Perhaps some boys and girls have said many times since the War began:
'I wish Friends did not think it wrong to fight for their King and
Country. Why did George Fox forbid Quakers to fight for the Right like
other brave men? Is it not right to fight for our own dear England?'
But did George Fox ever forbid other people to fight? He was not in
the habit of laying down rules for other people, even his own
followers. Let us see what he himself did when, as a young man, he was
faced with this very same difficulty, or an even more perplexing one,
since it was our own dear England itself in those days that was tossed
and torn with Civil War.