I'm posting two versions of this section: the first being based
on the 1806 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Discipline (with a few
additions from New York and Ohio, which are similar).  The New
England YM discipline is worded differently enough in this
section that I have typed it out and will post it separately.
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                      MEETINGS FOR WORSHIP

     DEAR Friends, keep all your meetings in the authority,
wisdom, and power of truth, and unity of the blessed Spirit; and
the God of peace be with you.  And it is advised, that such as
come late to meetings, or, when there fall asleep, or are
restless, or do not stay in the meeting, but go forth
unnecessarily, or otherwise demean themselves unbecoming our holy
profession on those solemn occasions, be tenderly and seasonably
admonished.

     We exhort all to a Christian exercise and zeal in the
performance of worship to Almighty God; and as we are not capable
in our own strength to perform this great duty, we recommend to a
diligent waiting in true silence and retirement of mind, for the
renewed sense of the inward power and virtue of his Spirit,
whereby we shall be qualified to worship him in an acceptable
manner.  Let our faithfulness and sincerity herein appear, by the
humility, meekness and circumspection of our lives and
conversation, adorning the doctrines and principles of truth, as
they were declared by Christ and his apostles: those who have
been preserved in faithfulness therein, having to testify from
that experience which cannot deceive, that it hath been very
profitable; and therefore cannot be easy without encouraging and
putting forward their children, apprentices and servants to this
religious duty, as well as other behaviour suitable thereunto. 
And if this useful practice was more generally attended to, it
would do more for us and them than any outward acquisition of
wealth; and without doubt, some of those who have been placed
under our direction, may with thankfulness have to view our pious
care in taking them from worldly business to seek a city eternal
in the heavens.

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   New York Yearly Meeting (1830):
      "Friends are affectionately and pressingly advised duly to
   attend all our public meetings held for the solemn purpose of
   divine worship; and carefully to avoid permitting any slight
   pretence or worldly business to occasion their absence from
   them; or induce them to leave their children, or those placed
   under their care, engaged in their temporal concerns; bearing
   in remembrance, that the solemn inquiry will be made, What
   hast thou done with those lambs committed to thy care?  Happy
   will it be for those who feel the supporting evidence, that
   they have endeavoured, in preference to all other concerns, to
   train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
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     This meeting recommends, that Friends who are exercised in
the discipline, would early extend their brotherly love and care,
in visiting such amongst us who neglect their duty in attending
our meetings for public worship.  And as a wilful neglect of this
important duty is a manifest evidence of ingratitude to the
Divine Being, contrary to the example and practice of the primi-
tive believers in Christ, and our religious testimony: it is the
sense of this meeting, that as such who are thus insensible of
their religious duty, disunite themselves from Christian fellow-
ship with Friends, monthly meetings after having fully discharged
their duty towards them, and finding their endeavours to reclaim
them ineffectual, should testify our disunion with them.

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   A later Philadelphia Orthodox discipline adds:
      "But if such, who have thus been long regardless of their
   religious duty, should, after repeated labor by the Monthly
   Meeting, be induced to attend some of our meetings for Divine
   worship, they ought, before they can be considered as restored
   to unity with us, to make an acknowledgment thereto, of their
   having swerved from a just sense of their dependent condition,
   and a right estimate of the bond of Christian communion.
   --1834."
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     As the minds of many are turned towards Friends, and the
appearance of a drowsy spirit in our religious meetings, is
offensive, and may be a cause of stumbling to sober inquirers, it
is earnestly desired that this weakness may not exist among us,
and as indulgence therein must necessarily have a disqualifying
effect, it is the sense and judgment of this meeting, that
quarterly, monthly, and other meetings should be cautious of
employing such members in the weighty services of the discipline.

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   A later Philadelphia Orthodox discipline adds:
      "The anointing of the mental vision, to behold the
   excellency of inward spiritual worship, and the goodness of
   the Lord in giving us faith to sit down in silence, depending
   wholly upon the Shepherd of the sheep to feed his flock, are
   among the unspeakable favors for which we must give account.
   We do not doubt there are many who would rejoice to be libe-
   rated from the bondage of human ordinations, and to receive
   the same precious confidence in the immediate teachings of the
   great Minister of the sanctuary, waiting for the bubblings up
   of the water of life, with which he refreshes the thirsty
   soul.  For the gifts conferred on us, our responsibility is
   great; and the desire has been felt that we may not suffer the
   things of the world to deter us from the steady and right
   performance of the duty of public worship.--1851
  
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   The Ohio discipline includes the following paragraphs:
      "It is the fervent concern of the Yearly Meeting, to press
   upon the consideration of our members the awful duty of pure
   and spiritual worship.  It is not enough that, after the
   example of our forefathers, we meet together in one place, in
   outward silence--rejecting those forms and ceremonies which
   were invented by the wisdom, as well as that worship which is
   performed only in the will of man; it is not enough that, with
   a commendable diligence, we attend all our religious meetings;
   unless, also, like them, we wait in humble reverence for
   spiritual ability to worship acceptably the Lord of heaven and
   earth.  May we, therefore, humbly and diligently wait, in the
   spirit of our minds, for the coming of Him who told his
   disciples, '_without me ye can do nothing;_' that we may
   experience the influence of his spirit, to enlighten and
   quicken the soul to a true sight of its condition; that,
   feeling the spirit of supplication, we may approach the throne
   of grace, and, under a renewed sense of the Father's mercy and
   goodness, may be enabled to offer the tribute of worship and
   the sacrifice of praise.
      "This is the important purpose of our assembling together
   in silence; and though at times there may be amongst us but
   little instrumental ministry, or even none, let not this
   produce any abatement of diligence in the duty.  Instrumental
   ministry, in the life and power of the gospel, is a great
   favor to the church; but the distinguishing excellence of the
   christian dispensation, is the immediate communication with
   our Heavenly Father, through the inward revelation of the
   Spirit of Christ.  May, therefore, the deportment of our
   members, while engaged in this most solemn duty, be such as to
   demonstrate that they are earnest in the great duty of waiting
   upon and worshiping God in spirit; that serious and tender-
   hearted enquirers may be encouraged to come and partake, in
   our assemblies, of that inward and spiritual refreshment and
   consolation, which the Lord is graciously pleased to impart to
   the souls of such as are humble in his sight, and approach his
   holy presence with reference and fear.
      "It is further directed, that Friends keep their children,
   and such (members) as are under their care, to a constant,
   seasonable and orderly attendance of meetings, both on First-
   days and on other days of the week, instructing them agreeably
   to the ability received, to wait in stillness upon the Lord,
   that they may receive a portion of his spiritual favor, and
   from the tendering virtue of his Holy Spirit, may be engaged,
   in heart and mind, to walk worthy of so great grace, and in a
   holy zeal for his honor, submit to bear the cross, endure the
   shame, and become dedicated witnesses for him among men."
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See additional post of the New England Yearly Meeting discipline.

Licia Kuenning
Friends of Truth/Glenside Friends Meeting/Quaker Heritage Press