Among Friends

There is a kind of withdrawal, courteous but cabalistic, that a person meets in trying to talk with Quakers about their faith, if he is not a member of the Society of Friends and is plainly not trying to become one. At the opposite end of the pole of discipline and self-control there is the dewy-eyed sentimentality of people of other Christian sects who think of Quakers as men of infinite brotherhood and patience, and of understanding, and good will and everything basically to be desired but left unattained in modern life, at least by non Quakers.