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544.<br />

However the ma j: ritt' <strong>of</strong> Friends prevailed on the<br />

Yearly ! 4ooting to issue a quaker appeal "Christianity<br />

and War" and to draw up a memorial to the Government<br />

hoping for a durable pence based on a magn¬ minoua<br />

settlement,<br />

(I)<br />

The circulation <strong>of</strong> thin material<br />

was pl<strong>ac</strong>ed in the hands <strong>of</strong> the Pe<strong>ac</strong>e Committee; they<br />

were given financial help by J. E. Ellin H. P. who also<br />

auggectod useful addresses.<br />

(2)<br />

The appeal was cent<br />

to Nonconformist ministers* local councillors, school<br />

boards, f. Pa. Piounant Sunday Afternoons, Christian<br />

Endeavour Societies and the religioue press,<br />

the beginning <strong>of</strong> November 1900 176,004 copies had been<br />

distributed, including two thousand for tho two<br />

Independent Churches at Llandrillo specially translated<br />

into Walsh for the occasion,<br />

The pe<strong>ac</strong>e movement was thus a mixture <strong>of</strong> old"<br />

fashioned Gladetonian Vonc. inforniatn# mower Radicula <strong>of</strong><br />

(4)<br />

C1i HHinutea and Proceodinco <strong>of</strong> than Yourly 1: eeting, I4 1900,<br />

(2) Society <strong>of</strong> Friends i> :, 1linute Book <strong>of</strong> 'Darn Cozittee<br />

102 9 lat rebruaary 1900.<br />

(3) Ibid, 8th Juno 1900.<br />

(4) Ibn. 4th August 19000<br />

(3)<br />

Dy

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