Legacies. See Wills, &c. 107. Queries, 123.
LIBERALITY to the POOR, 56. Charity recommended,
56. Affiftance to be afforded in fickness or scarcity.
The rich warned and advised to communicate, 56.
LOVE and UNITY, 57. See Differences, &c. 38.
Lotteries. See Gaming and Diversions, 52.
Manuscripts, to be viewed by meeting for sufferings, 70.
MARRIAGE. General advice relating to, 59. Not to
proceed under twelve months after decease of former
companion, 61. Rules for proceeding in relation to
marriage, 62. The proceedings of fuch as apply for
marriage, not to be objected to on account of offen-
ces before unnoticed, 97. Rules against marrying
with perfons near of kin, 61. Perfons taking each
other without confent of their monthly-meeting, to
be disowned, 66. Rules refpecting fuch as marry
contrary to the established rules of the fociety, 66.
See Records, 125. Queries, 121. Removals, &c. 127.
MASTERS, Miftreffes, and Servants, 68.
MEETINGS for Difcipline, 40.
of MINISTERS and ELDERS, 78. Their queries,
95. To annually choose or re-appoint a clerk, and
keep records of their proceedings, 80.
MEETING for SUFFERINGS, 70. To be confulted by
friends under fufferings, 70. To take the care of
printing and distributing friends' books, 9. To have
the direction of the yearly-meeting's stock, 71.
MEETINGS for WORSHIP, 72. To be attended in due
time, and not kept out of season, 73. Nor ended
too foon, or unbecomingly, 76. Caution about be-
haviour after, 76. Exhortation to attend those on
week-days, 75. Perfons profeffing with us, who ab-
fent themselves from our religious meetings, to be
dealt with, 77. Persons living at a distance, reminded
to keep meetings in their families, 73. See Ministers
and Elders, &c. 78.
Membership. See Children, 13. Monthly-Meetings, 97.
Removals, &c. 127. Convinced Perfons, 23.
MILITIA. See War, 147.
Minifters. Advice to, 91. Who are members of the
meetings of minifters and elders, 79. Young min-
ifters, when approved, to be reported to their monthly
and quarterly-meetings, 79. Minifters to be troubled
as little as may be with being arbitrators, 4. To avoid
being entangled in the affairs of this life, 83. To be
cautious of fpreading reports to the disadvantage of
any, 85. To fhut their ears against all private inform-
ation, 83. Such only to be permitted to travel, as are
approved by their own monthly or quarterly-meetings,
95. Their certificates to be called for, 82. Those
who are engaged to vifit foreign parts, advised to pro-
pose their concern to the yearly-meeting of ministers
and elders, 94. To be ready to receive advice as well
as teach and inftruct, 84. Miniftry not to be judged
of haftily, but the hearers' own spirit to be first watch-
ed over, 84. All public opposition to ministers who
are not difowned, to be avoided, 89. None to im-
pose themselves as preachers, who are not faithful in
obferving the various branches of our teftimonies, 83.
Mode of dealing with such as friends are not satisfied
with, 90. Re-admiffion of fuch as are difowned, 90.
Advices to minifters, 83, 91. To return to their
habitations as soon as their service is over, 85. See
Meetings of Ministers and Elders, 78.
Ministers and Elders. See Meetings of Ministers and
Elders, 78. Living in neglect of attending meetings,
to be vifited and dealt with, 89.
Moderation, exhortation to, 56. See Plainnefs, 113.
Months. See Days and Times, 27.
MONTHLY-MEETINGS, 97. Not to divide into two fep-
arate meetings, without the confent of the quarterly-
meeting, 43. To appoint overfeers, 43. To appoint
friends to vifit families, 49, 100. Their judgment
may be appealed againft, 1. What they consist of, 43.
Who refuse to comply with the judgment of the quar
terly-meeting, must appeal to the yearly-meeting, or
may be diffolved by the quarterly-meeting, 119.
To encourage setting up fchools, 130. What to re-
cord. See Records, 125. See Law, 54.
Mourning habits. Friends not to imitate the vain custom
of wearing or giving. See Burials, 12.
NEGROES and SLAVES. Friends not to reap the un-
righteous profits of flavery, 102. Such as have been
held in flavery to be encouraged in religious and
virtuous lives, 103.
OATHS, not to be taken on any occafion, 105. Not to
be administered by friends in office, 106.
Offenders, how to be dealt with, 98, 99.
ORPHANS, WILLS, EXECUTORS, &c. 107.
Overseers, to be chofen by each monthly-meeting, 43.
See Monthly-Meetings, 97.
Overfeers of the Poor, to be annually appointed, and
their duty, 117.
Papers, to be examined before read, with fome excep-
tion, 154.
PARENTS and GUARDIANS. General advice to, 109.
To provide fuitable fchoolmafters, 110. To be ex-
emplary, 110. To put their children apprentices to
honeft friends, III. To be stirred up to their duty
by monthly-meetings, 14. Such as consent to or en-
courage marriages contrary to our rules, are to be
dealt with, 66. To inftruct their children, 13. To
keep their children to a seasonable and constant at-
tendance of meetings, 73. Not to place those under
care from among friends, without confent of the
monthly-meeting, 111. When friends want appren-
tices, to feek our own members, 112.
PLAINNESS, 113. See Conduct, &c. 21. Education, 47.
Parents and Guardians, 109.
POOR. Poor friends to be maintained by the fociety, 116.
Not to be refufed relief on account of offences un-
noticed by monthly-meetings, 97. Their children
to be educated by monthly-meetings, 117. See
Schools, 130. Liberality to the Poor, 56. Removals
and Settlements, 127.
Preparative-Meetings, 41.
Prayer, caution to ministers therein, 93.
Prize Goods. See Queries, 122.
Public Gifts, to be duly applied, 123.
QUARTERLY-MEETINGS, 118. What they consist of, 42.
Select-meetings how made up, 79. To be held the
day before the quarterly and yearly-meetings, 8o. To
enter all minutes and written epistles from the yearly-
meeting, in fair books, 119. To hold meetings for
divine worship, on the first day of the quarterly-meet-
ing, 119. Time when and place where each quarter
is held, 119. To appoint representatives to the yearly-
meeting, 153. Their judgment may be appealed from,
118. Not to be fet up, or divided into two, but by the
yearly-meeting, 43. See Records, 125. Discipline, 40.
May unite the felect members of two or more monthly-
meetings into one felect-meeting, 79.
QUERIES, 121. To be confidered and answered, 79.
Select queries, 95. See Women's Meetings, 151.
Yearly-Meeting, 153. Answers to them must be plain
and explicit, and approved by, and figned in and on
behalf of quarterly-meetings, 123.
RECORDS, 125. To be open, and to whom, 43.
REMOVALS and Settlements, 127.
Reports, evil. To be examined into before repeated, 34.
Repentance, of disorderly walkers to be recorded. See
Records, 125. None after repentance to be re-
proached with their tranfgreffions, 40. See Monthly-
Meetings, 97.
Reprefentatives, 43. See Yearly-Meeting, 153.
Revenues. See Civil Government, 18.
Riches. See Covetoufness, 25. Education, 47. Liber
ality to the Poor, 56. Parents and Guardians, 108.
SALUTATIONS, unbecoming geftures by way of, to be
avoided, 129.
SCHOOLS, 130. Schoolmasters and miftreffes of honeft
friends to be encouraged, 130. Poor children to be
educated, 131. School committee to be appointed,
131. No friends' children to be fent to schools not
of our fociety, but by the approbation of the school
committee, 131.
SCRIPTURES. Duty of friends to cause their children
to read them, 132. Books tending to corrupt the
minds of youth to be discouraged, 132. See Chil-
dren, 13. Education, 47. Parents and Guardians,
109. Schools, 130. Queries, 121.
Servants.
See Masters,
Sick, to be vifited, 49.
Silent humble dependence on the Lord exhorted to, 86.
Simplicity. See Plainness, 113.
Slaves. See Negroes and Slaves, 102.
SLEEPING IN OUR RELIGIOUS MEETINGS, 135. Such
as continue therein not to be employed, 135.
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, 137. The use of them advised
against (except as medicine) 137.
STOCK. HOW to be raised, and at whose disposal, 139.
SUFFERINGS, 140. See War, 147.
Superficial acknowledgments not to be accepted, 67.
Taverns, not to be frequented unneceffarily. See Que-
ries, 121.
Tale-bearing. See Defamation, &c. 33. Queries, 121.
Taxes mixed, the payment or non-payment of, not to
be cenfured, 149. Such as pay thofe exprefsly for
war to be dealt with, 148.
TESTIMONIES AND MEMORIALS, 141.
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