Quaker Anecdotes

Quakerism has been blessed with its great mystics and its peculiar saints; something of the beauty of their lives has been revealed in journals and in scholarly books. This little collection of stories is offered with a minimum of footnotes and quotation marks--without a garland of ibids, in Frank Sullivan's phrase--in the belief that there is value in tasting the feast of good--and amusing--little things in our Friendly heritage. We shall be none the worse for the bigger problems of contemporary Quakerism if we see that the world of time and sense has often not quite fallen off, that the Water tastes frequently of the human pipes to which it has been entrusted.