Unless One is Born Anew

by Dorothy Hutchinson

Overview

First of all, if there is any question of a need for revitalizing the Society of Friends, it must be true that there is something wrong with us � some symptoms of decline. In preparing my thinking for this occasion, I have inquired of some trusted Friends what these symptoms might be, as they see them. I shall just mention three, and please don�t be angry but hear me out.

The first symptom, I�m told, is that we sit well clothed, well fed, and well educated, in our Meetings for Worship, worshipping a God who has been good to us. We are reputable and extravagantly praised for victories bequeathed to us by our disreputable ancestors. We are sorely tempted now to compare ourselves with other perhaps less vital religious groups, instead of with what is God�s will for us. We need to be reminded again that when Peter was asked by his Lord to do certain specific things, he asked, �What is it your will that he should do?� pointing to another man. Christ answered him, �What is that to thee? Follow thou Me.�

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149179435
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	05/13/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #143
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	56 KB

About the Author

Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (1905-1984) was of one spirit with those Quaker women of the seventeenth century who followed Truth whether it led them across the sea to far countries or into the prisons of their own land. A shy person, inwardly compelled, she had been drawn bit by bit into this career of obedience after joining the Society of Friends twenty-seven years ago. During World War II she founded the Peace Now Movement, hoping to change the objective of United States policy from unconditional surrender to negotiated peace. A decade later she journeyed from home to home around the world, carrying a message of friendship from Abington Monthly Meeting, of which she is a member, and learning how the ordinary people of the world view their problems and their relations with the United States. The fruits of this experience were embodied in Pendle Hill Pamphlet 84, From Where They Sit. A similar desire for understanding among peoples prompted her, as President of the United States Section of the Women�s International League for Peace and Freedom, to head a delegation of American women visiting Poland and the U.S.S.R. in 1963 and 1964 respectively.

Though she started a career in zoology at Mount Holyoke and continued it with a doctorate from Yale her closest contact with the world of science was her husband, Dr. R. Cranford Hutchinson, Professor of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College. She was the mother of three children, and the grandmother of three. In May, 1958, fasting in the lobby of the Atomic Energy Commission to protest the damage to the health and heredity of children from nuclear testing, she assured a New York Times reporter that she could think of no better place to spend Mother�s Day that year.