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Spiritual reformers in the 16th & 17th centuries; 1914

Rufus Matthew Jones 1863-1948.
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Studies in mystical religion; 1909

Rufus Matthew Jones 1863-1948.
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A dynamic faith; 3rd ed.; 1906

Rufus Matthew Jones 1863-1948.

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Eli and Sibyl Jones, by Rufus Matthew Jones

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Title: Eli and Sibyl Jones
Their Life and Work
Author: Rufus Matthew Jones
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Eli Jones Eli Jones.
Sybil Jones Sybil Jones.

Eli and Sibyl Jones:

THEIR LIFE AND WORK.
BY
RUFUS M. JONES.
"Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine."
In Memoriam.
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Copyright, 1889,
BY PORTER & COATES.
TO
THE SWEET AND SHINING MEMORY
OF
PLINY EARLE CHASE,
WHOSE SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN MANHOOD INSPIRED
YOUNG MEN TO RICHER AND PURER LIVES, AND
WHO AS TEACHER POINTED STUDENTS
TO THE
GREAT MASTER,
THIS BOOK
IS
Affectionately Inscribed
BY HIS PUPIL.

PREFACE.

In our busy and material lives we all need to be reminded at times that there have been and still are among us those who have deadened love of self, whose struggle on earth, far from being to amass any kind of treasures, is to bring before as many human beings as possible the great plan of salvation, the means of elevation from degradation to lofty Christian individuality, and the source of a power and a love which are making all things new in proportion as submission is given thereto.  
We are not always conscious of the strength exerted around us by seemingly trivial forces, but their work is no less important in the development of the globe than the violent upheavals which overawe us by their stupendous might. So, often, quiet lives extend a wider permanent influence for the welfare of man than do those of men and women who receive the unstinted praise of their contemporaries.
Eli and Sybil Jones have done valuable service, and have lived lives full of teaching to those who wish to[6] enter upon a course of devoted obedience to the same Master. I have prepared this sketch of their lives and work from the love which I feel for them, and in the hope that it will interest and profit others. I am conscious that the stamp of youth is on the work, but I am certain that it has been undertaken and accomplished in the spirit of sincerity.
The visit to Liberia was wonderful in many ways, and should have been published after their return, so that their work might have brought forth more decided fruit. The letters from Palestine and Syria were written for the Friends' Review by Eli Jones and Ellen Clare Miller (since Pearson). Extracts have been chosen to give their descriptions of the country and the nature of their work there.
The book has been prepared in the midst of other work, and that must in part be the apology for its imperfections. Having as a young man received invaluable help from these two Friends, and feeling that their words and lives have done much to throw light on the true path which broadens into the "highway of holiness," it is my hope that this simple recital may in a measure repay what I owe them and find a place of usefulness in the world.
3d mo. 13, 1889, Friends' School, Providence.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.PAGE
Early Years,9
CHAPTER II.
At School and at Home,18
CHAPTER III.
Marriage with Sybil Jones,27
CHAPTER IV.
First Visit,40
CHAPTER V.
East, West, and South,54
CHAPTER VI.
Voyage to Liberia,60
CHAPTER VII.
Work in England and Ireland,108
CHAPTER VIII.
Norway, Germany, and Switzerland,127
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CHAPTER IX.
Winter in the South of France,141
CHAPTER X.
In the Maine Legislature,160
CHAPTER XI.
In Washington,169
CHAPTER XII.
Mission-Work,185
CHAPTER XIII.
Letters from Syria,199
CHAPTER XIV.
Second Visit to the Holy Land,251
CHAPTER XV.
Sybil Jones: her Life-Work and Death,268
CHAPTER XVI.
Alone at Home,285
CHAPTER XVII.
Later Visits to the East,292
CHAPTER XVIII.
As a Friend,299
CHAPTER XIX.
His Place as a Worker,307
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Rufus Jones (writer) - Wikipedia

Rufus Jones (writer) - Wikipedia

Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, he was a Quaker historian and theologian as well as a philosopher. He is the only person to have delivered two Swarthmore Lectures.


Contents
1Early life and education
2Career
3Bibliography
4See also
5Further reading
6External links


Early life and education[edit]

Jones was born into an old Quaker family in South China, Maine where he attended services at the Pond Meeting House and then the newer South China Meeting House. In 1885 he graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and stayed on to earn his M.A. there in 1886. From 1893 to 1912 he was the editor of the Friends' Review (later called The American Friend); from this position he tried unsuccessfully to unite the divided body of Quakers. In 1901 Jones received another M. A., from Harvard. He also began teaching philosophy and psychology at Haverford in 1893 and continued to do so until retiring in 1934. From 1898 to 1936 he served on the board of trustees of Bryn Mawr College.

Career[edit]

In 1917 he helped found the American Friends Service Committee. In 1927 Jones took a trip to Asia at the invitation of the YMCA. His main purpose was to address missionaries in China, but he made stops in Japan, India, and Palestine as well. While in India, Jones visited Mahatma Gandhi and the birthplace of the Buddha. This trip helped Jones formulate a new approach to missions—that of giving humanitarian aid to people while respecting other religions and not aggressively converting people to one's own religion. In 1938 he went with George Walton and D. Robert Yarnall on a mission to Nazi Germany to try to help Jewish people there after Kristallnacht.

Jones worked hard at soothing some of the hurt from the 19th Century split among Friends and had some success. Jones wrote extensively on the topic of mysticism, which is one of the chief aspects of the Quaker faith.

He distinguished between negating or negative mysticism (making contact with an impersonal force) and affirming or affirmative mysticism (making contact with a personal being). He upheld that God is a personal being with whom human beings could interact. He wrote in The Trail of Life in the Middle Years, "The essential characteristic of [mysticism] is the attainment of a personal conviction by an individual that the human spirit and the divine Spirit have met, have found each other, and are in mutual and reciprocal correspondence as spirit with Spirit." At the same time that he distinguished between negative and affirmative mysticism, he asserted that all negative mystics occasionally take the affirmative approach and that all affirmative mystics tread the negative path from time to time. He exerted a major influence on the life and work of theologian Howard Thurman, who studied with him in 1929-30.

Jones was a member of the Laymen's Commission that toured mission fields in Asia and produced Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry after One Hundred Years (1932). The conclusions of this inquiry reflect his views as outlined above.

Jones died in 1948 at age 85, in Haverford, Pennsylvania.


Bibliography

  1. Practical Christianity, 1899. (Full text available at the Digital Quaker Collection.)
  2. Eli and Sybil Jones: Their Life and Work, 1899
  3. Social law in the spiritual world; studies in human and divine inter-relationship, 1904. (Full text available at the Digital Quaker Collection.)
  4. The double search: studies in atonement and prayer, 1906. (Full text available at the Digital Quaker Collection.)
  5. The Abundant Life, 1908.
  6. Studies in Mystical Religion, 1909.
  7. The Quakers in the American Colonies, 1911
  8. The Luminous Trail
  9. New Eyes for Invisibles
  10. The Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 1914.
  11. The Inner Life, 1916.
  12. ’’George Fox: An Autobiography’’, 1919
  13. A Service of Love in War Time: American Friends Relief Work in Europe, 1917-1919, 1920.
  14. The Remnant, 1920
  15. The Later Periods of Quakerism, 1921
  16. Spiritual Energies in Daily Life, 1922.
  17. The Church's Debt to Herectics, 1924?.
  18. The Faith and Practice of the Quakers, 1927.
  19. The Trail of Life in College, 1929.
  20. Some Exponents of Mystical Religion, 1930.
  21. Pathways to the Reality of God, 1931.
  22. The Testimony of the Soul, 1936.
  23. The Eternal Gospel, 1938.
  24. The Flowering of Mysticism, 1939.
  25. Spirit in Man, 1941
  26. A Small-Town Boy, 1941
  27. "Mystical Experience" in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1942.
  28. The Radiant Life, 1944.
  29. A Call to what is Vital, 1948.


See also[edit]
American philosophy
List of American philosophers

Rufus M. Jones also authored "SOME PROBLEMS OF LIFE" Copyright MCMXXXVII. Set up, Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound By The Parthenon Press at Nashville Tennessee, U. S. A. Later reprinted by Cokesbury. Thank You Don J. Hewett, Pastor ret.

Further reading

Bernet, Claus: "Rufus Jones (1863-1948). Life and Bibliography of an American Scholar, Writer, and Social Activist. With a Foreword by Douglas Gwyn", New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58930-4
Endy, Melvin B.: "The Interpretation of Quakerism. Rufus Jones and His Critics", in: Quaker History. The Bulletin of Friends’ Historical Association, 62, 1, 1981, 3-21
Hedstrom, Matthews: "Rufus Jones and Mysticism for the Masses", in: Cross Currents, Summer 2004.
Kent, Stephen: Psychological and Mystical Interpretations of Early Quakerism. William James and Rufus Jones. In: Religion. A Journal of Religion and Religions, 17, 1987, 251-274.
Vining, Elizabeth Gray: Friend of Life. Philadelphia 1958. London 1959.
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