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 

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