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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3)

INTRODUCTION
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They record their proceedings equally.

The young females also, are present, and have similar opportunities of gaining knowledge, and of improving their judgments, and of acquiring useful and moral habits, as the young men.
It is usual, when the women have finished the business of their own meeting, to send one of their members to the apartments of the men, to know if they have any thing to communicate.

This messenger having returned, and every thing having been settled and recorded in both meetings, the monthly meeting is over, and men, women, and youth of both sexes, return to their respective homes.
In the same manner as the different congregations, or members of the different meetings, in any one division of the county, meet together, and transact their monthly business, so other different congregations, belonging to other divisions of the same county, meet at other appointed places, and dispatch their business also.

And in the same manner as the business is thus done in one county, it is done in every other county of the kingdom once a month.
CHAP.

III.
_Quarterly court or meeting--constitution of this meeting--one place in each county is now fixed upon for the transaction of business-this place may be different in the different quarters of the year--deputies from the various monthly meetings are appointed to repair to this place--nature of the business to be transacted--certain queries proposed--written answers carried to these by the deputies just mentioned--Queries proposed in the womens meeting also, and answered in the same manner_ .-- The quarterly meeting of the Quakers, which comes next in order, is much more numerously attended than the monthly.


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