Calendar References

Quotations for the 2008 Friends’ Calendar are taken from Scripture (King James Version, unless otherwise indicated) and from the writings of Friends (Quakers), from writings that Friends of an earlier time valued, and that Friends today would do well to consider. We list the year of the quotation. We hope these citations will lead to further reflection and study, with consideration of spiritual and historic context.

Moon phases are from Fred Espenak, Phases of the Moon: 2001-2100. Greenbelt, MD: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/phase/phases2001.html. Dates are adjusted for Eastern Standard Time from Greenwich Mean Time.

• First Month: The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, edited by Phillip P. Moulton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, reprinted Richmond IN: Friends United Press, 1989; p. 177.
• Second Month: Sarah Blackborrow, A Visit to the Spirit in Prison…, London, 1658, reprinted in Mary Garman, Judith Applegate, Margaret Benefiel, and Dortha Meredith (eds.) Hidden in Plain Sight: Quaker Women’s Writings 1650 – 1700. Wallingford PA: Pendle Hill, 1996; p. 55.
• Third Month: The Journal of George Fox, edited by John L. Nickalls. London: Religious Society of Friends, 1975; pp. 19, 21.
• Fourth Month: Margaret Fell, Letter to Friends, Brethren and Sisters, 1656, in Undaunted Zeal: The Letters of Margaret Fell, edited by Elsa F. Glines. Richmond IN: Friends United Press, 2003; p. 212. (Spelling and grammar adjusted for modern syntax.)
• Fifth Month: Caroline Stephen, Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance. Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons, 1908; p. 68 –9.
• Sixth Month: The Sayings of Women, London, 1663, reprinted in Mary Garman, Judith Applegate, Margaret Benefiel, and Dortha Meredith (eds.) Hidden in Plain Sight: Quaker Women’s Writings 1650 – 1700. Wallingford PA: Pendle Hill, 1996; p. 435.
• Seventh Month: James Naylor Letter from Appleby Prison February 1653 from Geoffrey Nuttall The Letters of James Naylor in The Lamb’s War: Quaker Essays to Honor Hugh Barbour, Michael Birkel and John Newman, editors. Richmond IN: Earlham College Press, 1992; p 46. Psalm 1 is taken from the JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh. Philadelphia PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2000.
• Eighth Month: John Woolman, A Plea for the Poor in The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, Phillip P. Moulton, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971; reprinted Richmond IN: Friends United Press, 1989; p. 241.
• Ninth Month: Anthony Benezet, Serious considerations on several important subjects; viz. on war and its inconsistency with the Gospel; observations on slavery. And remarks on the nature and bad effects of spirituous liquors. Philadelphia PA: Printed by J. Crukshank, 1778; p. 10. (From the Digital Quaker Collection, Earlham School of Religion).
• Tenth Month: Sarah Tuke Grubb to M.P., 7th of Seventh Month 1782 in Strength in Weakness: Writings by Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women. Edited by Gil Skidmore. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, published in cooperation with the International Sacred Literature Trust, 2003; p. 91.
• Eleventh Month: Thomas Chalkley, A letter to Cotton Mather, in New-England. Frankfort, the 20th of the 3d Mo. 1726. A collection of the works of that ancient, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Chalkley, who departed this life in the island of Tortola, the fourth day of the ninth month, 1741. To which is prefix'd, a journal of his life, travels, and Christian experiences, written by himself. The 4th ed.... London: L. Hinde, 1766; p. 539. (From the Digital Quaker Collection, Earlham School of Religion).
• Twelfth Month: Letter of Lydia Lancaster to Mary R. Colthouse, 17th of First Month 1743. Strength in Weakness: Writings by Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women, edited and introduced by Gil Skidmore. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, published in cooperation with the International Sacred Literature Trust, 2003; p. 40.

We thank Anne W. Upton and staff of the Quaker Collection of Haverford College for assistance with the 2008 Friends Calendar, and Earlham School of Religion, which provides the Digital Quaker Collection.