A Retrospect of Early Quakerism

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Excerpt from A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts From the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Meetings Composing It, To Which Is Prefixed an Account of Their First Establishment As the domestic management of the kitchen affords the best index to that of the entire household, so the primary arrange ments and internal economy of a religious organization, fur nish the most reliable data with which to construct its history, and though it may sometimes appear dressed in homespun, yet it wears the garb of simplicity and truth. Keeping this sentiment constantly in view, I have endeavored to make such selections from the earlier advices and disciplinary regulations of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, as will pretty fully illustrate the principles and discipline upon which its sys tem of Church Government is founded, having reference to the fundamental doctrine already mentioned. In order to exhibit the practical working of this system, in an extended applica tion to the various states and conditions of the members, I have copied largely from the records of the executive branches of the Society, - Monthly and Quarterly Meetings. As Friends do not consider a high order of educational attainments an essential qualification for station in religious society, many of the records will be found ungrammatical, yet they are mostly plenary and significant of their intended purpose. Wherever it could be obtained, I have preserved the exact phraseology of the records with quotation marks, correct ing only the orthography, and sometimes omitting irrelevant parts for the sake of brevity, where it could be done without impairing the sense. Each extract is intended to illustrate some social relation, to explain some important principle, or to establish some disciplinary rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.