The Message and Mission of QuakerismBraithwaite, William C. (William Charles)
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The Message and Mission of Quakerism
Braithwaite, William C. (William Charles)
Society of Friends
No one can be blind to the way in which every detail of our life is
being modified by the many new inventions which accelerate the rate of
living. We crowd into a single day more than our forefathers could put
into a week. The express train, the telegraph and the telephone, the
typewriter, the multiplied devices for saving time—all these things
are speeding up life to the point at which the time for meditation and
quiet is crowded out. This is surely a great and growing danger of
which none of us is wholly unconscious.
I have been surprised to find in how many different circles there is
at the present time a feeling of dissatisfaction with the forms of
worship which have for long been regarded as sufficiently
satisfactory. I know a number of cases where, in high church circles,
prominent people are feeling after something more akin to a Quaker
Meeting than anything else. I am also intimately associated with some
of the most living movements in my own country, in which meetings have
been held on the same lines. This does not mean that great value does
not still attach to regular arranged services. No doubt the vast
majority of those who attend the services of the Anglican Church are
still finding out that their spiritual needs are met thereby; but,
there are others, and some of them are choice spirits, who feel the
need of more liberty and who crave for more stillness in their
worship. They are coming to recognize the great danger of the regular
pre-arranged service such as is usual in most other denominations.
They fear, perhaps, the invasion of the sanctuary by the spirit of
rush and hurry.
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