Participation in Rural Life
Participation is a word which well expresses the Quaker view of social responsibility. John Woolman has put this view succinctly in his sentence: "--to turn all that we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives." To participate fully in the love of God, we must participate to the limit of our capacity in the passion of mankind. Man, distraught, quite literally beside himself, goes every moment to Calvary, and he who carries a cross in the procession is the one to see the heavens open.
Participation is never limited to those who live in houses by the side of the road; saints have experienced it on mountaintops and behind walls. Invalids have known it on beds of personal pain. Scholars have felt it suddenly amid abstract studies. But beginners and seekers get lost from, or lost amid, their fellowmen unless actual physical sharing is allowed them. This is a fundamental human need. One of the hardest disciplines for the pacifist in times of war is the sense of drawing aside out of line and not being used, the sense of not participating.
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Participation is never limited to those who live in houses by the side of the road; saints have experienced it on mountaintops and behind walls. Invalids have known it on beds of personal pain. Scholars have felt it suddenly amid abstract studies. But beginners and seekers get lost from, or lost amid, their fellowmen unless actual physical sharing is allowed them. This is a fundamental human need. One of the hardest disciplines for the pacifist in times of war is the sense of drawing aside out of line and not being used, the sense of not participating.
Participation in Rural Life
Participation is a word which well expresses the Quaker view of social responsibility. John Woolman has put this view succinctly in his sentence: "--to turn all that we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives." To participate fully in the love of God, we must participate to the limit of our capacity in the passion of mankind. Man, distraught, quite literally beside himself, goes every moment to Calvary, and he who carries a cross in the procession is the one to see the heavens open.
Participation is never limited to those who live in houses by the side of the road; saints have experienced it on mountaintops and behind walls. Invalids have known it on beds of personal pain. Scholars have felt it suddenly amid abstract studies. But beginners and seekers get lost from, or lost amid, their fellowmen unless actual physical sharing is allowed them. This is a fundamental human need. One of the hardest disciplines for the pacifist in times of war is the sense of drawing aside out of line and not being used, the sense of not participating.
Participation is never limited to those who live in houses by the side of the road; saints have experienced it on mountaintops and behind walls. Invalids have known it on beds of personal pain. Scholars have felt it suddenly amid abstract studies. But beginners and seekers get lost from, or lost amid, their fellowmen unless actual physical sharing is allowed them. This is a fundamental human need. One of the hardest disciplines for the pacifist in times of war is the sense of drawing aside out of line and not being used, the sense of not participating.
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| BN ID: | 2940157436940 |
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| Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
| Publication date: | 01/13/2017 |
| Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #19 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 96 KB |
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