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91711-31991/800-626-7820  \n# FRIENDS\n\nAND  \n# ALCOHOL\n\nRECOVERINGAFoRGOTTEN TESTIMONY  \nRobert Levering  \nU7615,P4  313  \n# FRIENDS\n\nANDALCOHOL  \n# RECOVERING A FoRGOTTEN TESTIMONY\n\nRobert Levering  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nRobert Levering's interest in Quaker social testimoniesdates from the Vietnam war era when he worked for peace onthe staff of the American Friends Service Committee,AQuaker Action Group,and Friends Peace Committee(Phila-delphia Yearly Meeting).Agraduate ofSwarthmore Collegeand the Martin Luther King Jr.School of Social Change,hecurrently earns his living by writing books about corporateAmerica and workplace issues.Helives in San Franciscowithhis wife Amy Lyman and his son Reuben.Amy and Robertare members ofSan FranciscoFriends Meeting where Reubenattends First Day School.  \nRobertwishestoexpress special thanks to Sabron ReynoldsNewton as well as to Mary Ellen Chijioke and the staff oftheFriends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.He alsowishes to thank others who critiqued earlier drafts of thispamphlet,including the Adult Religious Education studygroup at his meeting.  \nRequest for permission to quote or to translate should beaddressed to Pendle Hill Publications,Wallingford,Pennsyl-vania 19086-6099.  \nCopyright ◎1994 by Pendle HillISBN0-87574-313-7  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 94-065301  \nFebruary 1994:2,500Theology Library  \nCHOOL OF THEOLOGY  \n      △T CLARCMONT  \n _        \nCalifornic  \nFriends have expressed strong concerns about the use andabuse of alcohol for more than three hundred years.Nearlyall yearly meetings have advices and queries on the subject.For instance,Pacific Yearly Meeting asks Friends:“Are ourlives so filled by the Spirit that we are free of the use oftobacco,alcohol,and other drugs,and of excesses of anykind?\"Yet many contemporary Friends find such queriesquaint at best.In an article in QuakerLife,Sabron R.Newton,a Chicago Friend,wrote that she knows a number of newQuakers who 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