...and in its results. George Fox had been called out of " that nature whence wars arise," and " lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Barclay too applied the peaceable ethic of Christ without flinching to the whole of life. Friends...

...writes in his Journal, 'that I knew whence all wars arose, even from men's lusts . . . and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars. Yet they courted me to accept their offer, and thought I did but compliment them. But I told...

...from whence all wars did arise, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine ; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars ".1 * It was this reply of Fox which became the initial " testimony " of all Quakers. Individual...

...in a Parliamentary regiment. . . . But Fox records his answer thus : 'I told them . . . that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.' " This is the answer, Dr. Russell said, to "those who to-day maintain that man is a fighting...

...battle. The post was offered to him because of his virtue and manly qualities. " But I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars : and I knew from whence all wars did rise, from the lust, according to James' doctrine I was...

...single standard of conduct before God and man. The Children of Light lived, as Fox said in 1651, ' in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars,' and the Society of Friends has steadily maintained the unlawfulness of war to the Christian....

...attempt was made to draft George Fox into the Parliamentary Army, he said to Cromwell's Captain: "I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all war." A distinguished modern interpreter of Quakerism has expressed the same idea as follows: "The Christianity...

...if I would not take up arms for the Commonwealth against the King? But I told them I lived"! sr -^ in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion \ of all wars : and I knew from whence all wars did rise, from J the lust, according to James his doctrine....

...him in 1650, Fox wrote in his Journal: "I told him I knew from whence all wars arose and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." During World War I, the right of conscientious objectors was not recognized and many Friends...

...George Fox was offered release from prison if he would join the army, he refused. "I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." 11 The refusal to participate in wars was first given a public corporate expression in 1660...