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C. -32- \) ight to engage in such activities as the official policy and faith of ends, The Society of Friends has never emphasized the outer this world (as made concrete in states and governments), but the inner | God in the individual soul, The Service Committee is perverting and berSayi the Society of Friends, and is thus usur ping a prerogative that it should not and does not have, nee tthe Service Committee feed the hungry, bind up the wounds of the rth, and bring love and light to all who are heavy-laden, But let it p lication, with all human machinery for social panacecas, partisa nship for socialism or any sort of collectivism And, above all, le stainfrom all appeasement of slave-states, of concentration camps, of the in neipati itles and powers of the darkness of this world (even when they coll ives "People's Democracies")! Let is not only stop all appeasement of ev t let it condemn and fearlessly criticize all ach horrible evils as social sin. fare =o 3 & & coup pmo cee & Unless and until the Friends Service Committce so does, I must criticise and oppose it, And if it represents the avowed and official and centrai policy cand activity of the Socicty of Friends, I shall have to withéraw from the Society of Friends, because in my humble opinion such policy and activity is allegiance not to Christ but to the Lord of This ‘World whose temptation Jesus scorn Unless and untill the Service Committee becomes the outspoken critic regimes that consider truth only the most convenient lie and fracd and for ce the true agencies of achieving the good life for all, I can only oppose andd myself fromthe Service Committee. If the Service Committee believes in right of aconcerned minority even (which I believe is a concerned majority), it must immediately cease its present emphasis and activity. I humbly and respect- fully ask it to consider this. * STATEMENT by DWIGHT W. MICHENER The time seems appropriate to consider some of the long-run trends in Service Committee activities, Four observations may be made. 1. There has been 2 ehift in the type of organization In its early years, Service Committee organization was informal and fl In all cases, the working group was shaped to fit the particular job. The work was done largely on a volunteer basis by the sincere Friend himse!, by his own hands. Time was taken off from his regular business, to which he would soon be returning. Now, the A.F,.S.C. is a large organization, with some 200-300 permanent, salaricd employees, most of whom have lost contact with their oris fields of productive enterprise, For the most part, those who do this service derive a living by so doing, (In this connectio thet many Quakers are opposed to "“hireling ministers;" yet ware now using largely "hireling" personnel, many of them non-F to do this work for us.} Of course, with a large and permanent staff, grist must be found for Organization mill, It seems that there is competition with other agencies