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Welcome! Please feel free to edit! 74.194.175.107 (talk) 03:56, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I thought about mentioning this, but wanted to do some more reading on the subject, first:
Fierce infighting between these "modernists" and the fundamentalists raged among Quakers for fifty years(as it did in many other Protestant denominations), and spread to southern California Quakerism almost as soon as it began. Quaker colleges were particular centers of these struggles; and Whittier College, organized in 1887 by founders of California Yearly Meeting of Friends as the denomination's school, was no exception.
While Aitken, like other biographers, is silent on this point, there can be no question that the Nixons were aware of these conflicts. When Hannah Milhous enrolled at the college in 1905-7, pressure was building in the Yearly Meeting against what a fundamentalist editor branded its "Modern Scientific Infidelity." The same was true when her second son entered the school in 1930.
The Yearly Meeting's strong fundamentalist party wanted the new school to become a Bible College, training missionaries and evangelists and rigorously avoiding evolution and other features of "modernism." But the fundamentalists were continually outmaneuvered by the modernists at Whittier. Hence by 1910 they were supporting a nondenominational rival, the Training School for Christian Workers, along Bible College lines. But by the mid-1930s, while still vaguely connected to California Yearly Meeting, the college was effectively secularized.
Attacks on infidelity at Whittier, however, continued periodically for years. One of the last and noisiest of these assaults involved Professor J. Herschel Coffin, who proved to be Richard Nixon's spiritual mentor. Coffin had a long Quaker pedigree, but among his many "modernist" sins was a course called "The Philosophy of Christian Reconstruction," a mix of philosophy, theology, and--horror of horrors--evolution.
In 1930 he was loudly accused by a travelling evangelist of purveying teachings that were "unorthodox and contrary to the Bible." The evangelist's tirades resounded through the small California Quaker world. A formal inquiry was launched by a local Quaker committee, which ended with Coffin humiliated but exonerated.
However, the committee had probably been stacked with College supporters, because Coffin's teaching was in fact corrosive of the fundamentalist outlook. This was proven in the experience of his most famous pupil, who enrolled at the College that same year, and took Coffin's "Christian Reconstruction" course in 1933.
74.194.175.107 (talk) 03:56, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Curious about what, if any, Quaker influences are in this group. Here's a helpful article for further research: http://www.rmym.org/history-of-friends.htm
And ...
Local Origins The first Friends in California came with scores of others as a part of the “gold rush” of 1849. With the advent of the transcontinental railroad in 1867, more Friends moved west, carrying with them the spirit of the holiness revivals occurring at that time in their previous churches. Evangelical Friends Church Southwest began officially in 1895 as an outgrowth of Iowa Yearly Meeting. The original name of “California Yearly Meeting of Friends Church” was changed in 1986 to Friends Church Southwest Yearly Meeting to reflect the growing geographic region of our denominational group. Friends in the Southwest include local churches in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. From the outset, Southwest Friends emphasized the dual priorities of evangelism and education. By 1900, they had started eleven new churches, two new mission fields in Alaska and Central America, and the “Training School for Christian Workers” which later became Azusa Pacific University. These continuing concerns are reflected today in four Faith Boards-New Church Development, Missions, Friends Center at Azusa Pacific University, and Quaker Meadow Camp started in 1939 to “win and train youth and adults for Christ.” The current name, Evangelical Friends Church Southwest, was adopted in 2001. (http://www.friendschurchsw.org/uploads/2011faithandpractice.pdf)
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