Religion: Quaker Shame

At the third World Conference of Friends, held last week in Oxford, England, U.S. Quakers apologized to their foreign brethren for possessing so large a share of the divine bounty. Friend Philip E. Jacob of Swarthmore, Pa. asked the conference to express "a sense of shame at the concentration of power and wealth in America."

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