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535.
Of the Ylonconformist Churches only the Quakers
officially opposed the war" The nearest thing to a
collective jroteot was the rosponoo of ininiotcrn to
an appeal by the Dutch clergy for peace negotiations
which was circulating towards the end of 18990 This
was a moderate# carefully phrased documents hot a
demand for the immediate end to the war. In nix to
seven wecke over two hundred and fifty cignaturcn had
been collected, . the collection was oreoniced by a
London member of the 8. T, W. C« Rev. W. Urwicke
hundred and fifty nine mignaturoa broke down into the
following denominations* . ninety, over a third of the
(1)
TWO
total, were from Congre ationalimto) forty-eight, ono
fifth from Baptista; forty from Primitive liothodiotoi
twenty one from Episcopaliano; nioetoen from Uuitariuna;
coventeen fror W°Wecaleyan liethodictu; twelvo from
Presbyterians and twelve from Quakera* A large number-
of the nt aturee were from Landon.
(2)
The dietribution
among denominations followed the pro-iir pattern o
aIctivity1 with Cou regationa1iatu, and Baptists very much
E 1) 1gar _ý rainst War ,j 26th January 1900,
(2) Zbid,, 16th 14arch 1900.