{"id":306,"date":"2021-04-28T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/demo-43\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:31:40","slug":"from-quaker-faith-and-practice-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2021\/from-quaker-faith-and-practice-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"From Quaker Faith and Practice, May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#eaf4f9;    '>\r\n                            <b><i>Beatrice Saxon Snell relates a story from her own experience, which reminds us that we are all<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i>potentially the instruments of God:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>I had a salutary lesson in sober thinking when I was first asked to become an elder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The invitation appalled me; I felt I was not old enough, had not been in the Society long enough;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>I suspected strongly that my monthly meeting had asked me on the inadequate grounds of vocal ministry; I read up the appropriate passages in Church government and felt still more appalled.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>Nevertheless I had been in the Society just long enough to know that the group often has a wisdom which can seldom be justified on logical grounds but which is, nevertheless, superior to the wisdom of the individual. I therefore went to consult a much respected elder of my acquaintance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>She and her house were late Victorian; she sat on her ugly sofa with the poker up her spine, her feet set neatly together and her hands folded in her lap; and she let me talk myself out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>When I had quite finished she inclined herself slightly towards me and said: \u2018My dear, we have to take what we can get.\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>I have since been convinced that this is a text which ought to be framed and hung up over the bed of every elder in the Society: it ought to be hung over the bed of every Friend who is tempted to refer to the elders as \u2018they\u2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><i>12:08<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i>1982<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2021\/\">Back to May 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 505 \u2022 May 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to May 2021 Newsletter Main Page Forty-Three Newsletter \u2022 Number 505 \u2022 May 2021 Oxford Friends Meeting 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":248,"menu_order":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions\/1196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}