Pub Date : 1921-05-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1921.a402025
W. Comfort
Upon turning our attention to American Quakerism, we are fortunate in finding at once a point of contact between Philadelphia and the Poet himself. We recall that the first American edition of 1787 was printed at Philadelphia, the Quaker stronghold on this continent. In the Devonshire House Library there is a rare printed pamphlet—unique so far as I can learn—purporting to be printed at Chester in 1800. It is practically certain that it was printed at Chester, Pennsylvania, and that the city referred to in the text is Philadelphia. If this assumption is correct, then we have a curious piece of evidence regarding the popularity of Cowper in Philadelphia before 1800. This pamphlet is called Copy of a letter written from a young man, a Quaker, in Penna., to the late William Cowper, the Poet. The letter itself is not dated, and its appearance in print was doubtless due to the interest aroused by the Poet's recent death. After introducing himself as one who once with fair hopes has met with affliction and disappointment, the writer continues in this remarkable vein :
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Pub Date : 1921-05-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1921.a402026
R. Kelsey
into any of them, which can pain the most virtuous mind or give the least offence to the eye or ear of modesty." 13 This somewhat complacent reflection of the great Quaker grammarian may well be considered alongside the words of Bagehot already quoted. They represent two diametrically opposed conceptions of literary education, one artistic, and the other moral. The evidence here submitted is not exhaustive; it could not be so. But enough has been presented to prove,—what was perhaps worth proving before the first-hand memory of the old guarded Quaker education was quite lost,"—that Cowper, an Anglican poet, so nearly expressed the sentiments and aspirations of the Society of Friends during a large part of the nineteenth century that he may be justly termed the titled Poet of Quakerism. (Concluded)
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Pub Date : 1921-05-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1921.a402024
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Pub Date : 1921-05-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1921.a402027
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399516
W. Comfort, Esther L. S. McGonegal, J. Locke, N. Green, J. Dickinson, G. Joy, A. Thomas, I. Sharpless
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399519
J. Locke, Nath Green, J. Dickinson
In July, 1920, Oakwood was moved back once more to Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting. About twenty miles from its original site and three miles South of the City of Poughkeepsie, its campus commands an extensive view of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains. Amid such inspiring surroundings the successor to Nine Partners School looks forward to a future big with possibility and worthy of its historic background. Esther L. S. McGonegal. Millbrook, New York.
1920年7月，奥克伍德再次搬回九合伙人季度会议。该校距原址约20英里，位于波基普西市以南3英里处，校园内可以看到哈德逊河和卡茨基尔山脉的广阔景色。在这样鼓舞人心的环境中，九合伙人学校的继承者期待着一个充满可能性和无愧于其历史背景的未来。Esther L. S. McGonegal。米尔布鲁克，纽约。
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399518
Esther L. S. McGonegal
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399521
George C. Joy
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399517
W. Comfort
In his rather unsympathetic study of Cowper, Walter Bagehot wrote : " He is the one poet of a class which have no poets. In that once large and still considerable portion of the English world, which regards the exercise of the fancy and the imagination as dangerous—snares, as they speak—distracting the soul from an intense consideration of abstract doctrine, Cowper's strenuous inculcation of those doctrines has obtained for him a certain toleration. . . . Most poets must be prohibited. . . . But Cowper is a ticket-of-leave man. He has the chaplain's certificate. He has expressed himself ' with the utmost propriety/ The other imaginative criminals must be left to the fates, but he may be admitted to the sacred drawing-room, though with constant care and scrupulous surveillance."1 Beneath this tone of banter, Bagehot is right in his analysis of the phenomenon of Cowper's popularity with a certain class of readers. His words are particularly to be borne in mind when we come to account for the affectionate regard in which the Poet has been held by the Society of Friends. Cowper appears to have had no social contact with the Quakers of his day. There are only a few slight references to them in his Letters. When the Poet and Mrs. Unwin were preparing lodgings for the reception of Lady Hesketh in 1786, a Quaker family in Olney rendered some assistance that was appreciated. Mrs. Unwin was conferring on the subject with one Maurice Smith, when his wife called out, "Why dost thee not take the vicarage? . . . We will furnish it for thee, and at the lowest rate; from a bed to a platter we will find all." A little later, on June 12, 1786, he again wrote to his cousin: "My friend the Quaker, in all that I have seen of his doings, has acquitted himself much to my satisfaction. Some little things, he says, will perhaps be missing at first, in such a multiplicity, but they shall
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Pub Date : 1920-11-01DOI: 10.1353/qkh.1920.a399522
A. Thomas
By the very nature of the stand taken by the adherents of Elias Hicks in 1828 and afterwards, there was not among them the same reasons for divisions and separations as among the Orthodox. The latter held that belief on doctrinal points was essential; while the Hicksites considered it of slight importance. So long as there was a general agreement on most points, exact statements were uncalled for, as they would interfere with the liberty of the spirit. But as time went on, it became evident that this very freedom from restraint was leading to divisions and separation. The average human mind needs something tangible or definite or both to satisfy it. No extreme spiritual or mystical body has ever succeeded either in gathering or holding any very great number of adherents.1 Among the Hicksites the differences arose chiefly in two fields —Church organization, and Church practice. In the first the younger and the more active members of the body made the same complaints against the Meetings of Ministers and Elders which
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