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o and suprenao businoss ia obedtonce to time That Christ ia imeell , the splritual broad which nourtsaes the radeened soul. ‘That those vito enter inte oneness with flim becomd wlgo Joined in living untony eno with another, as mergers of one body, His courche That true . wori.p and Garigtian vellewehtp spring out of this Jnediate relationniip of believing: souls with their conon Lord und vaster. -"the Friends also believe that the Holy Scriptures were given by inaptration of God, and that the divinely authortend doctrines und moral princtples therein contained, as unfolded by tha holy Solrit, ara unalterably bindinj; upon tha lives and actions of Carietianase They accept the umistibable meuningy an they believe ~ of Jesus in the Seren on the fount os a practical sede of etiiecs withoub nelifieation or qualificutdon on grounds of homin exnadtencye Ghey make afftrecution in place of taking leped oaths, whieh they bolieve to ba contrary to tew Sestunent teaentng, end to cstabltsny a dovbloe stundard of truthfulness, they believe in tho waprenacy of the Kingdaa of Heaven, unger walch all tna relations of human soctety are to be ordered upon the basis of fastica and rood whil. thoy belLeva that all var is rtterly incond.siant with the Corpal a and Spirkt of Thriat. They stand for a patriottea which rests tha balnark of a nation's safety and prosperity, not upon ihe strongth of tts urnies and navies, bab upon ricghtaousnars and Justice in Lto social, {ndvalstal, comnorcial, political und international life." In "sha Amerlean vriend,® of September, 1917, an article which ox plains the Cankerd position regarding wae, appeared unter tha heading "Se tdgar - Hieholsun Fxpluive Friends! Keal Position, in which the author quotes Crom the Friends "poclaration’ of raftheh © 7 0 FO ot ‘re have aver miintained that 4t 49 the duty of Girintiang to obey the anactients af civil. goverment, excapy those wifoh interfere | with our allesiance with God. ita ove much to its blessiinvjse shreugn Jtwe enjoy Uberty and protaction in connection wit Lan and ordnteses ve feol tound exnlicitly to avow our unuhaken persuasion that al war ' 49 utterly incompatible mith we plain precepts of our Living Lord and Lawgiver, and the whole spirit of iho Sonpel, and that no ples of necencl ty of polley, however urgent or pecudiar, can aval] to release eLther individuals or natione fron dra parangunt alleptance Walch thoy ova te Hin rho has suid, "Love your encaledecnest™ — ee + ar - —— —— SS ee