When I think of these great needs around me, I can sometimes feel that the illusion lifts and “the _truth_ lies bare.” In the Church and beyond its borders I seem to hear the yearning cry of those who aspire and whose aspirations are checked and thwarted: the bitter murmurings of those who have lost their confidence in organized Christianity and have been soured and alienated where they should have found sympathy and help: the warring and discordant notes of those who quarrel and misunderstand each other where they should unite firmly to represent Christ to the world: the perplexed questionings of those who seek to steer a straight course through the maze of modern life, and who have no certain guide: the weary sigh of those for whom life is too rapid and who have no time to turn inward and find their peace in Christ: the almost stifled sob of the souls that are cramped by the pressure of a materialistic view of life, or by the crushing weight of a world that leaves out God. The call comes from far and near for sympathy, deliverance, direction, peace and courage. Through it all may we not catch the tones of One whose heart still beats with the heart of his weakest child, saying “My voice is crying in their cry, Help ye the dying lest ye die”? BIBLIOGRAPHY J. S. Rowntree: “_Friends—Their Faith and Practice._” T. E. Harvey: “_Rise of the Quakers._” Elizabeth B. Emmott: “_Story of Quakerism._” Rufus M. Jones: “_A Dynamic Faith._” “_Social Law in the Spiritual World._” “_Quakerism a Religion of Life._” (Swarthmore Lecture.) W. C. Braithwaite: “_Spiritual Guidance in Quaker Experience._” (Swarthmore Lecture.) “_Beginnings of Quakerism._” Allen C. Thomas: “_History of Friends in America._” Transcriber’s Note Inconsistent hyphenation (common-sense/commonsense, Church-arrangements/Church arrangements) has been retained as printed. A handful of minor typographical errors have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Message and Mission of Quakerism, by William C. Braithwaite and Henry T. Hodgkin