THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, Ог Friends --INDIANA YEARLY MEETING, REVISED BY THE MEETING HELD AT WHITE WATER, IN THE YEAR 1838, and PRINTED BY DIRECTION OF THE SAME. CINCINNATI: A. PUGH, PRINTER, CORNER FIFTH AND MAIN ST. 1839. Subordinate meetings may assume the consideration of offences, after their proceedings may have been decided ARBITRATIONS--General rules for conducting," Parties to enter into bond,..... 14 14 15 Parties refusing to abide award should be complained of, 15 16 Legal advice to be taken at joint expense of the parties, when necessary,- 16 Cases where resort to law may be admissible, viz. those 17 17 Friends in the ministry not to be chosen as arbitrators, 18 BIRTHS AND DEATHS-Two members to be appointed to attend funerals, 18 Proposals for meetings at funerals to be submitted to the elders and overseers, 18 Two or more Friends to be appointed to the care of burying Burying grounds to be kept enclosed and in decent order, 19 19 Forms, 20 26 BLASPHEMY AND PROFANITY, BOOKS,-Meeting for Sufferings to examine all writings which relate to our religious principles,.......... Heads of families to prevent the perusal of pernicious publications,-. Plays, romances, and novels, to be suppressed,.. CERTIFICATES,-Form of a certificate of removal, Page. Those for travelling Friends to be recorded and seasona- 41 Those for residents to be lodged with the Monthly Meeting, 21 Proceedings where offenders remove, Proceedings where females remove,- Proceedings when apprentices or minors remove,- Disorderly persons appearing as members-how to be Certificates the property of Monthly Meetings,-- CHARITY AND UNITY,... CIVIL GOVERNMENT.-Members exhorted to decline offices, Proceedings with those who do not,- 24 24 24 25 96 225 CLERKS.--Annual appointment of,-- Justice in dealings to be strictly observed,... 26 26 CONVINCED PERSONS.-Rule of admission to membership, 27 30 DEFAMATION AND DETRACTION, DISCIPLINE AND MEETINGS FOR DISCIPLINE,.............. 31 Admonition to be extended to those who break the Disci- pline, 31 Connexion and subordination of meetings,... 31 Rules for setting up and laying down meetings,-- 31 Fair records of proceedings to be kept,-- 32 Monthly Meetings should apply to Quarters for assistance in matters too weighty or difficult for them to determine, 32 Page. Copies of minutes, &c. to be granted where requested by Reports to be sent up signed by the Clerk,-- Reasons for non-attendance to be forwarded,.- The same to be annually forwarded to Quarter, and Jugglers, Fortune Tellers, and such like,- Clerks a committee to be annually appointed to nomi- 34 Preparative meetings to forward complaints and other 35 Members withholding debt to be urged to payment,-- 36 36 Insolvent debtors should pay if they should ever after become able,... 36 Members not to be sued contrary to Discipline, - 37 |