Another installment from the 1806 Philadelphia YM discipline
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                              POOR

     IT is advised that the cases of all our members who are in
indigent circumstances be duly inspected, that advice and relief
may be seasonably extended, and assistance afforded to them in
such business as they are capable of: and in order to defray the
expenses which their support and the education of their children
will necessarily occasion, it is recommended to each monthly
meeting of men and women Friends to be open hearted and liberal
in subscriptions for raising and continuing funds for these
purposes; that the meetings of each sex should appoint a
treasurer to receive the same, and a committee of suitable
Friends to have the particular care of the poor, whose business
it will be to visit, inspect into their wants, and relieve them. 
And in the exercise of this benevolent care, it is desired we may
always guard against exposing the names or situations of our
fellow members.  And an appointment should be annually made of
two or more Friends for settling the treasurer's account, and
reporting its state to the meeting.--1721, 1796.
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Next week: PRIESTS' WAGES; OR HIRELING MINISTRY

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