The Llandudno Conference

Ian Kirk-Smith writes about the historic Quaker event

Six weeks after the start of the first world war, between 25-30 September 1914, a group of men and women, representing different Christian denominations, met in Llandudno in Wales.

They had come to the Welsh town for a conference organised by some leading members of the Religious Society of Friends. The conference had originally been set up as a response to the growing crisis in Europe. The central theme was to consider: ‘Is our Lord able to be Lord of the whole human race, and unify the discords between nations and classes of men?’

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