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Letters from Rufus M. Jones, 1924

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

To China Monthly Meeting. [overview of his work and the work of American Friends Service Committee], 1924 January 8; To Henry [T. Brown]. [had a General Committee meeting of American Friends Service Committee to discuss work in Germany--insufficient funds, use of cod liver oil for tuberculosis cases, work of Henry T. Brown and William Eves; help Westminster Meeting to be more hospitable], 1924 January 25; To Edward Farr. [will give commencement address at Oak Grove], 1924 May 27; To Harry Keates. [with regard to an article on the letter of George Fox to Governor of Barbados, Rufus M. Jones objects to Fox’s interpretation of Christianity, in which George Fox surrendered his usual position on doctrines and “notions”; as stated at Five Years Meeting, Rufus M. Jones opposed to the adoption of statements as they tend to divide, but now for the sake of unity, drew up a statement on Christianity as a “thing of life and experience...[which] cannot be expressed in documents” as a preamble to two documents under consideration to put them in a proper light], 1924 November 26?

Dates

  • Creation: 1924

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