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Show LIVING UP TO PRINCIPLE. Quaker of Course Could not Fight, but He Gained His Point. During the Civil War the Friends, because of their peaceful creed, endeavored en-deavored to be released from the requirements re-quirements of the draft They were always reasonable and quiet in their earnestness, and seldom failed to gain their point. Major Townsend, in "Anecdotes of 1 the Civil War," tells this story of Isaac Newton, the Friend who was commissioner of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture: Speaking once of scruples about fighting, I asked him if he believed it necessary to carry out the exact letter let-ter of the Scripture, and under no circumstances cir-cumstances to resist. "Oh, no," said he. "There are other ways of resisting besides fighting." Then he told the story of having met a man ' in a wagon at a narrow part of the road, who, seeing that he was a Friend, refused to turn out, for him, but stopped directly in the middle mid-dle of the road. Isaac asked him kindly to turn out, but the man gruffly refused. Then Isaac said, "Friend, if thou wilt not turn thy horse, I will turn him for thee." So he took the horse's head to turn him. Then the man jumped out and ran forward, as if to attack him. On this, Isaac seized him by the arms above the elbow, held him as if In a vise, and quietly said, "Friend, if thou dost resist, I shall shake thee!" So he gave him a preliminary shake as a sample, and the man, seeing how powerful and resolute he was, apologized, apol-ogized, and turned his horse as far out as he could. "I did not strike him," said Isaac Youth's Companion. |