Inner Light Books

BOOKS BY AND ABOUT QUAKERS

Now Available

• An Invitation to Quaker Eldering, by Elaine Emily and Mary Kay Glazer
• Memoir of Lloyd Lee Wilson, by Lloyd Lee Wilson
• Messages to Meetings, by Brian Drayton
• Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman, by Drew Lawson
• A Call to Friends: Faithful Living in Desperate Times, by Marty Grundy
• Surrendering into Silence: Quaker Prayer Cycles, by David Johnson
• A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, by Marcelle Martin
• William Penn’s ‘Holy Experiment’, by James Proud
• A Word from the Lost, by David Lewis
• In the Stillness, by Elizabeth Mills
• Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly, by Margery Post Abbott
• Primitive Quakerism Revived, by Paul Buckley
• Primitive Christianity Revived, by William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley
• Jesus, Christ and Servant of God, by David Johnson
• The Anti-War, by Douglas Gwyn
• Our Life is Love, by Marcelle Martin
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• A Quaker Prayer Life, by David Johnson
• The Essential Elias Hicks, by Paul Buckley
• The Early Quakers and the ‘Kingdom of God’, by Gerard Guiton
• The Journal of Elias Hicks, edited by Paul Buckley
• Dear Friend: Letters & Essays of Elias Hicks, edited by Paul Buckley
• John Woolman and the Affairs of Truth, edited by James Proud
• Cousin Ann’s Stories for Children, by Ann Preston
• Counsel to the Christian-Traveller: also Meditations & Experiences, by William Shewen

Publisher’s Statement of Purpose

Nearing the end of his life, Oliver Shaw Fell wrote this poem for his associates at the Universal Peace Union.

Shoulders of Love
The longer I live, and the more I see
Of the struggles of souls toward the heights above,
The stronger the thought comes back to me,
That the universe rests on the shoulders of love;
A love so limitless, deep and broad,
That men have renamed it and called it God.”
Oliver Shaw Fell, 1833-1904

Fell was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 10 Third Month 1833 into the Religious Society of Friends and died on 31 Twelfth Month 1904 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Fell spent his life in faithful service to the causes of anti-slavery, temperance, and peace. Fell worked as a teacher for 35 years and then as the Business Manager of the Universal Peace Union. Oliver Shaw Fell’s life was in many ways similar to those of other 19th century liberal “Hicksite” Quakers. For over 350 years the Religious Society of Friends has been made up of individuals such as Oliver Shaw Fell. Inner Light Books was formed to help tell their stories. In publishing books by and about Quakers and books that examine Quaker values it is the hope of the publisher to expand the knowledge of and appreciation for the faith and practice of the Religious Society of Friends. The first publication of Inner Light Books was released in 2009. It is the intention of the publisher to offer selected texts on-line as well as in book form. The texts published will be from original unpublished manuscripts as well as out-of-print books.

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