[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPROTATOR.1
Sin,—The size of the " perhaps not altogether unintelligent section of the Society [of Friends] who deeply deplore the attitude which the manifes'...aists and their followers have assumed from the very commencement of the war " is a matter upon which " A Friend" may express his own (un- signed) opinion. But it is only right that the readers of the Spectator should know that the document was carefully con- sidered by the yearly meeting in a sitting largely attended, and that only one voice was raised against its issue. Permit me to recall the fact that the " Manifesto" is simply, what it calls itself, "A Plea for a Peaceable Spirit " ; and to add that if any " birthright " member feels himself to be out of harmony with the spirit for which the document pleads, it is (without possibility of question) he, and not the yearly meet- ing, that is at variance with " the principles of Friends." It would be singularly unjust to the Society of Friends to allow the inferences contained in " A Friend's " letter to pass uncorrected —I am, Sir, &c., The Vista, Leominster. THEODORE NEILD.
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