Another installment from the 19th-century discipline:
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                          FAMILY VISITS

        AS the visiting of Friends in their families in the openings
of heavenly wisdom, is a service which hath often been blessed to
the minds of the visitors and visited, this meeting hath from
time to time recommended it to the solid attention of quarterly
and monthly meetings: and it is desired, that concerns of this
nature may be tenderly cherished, and those who are rightly
exercised therein, encouraged to move forward in due season, and
in a humble dependence on the Shepherd of Israel, who not only
puts his own forth, but goes before and rewards all who are
faithful to his appointments, with the enriching reward of sweet
comfort and solid peace.

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        A later Orthodox discipline adds:
        "If the concern of a Friend to visit the families of a
     Monthly Meeting of which he or she is not a member, be laid
     before and approved by the Monthly Meeting where he or she
     belongs, and a certificate or minute thereof be granted, he
     or she, previously to engaging in the visit, is to spread
     the concern before the Monthly Meeting whose families are
     proposed to be visited; and when the concurrence thereof is
     also obtained, the necessary care should be extended to aid
     him or her in the performance thereof.  This regulation is
     also to extend to such Friends, as may come from other parts
     on religious visits, to meetings within the limits of this
     Yearly Meeting. --1834"
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