Thought for the week: Joseph Jones on present dangers

‘For writers in our archive, it’s about challenging oneself.’

by Joseph Jones 23rd December 2022

In 1892, the Friend gave a wholehearted welcome to Christmas (‘this happy season’), noting that ‘Puritan objections to its observance have passed away’. Christmas was associated with ‘the greatest event in history’ and Friends ‘ought to hail it and enter into its amenities with ardour and rejoicing’. He who has entered into the right apprehension of this time of year (there’s a lot of ‘he’ in the Friend archive, I’m afraid) ‘feels a fitness in making it a season of gift giving and charity’.