Furnished
with this knowledge, and instructed moreover by written documents on a
variety of subjects, they repair at a proper time to the place of
meeting. All the Quakers in the district in question, who are expected
to go, bend their direction hither. Any person travelling in the county
at this time, would see an unusual number of Quakers upon the road
directing their journey to the same point. Those who live farthest from
the place where the meeting is held, have often a long journey to
perform. The Quakers are frequently out two or three whole days, and
sometimes longer upon this occasion. But as this sort of meeting takes
place but once in the quarter, the loss of their time, and the fatigue
of their journey, and the expences attending it, are borne cheerfully.
When all of them are assembled, nearly the same custom obtains at the
quarterly, as has been described at the monthly meeting. A meeting for
worship is first held. The men and women, when this is over, separate
into their different apartments, after which the meeting for discipline
begins in each.
I shall not detail the different kinds of business, which come on at
this meeting. I shall explain the principal subject only.
The society at large have agreed upon a number of questions, or queries
as they call them, which they have committed to print, and which they
expect to be read and answered in the course of these quarterly meetings
The following is a list of them.
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