The Ohio Yearly Meeting Library

While this selection of online texts does not precisely duplicate any actual library within Ohio Yearly Meeting library, it is intended to serve a similar purpose in some measure - making longer and classic writings of Friends available to our attenders and seekers.  These are links to other sites, created and maintained by other Friends or groups, and may change.  If some of these links do not seem to work, please notify us.  We are very glad for the efforts of those who have created these websites.  The Earlham School of Religion Digital Quaker Collection (link below) includes a wide range of works by a great many Friends; if you are seeking something not listed here, try their search function.  If you have suggestions of additional sites with Quaker writings, or wish to request that we provide links for other Quaker writings (if we can find them), please contact us.

Barclay's Apology
On-Line Version               PDF Version

John Woolman's Journal

George Fox's Journal, Letters, and Writings

William Penn: Primitive Christianity Revived

The Works of Isaac Pennington
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~kuenning/penington/index.html

Epistles of Margaret Fell
http://www.qhpress.org/texts/oldqwhp/mf-e-toc.htm

Three Essays by John Woolman
http://www.qhpress.org/texts/oldqwhp/woolman.htm

Margaret Fell on Women's Speaking
http://www.qhpress.org/texts/fell.html

Earlham School of Religion Digital Quaker Collection

And no library could be complete without the Holy Scriptures:

The Holy Bible Online

1611 King James Version
www.kingjamesbible.com

New International Version
www.read-the-bible.com

The Scriptures
As Understood and Used by Conservative Friends
John C. Smith

John Wilbur
on Our Shared Faith and Holy Scriptures

If you wish to purchase a Holy Bible, the International Bible Society offers a wide variety of editions, translations and bindings online, and will sell single copies.

http://www.ibsdirect.com/

 

The Conservative Friend
is an official, print publication of Ohio Yearly Meeting.  Recent issues are available here in PDF format.
Thee will need Adobe Reader to open these files.  If thee does not yet have this software, it is a free download at:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The Conservative Friend issues:     25     26     27     28     29     30

 

And here are some writings by contemporary Christian Friends:

Francis Clare Fischer
on Healing

Phil Helms
"In the World, But Not of It:
The Misadventures of an Almost-Plain Quaker"

Arthur Berk
"On Gospel Order"

Francis Clare Fischer
"The Prayer Cap"

Francis Clare Fischer
"The Pauline Marriage"

Francis Clare Fischer
"Plain Daughter" (poem)

Jack Smith
"The Lamb's War"

Arthur Berk
"Reflection on

Christian Relationship to Our Children"

Arthur Berk
"Christian Peacemaking"

Terry H.S. Wallace
"Stand and Live in That Which
Takes Away
the Occasion for Wars"

Terry H.S. Wallace
"The Basics of Our Testimony"

Arthur Berk
"The Power of the Lord"

Seth Hinshaw
"The Joy of Repentance"

Terry H.S. Wallace
"Scripture and Salvation
To those who say that the Scriptures
are inessential to our salvation"

Constance Tonge
"To Wear a Bonnet, or Not?"

Henry Logan
"A Sign of the Times"

Francis Clare Fischer
"Sure We Have Preachers!"

Arthur Berk
"Reflections on the Beatitudes"

Terry H.S. Wallace
"Misunderstanding Quaker Faith and Practice:
Misinterpretations that Lead to Mindless Faith and Unmindful Action"

Faye Chapman
"Conservative and Honest, But Not Plain"

 

 

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