| Description | Topics discussed include: the opium trade; the role of women in the Christian church; how to improve mothers' meetings; Robert Barclay; reports from the Yearly Meeting; children and young Friends; Bible study in a busy life; the life and work of the pedagogue, Friedrich Fröbel; the women's movement, past and future; the beginning of Quakerism; Friends' schools for children; the Hague 'peace palace' and peace movements; gambling; the effect of alcohol on society; conscription; child employment and sweatshop working; Africa and the East; prison reform relating to women prisoners; work among refugees in south east Russia; the educational needs of Quaker children; the work of the feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler; Africa; day continuation schools; the situation of women and children in India; the work of the League of Nations; Friends work abroad; welfare provision for the mothers and children of Birmingham; China; missionary travel in the East; the changing outlook of parents and children, Quaker heritage; peace movements and disarmament; gambling; slavery; unrest in Europe.
Includes a chronological list of meetings with the titles of the topic discussed at each meeting at the back of the volume. |