THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND THIS WAR.
[To run Morron or ran " Smeruon..]
Sin,—My friend Mr. J. W. Graham, whose letter to the Westminster you quote in last week's issue, has overlooked the moat salient facts of all. The about two hundred young (Zenker. working the volunteer ambulance in Flanders (in khaki) went out in spite of official discouragements on the part of Friends. Neither they, nor the two hundred and fifty
Friends who have colleted, can rightly be regarded as giddy youths carried away by a desire for publicity and inertial glory. The feeling of a large minority of the Society of Friends for its enlisted members has been shown by the issue of a circular letter, sent to each, signed by nearly two thousand two hundred adult Friends. If the numbers seem smell, let it be remembered that Friends are a very small sect, and that each signatory probably represents two or three other members who sympathised to a somewhat lees degree. As these figures were read out to the Yearly Meeting whilst in session, and have not been nor could be repudiated, they perhaps as faithfully present the tree feeling of the Society as an en parts impression made by many speakers, indeed, but in the aggregate far inferior in numbers to the signatories of the circular letter. The Society of Friends is divided upon this question. Let us leave it at that, nor seek to give to the world a picture of enthusiastic unity inconsistent with admitted
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