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Words & Testimonies: The Carey Memorial Lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971
Words & Testimonies: The Carey Memorial Lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971
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Friends are known by what they stand for, not by what they believe: by testimonies, not by creeds. They have a record of taking human equality seriously; they have so valued integrity that they would not take oaths, preferring even to go to prison; and they have tried to serve the cause of peace.
Testimonies differ from creeds not simply as actions differ from words; testimonies also are expressed in words, even when they result in action. It would be difficult to do anything on principle without verbal communication. Words enable us to explain and generalize, to ourselves and to others, what we are doing. But the communication of testimonies includes action as well as words. We must be like Chaucer's good parson, who preached Christian instruction to his flock, but "first he followed it himself."
Testimonies differ from creeds not simply as actions differ from words; testimonies also are expressed in words, even when they result in action. It would be difficult to do anything on principle without verbal communication. Words enable us to explain and generalize, to ourselves and to others, what we are doing. But the communication of testimonies includes action as well as words. We must be like Chaucer's good parson, who preached Christian instruction to his flock, but "first he followed it himself."
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