Hungering and thirsting for the contact with kindred spirits : Henry wilbur and the committee for the advancement of Friends' principles, 1900-1914

There are many men and women in the world to-day hungering and thirsting for the contact with kindred spirits as there ever were. The minute we put off our spiritual aloofness, and consider that the things of the spirit are common things, that they belong to all ranks and conditions of men, the response will come. . . . Let the members of this Society go home and get busy building a spiritual light in their meetinghouses and letting it shine there, an invitation to the weary and the wayward and even the wicked, that they may there get the light and the impulse which they need. Then the better days of this Society are before us and not behind us.1