The
quarterly meeting, on the other hand, superintends the concerns of all
the monthly meetings in the county at large. It takes cognizance of
course of the concerns of a greater portion of population, and, as the
name implies, for a greater extent of time. The Quaker population of a
[25] whole county is now to assemble in one place. This place, however,
is not always the same. It may be different, to accommodate the members
in their turn, in the different quarters of the year.
[Footnote 25: I still adhere, to give the reader a clearer idea of the
discipline, and to prevent confusion, to the division by county, though
the district in question may not always comprehend a complete county.]
In the same manner as the different congregations in a small division of
a county have been shewn to have sent deputies to the respective monthly
meetings within it, so the different monthly meetings in the same county
send each of them, deputies to the quarterly. Two or more of each sex
are generally deputed from each monthly meeting. These deputies are
supposed to have understood, at the monthly meeting, where they were
chosen, all the matters which the discipline required them to know
relative to the state and condition of their constituents.
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