Robert Yarnall on a mission to Nazi Germany to try to help Jewish people there after the Kristallnacht. In 1938 he went with George Walton and D. This trip helped Jones formulate a new approach to mission – that of giving humanitarian aid to people while respecting other religions and not aggressively converting people to one's own religion. While in India, Jones visited Mahatma Gandhi and the birthplace of the Buddha. His main purpose was to address missionaries in China, but he made stops in Japan, India, and Palestine as well. In 1927 Jones took a trip to Asia at the invitation of the YMCA. In 1917 he helped found the American Friends Service Committee. From 1898 to 1936 he served on the board of trustees of Bryn Mawr College. He also began teaching philosophy and psychology at Haverford in 1893 and continued to do so until retiring in 1934. From 1893 to 1912 he was the editor of the Friends' Review (later called The American Friend) from this position he tried unsuccessfully to unite the divided body of Quakers. In 1885 he graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and stayed on to earn his M.A. Jones was born into an old Quaker family in South China, Maine where he attended services at the Pond Meeting House and then the newer South China Meeting House.
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