From the archive: War and the Social Order

Janet Scott continues her look at the Friend’s first world war archive

From the 19 to the 22 October 1916 Friends held a conference on ‘War and the Social Order’. It was organised by a committee appointed by the Yearly Meeting and was reported in the Friend of 27 October. The conference was well attended and the discussion wide-ranging. The committee had prepared a memorandum that was placed on the seats at the start of the conference. It saw the purpose of the event as being to organise society on the principles of the Kingdom of God. This vision was outlined in the pages of the Friend of 27 October 1916.

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