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    To Dwell in the Power of Truth.
    To Dwell in the Power of Truth.
    To Dwell in the Power of Truth.
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    To Dwell in the Power of Truth.

    By Jack Ross

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    In the 1999 Sunderland P. Gardner lecture, Jack Ross describes his inspiring, life-long spiritual journey which led him to misery and transcendent joy in maximum security prisons as part of his non-violent witness to the power of truth. In the tradition of Friends reaching back over three hundred years, Jack shows how an experience of nature, political action, and a commitment to nonviolence, when combined with spiritual discipline, can lead people into shining moments that illuminate even the grimmest of lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanadian Quaker Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2015
    ISBN9781310976162
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      To Dwell in the Power of Truth. - Jack Ross

      TO DWELL IN THE POWER OF TRUTH

      by Jack Ross

      Sunderland P. Gardner Lecture

      Canadian Yearly Meeting 1999

      Canadian Quaker Pamphlet Series No. 49

      Smashwords Edition

      copyright Jack Ross, 2015

      Credits

      Illustrations by Jan Swaren

      Music composed by Michael Miller

      Table of Contents

      Growing Toward Witness

      Growing Through Witness And Experience

      Discipline And The Life Of The Spirit

      Learning Witnessing From Friends

      The 1997 Conflicts

      Why I Went To Prison

      Going To Prison

      Growing In Faith In Prison

      Witness In Prison

      To Dwell In The Power Of Truth

      Bibliography

      Notes On Water Music For Jack

      About The Author

      Words Of Thanks

      About This Publication

      This Sunderland P. Gardner lecture has two interesting links with past lectures. Sometime in 1987, I had a casual conversation with Gordon Hirabayashi in which I mentioned my contacts with Marshall Massey. He asked if Marshall would be a good Gardner lecturer. My reply was positive, and the Programme Committee subsequently selected Marshall to give the 1989 lecture. Since then I have followed Marshall Massey's challenging work through the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature and have profited greatly from it.

      The second link is through the 1982 lecture given at Memramcook, New Brunswick, by Edgar Epp. Edgar Epp had been superintendent of a penitentiary in British Columbia. During his tenure, against much resistance, he abolished carrying of guns inside prison walls. In 1997 I spent ten weeks as an inmate in a British Columbia maximum security prison. Unarmed guards are now the general practice in BC. Thanks to Edgar Epp British Columbia prisons are now safer and more humane.

      In what follows I want to tell you about my prison experiences and the events in my life that led up to them. The profound joy that was sometimes mine in prison obviously takes some explaining. In telling the story I shall show how my love of the outdoors, my education, my involvement in World War II, and my discovery of the Society of Friends led me to study and practice nonviolence in defense of threatened forests and water. I believe that George Fox's admonition to early Friends to dwell in the power of truth describes well what I sought to do (No more but my Love, Letters of George Fox, Quaker, Epistle 292, p.91).

      GROWING TOWARD WITNESS

      From my very early years I was interested in what we now call ecology and in places like the Slocan Valley of British Columbia where I was arrested in 1997. I did not, however, take an active role in ecological protection until retirement, during which time my interest in the natural world grew to encompass protection of threatened wilderness by spiritually motivated nonviolent means.

      I have fond memories of the wilderness. My parents always seemed happiest with my sister and me in the mountains. There were family hikes

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