II.
_Monthly court or meeting--constitution of this meeting--each county is
usually divided into parts--in each of these parts or divisions are
several meeting-houses, which have their several congregations attached
to them--one meeting-house in each division is fixed upon for
transacting the business of all the congregations in that
division--deputies appointed from every particular meeting or
congregation in each division to the place fixed upon for transacting
the business within it--nature of the business to be transacted--women
become deputies, and transact business, equally with the men._
I come, after this long digression, to the courts of the Quakers. And
here I shall immediately premise, that I profess to do little more than
to give a general outline of these. I do not intend to explain the
proceedings, preparatory to the meetings there, or to state all the
exceptions from general rules, or to trouble the memory of the reader
with more circumstances than will be sufficient to enable him to have a
general idea of this part of the discipline of the Quakers.
The Quakers manage their discipline by means of monthly, quarterly, and
yearly courts, to which, however they themselves uniformly give the name
of meetings.
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