Ormerod Greenwood

The book takes the reader with many concerned Friends, some of them famous, others forgotten, on errands of religious duty, some short, some very long, to almost all parts of the globe. The author brings people to life by quoting all manner of improbable incidents or letters or reports.

Addresses how ready Friends are to find meaning in masterpieces of the past. In his view the arts are inescapably religious and shows what the religious life has to gain from the arts.

Addresses how ready Friends are to find meaning in masterpieces of the past. The author regards art as inherently religious and discusses what religious life has to gain from the arts.

This is a brief life of Henry Hodgkin, 1877-1933, an English Friend who was a missionary, pacifist, co-founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1915, mission leader in China, and finally first director of Pendle Hill, the Quaker study center in the U.S. It presents some helpful background on the nature and issues of English Quakerism in that period, quite different from the present.