QWHP -- MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL.

Dedicated to observations of Quakers by non-Quakers, discussions of themes near and dear to Quaker hearts by others, those pieces which simply do not fit in any other category, as well as the outright bizarre, which must be seen to be believed and even then can be unbelievable.

This Document is on The Quaker Writings Home Page.

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ANTI-QUAKER ORDINANCES:

• An Act made at a General Court, held at Boston, the 20^th of October, 1658. Making it a crime to be part of that vile and horrid sect, with punishments of banishment upon pain of death.
• An Ordinance Against Negroes In Quaker Meetings, Barbadoes, 1676. Banning negroes from going to Quaker Meetings, with punishments including prison time and the forfeiture of sugar.

ANONYMOUS:

• The Last Day of Yearly Meeting, 1813. An eloquent, moving rhapsody extolling the benefits of brotherly unity among and a rare glimpse into the truly important business matters the country Friends were concerned with.

EARLHAM COLLEGE:

• Text of Advertisement from 1880. Tuition was $60.⁰⁰ a year, laundry was 30 cents per dozen, and the library proudly boasted over four thousand volumes. The good old days.

CHARLES LAMB:

• An Experience in a Quaker Meeting. Taken from a letter to Coleridge, written at the time. The speaker who left him somewhat unimpressed was is unknown. I have added his (mellowed) recollections of the same event some thirty years later in the better known "Essay of Elia" A Quakers' Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERICAN:

• Quakers and the War. A World War I era from 1917, observing that the Quakers themselves are divided about their testimony against wars and fightings and are, in any case, still good and loyal American citizens who will do everything they can to help in the war effort, even those that never do fire a shot.

CHARLES H. SPURGEON:

• Spurgeon's Testimony Regarding the Society of Friends. From an address given at Devonshire Meetinghouse in 1866, exhorting Friends to hold fast to their spiritual worship, belief in conversion, the nature of the church, etc.

M. I. ("PARSON") WEEMS:

• An Extract from The Life of William Penn. The better part of Chapter Four, in which the preschool William discusses the first question of the catechism with his dear mother. Absolutely true, of course.