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Title: The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary
With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones

Author: Cyrus Pringle

Commentator: Rufus M. Jones

Release Date: June 18, 2005 [EBook #16088]

Language: English

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THE RECORD OF A
QUAKER CONSCIENCE

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THE RECORD OF A
QUAKER CONSCIENCE

CYRUS PRINGLE'S DIARY

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
RUFUS M. JONES

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1913
BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY

Copyright, 1918
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and printed. Published, February, 1918

[Transcriber's Note:

Several unusual spellings have been kept as in the original, including:
northermost ("Fairhope meeting-house is in the northermost country") and
comformable ("yet probably in a manner comformable to").

In some cases, variant spellings of the same word are used, as in the
case of "enrolment" and "enrollment", "therefor" and "therefore", "well
meant" and "well-meant". These have been comfirmed with the original.

In referring to God, there is also inconsistency in the use of "His"
versus "his" and "Him" versus "him".]

INTRODUCTION

The body of this little book consists of the personal diary of a young
Quaker named Cyrus Guernsey Pringle of Charlotte, Vermont. He was
drafted for service in the Union Army, July 13th, 1863. Under the
existing draft law a person who had religious scruples against engaging
in war was given the privilege of paying a commutation fine of three
hundred dollars. This commutation money Pringle's conscience would not
allow him to pay. A prosperous uncle proposed to pay