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40 6.
Friends were divided on the war Those Friends who
were Unionists tended to justify the conflict by refcionco
to the prospect of bettor government in South Africa and
improved treatment for the nativen. They did not
represent the general opinions of Quakera1 but even
without the division on party lineal there was a growing
awareness of Imperial commitments among Friends. The
value of expansion had already been shown to, those
Friends who were members of the Anti-Slavery Zociety, but,
a more general trend towards imperialem began to
percolate the writings of the Society, A significant
article in the Friends Munrterlg R eview1,
(2)
wrote,
"Our beloved society has been .. "ooaewhat parochial in
its oyvpathioo... thinking of England as on thought of her
in the oixtiea... boyond the lizita of the London Yearly
Heating, events are on the march = ... # the puritan
temperament is not necessarily inhospitable to Groat
ideao$ and in 10,000 pure, evangelical middle-class homes
mail day in never forgotten and the arrival of those narrow
(1) UU, 120, ifirsts Friendn in nneo nd war, London 1923, p. 482,
(2) January 1899.