A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

CHAPTER X.

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SECT. I._--Ministers of the Gospel--Quakers conceive that the spirit of God alone can qualify for the ministry--Women equally qualified with men--Way in which ministers are called and acknowledged among the Quakers._

SECT. II._--Quaker-ministers, when acknowledged, engage in family visits--Nature of these--and sometimes in missions through England--and sometimes in foreign parts._