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 II.

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SECT I.--Funerals--Extravagance and pageantry of ancient and modern funerals--These discarded by the Quakers--Plain manner in which they inter their dead.

SECT II.--Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions --Various reasons of their disuse of these.

SECT. III.--Neither do they use mourning garments--Reasons why they thus differ from the world--These reasons farther elucidated by considerations on Court-mourning.