THANKS again Douglas for enriching my heritage & hte families heritage & that
of the various WORLDS about us, AGAIN THANKS!
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] An Ode to the Quaker Meditator Reuben Dorland
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For some decades since the 1970's arrival of the 'transcendental
meditationists’ in Fairfield, Iowa there have been weekly folk harmony sings
from the old Sacred Harp book. Published in the book is a tune titled, “The
Dying Californian” with several verse written that tells the story of an
anonymous someone dying long ago on the passage around to California.
Coming to know another story below about Reuben Dorland I will likely think now
more specially of Rueben Dorland giving face to ‘The Dying Californian’ as
“#410 on the top” is called for to be sung, the Quaker teacher Reuben Dorland.
“The history of the Society of Friends has been adorned with names of men
eminent in almost every field of scholarship. The number of Friends who have
thus distinguished themselves has been “large in proportion to he small body
with which they are connected”.(361)
Two factors seem chiefly to be responsible for this fact: first, the thoughtful
and meditative form of worship among the Friends; and second, their unfailing
provision for a “guarded education” of their youth. Wherever the Quakers have
planted new communities in the West, there side by side are found the home, the
church (meeting house), and the school.
Hardly had a the Quakers become settled in their Iowa homes before the Salem
(Iowa) Monthly Meeting appointed a committee to “endeavor to have schools put
in operation”(362) in their midst.
The real advancement began in 1845, when Reuben Dorland, a highly educated
Friend, came from Poughkeepsie, New York, and on his own responsibility founded
Salem Seminary. By the winter term of 1851 he had built up his enrollment to
over two hundred students, coming from far and near; and with his staff of
three teachers besides himself, was offering courses in the following subjects:
reading spelling, grammar, geography, history, astronomy, chemistry,
physiology, mineralogy, botany, algebra, geometry, surveying, book-keeping,
mercantile correspondence, and intellectual and moral philosophy.(365) In the
very midst of success, however, Dorland’s health failed. He was forced to
abandon his school, and on March 4, 1852, while enroute to California, he died
and was buried in the sea.(366)..
Here is the tune The Dying Californian to hear with its text to be read:Melody
is in tenor line, push the arrow. Push the last arrow at the bottom to listen
to the full harmony directly..
http://www.sacredharpbremen. org/lieder/400-bis-499/410t- the-dying-californian
BTW, ..Some 180 years before the advent of the Maharishi School of the Age of
Enlightenment (MSAE, https://maharishischool.org/ ) in Iowa there were Society
of Friends Quaker schools for youth in Iowa also where students would take
inward quiet time in practiced retired stillness meditation as adjunct to their
scholastic work.
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