The Old Discipline

Rules of Discipline
of the Yearly Meeting of Friends
Held in Philadelphia
1806

• Introduction
• Appeals
• Arbitrations
• Births and Burials
• Books
• Certificates
• Charity and Unity
• Civil Government
• Conduct and Conversation
• Convinced Persons
• Days and Times
• Defamation and Detraction
• Discipline and Meetings for Discipline
• Donations and Subscriptions
• Family Visits
• Gaming and Diversions
• Law
• Marriages
• Meeting Houses
• Meeting for Sufferings
• Meetings for Worship
• Memorials
• Ministers and Elders, and Meetings of Ministers and Elders
• Moderation and Temperance
• Negroes or Slaves
• Oaths
• Overseers
• Parents and Children
• Plainness
• Poor
• Priests’ Wages; or Hireling Ministry
• Queries
• Queries for Meetings of Ministers and Elders
• Schools
• Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
• Stock
• Taverns
• Testimonies of Denial and Acknowledgments
• Trade
• War
• Wills
• Women’s Meetings
• Women’s Quarterly Meetings
• The Yearly Meeting of Women Friends
• Yearly Meeting