Bridge builder: Richard Seebohm on John Wilhelm Rowntree

‘Love bridges death.’

by Richard Seebohm 10th July 2026

It was for me to give the monthly reading in Meeting last Sunday. The life of one of our members had been commemorated the Saturday before. My wife’s brother was to be commemorated the following day. With end of life in mind, I chose Quaker faith & practice 22.94: ‘Love bridges death. We are comrades of those who are gone; though death separate us, their work, their fortitude, their love shall be ours, and we will adventure with hope, and in the spirit and strength of our great comrade of Galilee, who was acquainted with grief and knew the shadows of Gethsemane, to fight the good fight of faith.’