Swartbmore ^Lecture.

Widening the Church idea of the Catholics intothe idea of Mankind the Quakers hope for theNew Zion, " the great rebuilding" of GeorgeFox, the Johannine Church of love, " the King-dom of Freedom " heralded by Kant, Fichte andMarx . They do not merely hope, they workaccording to their limited insight and with limitedmeans for this final goal of all history.

They seek to anticipate it in a world widecharity. During the war their charity wasextended to the subjects of the enemy govern-ments. As soon as the war had ended, they wereamong the first to enter the enemy's countries,to feed German and Polish children. They helpedto transplant persecuted eastern sects like theDoukobors and Nazarenes to America , the land offreedom of conscience. They cared for Armenianand Greek refugees. They fought famine in Russia and China. They worked for equal rights for thenegro population of the United States , not throughlegal paragraphs, but by means of schools forprofessional training and religious instruction.That the Holy Ghost knows no colour bar, issupported for them by the spiritual songs of theAmerican negroes with their depth and fervour.Behind this stands the thought of the unity of allhuman life, as John Woolman says, thinking of thenegro slaves : "I was mixed with them and couldnot consider myself as a distinct or separatebeing."

This word of John Woolman 's points to some-thing higher than mere charity. In order to openthe way to a new social order built upon the