The Old Discipline

The 1806 Book of Discipline of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, with annotations indicating differences in other 19th-century Quaker disciplines.


1. INTRODUCTION
2. APPEALS
3. ARBITRATIONS
4. BIRTHS AND BURIALS
5. BOOKS
6. CERTIFICATES
7. CHARITY AND UNITY
8. CIVIL GOVERNMENT
9. CONDUCT AND CONVERSATION
10. CONVINCED PERSONS
11. DAYS AND TIMES
12. DEFAMATION AND DETRACTION
13. DISCIPLINE AND MEETINGS FOR DISCIPLINE
14. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
15. FAMILY VISITS
16. GAMING AND DIVERSIONS
17. LAW
18A. MARRIAGES (part 1)
18B. MARRIAGES (part 2)
18C. MARRIAGES (part 3)
19. MEETING HOUSES
20. MEETING FOR SUFFERINGS
21A. MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP (part 1)
21B. MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP (part 2)
22. MEMORIALS
23. MINISTERS AND ELDERS, AND MEETINGS OF MINISTERS AND ELDERS
24. MODERATION AND TEMPERANCE
25. NEGROES OR SLAVES
26. OATHS
27. OVERSEERS
28. PARENTS AND CHILDREN
29. PLAINNESS
30. POOR
31. PRIESTS' WAGES; OR HIRELING MINISTRY
32. QUERIES
33. SCHOOLS
34. SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
35. STOCK
36. TAVERNS
37. TESTIMONIES OF DENIAL AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
38. TRADE
39. WAR
40. WILLS
41. WOMEN'S MEETINGS
42. WOMEN'S QUARTERLY MEETINGS
43. THE YEARLY MEETING OF WOMEN FRIENDS
44. YEARLY MEETING
historical Quaker texts

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