Excerpt from The Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends: Christian Practice Business Procedure, Adopted by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Held at Fifteenth and Race StreetsSpiritual Guidance in the Experience of the Society of Friends. William C. Braithwaite, Swarthmore Lec ture, 1909.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.