EOF08C The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 8 Part C: Depression, WW II, and Wider service

We finish a reading from Chapter Eight of a history of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), tracing how leadership changes and world events push us into a new Quaker era. We follow the Meeting for Sufferings through World War II conscription, conscientious objection, peace education, and the painful reforms that reshape our yearly meeting by 1949.

• Older ministers passing away and a new leadership class emerging
• Meeting for Sufferings minutes on faith, courage, and removing enmity
• Early peace discussion groups and a printed address to local meetings
• First formal cooperation with AFSC and other pacifist organizations
• Selective Service Act provisions and the rise of Civilian Public Service camps
• Financial burdens on COs and Ohio Yearly Meeting fundraising support
• Wartime social pressure and alternatives like peace stamps
• Visits, letters, and support for CPS workers, prisoners, and military members
• Postwar tensions handled with decency, forbearance, and love
• Boarding school expansion, modernization, and anxiety about change
• Reopening to wider Quaker connections, youth conferences, and representation
• 1949 organizational reforms including nominating committee changes and joint sessions