[A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookA Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3) INTRODUCTION 233/423
It may be different, to accommodate the members in their turn, in the different quarters of the year. [Footnote 25: I still adhere, to give the reader a clearer idea of the discipline, and to prevent confusion, to the division by county, though the district in question may not always comprehend a complete county.] In the same manner as the different congregations in a small division of a county have been shewn to have sent deputies to the respective monthly meetings within it, so the different monthly meetings in the same county send each of them, deputies to the quarterly.
Two or more of each sex are generally deputed from each monthly meeting.
These deputies are supposed to have understood, at the monthly meeting, where they were chosen, all the matters which the discipline required them to know relative to the state and condition of their constituents.
Furnished with this knowledge, and instructed moreover by written documents on a variety of subjects, they repair at a proper time to the place of meeting.
All the Quakers in the district in question, who are expected to go, bend their direction hither.
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