From the archive: Letters and papers from prison

Janet Scott describes where the conscience of Friends led them

by Janet Scott 26th October 2018

During the autumn of 1918 several subjects were on the minds of Friends and filled the correspondence columns of the Friend. There was the question of the League of Nations, with disagreement about whether it should have armed forces to act as police; there was the revision of the Book of Discipline and issues about the relative authority of scripture and experience of the Spirit; and by December there was much discussion of the habitual speakers in Meeting for Worship.