From the archive: Advance and retreat

Janet Scott continues her series on the Friend and the first world war and writes about instances of joy among suffering

by Janet Scott 30th March 2018

On 20 March 1918 the German army began what was to be a successful offensive in France. This had a great impact on Friends’ work. The 12 April edition of the Friend reported that at Meeting for Sufferings:

Reference was made to the suffering even then being undergone by many men only a few hundred miles away; and the prayer was offered that we, too, might be ready to hold our lives cheap for the Kingdom of God, and to dedicate ourselves to the service and redemption of our fellows.