NOTABLE QUAKERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 13

NOTABLE QUAKERS

TINY COMMUNITY ATTAINS GREAT EMINENCE AN IMPRESSIVE LIST The essential faith of Quakerism is that the spirit of God is within everj' human being:. Therefore, the Quakers have no ministers, no dogma, no sacraments and no liturgy. They interpret the scriptural commands literally, and “conscientiously object to war and violence.” Men and women have been equal in Quakerism for 300 years. There are 19,065 Quakers in Great Britain. That is the membership of the Society of Friends, whose yearly meeting was held recently in LonWhat are they among the 44,375,000 population of England, Wales, and Scotland? But . . . Look around, and you will find that in every phase of national life this tiny community of Quakers has attained amazing emineUFry, Cadbury, and Rowntree are all synonymous with chocolate —all Quakers. Huntley and Palmer, Carr’s, and Jacob spell biscuits —more Quakers. Every woman links starch with Reckitt—another Quaker. The first man

J to put tea into packets ready for sale j was Edward Horniman —yet another i Quaker. Perhaps you prefer more vigorous refreshment. Then such famous ; brewers as Hoare, Barclay, and Per- ■ kins, Walker’s, Parkinson (famous in the North of England), Truman, and j Hanbury. | Turn to other realms of business. Banking, for instance. Lloyd’s Bank. Barclay's Bank, Hoare's Bank, are all ; Quakers in their origin. Quakers. indeed, originated and founded th r ! English banking system, with its solid ity and honesty. ! You have to take a journey? That ! means Bradshaw, the Manchester j Quaker, who printed the first railway i time-table. Look at the cover, an i. you will seen the issue is still i dated “sth month.” in accordant with the Quaker disregard for heathen | names for months and days, such a- ! May and Sunday. Friend Edward Pease financed George Stephenson in the building o' the first railways. John Ellis, another ; Quaker, founded the Midland Railway. Sir George Newman. M.D., principal medical officer to the Ministry of Health, is a Quaker. Another was Lister, the great surgeon, whose introduction of antiseptic methods ha - saved more lives and suffering than l any other human agency. So was Sir j Jonathan Hutchinson, whose research marked a definite dominance over skin S diseases and leprosy. Quakerism and scientific distinction have long been closely associated Dalton, with his law of atomic weights, was a Quaker. In the development oi telephony and telegraphy, SilranuThompson, a Quaker, was foremo-’ ! Professor Eddington, university astro nomer at Cambridge, whose recent i book is creating as great a stir a. ' Einstein’s theory, is a Quaker. Membership of the Royal Society i- ; the sunreme honour paid to any scien list. The number of Quakers electee I as Fellows of the Society is 46 timegreater than their numerical proper tion to the population. To politics the Friends have given ! John Bright and W. E. Forster, who ! instituted education for the whole people in 1870. In literature do you recognise E. VLucas in the “Edward Verrai Lucas, to whom the Quaker magazines refer as a Friend? Again there are G. B Burgin (who pubished his 100th book recently) and Wilfred Whitten. The Cunard Line (founded by a Quaker), crosses the Atlantic, and . Friend Herbert Hoover is President of ] the United States.