Mr. J. W. Graham, the Principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester,
wrote to the Westminster Gazette of Wednesday to say that, though the Society of Friends "has decided not at present even to consider the wisdom of removing from membership the small number of our young men who have joined the Army," Quakers "stand where they have always stood "—opposed to taking part in war in any circumstances. He describes the Quakers who have enlisted as young men who "found their Quakerism unequal to the strain " of the national crisis. The Society came to the conclusion, however, that to "disown them in their absence, to disown men so young at all," was "harsh and uncalled for." Mr. Graham states that he was never present at meetings "so full of conviction, so filled with concentrated utterance, so instinct with reality," as those in which the Society of Friends declared against taking part in the war.
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