And Jesus cried out and said, ìHe who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them,
I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has bidden me.î

John 12: 42ñ50

ìFrom the services in which I joined as a child I have taken with me into life a feeling for what is solemn, and a need for quiet and self-collection, without which I cannot realize the meaning of my life. I cannot, therefore, support the opinion of those who would not let children take part in grown-up peopleís services till they to some extent understand them. The important thing is not that they shall understand, but that they shall feel something of what is serious and solemn. The fact that the child sees his elders full of devotion, and has to feel something of their devotion himself, that is what gives the service its meaning for him.î

Albert Schweitzer, Memoirs of Childhood and Youth

From Worship and Ministry

Question and Answer

Langston Hughes

Durban, Birmingham,
Cape Town, Atlanta,
Johannesburg, Watts,
The earth around
Struggling, fighting,
Dying ó for what?

A world to gain.

Groping, hoping,
Waiting ó for what?

A world to gain.

Dreams kicked asunder,
Why not go under?

Thereís a world to gain.

But suppose I donít want it,
Why take it?

To remake it.

Stop the African Slave Trade

from the petition of Absalom Jones and 73 others, December 30, 1799

To the President, Senate, and House of Representatives.

The petition of the People of Colour, free men, within the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia, humbly showethÖ
In the Constitution and the Fugitive Bill, no mention is made of black people, or slaves: therefore, if the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Congress are of any validity, we beseech, that as we are men, we may be admitted to partake of the liberties and unalienable rights therein held forth; firmly believing that the extending of justice and equity to all classes would be a means of drawing down the blessing of Heaven upon this land, for the peace and prosperity of which, and the real happiness of every member of the community, we fervently pray.

Coffee and covered dish for March
Graveyard and Memorial Committee

Upcoming Events

March 3 ó Neesha Mirchandani of
Afghan Womenís Mission
Come to Arch Street Meetinghouse at noon and hear Neesha Mirchandani speak about The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). RAWA, established in 1977, is the oldest political and humanitarian feminist organization in Afghanistan. It has stood for freedom, democracy, secularism, womenís rights and human rights for more than 20 years.

RAWA has received accolades for its documentation of human rights abuses ó sometimes using tiny video cameras hidden under burqas at great personal risk. This brave group of women has led peaceful demonstrations to demand democracy and human rights
for their people. As Afghans themselves, RAWAís humanitarian work reaches people other mainstream aid agencies cannot get access.

sor more information see: http://afghanwomensmission.org, http://www.rawa.org or http://www.archstreetfriends.org

March 9 ó Quiet Riot
Westfield Young Peopleís Peace Group invites young people and their families to see Quiet Riot and do
service projects on Saturday, March 9th from 2:45 to
5 pm. For more information, call Joan Spagnoletti or Priscilla Adams. RSVP required.

March 14ñ17 ó Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas Annual Meeting
This yearís Annual Meeting will be held at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel, 1701 Locust St. The theme is ìThe Meaning of the Peace Testimony for Quakers Todayî and the keynote speaker is Mary Lord, coordinator of the ìNo More Victims Campaignî for AFSC. The keynote speech will be given Friday, March 15
at 7:45 pm at CPMM, 15th and Cherry Streets. All Friends are invited to attend. This is a unique opportunity for Friends to meet Friends from around the world. For more information, call the FWCC office at 215-241-7250 or e-mail Americas@FWCC.Quaker.org.

March 16 ó Draft Counselor Training II
A follow-up to the January 5th workshop at Arch Street Meetinghouse from 12ñ3:30 pm. (Attendance
at the first session is not required.) This will be a networking and practice session. For more information
or to RSVP, call Jonathan Ogle at 610-399-1435 or
e-mail jonathan.ogle@westtown.edu.
Sponsored by the Conscience, Militarism and War Tax Concerns Working Group of PYM.

March 17 ó Registration and Militarism Program
See article below.

March 21ñ24 ó Annual Sessions of PYM
Arch Street Meetinghouse. Look for your program booklet in the mail.

Registration, Militarism and Conscience: Finding our Individual Leadings
Among the Many Options

Sunday, March 17th, 1:00 pm at Haddonfield
Meeting House. Led by Jonathan Ogle.

Haddonfield Meeting and Haddonfield Quarter Peace & Social Concerns Committee invite young men and women and their parents to come to a program to assist young people to find their own individual path in regard to registration and militarism. The program will:

ï provide clear information about current laws and proposed legislation

ï list the options for young people to consider

ï give ideas of how to discern the path that best reflects oneís own values & beliefs

ï list the steps that young people need to take to implement their decisions and list the support
systems that exist

ï provide literature that you can take with you

Jonathan works with young people as a teacher and registration counselor at Westtownís upper school. He is also on the board of the Center for Conscience & War. At the end of the meeting there will be pizza and a chance to talk informally. Please RSVP to Priscilla Adams at peacepc@aol.com so we can plan for the number attending. (If you cannot RSVP, you are still welcome.)

Volunteers Needed

Volunteer Assistants are needed for the Childrenís Program at PYM Yearly Meeting. Your assistance as a volunteer is essential to the quality of the program. Choose a morning, afternoon or evening (March 21-24) that is good for you, and contact the Religious Education Expediter at your Meeting (Jayne Stokes), or call Brenda Rose Simkin at 215-241-7075 (e-mail brendar@pym.org).

February 2002 Monthly Meeting
for Business

Monthly Meeting for Business began with a period
of silent worship during which the Clerk read ìThe Individual and the Peace Testimonyî from p. 77 of Faith & Practice (which follows).

The Individual and the Peace Testimony
In our individual lives, the peace testimony leads us
to accept conflict as an opportunity for loving engagement with those with whom we disagree.
That love can often be expressed in creative,
nonviolent resolution of the disagreement. When we encounter people of sincere religious conviction whose views are profoundly different from our own, that love can also be manifested by acknowledging the sincerity of the other, while forthrightly expressing our own convictions.
The peace testimony also leads us as individuals to consider seriously our employment, our investments, our purchases, our payment of taxes, and our manner of living as they relate to violence. We must become sensitive to the covert as well as the overt violence inherent in some of our long-established social practices and institutions. We need to avoid, for example, benefiting not only from the manufacture of arms,
but also from company practices that do violence to employees, consumers, or the natural world.

From Overseers
Harley and Pat Williams and Howard and Flora McKinney welcomed Justin Loughry to membership in the Meeting.

Susan Tucker reported on the Quarterly Peace and Social Concerns Committeeís planned workshop on the draft and conscientious objection. It will be held March 17 and Jonathan Ogle of Westtown Friends School will speak. (There is more information on
this elsewhere in the newsletter.) She also shared Moorestown Meetingís procedure for young people wishing to establish their conscientious objector status. Pam is working on a letter to go to all young people
in the Meeting to make them and their parents aware of these issues.

Steve Senopoulos reported on the status of the
purchase of 65 Haddon Ave. They are currently
negotiating with the seller on repairs.

The Education Fund Committee was discussed. Pam will look into Meeting minutes to see whether it is still active or has been laid down. Property Committee reported on the changing of the locks in the classroom wing of the Meetinghouse.

Update on 65 Haddon Avenue

The Haddonfield Zoning Board finally heard our case on February 19 and granted a zoning variance to use the property as a school!

Memorial Service and Graveyard Committee
Yearly Report 2001

This committee report was given at the December 2001 Business Meeting by John Donch

Presented to Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Twelfth Month, 14th day, 2001

This report covers the work of the Memorial Service and Graveyard Committee for the time First Month
to Twelfth Month 2001.

Deaths:

Edythe Nicholson died the Third Month, 10th day, 2001. Her ashes were buried the Twelfth Month,
6th day, 2001 with her husband Arthur. Edythe was
a long time member of the meeting.

Benjamin Webster Blair died the Fourth Month,
9th day, 2001. His ashes were buried Fourth Month, 14th day, 2001 next to his great grandparents. Benjamin was a non-member with a past affiliation. He was 28 years old and he is a relative of Deedy Roberts.

Nerma Neale died the Fifth Month, 6th day, 2001. She was buried the Fifth Month, 11th day, 2001 next to husband Roy. Nerma was a life-time member of the meeting. She was known as ìTeacher Nermaî in the first day school. Her daughter, Bonnie V. Drago, is a member of the meeting.

Fred Clever died the Ninth Month, 12th day, 2001. The permit book does not have a date of burial. Fred was a member of the meeting and was born Eleventh Month, 5th day, 1922.

Sylvia Gardiner died the Eleventh Month, 23rd day, 2001.

Income: The recently appointed co-clerks have no information to present in this report.

Other: The committee will miss the competent clerkship of Janet Hinds Pilvalis and would like to minute what a fine job she did on this committee.

The committee is in a transitional period now with new co-clerks, John & Kathy Donch. Janet is continuing to provide help in this transition period.

A headstone is a requirement for internment in the cemetery and there have been several instances when no headstone was placed. The committee has decided to have funeral directors hold $500.00 in escrow until a headstone has been placed at the grave. This money will be returned when the headstone is placed or will be used to purchase and place a headstone. Any balance remaining will be returned to the family.

Members are reminded that if they have any particular instruction or directions for burial that they can be recorded and kept at the meeting. The committee has struggled with how to communicate to the members the importance of choosing a grave site and providing the committee with final instructions. This would save all parties concerned addressing these issues at the time of death.

Pam Anderson represented the Property Committee at our last meeting and made a presentation of what will be happening at the graveyard with the planting of trees and maintenance of the grounds.

Memorial Service and Graveyard Committee
for 2001 ñ 2002

Bruce Adams, Art Dodge, John Donch, Kathleen Donch, Mabel Hinds, Dan Kurtzman, Ceil McFadden. Mary Pharo. Merritt Pharo. Lyle Tatum.

Annual Library Report

Haddonfield Monthly Meeting of Friends

This committee report was given at the January 2002 Business Meeting by Sal Scafidi

People currently serving on the Library Committee are Irene Bassow, Bob Brookes, Hiltrud Dodge, Sal Scafidi, and S.E. Watson. With the departure of Nancy Wogan and Judy Owens, and the uncertain status of Nancy Duryea, the committee has undergone a 100% turnover in the last year. The transition has been made easier with the considerable help of Ruth Podolin,
former Clerk of the committee.

In May 2001, a survey was sent to Meeting members and attenders via the newsletter. Respondents suggested that new materials include journals of early Friends, and books for very young children. Suggestions for how the Library could better serve the Meeting included ìtie in with First Day Schoolî; ìget onlineî; ìremind us that itís thereî; and ìadd new materialî.

In August, S.E. Watson and Sal Scafidi had the pleasure of traveling to Philadelphia to purchase books for the Library at the FGC Bookstore. In all 14 books were purchased, and S.E. bought 6 Irene Allen Quaker mysteries and donated them to the Library. The books were processed and put on the shelves in September. Hopefully weíll be getting some reviews of the new books in the newsletter.

Besides getting reviews in the newsletter, the Committee will devote some time and energy to figuring out how to ìremind people that itís thereî. In addition, we will contact Nancy Wogan, who by all accounts was great at this.

The Library Committee will be contending with the problem of seriously overdue books. Hopefully, gentle reminders in the newsletter and phone calls will get the books back.

FIRST DAY SCHOOL

ìIt Takes a Meeting to Raise a Friend.î
ìYe have no time but this present time.î G. Fox

Submitted by Flora McKinney and Jayne Stokes

Spring Term Theme

Ecology and the Environment

Hymns from Worship in Song:

For The Beauty of the Earth (#10)
For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.

Earth was Given as a Garden (#307)
Earth was given as a garden: cradle for humanity.
Tree of life and tree of knowledge placed for our discovery.
Here was home for all thy creatures, born of land and sky and sea,
All created in thine image, all to live in harmony.

Walking Gently on the Earth

We recognize that the well-being of the earth is a fundamental spiritual concern. From the beginning, it was through the wonders of nature that peoples saw God. How we treat the earth and its creatures is a basic part of our relationship with God. Our planet as a whole, not just the small parts of it in our immediate custody, requires our responsible attention.

As Friends become aware of the interconnectedness of all life on this planet and the devastation caused by the neglect of any part of it, we have been more willing to extend our sense of community to encompass all living things. We must now consider whether we should lay aside the belief that we humans are acting as stewards of the natural world, and instead view human actions as the major threat to the ecosystem.

Friends are indeed called to walk gently on the earth. Wasteful and extravagant consumption is a major cause of destruction of the environment. The right sharing of the worldís remaining resources requires that developed nations reduce their present levels of consumption so that people on underdeveloped nations can have more, and life-sustaining systems can be restored. The world cannot tolerate indefinitely the present rate of consumption by technologically developed nations.

Friends are called to become models and patterns of simple living and concern for the earth. Some may find it difficult to change their accustomed lifestyle; others recognize the need and have begun to adopt ways of life which put less strain on the worlds resources of clean air, water, soil and energy.

A serious threat to the planet is the population explosion and consequent famine, war and devastation. Called on to make decisions to simplify our lives, we may find the most difficult to accept will be limiting the number of children we have.

Voluntary simplicity in living and restraint in procreation hold the promise of ecological redemption and spiritual renewal.

(Faith and Practice ó Pg. 81)

Has your family found ways to conserve electricity
and water ?
Does your family use substances harmful to the
environment?
Has your family found ways to act on environmental concerns in your community?

Adult FDS Schedule for March

March 3: We will discuss Query #2 ó Meeting for Business, found on page 206 of Faith and Practice.

March 10: There are two options for adults.
1. Join Friends in the meeting house to hear the Spiritual Journeys of fellow members and attenders.
2. Join a smaller group of Friends in the Sewing Room to discuss the Gospel of John. This group offers Friends an opportunity to explore diverse points of view on the interpretation of the Bible. Discussions thus far have ranged from the view that John should be looked upon as an historical document to reading this Gospel for its mystical revelations. If you are interested in clarifying your own ideas, or would like to listen to the diverse views of others, consider joining this group.

March 17: Chris Ravndal will lead a workshop on Centering Prayer, a way of approaching contemplation as unlimited attention to or union with God. This
practice can offer Friends a helpful way of centering and a new perspective on our own form of worship. Chris has been a teacher at Pendle Hill for nine years.

March 24: There are two options for adults.
1. School Committee will talk about what they do.
2. A discussion of the Gospel of John will take place in the Sewing Room.

March 31: Since this is Easter Sunday, there will be no First Day School for children or adults. We will have an extended social time.

Description of Meeting Committees
and Offices

A responsibility of membership in the Religious Society of Friends is participation in the life of the Meeting. This includes both committee work and attendance at Monthly Meeting for Business (meets the second Friday of the month, September through May).

All committees are responsible to one another and to the Monthly Meeting.

Worship and Ministry

Responsible for the spiritual life of the Meeting, caring for the quality of spoken ministry and being sensitive to the needs of members and attenders in all areas of life and death (meets the third Thursday of the month)

Overseers

Oversees pastoral care of members, membership matters, weddings, and problems of individual members (meets the second Tuesday of the month)

Religious Education Committee

Responsible for religious development of children and adults. Oversees selection of teachers and curriculum of First-Day School (meets the second Sunday of the month at noon)

Finance Committee

Prepares a yearly budget, manages the financial resources of the Meeting, and reminds Friends of their financial responsibility

Property Committee

Concerned with maintenance of the Meeting
property including building and grounds, but not school buildings or school grounds (meets the third Wednesday of the month)

School Committee

Oversees all school matters and finances, ensuring that the school is a part of the Meeting community and that it is run in accordance with Friendsí principles

Library Committee

Cares for library cataloging, shelving, purchasing and discarding of materials

Peace and Social Concerns

Keeps Meeting informed of current peace and social issues. Delivers contributed food and clothing to charitable locations (meets the second Sunday of the month, at 9 a.m.)

Memorial and Graveyard Committee

Responsible for helping Friends arrange services and burial in Meeting cemetery

Recorder

Maintains records of membership and reports such to Yearly Meeting

Public Relations

Reports relevant material to newspapers

Representative to Interim Meeting

Attends Interim Meeting which meets monthly to carry out Philadelphia Yearly Meeting business (meets the fourth Thursday of the month at Arch St.)

Council of Churches Representative

Represents the Meeting in this group; informs Friends of their planned events

Newsletter Editor

Produces a monthly newsletter; appointed by Overseers

Nominating Committee

Responsible for matching the vacancies on committees and in offices with membersí interests and abilities; appointed by Overseers

Quaker Action Conference

Submitted by John McGlaughlin

On Saturday, 02-02-02, there was a gathering of Friends at 4th and Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. The question at hand was, what can Quakers do to convert our faith into action?

Joe Volk, Executive Director of FCNL, gave the keynote address. There were a total of 9 workshops offered by knowledgeable speakers. Topics included: How to Organize in your Community; Using the
Law to Make Social Change; How to Lobby to Affect Legislation; and How to be an Advocate for our Testimonies in the State Legislature.

One of the outcomes of the How to Organize in your Community workshop was the suggestion that there be an electronic bulletin board for Friends throughout the Philadelphia area (and beyond) to ask questions, offer suggestions, communicate about activities and generally act to foster a greater sense of community.

This bulletin board is available through the Haddonfield Meeting website. On the Haddonfield Meeting website, there is a banner across the top that reads ìPhiladelphia Yearly Meetingî. In the lower left-hand corner of that banner, click on ìhomeî. This will take you to the PYM website. There you will find a link to the on-line discussion group Philapeace.org. Click on that, and voila! You are there.

Once you get to that link you also have the choice of joining a ìlistservî which is a service which will notify you automatically of upcoming events and other features of interest.

Essay Contest

The United Nations Association of the United States of America is sponsoring a national high school essay contest. The topic is: How can the nations of the world work together multilaterally to successfully address the problem of global warming? First prize is $1000.
Essays must be submitted no later than April 12, 2002. For more information and an application kit, visit www.unausa.org/programs/nhseckit.htm.

The Journal of George Fox
Continued from February

CHAPTER X.
Planting the Seed in Wales.
1656-1657.

Being released from our imprisonment, we got horses, rode towards Humphrey Lowerís, and met him upon the road. He told us he was much troubled in his mind concerning us, and could not rest at home, but was going to Colonel Bennet to seek our liberty. When we told him we were set at liberty, and were going to his house, he was exceeding glad. To his house we went, and had a fine, precious meeting; many were convinced, and turned by the Spirit of the Lord to the Lord Jesus Christís teaching.

Soon after we came to Exeter, where many Friends were in prison; and amongst the rest James Nayler. For a little before we were set at liberty, James had run out into imaginations, and a company with him, who raised a great darkness in the nation. He came to Bristol, and made a disturbance there. From thence he was coming to Launceston to see me; but was stopped by the way, and imprisoned at Exeter; as were several others, one of whom, an honest, tender man, died in prison there. His blood lieth on the heads of his persecutors.

The night that we came to Exeter I spoke with James Nayler: for I saw he was out, and wrong, and so was his company. The next day, being First-day, we went to visit the prisoners, and had a meeting with them in the prison; but James Nayler, and some of them, could not stay the meeting. There came a corporal of horse into the meeting, who was convinced, and remained a very good Friend.

The next day I spoke to James Nayler again; and he slighted what I said, was dark, and much out; yet he would have come and kissed me. But I said that since he had turned against the power of God, I could not receive his show of kindness. The Lord moved me to slight him, and to set the power of God over him. So after I had been warring with the world, there was now a wicked spirit risen amongst Friends to war against. I admonished him and his company.

When he was come to London, his resisting the power of God in me, and the Truth that was declared to him by me, became one of his greatest burdens. But he came to see his out-going, and to condemn it; and after some time he returned to Truth again; as in the printed relation of his repentance, condemnation, and recovery may be more fully seen.

On First-day morning I went to the meeting in Broadmead at Bristol, which was large and quiet. Notice was given of a meeting to be in the afternoon in the orchard.

There was at Bristol a rude Baptist, named Paul Gwin, who had before made great disturbance in our meetings, being encouraged and set on by the mayor, who, it was reported, would sometimes give him his dinner to encourage him. Such multitudes of rude people he gathered after him, that it was thought there had been sometimes ten thousand people at our meeting in the orchard.

As I was going into the orchard, the people told me that Paul Gwin was going to the meeting. I bade them never heed, for it was nothing to me who went to it.

When I was come into the orchard, I stood upon the stone that Friends used to stand on when they spoke; and I was moved of the Lord to put off my hat, and to stand a while, and let the people look at me; for some thousands of people were there. While I thus stood silent, this rude Baptist began to find fault with my hair; but I said nothing to him. Then he ran on into words; and at last, ìYe wise men of Bristol,î said he,
ìI marvel at you, that you will stand here, and hear
a man speak and affirm that which he cannot make good.î

Then the Lord opened my mouth (for as yet I had not spoken a word), and I asked the people whether they had ever heard me speak, or had ever seen me before; and I bade them take notice what kind of man this was amongst them that should so impudently say that I spoke and affirmed that which I could not make good; and yet neither he nor they had ever heard me or seen me before. Therefore that was a lying, envious, malicious spirit that spoke in him; and it was of the devil, and not of God. I charged him in the dread and power of the Lord to be silent: and the mighty power of God came over him, and all his company.

Then a glorious, peaceable meeting we had, and the Word of life was divided amongst them; and they were turned from darkness to the Light, ó to Jesus their Saviour. The Scriptures were largely opened to them; and the traditions, rudiments, ways, and doctrines of men were laid open before the people; and they were turned to the Light of Christ, that with it they might see these things, and see Him to lead them out of them.

I opened also to them the types, figures, and shadows of Christ in the time of the law; and showed them that Christ was come, and had ended the types, shadows, tithes, and oaths, and put down swearing; and had set up yea and nay instead of it, and a free ministry. For He was now come to teach the people Himself, and His heavenly day was springing from on high.

For many hours did I declare the Word of life amongst them in the eternal power of God, that by Him they might come up into the beginning, and be reconciled to Him. And having turned them to the Spirit of God in themselves, that would lead into all Truth, I was moved to pray in the mighty power of God; and the Lordís power came over all. When I had done, this
fellow began to babble again; and John Audland was moved to bid him repent, and fear God. So his own people and followers being ashamed of him, he passed away, and never came again to disturb the meeting. The meeting broke up quietly, and the Lordís power and glory shone over all: a blessed day it was, and the Lord had the praise. After a while this Paul Gwin went beyond the seas; and many years after I met him in Barbadoes.

Use of the word ëwarí puts public rights under attack

This letter, written by Martin L. Haines of Moorestown, which originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, was submitted by Judy Kruger. Mr. Haines is a retired New Jersey Superior Court assignment judge.

On Sept. 11, this country was the victim of an unprovoked terroristic attack resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 lives.

On Sept. 18, Congress responded by adopting a resolution authorizing the President ìto use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks.î

The President responded by declaring ìwarî and launching a military attack upon the Taliban in Afghanistan and upon Osama bin Laden, the claimed power behind the Sept. 11 attack.

The President correctly undertook the use of force, but incorrectly declared war. Only Congress has the power to declare war, a power never exercised in the current conflict.

Eighty percent or more of the American public care not a jot; they applaud the Presidentís actions. Congress authorized his use of force; there is little difference between force used with and force used without a declaration of war, right? Wrong.

War represents the consummate use of power. Its
declaration is far too significant to be entrusted to one person, even the president.

The Presidentís declaration, unopposed by a compliant Congress, deprived that Congress of the opportunity to debate ó and the public of the chance to learn about ó the question of war. It eliminated the risk of a refusal to declare war and of any exposure to questions about the extent of the use-of-force resolution and the direction it was expected to take.

Worse, the Bush administrationís references to ìwarî have been used insidiously and effectively to persuade the people to support questionable government proposals. Fear exacerbated by those references has resulted in the publicís acceptance and defense of almost any proposal, no matter how uncertain, unproven or invasive, that offers the possibility of detecting and prosecuting terrorists.

Civil liberties, once greatly cherished, have been restricted in New Jersey and elsewhere. Most of the nation has not only accepted but cheered the restrictions. Not everyone, however. Michael Howard, professor emeritus of military and naval history at Yale University, has illuminated the perils attending casual references to ìwarî by high-level government officials.

In a lecture reprinted in the January issue of Harperís magazine, Howard wrote that to misuse the term war is not simply a matter of ìlegality or pedantic semantics.î It has more dangerous consequences, immediately creating a ìwar psychosisî that demands immediate military action and prevents the use of the qualities needed in a serious campaign against terrorists.

ìSecrecy, intelligence, political sagacity, quiet ruthlessness, covert actions that remain covert, above all infinite patience óall are forgotten or overridden in a media-stoked frenzy for immediate results, and in nagging complaints if they are not achieved,î Howard wrote.

Those expert views overwhelmingly support the argument that the absence of a congressional declaration of war in the present conflict is a matter of considerable significance, not a mere quibble.

Future Events

China Summer: Friends Workcamp
in Xiaoshicun

This summer, twelve Americans will join with college students from China, Japan, and South Korea in the second annual China Summer workcamp in rural Hunan province. Together we will help refurbish a 100-year old elementary school, undertake a joint environmental project in cooperation with local
residents and teach English to local children.

This workcamp is under the care of Westfield Monthly Meeting and is co-sponsored by the Friends Workcamp Program of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Dates: July 29 to August 17, 2002. Cost: $2,200
For more information, please contact Adam Clark-Valle, at ChinaWorkcamp@PYM.org or call us at
215-241-7236.

India Trip
PYMís New Delhi Working Group is interested in hearing from persons who feel led to go to India to meet with fellow Quakers. If you are interested in
this three-week trip in Nov. 2002, please call George Willoughby or Margaret Grace.

In the Palm of Godís Hand: Rise Up Singing.
Annie & Peter Blood-Patterson of Middletown Mtg (Concord QM) are leading a weekend retreat at Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center in Bangor, PA, on 5/31 to 6/2/02. Annie & Peter will create a singing community to provide a safe, sacred space (a ìwelcome tableî) where retreat participants can bring songs that have struck a deep chord in their spiritual journey. There will be plenty of opportunity to share prayer, silence or reflections evoked by the songs we sing together. No musical experience is necessary and you might find that this retreat is a good place to reclaim your birthright as a singer. Their songbook, Rise Up Singing, plays a central role in the life of countless families, faith congregations, schools, camps and peace & justice groups. For more information or a copy of the retreat flyer, contact Kirkridge at 610-588-1793 or http://www.kirkridge.org/upcoming.html or e-mail Annie & Peter directly at bloodpat@erols.com

Poems Old and New

Another Day

Lyle Tatum

Another day has come,
I am up and moving around.
I donít remember if I had breakfast or not.
Days are named by the public
and numbered by Quakers of older days.
Each day has a duty of its own.
Is this the day I go to work? Go to school?
Start a vacation? Have a headache?
Mow the lawn? See the doctor?
Is there some special value of a day?
I doubt it. There must be hundreds of days on calendars.
I am glad I donít have to honor them all.