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(. ~32- \) right to engage in such activities as the official policy and faith of th e Society at riends. The Society of Friends has never emphasized the outer darkness of i d (as made concrete in states and governments), but the inner lijhto: e individual soul, The Service Committee is perverting anc betSayin= the Society of Friends, and is thus usurping a prerogative that it should not and coes not have, Let the Service Committee feed the hungary, bind up the wounds of th h th, and bring love and light to all who are heavy-laden, But let i S al political affiliation, with all human machinery for social panaccas, trom partisanship for socialism or any sort of collectivism. And, above all, loti = + in from all anncasement of slave-strates, of concentration camps, of the it sth a aiilteted . : "Oo aa) vt : oO Tt oO Bae ep Ped tl iliceik MaGV RL Maite y we em 1 es and powers of the darkness of this world (even when they call thsm- lves "' People’ s Democracies'')! Let is not only stop all appeasement of evil, it let it condemn and fearlessly criticize all such horrible evils as social sin. Coram ft pe Bown. om less and until the Friends Service Committee so docs, I must criticize and oppose it, And if it represents the avowed and cfficial and centrai policy and activity of the Socicty of Friends, I shall have to withdraw from the Society of’ Friencs, because in my humble opinion such policy and activity is allesiance not to Christ but to the Lord of This World whose temptation Jesus scorned, Unless and untill the Service Committee becomes the outsnoken critic of regimes that consider truth only the most convenient lic and fraud and force th the true agencies of achieving the good life for all, lcan only oppose and dissociaie myself fromthe Service Committee, If the Service Committee believes in the right of aconcerned minority even (which I believe is a concerned majority), i must immediately cease its present emphasis and activity. I humbly and respect- fully ask it to consider this. “ e te - The time seems appropriate to consider same of the long-run trends in Service Committce activities, Four observations may be made. 1, There has been a shift in the type of organization i In its early years, Service Committee organization was informal and fluid, In all cases, the working group was shaped to fit the particular job. + work was done largely on a volunteer basis by the sincere Friend himse! by his own hands. Time was taken off from his regular business, to which he would saon be returning. : os bee + - f Now, the AL F.S.C. is a large organization, with some 200-300 permanent, or 1 salaried employees, most of whom have lost contact with their igina fields of productive enterprise, For the most part, those who do this sexvice derive a living by so doing (In this con wnection, it may be noted that many Quakers are opposed to. “hire sling ministers;" yet Fr viene ds ware now using largely “hircling" personnel, many of them non-Fricads, to do this work for us. } Of course, with a large and permanent staff, grist must be found for the organization mill. It seems that there is competition with other agencies