meeting sessions I had an experience I have had before, an inward 'voice' prodding me, pushing me forward, repeatedly reminding me that I must write. If not now, when? I must send extracts to the Revision Committee. I must get on with my 18th century researches and put them into some order. I must write and even publish - articles or even a book - and I must come back to this blog.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Maiandra GD",sans-serif">So I have made a start by sitting down at my computer and returning to the work of transcribing the 18th century letters which I photographed in Friends House Library many months ago. Once that is done I hope I will see where to go next.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Maiandra GD",sans-serif">It was becoming clear to me before Yearly Meeting that I needed to step back from the many Quaker roles which I had undertaken and by the end of this year I will have let most of them go. At first I could not see a way forward from this but after Yearly Meeting I do. What I am working on may seem to others too personal, irrelevant to the wider world, but I have a sure sense that this is the path that I am being led, or 'pushed', to take. I will try to be faithful to that leading.<br /></span></span></p><p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p> <p></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-42906793759246910452022-05-27T21:17:00.000+00:002022-05-27T21:17:17.168+00:00No More Quaker Heroes - or Villains<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkfLn_05ULU_9cnveBUjLfzbqko7FJtpgEsWiKEcjO2HJeuAXhQjPfjK7eG_AaYpcWLPJGtIGWhpPnyZi6vFxItFCqoCBUGaEAl9mjlGO5FB31al9Lc0o6nz8EOZhqobcumKEjMCkGMh1XeNpL1Imw0jUQowAhkRVu04yniWkPi-_DPfprQ/s900/H%20-%20Lucy%20Violet%20Hodgkin%20book%20of%20Quaker%20saints%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="900" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkfLn_05ULU_9cnveBUjLfzbqko7FJtpgEsWiKEcjO2HJeuAXhQjPfjK7eG_AaYpcWLPJGtIGWhpPnyZi6vFxItFCqoCBUGaEAl9mjlGO5FB31al9Lc0o6nz8EOZhqobcumKEjMCkGMh1XeNpL1Imw0jUQowAhkRVu04yniWkPi-_DPfprQ/w320-h206/H%20-%20Lucy%20Violet%20Hodgkin%20book%20of%20Quaker%20saints%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>A Book of Quaker Saints </i>by Lucy V. Hodgkin<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> illustrated by F. Cayley-Robinson
</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />A Yearly Meeting preparation session on 'Uncomfortable Quaker Histories' which I attended on Zoom yesterday allowed me to revisit work I have done myself on challenging Quaker myths and legends and got me thinking about how to take this forward.</p><p>We were presented with stories of Quakers in Lancaster and in America (including William Penn) who had been profitably engaged in the Atlantic slave trade and who had not always been challenged effectively by their contemporaries. We were also reminded of the ambivalent attitude of some Friends in the past to the poor - only to be helped if they were suitably grateful and knew 'their place' and never wholly accepted as equals. In this context we were asked if a testimony to equality had ever existed.</p><p>Back in the 1980s I gave a series of talks on Quaker Myths and Legends, questioning assumptions that were taken for granted at the time such as equality between men and women and how the peace testimony came about. In 1986 I was part of the group who wrote and presented the Quaker Womens Group Swarthmore lecture 'Bringing the Invisible into the Light'. As well as questioning whether equality had always been an integral part of the Society of Friends, the lecture included examples of painful personal experience such as domestic violence among Friends. The lecture was welcomed by many but also provoked very strong negative reactions - disbelief that Quakers could act in this way and denial that Friends were not always perfect in their relations with others. A lot of the discomfort stemmed from our audacity in challenging some Friends' established world view.</p><p>We are now looking at our past again through the lens of sexism, racism and classism and what we are finding is uncomfortable. I would say that this is what an honest study of the past should be. There never were Quaker Saints. Quakers have always been humans with human imperfections, shaped by the wider society they found themselves in but also by changes in the practices and attitudes of the Society of Friends through the centuries. I think it is better and more helpful to identify with past Quakers who were not perfect than to put heroes and heroines on a pedestal from which they may come crashing down. We may feel shame at the actions of Friends in the past and seek in some way to make amends but I believe that we should also try to reach for understanding, to learn where we are going wrong now and how we may change and improve.<br /></p><p>We may remove the name of William Penn from a room in Friends House but I hope we can continue to give him his due and not reject him totally as a Quaker villain. We should not reject his writings because of some aspects of his life because his words are still valuable. When my meeting was reading through Quaker Faith and Practice several years ago as part of the revision process I was surprised to find that the extracts Friends found most helpful were not the most modern writings but those by William Penn and Isaac Penington. </p><p>We need meticulous research, such as we were presented with in the preparation session, looking in detail at Quaker links to slavery, attitudes to the poor and other marginalised groups. The more we learn the more we can understand rather than only condemn. Local studies are a good start but these themes also need to be seen in a wider context - for example the way in which womens' meetings evolved, their purpose and their influence.</p><p>I have tried in my biographical posts on this blog to include a broad range of past Quakers, including women of course but also lower class Quakers without much money. There are also 'difficult' Friends and those with mental health problems. Just a few examples are <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/03/quaker-alphabet-week-11-f-for-ruth.html" target="_blank">Ruth Follows</a>, <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/09/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-37-s-for.html" target="_blank">Thomas Shillitoe</a>, <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/06/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-23-l-for.html" target="_blank">Benjamin Lay and his wife Sarah</a>, <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2015/09/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-l-for-josiah.html">Josiah Langdale</a> and <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-20-j-for.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Jones</a>. <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2014/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-j-for-james.html">James Jenkins</a> was trying to write honest rather than idealised testimonies to Friends he had known in the 18th century, There is much more work to be done to bring invisible poor Quakers, Quaker servants and Quaker people of colour into the light, but a start has been made.</p><p>If there is one lesson we can learn from the past it is that there should be no more Quaker Saints. We must do away with Quaker heroes but I hope we will not go to the other extreme and cast Friends as villains. Idealising the past makes us unable to face reality but so does seeing it only in black and white rather than in Quaker gray.<br />. <br /></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-57449145712175321762022-01-09T15:25:00.002+00:002022-01-09T15:25:50.156+00:00Here I go again!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaog5UOfi_7Pit3P6iYPYZp_u2844q5vmB7KzCkpcZLS7yHJif7M_vn1FA2dzKtFFZZImEJF-QMXk7pLYK6iZsR_8jsHZCPoUK_P8gvaAQt3wJhDkC-BGtIyC1HOaAEOpzvyzeKW8tne_CxzPtJZkdqvp-z7m0EZfRJ3UVh8C6PDEGi6CaLw=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaog5UOfi_7Pit3P6iYPYZp_u2844q5vmB7KzCkpcZLS7yHJif7M_vn1FA2dzKtFFZZImEJF-QMXk7pLYK6iZsR_8jsHZCPoUK_P8gvaAQt3wJhDkC-BGtIyC1HOaAEOpzvyzeKW8tne_CxzPtJZkdqvp-z7m0EZfRJ3UVh8C6PDEGi6CaLw=s320" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woman at a window. Jacobus Vrel. 1654<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In April last year I decided to try to <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2021/04/resurrecting-my-blog.html" target="_blank">resurrect this blog</a>. I had good intentions but I only managed three posts in 2021, all in April!</p><p>Over the years I have often had problems with writing regularly here although, as I said last year, I have been writing regularly elsewhere. I think perhaps that a blog post feels like a substantial piece of writing - and certainly my historical posts do require quite a bit of research - so that I often feel too intimidated to begin.</p><p>With the beginning of a new year I feel inspired to try again, but not to be too hard on myself. I will aim to write once a month (or 12 times a year) and I will broaden my range of topics. Sometimes, as I am doing now, I will just sit down and write and see what comes. I will write about Quakers and Quaker history but may change my format. I hope to share some passages of Quaker writing that have helped me and may even suggest passages to the Book of Discipline Revision Committee! I may also share other passages that I have written in my commonplace book over the years. </p><p>Another way in which I hope to continue with this blog is through visual images. Over on Facebook I have been sharing art from my Pinterest boards each day without comment. Perhaps here I can comment about the art, the artist and what the image means to me.</p><p>I have good intentions but I have had those before and not written. Let's see how I get on in 2022!<br /><br /></p><p><br /></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-46850060851977921762021-04-13T14:45:00.001+00:002021-04-15T10:28:55.737+00:00Robert and Mary Jane Catlin Davidson - Quaker missionaries to China<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJufrAaX3EsJKWHLn_AE6DdCFUtnJxxG_hv_4UfYqXBATzescOC_fpaTFTAq4y74IGNYQvXqVduRKtZ-8-CpUcPQ0z-Cse0NKmWEa7QwoAwGaqVY1EYZf2kK7O9oPfB7HDT8i/s459/Q+Tap+Missionaries+on+the+Yangtze.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJufrAaX3EsJKWHLn_AE6DdCFUtnJxxG_hv_4UfYqXBATzescOC_fpaTFTAq4y74IGNYQvXqVduRKtZ-8-CpUcPQ0z-Cse0NKmWEa7QwoAwGaqVY1EYZf2kK7O9oPfB7HDT8i/w259-h320/Q+Tap+Missionaries+on+the+Yangtze.jpg" width="259" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>China missionaries on the Yangtze river. Quaker Tapestry panel B7, Service Overseas.</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Robert Davidson was born in 1864, the eldest of the six surviving sons of Adam and Mary Davidson of Hillsborough, near Lisburn in Northern Ireland.<p></p><p>Robert's father had served as a soldier in China but had found himself unable to continue to subdue the heathen rather than reach out to them as fellow human beings. He declared himself a pacifist, was discharged from the army and sent back to Ireland where he became a Quaker. He supported his family by opening a grocery shop but also held mission meetings to which people flocked from miles around. Adam wanted to go back to China but bad health and lack of education prevented him so he urged his eldest son to go in his place. 'Go to China', he told Robert, 'and as you meet the Chinese tell them that you come with the Bible and not with a gun, as I mistakenly did.'</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZsTQKyUqApWK4tadpbSTknTvki2GFA2incFeeyBbIgQq-ADelScjx5SPVPpeiUBsUvqh0S54GlZ86NU84QiwKKOkDt3zMgsR1t4bzHK3WKzmb9ELQhY24ji3oYsiYa1MHYEO/s1527/Mary+Davidson+with+sons+Robert%252C+Warburton%252C+Alfred+and+Asher+1886.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1527" data-original-width="953" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZsTQKyUqApWK4tadpbSTknTvki2GFA2incFeeyBbIgQq-ADelScjx5SPVPpeiUBsUvqh0S54GlZ86NU84QiwKKOkDt3zMgsR1t4bzHK3WKzmb9ELQhY24ji3oYsiYa1MHYEO/s320/Mary+Davidson+with+sons+Robert%252C+Warburton%252C+Alfred+and+Asher+1886.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Robert (centre) with mother Mary<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>and brothers Warburton, Alfred and Asher, 1886 </i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Robert was educated at the Friends School in Lisburn until he was fourteen when lack of money forced him to leave and earn his living in a linen factory. His father's words had given him a goal however and when he was nineteen he wrote to the Friends Foreign Mission Association (FFMA) in London asking them to send him to China as a missionary. Friends were hesitant about sending someone so young, uneducated and inexperienced on such a hazardous posting but Robert was insistent and persuaded <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/07/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-27-n-for.html" target="_blank">Henry Stanley Newman</a> of FFMA to visit his father. Henry was impressed and when Adam died in 1885 it was in the knowledge that his son had been accepted for service.<br /></p><p>Robert came to London for his training in mission work, an <i>ad hoc</i> course of study designed to fill the gaps in his general education and to give him a basic knowledge of theology, church history, book-keeping and carpentry as well as a three-month elementary medical course. He spent his evenings at the Friends Mission Hall in Hart's Lane in Bethnal Green where his temperamental suitability for mission work could be tested and he threw himself into this with vigour. </p><p>It was also at Hart's Lane that Robert met one of the senior workers Mary Jane Catlin. Ever since she was a child Mary Jane had wanted to go overseas as a Quaker missionary. Remaining at home to look after her invalid mother, she threw her considerable energies into any opportunity for service that came her way. She started adult schools and self-help societies for the London poor, set up and ran convalescent and childen's homes at the seaside at Folkestone and Worthing and qualified as a nurse. At the same time she acted as secretary for innumerable Quaker committees. She later said that during those years she was known for her bag, her bonnet and her Bible.</p><p>In spite of the age difference between them Robert and Mary Jane's shared interests and enthusiam brought them together and in July 1886, when he was 22 and she was 39, they married and in September set out together for China.</p><p>Eventually they made their way to Szechwan, West China where they arrived in May 1887. They made the hazardous journey from Shanghai 1000 miles up the Yangtze River to Ichang and then 500 miles through the gorges, the boats pulled by trackers with bamboo rope. They studied the Chinese language and customs and developed the Friends Mission against considerable odds through medical and educational as well as evangelistic work. Mary Jane used her nursing and midwifery skills as well as her organisational and administrative abilities to assist Robert and to work herself among Chinese women. They had one son, Robert, known as Robin, born in 1889.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-D6DE05EQyyoenqhJGtbByPHBS9pbQXJlyWng2nmVlpCUnhi6t8G3D-hbvASFcj8qCSJ5-u24VC-2RtwDmOEXkrl-EC1_ibNzZoXmV9F_sRJAT0B7IpqfTu1Ln8ZgyGoDpwJq/s554/Red+earthenware+teapot.+Horniman.+Davidson+Cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="554" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-D6DE05EQyyoenqhJGtbByPHBS9pbQXJlyWng2nmVlpCUnhi6t8G3D-hbvASFcj8qCSJ5-u24VC-2RtwDmOEXkrl-EC1_ibNzZoXmV9F_sRJAT0B7IpqfTu1Ln8ZgyGoDpwJq/w200-h144/Red+earthenware+teapot.+Horniman.+Davidson+Cropped.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Teapot from Horniman collection</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>As Quaker missionaries Robert and Mary Jane were allowed to return to Britain from time to time on furlough but it was not until late 1894 that they and their son managed to do this for the first time. They stayed for nearly two years, resting and visiting friends and family but also making direct contact with the China Committee of FFMA and speaking at Quaker meetings throuhout Britain and Ireland. They put on exhibitions of Chinese artefacts and sometimes dressed in Chinese costume. Six-year-old Robin also played a part, demonstrating how to eat with chopsticks and reciting a prayer in Chinese. Before they returned to China Robert and Mary Jane visited the Horniman Museum and talked to Frederick Horniman, himself a Quaker, who bought more than 300 items from their collection which remain in the museum to this day.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjRZFGHD6KeTOiM5X44zvXkPfYUStBVvsQRL8eqJvJziKbg8CaginoXxzXf3pEmf8zaLZb28a0s9Tb_j7LN-0hyphenhypheneOoGLy4MTFg3s1rupYOgfH2ZUwCPNjIvyCPcNegQxk7pVG/s1458/Davidson+brothers+1902%252C+Henry%252C+Warburton%252C+Alfred%252C+Robert.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="836" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjRZFGHD6KeTOiM5X44zvXkPfYUStBVvsQRL8eqJvJziKbg8CaginoXxzXf3pEmf8zaLZb28a0s9Tb_j7LN-0hyphenhypheneOoGLy4MTFg3s1rupYOgfH2ZUwCPNjIvyCPcNegQxk7pVG/w182-h320/Davidson+brothers+1902%252C+Henry%252C+Warburton%252C+Alfred%252C+Robert.jpg" width="182" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Davidson brothers, 1902, Henry, Warburton, Alfred and Robert</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>As well as drumming up support for the mission in money and prayers Robert and Mary Jane also hoped for missionary recruits but in this their success was limited. In fact their greatest success was in recruiting their own family, with Robert's brother Warburton arriving in 1898 followed by two more brothers, Alfred and Henry in 1901. In time Robin Davidson brought his bride to China and they too became part of the mission.<br /><br /><p></p><p>In January 1918 Mary Jane died suddenly and unexpectedly of pneumonia at the age of 70. Her daughter-in-law Kathleen wrote, 'There is no fearfulness, no ugliness, no horror in her death. She was wonderful. The order of her house, her accounts, and all she possessed surpasses anything I ever thought of. She must have always been prepared to go.'</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gwP019xKpMmQaUkBAMzOZ2fOrEYL6bKhLkqMlgYbSrPfEo0aZXWko3NgghEymkrKwekJQIMSXDNtoVuC_bDgcVnk3tJ6fFYAhOuwRlV9Fxt21n8FxmKvqvrZJj_D7pyfEogI/s227/Mary+Jane+and+Robert+at+Szechwan+YM+1916.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2gwP019xKpMmQaUkBAMzOZ2fOrEYL6bKhLkqMlgYbSrPfEo0aZXWko3NgghEymkrKwekJQIMSXDNtoVuC_bDgcVnk3tJ6fFYAhOuwRlV9Fxt21n8FxmKvqvrZJj_D7pyfEogI/s0/Mary+Jane+and+Robert+at+Szechwan+YM+1916.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mary Jane and Robert at Szechwan YM, 1916</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Four years later Robert married an American colleague, Pearl Page. In his later years he became a lecturer at the West China Union University which he and his brothers had helped to found. When he retired in 1925 he was asked to take on the headmastership of the Friends School in Brummana, Lebanon, where he stayed for five years. <br /></p><p>In 1932 Robert finally retired and settled on the south coast of England in Bournemouth, where his meeting much appreciated his help with young people and his service as an elder. He was far from idle, taking on the secretaryship of the Christian Universities in China Council and of the China Committee of Friends Service Council (which had taken over the work of FFMA). Although his health prevented him from taking up the many invitations he received to return to China he attended many international meetings and it was while he was at one of these in California that Robert died of heart failure at the age of seventy-eight.<br /></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-1785198972535082302021-04-10T13:31:00.000+00:002021-04-10T13:31:06.358+00:00Waste Not, Want Not<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQN61ttQ2w2zu70RZILgkd0SF4mxexx8Ayk2oWdWTJTAjvQb1eLPVhYTMiT154VH93GceEO0s64qkhR7YTR8oHWpOLri9rUrcb0TXV6L9WjVdf5GDwV_S-UeFhBIMOUxML4hxu/s1441/Sowle+Press+pubs+crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQN61ttQ2w2zu70RZILgkd0SF4mxexx8Ayk2oWdWTJTAjvQb1eLPVhYTMiT154VH93GceEO0s64qkhR7YTR8oHWpOLri9rUrcb0TXV6L9WjVdf5GDwV_S-UeFhBIMOUxML4hxu/s320/Sowle+Press+pubs+crop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This weekend I am spending time at the annual conference of <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/08/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-34-q-for-quip.html" target="_blank">QUIP</a> (Quakers Uniting in Publications) as I have often done in the past. It is different this time of course as rather than travelling sometimes long distances to greet each other in person, we are seeing one another's faces on Zoom. I used to be much more involved in the running of the group than I am now so in some ways I feel more of a spectator than a participant but it is still good to connect with friends from all over the world and to meet new people too, even if only virtually.<br /><p></p><p>Although I have not been writing my blog for the last year or two I have still been writing, particularly in my diary, and thinking about where to go next. I have come to a point now where I want to continue my research into Quaker history and into <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2018/08/turning-inside-out-again.html" target="_blank">spiritual autobiography</a> and life writing more generally. In order to go forward I will need to take stock, to look at what I have done and what there is still to do, to see what I can recycle and reuse from my past writings and research notes and where there are gaps I need to fill.</p><p>I joined QUIP as a publisher and 25 years ago Sowle Press (the desk-top publishing enterprise which I ran with my husband Chris) produced a book on spiritual autobiography, <i>Turning Inside Out</i>, based on my experience as a Joseph Rowntree Quaker Fellow. Following this I wrote and we published two collections of short biographies of Quakers through the ages - <i>Dear Friends and Sisters</i> (1998) and <i>Dear Friends and Brethren </i>(2000). I was asked about <i>Dear Friends and Sisters</i> at the conference yesterday but had to report that we have no stock left.</p><p>I continue to be a member of QUIP as a writer and there is a crossover in this blog between publishing and writing. I have written quite a lot of Quaker biographies here and many of them are based on pieces from <i>Sisters</i> and <i>Brethren</i>, often added to from further research. In the future I intend to continue this process and to share my researches in other ways. I do not want the work I have done and will do to be wasted so I need to remember the wise words of the historian Barbara Tuchman, 'Research is endlessly seductive; writing is hard work'.</p><p>I value my continuing connection with QUIP and the inspiration and practical help that I have received and still receive from the organisation and its members. I look forward to the rest of the conference and to conferences to come - perhaps not all of them virtual.<br /><br /></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-87888877701800286912021-04-05T11:36:00.000+00:002021-04-05T11:36:08.128+00:00Resurrecting My Blog<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hV6FZargQ4Ixsk2gatzyxLcmCcRYvbnBsi6mdQKxbSllb1kIVeuy05BsQCuPZrhOSIuP0-Bkm1dZ-FT4JnojimUUTCAjIQS8ehlNrY0zVQpxdd5l3NcTKEzrisH8NDH_ntYs/s2048/Still+life+with+books+and+primroses.+1886.+Marga+Toppelius-Kiseleff.+1862-1924.+Finnish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1649" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hV6FZargQ4Ixsk2gatzyxLcmCcRYvbnBsi6mdQKxbSllb1kIVeuy05BsQCuPZrhOSIuP0-Bkm1dZ-FT4JnojimUUTCAjIQS8ehlNrY0zVQpxdd5l3NcTKEzrisH8NDH_ntYs/s320/Still+life+with+books+and+primroses.+1886.+Marga+Toppelius-Kiseleff.+1862-1924.+Finnish.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still life with books and primroses by the Finnish artist Marga Toppelius-Kiseleff. 1886</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Easter seems like a good time to try to put some new life into this blog again. I have written nothing for nearly two years but recently I had occasion to look back at my posts and wonder whether I could make another attempt to continue.</p><p>While many people began to write blogs and share their thoughts during the pandemic I went back to my handwritten <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-year-old-blog-or-here-i-go-again.html" target="_blank">diary</a> and wrote much more regularly, almost daily, there. I have also spent much more time on social media, sharing daily art from my Pinterest boards on Facebook and expanding my use of Twitter to include more art, humour and even virtual friends.</p><p>The isolation of the past year has, in some ways, been easier for me than for many others. I have not been alone and my husband, the driver, has been the one to make forays into the outside world. As we are both retired we have not had any work worries as we are used to working from home on our various projects. We have adapted our routines to include many more deliveries than before and also Zoom meeetings of various kinds. We have also been able (when restrictions allowed) to see family and friends outside in various locations.<br /></p><p>I have wondered why I did not include blog writing in my altered routine but can find no convincing answer except that I have always struggled to keep writing here and the uncertainty and fear underlying everything this last year did not improve my tendency to procrastinate!</p><p>As the seasons turn however I have found a new resolve to look again at my research into 18th century Quakers, particularly Catherine Payton Phillips, to identify gaps and fill them where I can and to do some writing with a view to publication in some form. I hope that writing here will help with that and that sharing what I write will also be of some use, both to myself and to others.</p><p>So here I go, making yet another new start. I hope to find companions on the way.<br /><br /></p>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-13768108647745780842019-06-18T13:54:00.000+00:002019-06-18T13:54:46.154+00:00Firbank Fell anniversary meeting - Ann Newby Audland Camm<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>This is the text of a talk I gave at the 2019 annual meeting to mark the anniversary of Fox speaking on Firbank Fell in 1652. It should have been delivered near the spot known as Fox's Pulpit but because of heavy rain was relocated to Briggflatts meeting house nearby.</i><br />
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When does a movement begin? One reckoning dates the beginning of Quakerism from the day, June 13th 1652, when George Fox spoke to a large gathering here on Firbank Fell, but he had been gathering support and supporters before that date and continued to do so. Perhaps the setting up of an organisation spreading from Swarthmoor Hall and the fell family, who he was yet to visit, is a more effective beginning?<br />
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I want to talk today about someone who may or may not have been here that day, although her husband certainly was. Someone who lived long enough to see great changes in the movement that began in 1652 and who outlived many of its founders, including George Fox.<br />
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Ann Newby was born in Kendal in 1627. When she was twelve years old she went to London to live with an aunt for seven years before coming home to Kendal. She went into service with a well-to-do family in York but when her mistress died she returned to Kendal. She was concerned about her spiritual life and joined a group of Seekers of which John Audland was a member. They married when she was 23 and he was 20. They both thought that they had found their spiritual home until they encountered George Fox.<br />
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John Audland was here that day as he and Francis Howgill were preaching in Firbank chapel in the morning. Ann may have been part of the crowd but she certainly met Fox when he stayed in their house. He also stayed with John Camm and his wife Mabel and perhaps made as much of an impression face to face as he did preaching for three hours in the open air!<br />
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For John and Ann Audland convincement did not come easily as it overturned everything they were sure of. Ann reports of her husband,<br />
'He was high in Notion and Profession, imagining that he had been filled with durable Riches and Wisdom; but in the Light of this Day he saw the emptiness of it all, while he wanted the Substance, Life in the eternal Word, and by the same to be sanctified throughout. Therefore under the sense of this great want, many and great were his Sighs and Groans and his Tears not a few; Days and Nights of Sorrow many an one he underwent, the Word and Power of the Lord being as a Fire revealed within him, to burn the great building, that he had been erecting and setting up of Hay, Wood and Stubble; and in this exercise I also had a share with him, and in great Lamentation I have heard him often sorrowfully say; "Ah! what have we been doing? What have we been labouring for? or what availeth our great Profession? all our building tumbles down!"'<br />
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Once they were convinced they could not remain at home but set out two by two as 'morris dancers from the North'. John Audland travelled with John Camm to Lancashire, Cheshire, Oxford, the Welsh Marches and, perhaps most notably, Bristol. Ann Audland travelled with Mabel Camm to Auckland in Durham and then to Banbury where they were imprisoned for more than a year. Ann also travelled to Launceston in Cornwall to visit George Fox in prison.<br />
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The travelling and the rough treatment they encountered took its toll. John Camm died in 1657 of consumption made worse by the rigours of his ministry. Mabel Camm died not long after. In 1664 John Audland died of a fever, leaving his wife Ann with a small daughter and heavily pregnant with a son who was born only a few days after his father's death. So of the four travellers only Ann was left. She continued on and in 1666 she married Thomas Camm, John and Mabel's son and fourteen years her junior, who had himself been convinced by Fox as a twelve year old boy in Preston Patrick chapel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camsgill today</td></tr>
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They lived at Camsgill, the house that John Camm had built in 1647, and were both active in the Quaker cause. Thomas travelled extensively and was also fined more than thirty times for refusing tithe payments. Of the forty years of their marriage Thomas spent nine in prison - six years in Appleby and three in Kendal. Ann did not travel during her second marriage but continued to speak, to petition and to support her meeting as a minister and a 'mother in Israel'. She was also a 'powerful fellow-labourer' with her husband.<br />
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She might sometimes 'be grieved' when women friends spoke too hastily or unseasonably in large meetings and she might reprove them for it, but that did not mean that she was actively discouraging. She herself was careful about when to appear in public in preaching or prayer 'but when she did it was fervent, weighty and with the demonstrating of the spirit, and with power' - the same power that she had felt and expressed from her first convincement.<br />
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After the Restoration Friends concentrated more on organisation and discipline. Fox established separate womens' meetings for business to encourage women to take a full part in the Quaker movement, to be helps-meet and equal labourers in the vineyard. Ann pursued her Quaker path by encouraging women to be faithful in their attendance and ministry in these meetings.<br />
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Ann was also a fierce critic of John Wilkinson and John Story, two Westmoreland Friends who opposed womens' meetings, as well as advising Quakers not always to meet in public but to hold safer, private meetings. The two men had also refused to go to John Audland's aid in Bristol in the 1650s and Ann had neither forgotten nor forgiven that. John Story was dismissive of women Friends who defended their right to hold womens' meetings and to preach, telling them to stick to washing dishes and sending them crying home.<br />
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Ann spoke out against Wilkinson and Story whenever she could. In 1675 the Kendal Womens Meeting wrote to another womens' meeting, the Box Meeting in London, 'Our meetings are lightly looked upon and of little esteem among some who should have strengthened us' (i.e. Wilkinson and Story) and Ann Camm was a signatory of that letter.<br />
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As Ann grew older she continued on her faithful path, supporting her husband and family, encouraging and directing other women Friends and never forgetting the revelation that had come to her and so many others that day on Firbank Fell. She died in November 1705 'in a good Old Age being in her 79th year, as a Shock of Corn in Season...and was Honourably buried, many Ancient Friends of about thirteen adjacent Meetings Accompanied her to the grave.'<br />
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Ann Camm was a survivor and her spiritual journey went through changes in emphasis over time, as the movement which she had been part of starting also changed - as it would change again and is still changing. Faithfulness to the truth is what is important, but that faithfulness can mean different things at different times. There are many different paths that can lead to a vibrant Quakerism for today.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-79273480957728085062019-04-19T17:56:00.000+00:002019-04-19T18:00:44.384+00:00Recorded ministry - some thoughts<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting by John Perkin</td></tr>
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I have been following the conversation about recorded ministry on social media with interest. Sam Barnett-Cormack has done a good job of summing up what has been said <a href="https://quakeropenings.blogspot.com/2019/04/recognising-and-supporting-ministry.html?fbclid=IwAR2bZRO_X9VqKtSN0FdXZY4c1EbwwL84zKTMZzQLvSL8EzYq1hPo5fNJXww" target="_blank">here</a> and has continued the debate. As well as commenting on other posts I find that I have just a few things to add, partly from my research and partly from my own experience.<br />
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First it may be useful to look at why ministers were first recorded. This practice arose in the UK in the18th century out of a problem (as so many Quaker practices have)! There were complaints that some people had represented themselves as ministers without the backing of a meeting and were travelling around the country asking for financial support in the places they visited when some of them were not even recognised as Friends. To deal with this a system was agreed whereby if a Friend was recognised by their meeting as having a particular gift for vocal ministry then their name was sent to the Yearly Meeting in London and 'recorded' in a book so that their qualification for support could be checked.<br />
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Not all recorded ministers travelled outside their local meetings but if they were moved to do so they had to obtain a certificate from their meeting which would be quite specific about where they might go. This certificate could be presented to the Friends they were travelling among to obtain hospitality and assistance in their journey, such as the provision of a guide and a horse, the expense of which could be claimed from the meeting visited if necessary. The practice was rooted in practicality as well as answering divine inspiration.<br />
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The impetus for recognising that a minister should be recorded always came from their meeting not from themselves. This was very far from a modern job application. Being called to the ministry was not a small undertaking as it could involve very arduous travel and prolonged absences from home and many ministers' journals contain accounts of long, anxious hesitation before a calling was acknowledged. Ministers did not act alone and usually travelled with a companion, another minister or a younger Friend. They were also answerable to their meetings and to their fellow ministers, some of whom were more encouraging than others.<a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/01/quaker-alphabet-week-3-b-for-samuel.html" target="_blank"> Samuel Bownas</a> had experienced his own difficulties and in 1750 he published a self-help book<i> A description of the qualifications necessary to a Gospel Minister</i> which still has things to say to us today.<br />
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There was no initial intention to mark the recorded ministers out as superior, rather as people trying to be faithful to their calling. As time went on however in some cases the respect demanded for the calling could look to others like respect demanded for the person. In the mid-eighteenth century Catherine Payton Phillips was called 'a Great Autocratrix' by the young <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2014/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-j-for-james.html" target="_blank">James Jenkins</a>, although he was hardly an unbiased observer and in the nineteenth century <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/08/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-33-q-for.html" target="_blank">James Bevan Braithwaite</a> earned the nickname of 'the Quaker Bishop'!<br />
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Eventually in the early twentieth century it was felt that meetings had come to rely too much on recorded ministers and that if they were not present then no vocal ministry would be heard. There was a movement to share the responsibility for vocal ministry more equally between all members and in the UK the practice of recording ministers was officially discontinued in 1924. Since then not only have attitudes to recorded ministers changed but so has vocal ministry itself - in length, form and content - especially among 'liberal' Friends.<br />
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Part of the problem with reviving recorded ministry is that in the past ministers were recorded for life. It was possible to withdraw approval from ministers by refusing to issue them with certificates (as happened in the case of <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/02/quaker-alphabet-week-7-d-for-may.html" target="_blank">May Drummond</a>) but this was rare. Indeed those Friends who had been recorded before 1924 in London Yearly Meeting remained officially ministers until they died and Neave Brayshaw in his book <i>The Quakers</i> mentions that they were qualified to attend Meeting for Sufferings in that capacity and that some were still doing so in the late 1940s and early 1950s!<br />
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The change to limited terms (usually triennial) for elders and overseers, who were also once appointed for life, has been a good and helpful reform which I don't think anyone would wish to go back on. Perhaps the way to look at any revival of recorded ministry is through a short-term, project-based approach. The Joseph Rowntree Quaker Fellowships were set up in this way by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. When I was a fellow in 1994-1995, touring the UK with workshops on spiritual autobiography, I resisted the description of what I was doing as 'travelling in the ministry' but perhaps I was wrong to reject the label so vehemently. I was not acting entirely independently as I was answerable to the trust, who supported me financially, and I also had a support group, drawn from my meeting and more widely, who gave me spiritual and emotional support, although not a certificate!<br />
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Lastly, I have also wondered whether blogging can be a kind of ministry. <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2009/03/ministry-or-vanity.html" target="_blank">Here</a> are some thoughts on Quaker blogging which I hesitantly shared ten years ago! I have aways seen my blog as an extension of my spiritual autobiography project. Should I only have to listen to readers' comments or should I be open to discipline from the meeting or from another support group? Is there a difference between a Quaker blogging and a Quaker blog? There are a lot of questions about recorded ministry still to be considered.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-39553665696427539442019-03-26T16:43:00.000+00:002019-03-26T16:43:25.427+00:00Esther Biddle <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Execution of Charles I, 1649</td></tr>
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Esther (or Hester) Biddle was born around 1629 and brought up in Oxford where she received a good education. She was a staunch Royalist and loyal to the Church of England. As a young woman she came to London where, she said, she sought satisfaction 'evening, morning and noonday, in the <br />
Common Prayer' and when only one church was left open in the City she went to it. She adds, 'when their books were burned I stood for them and my heart was wholly joined to them, and when the King's head was taken off my heart and soul was burdened that I was weary of my life.'<br />
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In 1654 her life was changed when she met Francis Howgill and was convinced by him of the truth of Quakerism. In 1656 she began to travel in the ministry and to write in order to champion her new cause. She published several controversial works, some partly in verse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles II c.1653</td></tr>
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In 1656 Esther was arrested at Banbury and also at Launceston with John Stubbs and William Ames, who later went with her to Holland. In that year she also visited Newfoundland and in 1657 went to Barbados. On her return Esther had a vision of the king's restoration and went to Breda to tell Charles about it although George Fox and others had cautioned her against this course. Esther always followed her own line, which did not make her popular among Friends. During the late 1650s she spent some time in Holland and was described by her critics as a thorn in the side of Dutch as well as of English Quakers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Great Fire of London.</td></tr>
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After her convincement Esther married Thomas Biddle who was also an active Friend. He was a shoemaker and seems to have had a prosperous business in London at Old Change employing a number of Quaker apprentices. This business prospered until Old Change was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The family then moved south of the river but evidently never recovered their former prosperity. Shortly after Thomas's death in 1682 Esther became a pensioner of Peel Meeting and remained so for the rest of her life, at one time living in one of the rooms behind the meeting house given over to 'poor widows'. The only one of Thomas and Esther's four sons to reach adulthood was Benjamin. He was apprenticed first to his father, but after Thomas's death was re-apprenticed by Peel Meeting out of a bequest left for apprenticing sons of 'poor Friends'.<br />
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Throughout her life Esther spoke and wrote as she felt called to do without considering the consequences and was imprisoned at least fourteen times. As a widow, in spite of her poverty, Esther still managed to travel in the ministry, visiting both Scotland and Ireland during those years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary II</td></tr>
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Perhaps her most famous exploit occurred in 1694 towards the end of her life. Esther was most concerned about the war between England and France and determined, against the advice of Friends, to do something about it. She went first to Queen Mary, complained that the war with its suffering was a grief to her heart as a woman and a Christian, and asked the Queen to endeavour to end it. She then asked leave to go to France to speak to the French king on the same subject. Eventually Esther obtained a pass from the Queen's Secretary and set out. After various difficulties she came to Versailles and applied to the exiled James II, who she had met before and delivered to him the letter she had written to Louis XIV. James gave it to the Duke of Orleans who promised to pass it on to the King, but Esther was not satisfied and insisted on speaking to the King herself. 'Am I permitted to speak to the King of Kings, and may I not speak with men?' she said.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louis XIV</td></tr>
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When he heard about this Louis admitted Esther to his presence. She implored the King to make his peace with God and with the nations he was at war with and put a stop to 'such an overflowing and Rivulet of Blood that was shed.' The King replied, 'But woman I desire Peace and seek Peace and would have Peace, and tell the Prince of Orange so'. Having delivered her message Esther returned home. Although the war did not cease at once so that some Quakers judged her to have failed in her mission, there is no doubt that she had been faithful to her calling and her straightforwardness and fearlessness could not fail to make an impression.<br />
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Esther died in London in December 1696 at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried, probably in Bunhill Fields Quaker burying ground, having been an uncomfortable and outspoken Friend for more than forty years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A modern view of Bunhill Fields burying ground</td></tr>
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Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-52053253073736825742019-03-18T17:06:00.002+00:002019-03-18T17:07:34.656+00:00Barbara Wheeler Hoyland <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Barbara Wheeler was born in London in 1764, the
fourth child and first daughter of William Wheeler who, although brought up as a gentleman, did not possess ‘a fortune
fully adequate to his taste and refinement’ and found himself pushed by the needs
of a growing family to take up business and become a wine merchant.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A dancing class</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Her parents conformed strictly to the established Church
but also to the demands of genteel society. As Barbara apologetically notes in her memoir, 'it was thought proper for us to learn
music and dancing, and games at cards, and we were introduced to plays also,
and trained for the ballroom and card tables.' She worshipped her father, tried to excel in everything for
his sake, and would do anything to win his approval. To please him she attended
a dancing school but later felt that the unthinking and trivial company she
encountered there was a very bad influence on her, especially when she found
herself lying to her father about where she had been and what she had been
doing.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Fothergill by American artist Gilbert Stuart</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">In 1778, when Barbara was fourteen, her father became ill and was looked after by the Quaker doctor <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2014/03/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-f-for-ann.html" target="_blank">John Fothergill</a> who made a great impression on both him and his daughter. Barbara describes how the doctor's '<span style="line-height: 115%;">gentle, though firm demeanour calmed sorrow into silence. His penetrating eye
and abstracted thought always inspired confidence in his judgement, though
there might appear not the least prospect of success'. </span>In the end the doctor could not save his patient and her father's death was a very great blow to Barbara. She tried to be a support to her mother, but carrying on
the business proved to be a worry, as William, the eldest son, who should have
been in charge of it, was only interested in following his own pleasures –
wine, women and gambling.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">After six years of struggling to carry on the business, Barbara's
mother also died. The business was disposed of and the family dispersed, the
three sons to foreign parts, one daughter to school and Barbara to live with
her guardian, a clergyman cousin living in Yorkshire. It was here that she met her future husband while visiting
relations in Handsworth Woodhouse, just outside Sheffield. Barbara's description of their meeting is reminiscent of a Jane Austen novel. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘The Parish church was more than a mile
from the village where my cousins resided, yet we were pretty regular in our
attendance. Once on going thither we were suddenly overtaken by a thunderstorm,
when about half way, near a neat mansion very beautifully situated. This place
had been taken by a person from Sheffield, who was in a precarious state of
health, and a Quaker. The pathway went across the field in front of the house,
and we, for a minute, debated whether we should ask shelter, especially as he
was a single man. The propriety of the thing was, however, soon put out of the
question, as the rain began to descend in torrents, with loud claps of thunder.
We ran with all possible expedition to the asylum, the door of which was opened
for our reception before we reached it. Part of our finery was pretty well
drenched, and took some time to put in order again. The novelty of being in the house of a Quaker, and the
idea of formality which attached to the person, were soon dissipated by the
easy kindness and genuine promptness to render assistance that were offered by the
master of the house. We were all pleased with our visit, and after the rain
abated and the sky began to clear, we returned home, it being past church
time.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">William Hoyland soon returned the visit in a more formal
manner and began to improve his acquaintance with Barbara, to the point where
marriage was proposed. Barbara’s relatives had several objections to the match,
of which their difference in religion was only one. William was also about fifteen years older than her, of a serious temperament and suffered from poor health which might mean that Barbara would be more of a nurse than a wife. Barbara
wavered, but ‘affectionate attachment’ and the renewed attentions of a former
suitor made up her mind and the couple were married by Barbara’s cousin in 1787. This
marriage before a priest led inevitably to William’s disownment from the Society of Friends which meant that he could no longer attend meetings for business.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The happy couple set up home in Woodhouse and Barbara found
herself ‘mistress of an establishment, not indeed abounding with the
embellishments of modern style or splendid convenience, but with all the
pleasure of a happy and chaste simplicity.’ They took their place in Woodhouse
village society but every Sunday the division between them in the matter of
religion made itself evident. They walked together to the bottom of their
garden and then parted, she to go to the Parish Church and he to the Meeting
House. This was, as Barbara puts it, ‘a circumstance which was always
accompanied by regret, but entirely without verbal remark on either side.’</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Mary's parish church, Handsworth Woodhouse.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">After three years, during which ‘life seemed to flow in an
easy channel’ William had to go to Sheffield for a week on business and
suggested that Barbara accompany him. She had lost two children and was
expecting a third so that her visiting would be confined to William’s relations,
whose ‘plain’ Quaker lifestyle she found rather intimidating. However, rather than stay at home alone, she chose to go with him.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">When Sunday came she says, ‘I felt a little uncomfortable
in the morning, not knowing how I should get to church, but upon considering
the matter, as I had often had a curiosity to sit in a meeting of friends, I
thought if any of the family should invite me to go with them, I would do so.’
This happened and she accepted but her husband appeared uneasy and, making no
comment, immediately rode off back to the meeting in Woodhouse so that Barbara
went to Sheffield meeting without him.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The new experience was very strange to Barbara. As she put it, '</span></span>Profound silence soon reigned over a large
assembly of people, most of whom were dressed decidedly like Friends; which
appeared a pretty, or at least a novel, sight; but what were they doing?
Sitting in an almost motionless state without appearing to notice anything.
Some, whose faces I could not see, I fancied were asleep or near it. I looked
on every side, and such was the stillness and settlement, that the motion of my
head seemed to make a disturbing noise. </span>I
tried to sit as quietly as I could, withdrew my eyes from observation, and my
thoughts involuntarily turned on my own situation and the possibility that I
might not live through my confinement and on the lot of the helpless infant if
it survived...These
considerations were, however soon succeeded by a perfect calmness, which so
much pervaded my whole mind, that I believed I could die, or bear anything that
might befall me, if it were the will of God, let it be ever so sad.’ She was moved to tears and when a Friend then prayed she
says, ‘it was all I had felt, all I had desired in silence, put into the most
striking figures of speech and was a seal of confirmation to me of spiritual
worship, indelibly fixed on my mind.’</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Barbara and her husband did not speak at all of what had
happened although she felt that she had his sympathy. About two years later,
in 1792, she applied for membership of the Society, again without discussing it
with William. However, she says 'he was told by some Friend that the application had
been made, and the next time we met, he appeared very thoughtful, and I was
ready to suspect the matter had been disclosed and that it was not agreeable to
him. But on questioning him on the subject he very feelingly said, "No, my
dear, I am glad that what I have lost thou art about I hope to gain."'.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gracechurch St Meeting House, London in 1770. Sheffield meeting house would have been similarly arranged.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">They went on their separate ways and on being accepted into
membership Barbara took up her duties as a Quaker. She says, ‘The first Monthly
Meeting I sat happened to be at Sheffield; and I was not a little surprised to
find that my dear W.H. meant to attend the previous meeting for worship. I felt
a good deal for him as it was the first he had attended at Sheffield since we
had been married, and I looked earnestly about, when assembled, but could not
perceive him. In about an hour after the commencement of the meeting,
every interesting feeling was awakened by the sound of his voice, and seeing
him stand up near the centre of the meeting and acknowledging "he had wandered
from the principles in which he had been educated, and the justice of the
dealings of Friends towards him", concluding with a request to be reinstated.’ William was eventually readmitted and in this way was able to repent of
his failings without regretting his marriage. He was extremely scrupulous in
never blaming Barbara for his misfortune or indeed ever discussing the
principles of Quakerism with her, but stood back while she came to convincement
in her own way at her own pace. Disownment was inevitable when they married but
he was never cast off from family or from worship and the possibility of
return.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Barbara and William were now both part of the Quaker community and Barbara was recognised as a minister. Their family grew, although several of their twelve children died young. After being out of touch for some years Barbara also renewed contact with her sister and brothers including the youngest, Daniel, seven years her junior, who had been in both the navy and the army. In 1796 he wrote to Barbara asking for permission in visit her but made no formal arrangement. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">However one evening there was a knock at the door and 'a</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> military figure presented itself, wrapped in a long cloak.
He hastily enquired if Mr H. was at home. With too much perturbation to answer
the question, I replied by asking what he wanted with him. “Oh. Mrs H. will do
for me,” he said, in a more softened tone of voice, and entering with a light
step into the parlour, he looked alternately at us, then, bowing, greeted my
husband familiarly, who rose at the salutation and expressed his want of
knowledge of the person; but by a steady look towards him, I caught one
remembered glance of the dear orphan Daniel. The name passed my lips on the
moment of recognition, and he threw his arms about my neck.The youth of fourteen was so lost in the man of twenty-four, characterised
with the toute ensemble of the soldier, that scarcely any trace remained but
the quickness and brilliancy of his eye.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel stayed with Barbara and William and eventually the unspoken influence of Quakerism worked on him too and he joined the Society as his sister had. He took to farming, married and took his place as a Quaker minister, becoming well known, not only for his faith, but for his adventures in Russia and elsewhere.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaker Tapestry panel about Daniel Wheeler's adventures</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1797 Barbara and William moved into the centre of Sheffield where William set up an ironmongery business in partnership with his younger brother. Unfortunately his health did not improve and in 1805 he died at the age of 55. A few years later Barbara moved with her family to Bradford, another thriving Quaker community, and was active as a minister both locally and farther afield. She held numerous
public meetings, for example, in Leeds in 1822, in Knaresborough and Thirsk Monthly Meetings in 1825 and in Halifax in 1827. She also travelled to Devon and Cornwall with a younger minister, Benjamin Seebohm, in 1824. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Towards the end of her life Barbara wrote an account of her spiritual journey mainly for her family. The manuscript (together with a transcript) is in Friends House Library, London and I have quoted from it extensively in this post. Barbara died in Bradford in 1829 at the age of 65 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground there. In 1855 the burial ground was closed by the town council and the bodies, including Barbara's, removed to the new <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2017/02/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-2017-u-for.html" target="_blank">Undercliffe</a> cemetery overlooking the town.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaker graves inUndercliffe cemetery, Bradford</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Alexander was born on February 7th 1760 at
Needham Market, Suffolk, the third of the eight children of Dykes Alexander, a shopkeeper and mealman, and his wife Martha Biddle, of whom five
survived childhood. Both her parents were established Quakers, her father being
an elder and her mother a minister. Mary was fifteen when her mother died and was conscious of the
possibility that she too might be called to the ministry, a calling for which she tried to prepare
herself. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezDgrGx_hyphenhyphenOea2gi5xB9q5ZhqldzPP9xIjEMWP2arjc-3zAuPjjxmEofecPG6gOybJda3dlr5R8syKtl6Zk0DjGxetYSo3meU4EtUxcvkmkCQYtpmOGlAmr9FeAwCgNgYij2F/s1600/Needham+Market+old+meeting+house+built+1704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="320" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezDgrGx_hyphenhyphenOea2gi5xB9q5ZhqldzPP9xIjEMWP2arjc-3zAuPjjxmEofecPG6gOybJda3dlr5R8syKtl6Zk0DjGxetYSo3meU4EtUxcvkmkCQYtpmOGlAmr9FeAwCgNgYij2F/s400/Needham+Market+old+meeting+house+built+1704.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former meeting house in Needham Market, built 1704,in use as a store.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary lived quietly at home, caring for her father, but in 1786 he died, aged 62, and this blow was followed only nine weeks
later by the death of her eldest brother Samuel’s wife, Elizabeth. The family
agreed that Mary should continue to live in her father’s house with her
youngest brother William, who at the age of 18 took on his father's business, while Samuel and his four children were looked after
by his wife’s aunt, Mary Gurney. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Alexander struggled between her call to
the ministry and her family obligations, especially after Mary Gurney also died
in 1788. However confirmation of her calling came one night in 1789 when, she says, 'a light shone round my bed and I heard a voice intelligibly say “Thou art
appointed to preach the Gospel”'. Mary first spoke in meeting in July 1789 and
was formally recognised as a Quaker minister in 1791. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9EwH3dnLjLa41T1TnSS_ez5G61w0iXQ6AuhrcyQethJxm3zE5ypqJblHYBrGiUa51Zan45yCqfj1u5GXEKR8-jqCpRlrOYgYRV2lcEWdERjcKWgwSlPK9WG9QEt5kpV_1k0j/s1600/Ann+Alexander+edited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1230" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9EwH3dnLjLa41T1TnSS_ez5G61w0iXQ6AuhrcyQethJxm3zE5ypqJblHYBrGiUa51Zan45yCqfj1u5GXEKR8-jqCpRlrOYgYRV2lcEWdERjcKWgwSlPK9WG9QEt5kpV_1k0j/s200/Ann+Alexander+edited.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A silhouette of Ann Tuke Alexander</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary’s first journeys as
a minister were mainly local but in 1794 she ventured further afield to Lincoln
where she met and travelled with another minister, seven years younger than herself. Ann Tuke, was the daughter of William and <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/10/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-39-t-for.html" target="_blank">Esther Tuke</a> of York and became a close friend. Their friendship developed further when Ann
married Mary’s brother William in September 1796. William and Ann asked Mary to
live with them in the family home but she decided to find a house nearby
instead. A ministerial journey in 1797 with Ann and William to Wales was
continually interrupted by Mary’s illnesses. She struggled on but at
Cirencester felt close to death. She dreamed that she was dead, but was sent
back to life as her time had not yet come. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7dggnbE6gUupVpcg2anqGxHRl8I5bBE37PB1Kz5v5UnytSatMok7JkgfzzbrVQzTZxP8bsdqRbG4uUUBYbS_MRJyjRGNfmgJWFsHXO9X3kQEnHsUMifNAp79xfpA6XCsGxkY/s1600/William+Alexander+edited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1116" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7dggnbE6gUupVpcg2anqGxHRl8I5bBE37PB1Kz5v5UnytSatMok7JkgfzzbrVQzTZxP8bsdqRbG4uUUBYbS_MRJyjRGNfmgJWFsHXO9X3kQEnHsUMifNAp79xfpA6XCsGxkY/s200/William+Alexander+edited.jpg" width="139" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silhouette of William Alexander</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eventually at the beginning of 1798
Mary returned to Needham Market and moved into her own 'very peaceful home',
but her ministerial obligations gave her little time to enjoy it. She travelled
extensively with Elizabeth Coggeshall of Newport, Rhode Island, returning home
at the end of 1800. For the next few years most of Mary’s travels were in her
own area. She also acted as 'an affectionate nurse and attendant' to her
sister-in-law Hannah, the wife of her younger brother Dykes, at the birth of their daughter, but the experience depressed her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1808 brought another change in
Mary’s life when her brother William and his family were forced to make a move as the family business was failing. They went to York where they were helped by Ann's family and William eventually became </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a successful</span> bookseller and publisher. Mary found this 'a closely trying
separation'. At the end of October 1809 Mary went, with her older sister Martha
Jesup, on a religious visit to Friends’ families in Worcester. There she was joined by another
minister, William Forster, with whom she attended two crowded public meetings.
She was obviously ill and as soon as she had done her duty went<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back to Worcester to the care of her relation
Thomas Burlingham. </span></div>
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the bilious complaint from which she had often suffered before, but it soon
became obvious that she had contracted smallpox and she gradually grew worse. Her brothers
Samuel and Dykes were sent for and she died surrounded by her family on December 4th 1809 at the age of 49.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her brother William could not be with her, but he made sure
that her account of her spiritual life was published two years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ann Crowley
<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">was born on May 8th 1765 at Shillingford,
Oxfordshire, the sixth of the eight daughters of William Crowley,
a mealman and maltster, and his wife Catherine Stiles. Ann felt
that her Quaker family helped her struggle with what she perceived to be
spiritual weakness. She confesses in her journal to a desire to dress fashionably, which she refers to as 'adorning the frail body with apparel inconsistent with the simplicity of truth'. She also loved music but put this aside as a 'worldly pleasure'. She dated her religious awakening from the age of 16 and
found it confirmed by the shock of her father’s sudden death the following year, 1783,
from an apoplectic fit at the age of 66. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Ann lived with her mother and unmarried sisters ‘in
great harmony and tender affection’ but the family was further broken up when
three of her sisters married, two of them to brothers. The death of her older sister Mary Ashby in 1791
aged 28, after less than two years of marriage, also gave Ann’s mind a serious
turn and she began to feel that she might be called to the ministry. A few
months later two visiting travelling ministers, Deborah Darby and Rebecca Young
from Coalbrookdale, asked Ann to accompany them on their journey and under
their influence she first spoke in meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ann gradually extended her ministry, accompanying more
experienced ministers and visiting local meetings. Her first longer journey was
to Wales in 1794 with Mary Stevens of Staines, and the American Friends George and Sarah Dillwyn. Ann kept a
careful note of the number of miles they travelled and meetings they attended.
In 1795 Ann’s mother died after a stroke and this made it necessary for the
remaining sisters to move house. Ann, as the eldest at home, felt that she
should organise this, but she had ministerial commitments. The worry made her ill,
but she recovered when a house in Uxbridge and her next journey in the ministry
were both decided on. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uxbridge Meeting House window</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three weeks after she returned to her new home Ann’s
family was again shaken by the death of her sister Catherine Ashby aged 36, who
left a husband, Thomas, and six children in need of care. The aunts took turns to stay
with their bereaved brother-in-law and his family in Staines, near London, but
Ann did not take much part in this arrangement. Instead, in 1797, she left home
to accompany Phoebe Speakman of Pennsylvania on her travels in the ministry
throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The journey covered 4000 miles and took
nearly two years, leaving Ann ill and exhausted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the next few years Ann
continued to travel extensively, but eventually her health broke down and she
was forced to remain at home for three years. In 1810 Ann went with <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2015/04/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-g-for.html" target="_blank">Priscilla Hannah Gurney</a>, who she had travelled with before, to Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, but her health was still in a very
feeble state and she was confined to home again on her return, although this gave
her the opportunity to nurse her younger sister Rebecca in her last illness until she died in 1814. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Hastings in 1814</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After travelling in the ministry again in 1815 and 1816 Ann was taken ill once
more and again spent some time at home. In 1818 both Ann and her youngest sister Martha became dangerously ill and as they slowy recovered their doctors recommended warm baths and sea
air for both of them. They went together to Hastings for some months which seemed to have a good effect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On her
return Ann was never strong enough to travel in the ministry away from home
again, although she attended local meetings when she could and was faithful to
what she called her ‘little testimony’. Her health was very bad and she
suffered much pain. During the last few weeks of her life her breathing was
affected and she found speech difficult, so it was felt as a relief to herself, her
family and friends when, after extreme suffering, she died on April 10th 1826
aged 60.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The two themes of Ann Crowley's life were family and ministry, but it was clear to her and to those around her that her religious calling always came first and that this was 'in right ordering'. </span></div>
Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-78266816096623100002019-03-05T11:09:00.000+00:002019-03-05T11:09:14.025+00:00Lydia Waring Hawksworth Lydia Waring was the daughter of two Quaker ministers. Her father, Samuel Waring, born in 1691, was a mercer from Witney in Oxfordshire where in 1714 he married his first wife Eleanor and had three children (two daughters and a son) before she died in 1718. In 1721, when he was 30 and she was 24, Samuel married Deborah Hawkins of Alton in Hampshire and moved there. The couple had ten children, although the first two died in infancy, and Lydia, born in 1733, was the eighth of these and the fourth daughter.<br />
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Samuel travelled a great deal in the ministry, mainly in the south of England, and diligently attended Yearly Meeting in London for upwards of 50 years. Deborah undertook responsibility for the care of their numerous family but she had been a minister since she was eighteen and continued her calling, mainly in the local area. Their home was a centre of Quaker hospitality and Lydia would have met many visiting Quaker ministers. It is likely that she, like her mother, received a 'guarded education' at home, learning domestic skills and reading the Bible and other approved religious texts.<br />
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It was not until she was 35, in 1768, that Lydia married Abraham Richard Hawksworth, a prosperous Bristol merchant, and moved into his house in Castle Green, the central commercial district of Bristol where many Quakers lived. In the same year Lydia's younger sister Ruth married another Bristol merchant, Thomas Rutter, so the two would have been neighbours.<br />
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Abraham was 39 when he married Lydia and by that time had become a strict Quaker, but in his younger days he had been more worldly and sociable, belonging to a Jacobite drinking club, the Nagg's Head Club, named for the tavern where it met. With maturity his interests turned to benevolent ventures, particularly for the poor and needy, and in 1766 he was appointed Treasurer of the Bristol Infirmary. Abraham was well-educated as well as wealthy and was said to understand seven languages, being much admired for his eloquence and learning.<br />
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Although they shared a generous disposition towards the poor, some of Lydia's friends wondered whether they were well suited. Her education was limited, although she was described as a woman of very good understanding. Her natural reserve made it difficult to get to know her and could give the appearance of pride, although her manner towards those she liked and could talk freely with was agreed to be very attractive. In the event though the marriage was cut short and the doubts of Lydia's friends became irrelevant.<br />
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Lydia and Abraham were married in February 1768 and in October Abraham contracted a fever. At first he seemed to be recovering but on October 29th he died, leaving Lydia a widow. Abraham was much mourned throughout the city and his funeral procession from Castle Green to Redcliffe Quaker Burying Ground, which was supposed to be private, passed through streets lined with mourners, their numbers at times making progress difficult. When the grave was reached, in the time of silent worship around the bier, Lydia laid her hand on the coffin and ministered publicly for the first time in a most affecting and heartfelt way.<br />
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Lydia was unexpectedly left to make a life for herself. She was now a wealthy woman with a position of independence as a widow. She had the support of family with visits to and from Alton by her mother, her sisters and other relations. She had friends in a close-knit Quaker community both locally and nationally. She also now had a position as a minister within the Society of Friends in Bristol and further afield.<br />
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Much of Lydia's travel in the ministry was as a companion and support to her old friend Catherine Payton, later Phillips. Catherine was five years younger than Lydia but had been a minister for much longer and was well known as a Public Friend. She often stayed with Lydia in Bristol both alone and with her husband William Phillips who she married in 1772. <br />
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Catherine found Lydia 'a most tender affectionate companion' and praised her ministry, particularly in private family visits. Others might see Lydia as subservient to Catherine - <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2014/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-j-for-james.html" target="_blank">James Jenkins</a> (a critical witness) said that Catherine 'appeared as a bright star in the Heavens above us, and within the sphere of its attraction moved Lydia Hawksworth' - but the two women acted in mutual help and friendship. They had much in common. Both were brought up in Quaker families where both parents were ministers. Both were socially awkward and could give an appearance of aloofness, yet were open and affectionate to those they knew well and were loyal friends.<br />
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Lydia accompanied Catherine to Yearly Meeting in London in 1773 and again in 1775 when they spent some time resting at Alton with Lydia's newly-widowed mother Deborah. In 1776, when Deborah herself died, Lydia and Catherine travelled more extensively, to the North of England and then to Ireland.<br />
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In 1778 Lydia endured more family sorrows when her sister Ruth Rutter died at the age of 42 and she then spent much of 1779 as Catherine's companion. There are glimpses of further travels with Catherine in the following years and Lydia also attended all the local Bristol and nearby meetings. In 1783 her older unmarried sister Hannah came to Lydia's house for several months to be cared for in her last illness, dying in December. In April 1784 Lydia was so ill herself with a 'putrid fever' that her life was despaired of, but she made a good recovery and set off for Yearly Meeting in London in May, ministering in Bristol Meeting before she went in a memorable manner.<br />
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In 1785 Lydia travelled to Truro for a meeting and then on to Redruth to stay for a rest with Catherine and William Phillips as she had done before. Unfortunately after a day or so William Phillips was taken suddenly ill and died so Lydia had to turn her energies to helping a fellow grieving widow.<br />
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Back in Bristol Lydia continued to be generous to the poor and needy and to support travelling Friends, although her own health was not good. In 1788 she helped the American minister<a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-20-j-for.html" target="_blank"> Rebecca Jones</a> both spiritually and in practical ways. Rebecca lists 'gifts of love' which she received from Lydia including handkerchiefs, pockets, several guineas for coach and chaise hire and even an achromatic telescope costing two guineas, when a guinea then would be worth about £80 today.<br />
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However soon after Rebecca's visit in April Lydia left Bristol in failing health and went to be cared for by her older sister Deborah Townsend in London. It was here that she died of dropsy at the age of 55 in November, telling her sister, 'Don't mourn for me. I have a comfortable hope that my Heavenly Father will receive me into his kingdom.'<br />
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Lydia's will distributed her wealth between her relations and provision was also made for the poor of Bristol. In a codicil she asks her sister Deborah to destroy all her remaining unanswered Letters of Friendship as she has no time to go through them. Lydia's body was taken back to Alton for burial so her life came full circle.<br />
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Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-68321588999001534602019-02-13T12:12:00.000+00:002019-02-13T12:12:11.098+00:00Belonging and difference<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A probably apocryphal Quaker story tells of a visiting Friend arriving at a meeting house he had not been to before for worship on a Sunday. Finding it empty, he sat down and waited in silence. Eventually a local friend arrived who came straight up to the visitor and said, 'Friend, thee is sitting in my place'!<br />
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Many of us find difficulty in facing change. The way a meeting house is arranged and the way Quaker faith is expressed have both changed over time. There have always been those who find it difficult if not impossible to let go of what has gone before. In my local meeting I always sit in the same place and acknowledge that I find change difficult, but in spite of this there are ways in which I have changed.<br />
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I believe that in order to go forward we need to share our experience, to look at what is important to us and to be ready to share it with others - to give an account of the hope that is in us [I Peter 3:15] and in each individual. It may not be the same hope or it may be expressed in different words but we need to speak and listen rather than keep silent for fear of hurting or offending others.<br />
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The Bible quotation goes on to advise us to do this with 'gentleness and respect' and that is vital too. Telling our own truth and hearing other people's cannot happen if we denigrate others or dismiss their position as wrong. It can be painful to hear another view which makes it all the more necessary to hear it with love.<br />
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I have written before about the pain that being <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-do-we-think-we-are.html" target="_blank">labelled</a> can give. I have had difficulty in working through the feelings that experience raised in me but recently I found in a friend's [<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/bookgeekrelg"><span class="username u-dir" dir="ltr">@<b class="u-linkComplex-target">bookgeekrelg] </b></span></a></span>tweet a helpful Credo that I can use wholeheartedly for myself - and wish I could have used back then. 'I believe in God but probably not the God that you don't believe in'.<br />
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In true community we must try to balance acceptance and love with the need to find more people-like-us to be with and beware of turning away those we perceive as different, asking them to give up their seats if we feel that the comfortable way we always do things is threatened.<br />
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Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-24619878426944178682019-01-22T17:29:00.002+00:002019-01-22T17:29:14.535+00:00Qualification<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I have written here before about my experience of <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2013/07/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-28-n-for.html" target="_blank">Quaker nominations</a> from the point of view of someone on a nominations committee. I am returning to the subject because something I was told recently has made me think about nominations from the other side of the fence and also about the vexed question of 'qualification' for a post.<br />
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A while ago I was asked to take on a Quaker role which seemed to me to fit my 'qualifications' perfectly. I thought that both my professional qualifications and my personal and professional experience were likely to be useful to the body on which I was being asked to serve. I was also convinced of that body's importance and hoped that my enthusiasm might be useful. In the end though, as I have written <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2018/07/laid-down.html" target="_blank">here</a>, I was proved wrong and had to accept that others had a different view.<br />
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Having let go of that commitment I was at first a bit wary when asked if I might be willing to serve in another way here in Yorkshire. I hesitated but again I felt qualified by experience in both my professional and personal life and it seemed to me that I might fit and be of some use. I said yes and have just been appointed so I have yet to find out whether this is the case.<br />
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After the meeting at which my appointment was accepted one of the nominations committee thanked me for taking on the task. I replied that in the end I did not feel able to refuse as it felt as though the job had my name written on it. Perhaps I came across as too self-satisfied because he hastened to assure me that my name had in fact been at the bottom of the list and I was only asked when everyone else had refused! I had not in fact given a thought to who else had been asked but it was a salutary reminder that <a href="https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/passage/12-08/" target="_blank">Quakers have to take what they can get</a>!<br />
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I hope that I will find that I can fulfil my new role and that my qualifications of all kinds will be useful. I hope too that I will continue to learn and grow and become more qualified for whatever task (if any) I am asked to undertake in the future. Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-63966996664008479602019-01-01T17:29:00.000+00:002019-01-01T17:29:57.881+00:00New Year, Old Blog or Here I Go Again<br />
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Yet again I return to this blog after a long gap. In fact I see that I only wrote three posts last year when I had meant to write monthly. I do not want to castigate myself for this however but instead want to look at ways in which I can go forward into the new year.<br />
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This blog has had several different strands. First and foremost it has been a way of continuing to write my spiritual autobiography - a project I have been engaged in for many years. I am looking at different approaches and hope that I can share some of that work here.<br />
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I have also used this blog to share my passion for Quaker history - and especially for the eighteenth century and particular Quaker characters - with others. The Quaker alphabet structure helped me with that but it also limited my choice of subject, although without it I only managed one Quaker history post last year so something needs to be done.<br />
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There is something else that I do regularly elsewhere. As well as reading and writing the visual arts are also important to me. I am a devoted fan of Pinterest and use my 'boards' to collect images for my eighteenth century research but I have created many others for art that I love. Some are devoted to a particular artist - for example Eric Ravilious, Emily Carr, Felix Vallotton and Giovanni Boldini - while others cover subjects that attract me - trees, the sea, windows, landscapes, abstraction and still life to name but a few.<br />
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Nearly two years ago I decided to share some of this art on Facebook as an antidote to all the doom and gloom about the world appearing there. So every day, usually when I first open up my computer, I share a piece of art from my Pinterest boards. At first I wrote a bit about the chosen image from my perspective but after a while I decided to leave each image open to whatever interpretation my friends wanted to give it. I now just give the title, the name and nationality of the artist and the date it was made if I can find it. I think this is right for Facebook but for a while now I have been wondering about finding a way to expand this description, to give more background or to explain why it appeals to me. So I have decided to add this to my possible subjects for this blog.<br />
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So I am expanding my subject matter but realistically I know that actually sitting down to write is likely to remain a problem for me! I need a prompt but I also need to be flexible. Aiming to write once a month, as I did last year, is obviously not enough but weekly writing feels like too much pressure, so in 2019 I will aim to post something every two weeks and allow myself to do more if I can. I will also set a reminder on my phone for every other Sunday and see how that works!<br />
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Blogging is a personal thing for me but, unlike my diary, this blog is written for an audience. I welcome dialogue and hope that I will hear from some of my readers in 2019 - if only to act as another sort of prompt!Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-67231830586823640922018-08-18T11:30:00.000+00:002018-08-18T11:30:57.051+00:00Turning Inside Out again?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the second time a course on 18th century Quakers which I had hoped to run for Woodbrooke has been cancelled because of a lack of bookings. This has led me to consider what to do next. I am not going to abandon the 18th century but perhaps the time has come to approach it in a different way. I shall continue to try to 'introduce you to my friends' through this blog and I will look into the possibility of creating an online course for Woodbrooke for 2020.<br />
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At the same time I will put some more effort into research and writing and try to make progress on my biography of Catherine Payton Phillips. I have ideas for some journal articles which I will focus on. I know from long experience that, as the historian Barbara Tuchman put it, 'Research is endlessly seductive. Writing is hard work'. I think that now is the time to do some of that work.<br />
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Also, for a while now I have been feeling nudged towards a new direction - or rather to a new approach to an old path. It is twenty-five years since I set out as a Joseph Rowntree Quaker Fellow to give workshops on spiritual autobiography up and down the country. I talked about this in earlier posts on this blog - <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2008/08/failing-to-turn-inside-out.html" target="_blank">first</a> of all ten years ago and then <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-do-we-think-we-are.html" target="_blank">later</a> when I was wrestling with some difficult questions.<br />
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Having published my book <i>Turning Inside Out; an exploration of spiritual autobiography</i> in 1996 and given up the workshops after ten years, I thought that spiritual autobiography, although still an interest, had faded into the background of my life, except in its connection to my historical research and writing.<br />
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Recently though I have been contacted by a few Friends in different parts of the country who had read my book and wanted to use it as a basis for workshops in their meetings to allow people to share their spiritual journeys. Encouraged by this I got out my notes and at long last transcribed the two background talks I gave as part of the workshops from longhand to the computer. Of course they need updating but I may now look at ways of publishing them as I originally intended to do.<br />
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I am also putting together a new Woodbrooke course with Rhiannon Grant on 'Spiritual Blogging' which is due to run in May 2019. It will be a new experience to work with someone else on different approaches to spiritual autobiography and I am looking forward to it.<br />
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I am also aware that I need to do more work on my own spiritual autobiography. I have a title - and used it for this blog - but so far I have only written fragments in different places. I was inspired by some of the writers I met at the QUIP conference earlier this year, especially <a href="https://irisgraville.com/" target="_blank">Iris Graville</a> and her memoir <i>Hiking Naked</i>, both to read more and to go back to writing about my spiritual journey. I need to turn inside again before I can take the next step, turn inside out and share what I have found with a wider audience.<br />
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So it seems to me that what I am being led to do is not so much a change of direction as a closer integration of the two strands of my endeavour - spiritual autobiography and 18th century Quakers. I need to allow what appear to be stumbling blocks to become stepping stones.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-12414363688566502972018-07-21T16:07:00.000+00:002018-07-21T16:07:40.645+00:00Lydia Rawlinson Lancaster<!--[if !mso]>
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It is getting on for ten years ago that I started writing on this blog about Quakers in the past. I kept myself going with several Quaker alphabets and now I am continuing with this occasional series. I began with <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.com/2009/03/let-me-introduce-you-to-my-friends_08.html" target="_blank">Grace Hall Chamber</a> and I shall continue with one of her friends, Lydia Rawlinson Lancaster.<br />
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Lydia was born in 1683 at Graithwaite in Lancashire, near Lake Windermere, the seventh of the eight children of Thomas Rawlinson and his wife Dorothy, born Hutton. Brought up in a Quaker family, Lydia describes herself as one drawn to thoughts of God from infancy. Her father died when she was six and around this time she remembered being moved to floods of tears by the ministry of a visiting Friend. From the age of fourteen Lydia struggled with the conviction that she was being called to be a minister herself. She resisted this calling for ten years - a period which her contemporaries saw approvingly as a time when she grew in wisdom and experience but which she remembered as a 'long howling wilderness' of unfaithfulness.</div>
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Soon after the beginning of her ministry, in 1708, Lydia began to travel, at first to local meetings and then in 1710 as far as London. In 1712 she went to Ireland, in 1717 to Scotland and from 1718 to 1719 she visited America in the company of her brother Abraham’s wife, Elizabeth Beck Rawlinson (1670-1750). Lydia’s travels, although undertaken under a sense of religious duty, were however, as she says herself, '...sometimes pretty trying, not having such care taken at home in my absence as might have been desired.<sup>'</sup> She had married, in January 1707, Bryan Lancaster, a tanner of Kendal, when she was 23 and he was 20. There were no children of the marriage and there are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hints in contemporary records of sorrows and affliction, some of it possibly financial, brought upon Lydia by her 'nearest temporal connexion', her husband.<br />
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In 1729 Lydia moved with her aged mother to Colthouse, near Hawkshead, a small rural settlement next to a Quaker Meeting House, but there is no mention of her husband on the removal certificate. Her mother died in 1737 aged 93 and by 1743 Lydia was evidently living at Colthouse with her husband. Bryan Lancaster died in 1747 aged 60.</div>
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Lydia’s ministry was generally acknowledged to be expressive and powerful, but her experience gave her another dimension for, as was said by her fellow Quakers, 'being instructed in sorrow she was favoured with a sympathizing heart and knew how to partake in the affliction of others'.<sup> </sup></div>
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Throughout her ministry Lydia was a staunch supporter of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quaker Womens Meetings for business at a local level. In 1746 she also put her name to a petition aimed at extending them to a national level, although this was not accepted and the Womens Yearly Meeting was not set up until 1784. Lydia was not concerned with the equality of women as such but wanted them to be encouraged to take up their religious duties as much as the men were. In her local meetings Lydia, drawing on her own experience, was both stern and encouraging 'particularly to the timorous and backward'. She was remembered for always bidding farewell to those women who made the effort to come to womens meetings with a sort of blessing, and she continued to attend<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meetings herself right up to her last days.</div>
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It is nearly a year since I last wrote this blog but now seems a good time to start again. The title of this post is Quaker terminology for what happens when a piece of work comes to an end. It is laid down and the group or committee which has been carrying it on ceases to exist.<br />
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A long-standing committee on which I have served for just over a year and clerked since the beginning of 2018 has just been laid down by the central committee in charge of it. The reason for this is unclear and communication throughout could have been better but the decision has been made and the committee has been wound up. When we realised what was happening the committee wrote a minute and tried to change the central committee's mind as we did not think that our work was at an end, but this was in vain. It appears that an alternative approach is being sought but our committee has been laid down.<br />
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Under Quaker discipline of course I accept this decision but I have been wrestling with the way it has made me feel. I cannot help feeling rejected and a failure even though rationally I know that this was not the intention of the central committee.<br />
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In my working life I have been made redundant twice and both times I knew it was not my fault. In one instance the redundancy arose from a change of policy and in the other my job was tied to that of someone who the organisation wanted to dismiss. On both occasions I felt shock, rejection and a sense of failure that took a long time to work through.<br />
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Is there a difference between a committee or people engaged on a particular piece of work deciding that they have come to a stop and therefore laying themselves or the work down and having that work taken from them or laid down by another body? I think it is obvious that there is a difference. Recognising that an end has been reached is a way of taking control of the situation rather than having a decision imposed - even if the reasons for that decision are valid. I wish that there had been a way of helping our committee to understand and take a greater part in the decision that was made.<br />
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It has been hard but writing this post has helped me to continue the process of reconciling myself to the situation as it is. I am taking advantage of the time and space I have been given and welcome the opportunity to go back to my research and writing. I am sure that a way will open if I am attentive to my Inward Teacher. As I lay down one set of responsibilities I am taking up this blog again and hope to write regularly, at least once a month, on Quaker history and other matters that I need to explore in writing.<br />
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This is my last post in the Quaker Alphabet Blog. Since 2013 I have been through the alphabet, writing about Quaker related subjects, four times. Most of the other people who set out on this journey together have moved on to other things and it is time for me to do the same.<br />
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I have found this a useful prompt for my blogging - although sometimes no prompt is loud enough for such an arch-<a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-2016-p-for.html" target="_blank">procrastinator </a>as myself. The alphabetical structure has sometimes been difficult - not many names begin with Z, although <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-51-z-for.html" target="_blank">some</a> do, and some letters are much more difficult to find subjects for than others. I was particularly proud of <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-x-for.html" target="_blank">X for Xylography</a>!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dcJAEMrdc_lG8O9hLFytinYX9J8CfACutqcVFIJlSuaCxGykPUK_uAJ-cxEhuLKwKXyENihHDQrSOz10pFNsq3ZiWPYkE2AQ4m1c_Zpa4QevY10M-zHUWgIJRxUwTPDtz8VF/s1600/z+curly+blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dcJAEMrdc_lG8O9hLFytinYX9J8CfACutqcVFIJlSuaCxGykPUK_uAJ-cxEhuLKwKXyENihHDQrSOz10pFNsq3ZiWPYkE2AQ4m1c_Zpa4QevY10M-zHUWgIJRxUwTPDtz8VF/s200/z+curly+blue.jpg" width="200" /></a>I set out to use this format in part to continue to write about lesser-known Quakers of the past and I am happy to have done that. Of my biographical posts the most viewed has been <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-c-for-annie.html" target="_blank">Annie Elizabeth Clark</a>. I certainly intend to continue with this theme and it will be a relief not to have to squeeze my writing into the confines of the alphabet.<br />
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Occasionally my alphabetical posts have been <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/quaker-alphabet-blog-2015-m-for-mistaken.html" target="_blank">historical</a> in other <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-32-p-for.html" target="_blank">ways</a> and there are <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-21-k-for.html" target="_blank">themes</a> there which I may try to expand on in future.<br />
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Another strand of my blogging has always been the autobiographical and when my life experience and my Quakerism have intersected some more <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-15-h-for-home.html" target="_blank">personal</a> posts have <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-k-for-knees.html" target="_blank">appeared</a> in the alphabetical sequence.<br />
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So this is not really an ending. I am leaving one particular framework behind but I hope I can use it as a stepping stone to more writing. The difficulty that the alphabet structure was meant to remedy still remains - how to make myself sit down and write. To find out whether I have made any progress there you will have to watch this space!<br />
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<br />Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-55157596657497176932017-07-20T16:23:00.001+00:002017-07-20T16:23:13.539+00:00Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - Y for Yearly Meeting Gathering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back in 2013 I wrote a post about my experience of <a href="https://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-50-y-for.html" target="_blank">Yearly Meeting</a> and as I said then I have been a regular attender for many years.<br />
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London (later Britain) Yearly Meeting has usually been held in London but in modern times there have been moves to change this. In 1905 London Yearly Meeting was held in Leeds and there were other occasional forays out of the capital - to Birmingham in 1908, Manchester in 1912 and 1926, Llandrindod Wells in 1924, Scarborough in 1925, Bristol in 1937, York in 1941 and 1942 and Edinburgh in 1948. <br />
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It was intended that Yearly Meeting should be held in the summer every four years outside London and a minute was made to that effect in 1945. However the organisation of these 'Residential Yearly Meetings' took a while and the first was not held until 1986 in Exeter. I was there as part of the Quaker Women's Group presenting the Swarthmore Lecture and my family came too. In fact the children enjoyed themselves so much that they insisted that we should make it a family tradition. So we continued to go not only to Yearly Meetings in London but to residentials in Aberdeen in 1989,
in Warwick in 1993, in Aberystwyth in 1997, in Exeter in 2001 and in York
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From 1991 it was decided to hold Summer Gatherings between Residential Yearly Meetings. These were to be predominantly social affairs with no decision-making agenda. The Yearly Meeting in these years was still held in May in London. We did not go to the first Summer Gathering in Bradford but did attend those held in Lancaster in 1995, Canterbury in 1999, Loughborough in 2003 and Stirling in 2007.<br />
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Eventually however the organisational and financial burden of these different gatherings became too much, especially in the years when both Yearly Meeting and Summer Gathering were held. The decision was therefore made to amalgamate Residential Yearly Meeting and Summer Gathering into Yearly Meeting Gathering with YM sessions and social activities being thrown together and particpants being able to make their own agenda.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Epilogue at Yearly Meeting Gathering in Bath 2014</td></tr>
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The first Yearly Meeting Gathering was held in York in 2009, followed by Canterbury in 2011 and Bath in 2014. This year YMG will be at the University of Warwick and I will be there.<br />
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Any longer residential gathering is bound to be an intense experience, sometimes almost overwhelming, and I have sometimes found it difficult, needing to carve out spaces of solitude and calm for myself. But there have been many happy and uplifting times as well as difficult ones and I have always been glad that I have gone.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-69236198321166066472017-07-18T16:32:00.000+00:002017-07-18T16:32:06.976+00:00Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - X for the unknown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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X is a kind of question mark, an unknown value in an equation. When writing a blog I find that each post is setting out into the unknown. Even when writing within a structure, like the alphabet, the element of mystery and surprise is still there.<br />
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One of the things which keeps me going back to Quaker meetings is this element of the unknown. Although there are structures and procedures which have grown up over the years and give a comforting safety and routine, there is also the unknown which, if we are open to it, has the power to discomfort and change us, leading us on to explore new paths.<br />
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Quaker community is like this too - both supportive and challenging. Encountering the unknown is what allows community to grow and deepen - but it is seldom easy. I am someone happy in my own company but I know that I also need to make the effort to be part of a community. X for me is the unknown that allows me to balance these two impulses.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-49691206828311531622017-07-17T14:31:00.000+00:002017-07-17T14:31:50.720+00:00Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - W for Anna Rebecca Gilpin Whiting<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Anna Rebecca Gilpin was born in 1829, the daughter of James and Mary Sturge Gilpin of Bristol. She was the thirteenth of fifteen children in a family of eight boys and seven girls and her eldest brother was the politician Charles Gilpin, who served as M.P. for Northampton for many years, and was known for his opposition to capital punishment. Anna was educated at Wigton and Sidcot schools, a lively girl with a bright temperament which made her a general favourite although she admitted tht she sometimes gave her teachers trouble.<br />
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After leaving school she took up First-Day School work and while engaged on this she met John Whiting (1819-1899) a draper of Leeds. They were married in 1850 and had six children, two girls and four boys. On her marriage Anna also took over the domestic management of her husband's business, so that she had several young men under her care as well as her own children.<br />
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The welfare of children was very important to her so that, although she took a leading part in many philanthropic and social concerns in Leeds, the work that was nearest to her heart was the supervision of the Headingly Orphan Homes. When she took over this work in 1865, eight children were provided for, but it was extended until, in 1885, there were four houses sheltering seventy-six children.<br />
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Anna Whiting shared with her brother Charles and with her husband, who had taken the pledge at the age of eighteen, an enthusiastic advocacy of the cause of temperance. In 1873 and 1875 Anna visited various parts of the country in this connection, accompanying Elizabeth Comstock, a well known Quaker temperance campaigner visiting from America.<br />
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When Anna was twenty-five she felt a call to speak in meeting but did not minister until five years later, after much encouragement. She was recorded as a minister by Brighouse Monthly Meeting in 1869 and soon afterwards suffered a severe attack of typhoid which left her unconscious for ten days. Her first ministry after her recovery was remembered as very solemn and moving.<br />
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It was perhaps her own experience that led her to give unstinted personal service in ministering to the sick and dying in those days when trained nurses were seldom available. She rarely paid such visits without taking with her some flowers to cheer the patients and brighten the sick room. Her Christianity was practical, with a warm hearted kindness which endeared her to all who knew her.<br />
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It was said of her ministry that "her messages, delivered in a clear strong voice, and simple though forcible language...often brought 'food to the hungry soul, liberty to the captive, joy to the mourner and rest to the weary and heavy laden', and on not a few occasions the whole tone of a meeting, begun perhaps in something like flatness, was felt to be changed to joy through the inspiring influence of her offerings in prayer and praise."<br />
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She was warmly interested in the work of the Society of Friends and for thirty years, with only one omission, attended London Yearly Meeting. For fourteen years she was also conspicuous at the table of the London Womens Yearly Meeting, serving as clerk in 1881 and 1882.<br />
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In 1890 the family moved to Cliff Side, where she was very happy for the few years left to her. Although not in good health, she went to London with her husband early in March 1897 and joined him and other Friends in the Meeting for Sufferings room prior to the Mission Prayer Meeting for which he had come to London. But the following day she had a heart attack and died aged sixty-eight.Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-18054998827056780192017-03-02T14:09:00.001+00:002017-03-02T14:09:21.168+00:00Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - V for Verses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As I said in a<a href="http://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/quaker-alphabet-week-2-for-arts.html" target="_blank"> much earlier post</a>, Friends in the past have felt ambivalent about both reading and writing poetry. Some, like <a href="http://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-m-for-mary.html" target="_blank">Mary Southworth Mollineux</a>, did write in this form but only on serious subjects and they hesitated to publish their work widely or under their own name.<br />
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In the 18th century poetry was often copied by Friends into commonplace books for their own use. This might be written by Quakers but works such as James Thomson's <i>The Seasons</i> were also popular. As the century progressed a few Friends ventured into the public domain with their poetry. In 1794 Catherine Payton Phillips published <i>The Happy King; a sacred poem</i> which was addressed to George III. The main subject of the poem is to urge the monarch to do away with slavery and was part of mainstream Quaker campaigning at this time. In her <i>Memoirs</i> Catherine states that when she became a minister she stopped any reading other than the Bible, but perhaps towards the end of her life she allowed herself more latitude, as her poem is very much in the contemporary style.<br />
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In later times many Friends wrote poetry and even published it, although like W. C. Braithwaite's volume it was often referred to, self-deprecatingly, as <i>Verses</i>. There were Quaker poets, such as the Americans Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier but it was only in the 20th century that this became an acceptable description in the UK. Poets who are Quakers do not always identify as Quaker poets but a modern anthology has recently been published. <i>A Speaking Silence; Quaker poets of today</i> came out in 2013 and was advertised as the first of its kind for over a hundred years.<br />
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So what is the difference between poetry and verses? Is one more serious than the other? There is certainly a continuing tradition of both forms appearing in local newsletters and blogs and both are now equally acceptable. I would like to end this post with an extract from a verse published in 2007 by the Sheffield Quaker Simon Heywood which is part of another tradition - verse which pokes fun at the idiosyncrasies of Friends - usually in a loving spirit.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm a lonely little Quaker<br />
and I'm feeling very small.<br />
I'm the clerk of Monthly Meeting<br />
and there's no-one here at all.<br />
I've got all the minutes drafted<br />
and I'm ready with my pen<br />
but the sense of Monthly Meeting<br />
is they've stayed at home again...<br /><br />
If it wasn't for the Quakers<br />
in the Quaker burial ground<br />
then I'd be the only Quaker<br />
for a hundred miles around,<br />
for the buses stop at seven<br />
and there's something on TV<br />
and this month it's nominations<br />
and there's no-one here but me.<br />
I could minute they're prevented<br />
but they never said what by.<br />
I'm a lonely little Quaker<br />
and I think I want to cry.</span></span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span>Gil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-55883815896239445352017-02-11T15:49:00.001+00:002017-02-11T15:49:58.360+00:00Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - U for UndercliffeUndercliffe House was the home of John and Christiana Hustler of Bradford and their family. John was born in 1715 to Quaker parents in Bolton. His father was a farmer but also a wool merchant and John served an apprenticeship as a woolsorter and stapler. The family business flourished during the 1740s and John was very active as a merchant in Bradford, dealing not only in wool and worsted cloth but in coal, some from his own mines. He became very prosperous and lived at Bolton Hall, part of whose grounds became what is now Peel Park.<br />
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In 1763, when he was 48 years old and well established, John married Christiana Hird, aged 31, a minister and the daughter of another prosperous Quaker. They moved into Undercliffe House which John had built in a healthier situation than Bolton Hall, further up the hill above the city. It was a large establishment and Christiana made it a home for their six children and a place of hospitality for many visiting Quaker travelling ministers.<br />
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John was very influential in transforming Bradford into a modern city. He was a prime mover in opening out Bradford centre, building the Piece Hall and suggesting the construction of New (now Market) Street. In modern times his contribution was recognised by naming a street, Hustlergate, after him. He was also a leading promoter of the Leeds and Liverpool and later the Bradford canals, known at that time as 'the navigation'.<br />
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This business often took him to London where, according to one fellow visitor to <a href="http://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/quaker-alphabet-blog-2014-f-for-ann.html" target="_blank">Dr Fothergill'</a>s house, he could talk of nothing else. Betsy Fothergill confided to her diary '[we were] entertained in the manner I expected - the course of rivers, the situation of hills, etc etc - and in short, "the Navigation" spun out into its different branches, was the continued subject. It is a common maxim that extremes can never last but J Hustler is an exception to this general rule, for he has continued the pursuit of this favourite scheme for near two years past, with an ardour that rather strengthens than declines.'<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While John travelled on business Christiana remained at Undercliffe and dispensed generous hospitality to Quaker visitors. Joseph Wood came to stay the night in 1774 and says 'John was gone from home but his Wife was remarkable, open, free, so that we spent the evening very agreeably together, and she having just received a Letter from her brother Benjamin Hird who was then on a religious visit to friends in Scotland was so kind as to read it to me which was very comfortable...' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As her children grew Christiana felt free to travel in the ministry not only locally but further afield.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span>In the 1780s Christiana accompanied <a href="http://stumblingstepping.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/quaker-alphabet-blog-week-20-j-for.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Jones</a> on her travels around the country but they often returned to Undercliffe for periods of rest and recuperation. In 1788 on her return to America Rebecca fondly remembered 'that hospitable retreat called Undercliffe, where I have been often received, kindly cared for and tenderly treated, far beyond my deserts.'</span><br />
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John died in 1790 and Christiana in 1811 and they were both buried in the Quaker burial ground in the city centre. Undercliffe passed to their sons but eventually the house was demolished and the estate sold. In 1851, as part of a national campaign to remove graveyards from city centres where they were becoming a health hazard, 26 acres of the estate were acquired by the Bradford Cemetery Company and Undercliffe Cemetery was established.<br />
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The cemetery was divided between anglicans and non-conformists and was run as a commercial enterprise. The first interment took place in 1854 and then in 1855 an Order in Council closed many of the overcrowded central burial grounds, including the old Quaker graveyard. The Society of Friends purchased a small section at the back of the newly opened cemetery and re-interred the disturbed remains, including those of John and Christiana Hustler, in one large grave. This and subsequent graves were marked with uniform stones laid flat on the ground, a contrast to the many lofty and elaborate monuments surrounding them.<br />
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