_THE CONTRIBUTION OF FRIENDS TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE CHURCH_
BY HENRY T. HODGKIN, M.A., M.B.
Personal experience of co-operation with other
denominations in west China and elsewhere 56
An ideal of Christian unity 57
The Society of Friends in relation thereto 58
That which the Society holds in common with others 62
The attitude in which the contribution can be made 63
Summary of some contributions Friends have already
made.
Need of first-hand experience—Religious
toleration—Brotherhood of all races—High business
standard—Practical philanthropy 66
Contribution of Friends to modern life.
Direct personal intercourse with God—Modern drift to
materialism—The greater danger in the child
races—Proposed remedies—The positive message of
Friends 69
The quiet heart.
The rush of modern life—The sense of need felt at
home and abroad—Worship as a united inspired act—A
high ideal to be reached 76
The leadership of the Spirit.
From autocracy to democracy—The nationalist spirit in
the East—The Quaker meeting for discipline—A
theocratic ideal 83
Idealism.
The danger of opportunism—Solution of the race
problem—Place of the idealist 89
Woman’s contribution.
The Woman’s Movement to-day—The emancipation of women
in the East—The failure of the Church to respond—The
experience of Friends 95
A non-professional ministry.
The labor-movement an aspiration—Difficulty of the
organized Churches—Danger abroad—Freedom of the
ministry 99
The spirit of tolerance.
Modern scholarship and the Bible—Suggested solutions
of the difficulty—A grave peril—Where Friends can
help 104
How the message is to be delivered.
A fresh conviction—A fuller consecration—Large
sympathy with others—A corporate sense of
mission—Apostles 109