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 VI.

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SECT. I.--_Poor--No beggars among the Quakers--Manner of relieving and providing for the poor._

SECT. II.--_Education of the children of the poor provided for--Observations on the number of the Quaker-poor--and on their character._

RELIGION.

INTRODUCTION.

_Invitation to a perusal of this part of the work--The necessity of humility and charity in religion on account of the limited powers of the human understanding--Object of this invitation._