Continuing to post the 19th-century Discipline in installments:
the following brief section from the 1806 Philadelphia YM
discipline seems to have been retained, after the separation,
in its original form by the Hicksite meetings; it was expanded
by the Orthodox to include a stricture against separation.
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                        CHARITY AND UNITY

     IT is advised, that where there is any appearance of dissen-
sion and variance, or of unkind resentment and shyness among our
members, the parties be timely and tenderly apprised of the
danger to which they thereby expose both themselves and others,
and earnestly exhorted to mutual condescension and forgiveness,
becoming the followers of Christ: And if any, notwithstanding
such endeavours for their help, continue to manifest an implaca-
ble enmity to others, the overseers or other solid Friends of the
preparative or monthly meeting they belong to, should be informed
thereof, and labour further with them: when, if they still prove
inflexible, they ought to be testified against as out of the
unity of the body--the very end of whose existence is the promo-
tion of peace on earth, and good will amongst men.

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   A later Orthodox discipline, retitling this section "Love and
   Unity," expands it, beginning:

      Our Lord Jesus Christ graciously instructed his followers
      in the necessity of a strict adherence to his sacred
      precepts, that growing up into Him in all things, which is
      the Head, they might be a compact body, edifying itself in
      love.  "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my
      love."  "This is my commandment, that ye love one another,
      as I have loved you," -- It is therefore the judgment of
      this meeting, that if any in membership with us should so
      far lose the sense of the nature and operation of Divine
      love, the bond of Christian brotherhood, as to foment,
      encourage or promote division or separation among us, or
      seek to beguile and draw away any of the members from a due
      subjection to the salutary order and Discipline established
      in our religious Society, they should be speedily treated
      with without partiality, in order for their instruction and
      recovery; and if they are not brought to such a sense of
      their misconduct as to condemn the same, to the
      satisfaction of the Monthly Meeting, they should be
      testified against. -- 1834.

   This is followed by the original text (above), and then by the
   following concluding paragraph:

         We apprehend that one of the devices by which the enemy
      of all good is seeking to increase the weakness and
      degeneracy of our religious Society, is to induce us to
      substitute a superficial unity and an exterior appearance
      of love and kindness for that true gospel love and
      fellowship into which those who are fruit-bearing branches
      in Christ are baptized by the one Eternal Spirit; and to
      set us at ease in this state.  Thus a door is opened for
      departures from our Christian principles and testimonies,
      and the blessed standard of Truth is lowered. -- 1850.
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