http://disqus.com/by/kevinroberts/enSat, 02 Jan 2010 20:19:12 -0000http://www.quakerranter.org/sustaining_the_purpose_for_whi/#comment-27856079<p>Hey Martin--</p><p>I also would like to drag Marshall out as a circuit rider. But travel now is high dollar. I drive 1800 miles every week, but I still haven't figured out how to connect to people while I do, and I can't park 80,000 pounds in an average Meeting House side street.</p><p>I'll call you the next time I spend a day counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.</p><p>It's worth pointing out that the intensely Wilburite nature of Ohio Yearly Meeting in the 19th century is mostly gone. Wilbur was pre-Conservative, and would happily have disowned most anybody in OYM today. We are no longer what he was, as we have both mellowed and strayed. The endpoint of Wilburite Quakerism was best illustrated by old Joshua Maul, who as a hard-core Ohio Wilburite seceded from every group he created until ultimately his Yearly Meeting contained only him.</p><p>In my exceptionally humble personal opinion, I find a lot of traditional Wilburism to have missed the mark on what God would have his <i>people</i> do and be, to tweak Marshall's observation a bit. I am less concerned that people identify themselves as Conservatives than I am that they listen to God and do what he says. Because I identify God exclusively with Jesus Christ, I don't have a problem with letting him straighten people out, even if they get his name wrong. If they're really listening to him, it will work out, I think.</p>kevinrobertsSat, 02 Jan 2010 20:19:12 -0000