From the archive: ...diversities of service but the same Lord (1 Corinthians 12:5)

Janet Scott continues her series on the Friend and the first world war and describes how Friends sought to uphold their testimonies

by Janet Scott 23rd February 2018

In the 11 January 1918 edition of the Friend George Cadbury was reported as speaking at a Meeting about the decline in attendance. There was, he said, ‘not a single meeting of the Society of Friends that could be called really successful. We had consulted too much our own comfort and ease.’ He attributed the cause as largely owing to Meeting for Sufferings ‘having entirely neglected to take up the condition of the meetings for worship of the Adult Schools and of the Sunday Schools, and having become instead almost a political institution’.