E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original lovely illustrations. See 19605-h.htm or 19605-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/6/0/19605/19605-h/19605-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/6/0/19605/19605-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original | | document have been preserved. | | | | Three obvious typographical errors were corrected in | | this text. For a complete list, please see the end of | | the book. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------+ A BOOK OF QUAKER SAINTS +------------------------------------------------+ | _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ | | | | PILGRIMS IN PALESTINE. | | [_Out of print._] | | | | THE HAPPY WORLD. | | | | CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'THE | | FELLOWSHIP OF SILENCE.' | | | | SILENT WORSHIP: THE WAY OF WONDER. | | (_Swarthmore Lecture, 1919._) | +------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: LOIS AND HER NURSE] A BOOK OF QUAKER SAINTS by L. V. HODGKIN (Mrs. John Holdsworth) Illustrated By F. Cayley-Robinson, A.R.A. MacMillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1922 Copyright First Edition 1917 Reprinted 1918 Transferred to Macmillan & Co. and reprinted 1922 Printed in Great Britain DEDICATED TO THE CHILDREN OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND TO THE GRANDCHILDREN OF THOMAS HODGKIN PREFACE The following stories are intended for children of various ages. The introductory chapter, 'A Talk about Saints,' and the stories marked with an asterisk in the Table of Contents, were written first for an eager listener of nine years old. But as the book has grown longer the age of its readers has grown older for two reasons: