Friends in Scotland

Bronwen Currie reports on the recent General Meeting for Scotland

Friends gathered for General Meeting for Scotland in St Andrews on 7 March in a rather sombre mood following the recent deaths of a number of well-known and well-loved Friends who had given much service to our Religious Society.

Indeed, the funeral of Christine Davis, clerk of London Yearly Meeting in the early 1990s, had been held only the previous Saturday. So, we abandoned our usual practice of a reading during worship, and instead joined in the silence to remember and pay tribute to these Friends – and, of course, the partners and families left behind.

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