From the archive: Service for peace
Janet Scott highlights the reports on 'The Peace Service of the Religious Society of Friends' in The Friend of 1914
Since the outbreak of war we have suggested that the threefold duty of the Society of Friends at the present time is to bear witness to its Peace Testimony, to prepare for, and make its contribution towards, the Reconstruction after the war, and to undertake National Service on behalf of the maintenance of the country’s stability and goodwill and in relief of the manifold distresses and sufferings which abound both here and abroad. In this programme of Peace Service all Friends, and those in sympathy with them, may unitedly share together in the bonds of one Spirit. “There are many problems which are insoluble except in active life.”
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