CONTENTS

Introduction................................................3
Part One - FAITH.........................................6
THE SPIRIT..................................................7
SEEKING THE SPIRIT..........................................9
  ...In Silence............................................10
  ...In Solitude...........................................11
  ...In Prayer.............................................12
  ...In Scripture..........................................13
  ...In Devotional Reading.................................13
  ...In Tradition..........................................14
  ...In Gospel Order.......................................14
  ...In Corporate Worship..................................16
  ...In Meetings for Worship with a Concern for Business...19
Leadings and Concerns......................................20
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT.......................................21
   Faithfulness............................................22
   Truthfulness, Integrity, and Communication..............23
   Publishing the Truth:  Outreach.........................25
   Simplicity..............................................26
   Work....................................................26
   Quaker Community and Fellowship.........................27
   Covenant Relationships..................................28
   Children in our Families and Meetings...................31
   Acceptance of Death.....................................34
WITNESS....................................................35
   Equality................................................35
   Nonviolence and Reconciliation..........................37
   Peace and International Understanding...................38
   Social Justice..........................................39
   Poverty and Stewardship.................................40
   Education...............................................41
   Religious Education.....................................42
   Responding to that of God in the Creation...............43
HISTORICAL STATEMENT.......................................44
   The Founding............................................45
   The Spread of the Movement..............................47
   Early Friends in the New-York Area......................48
   Social Issues...........................................49
   Divisions in the Society................................51
   Growth and Reconciliation...............................52
   Quaker Groups...........................................54
   Reunion.................................................56
   General Epistle.........................................56
THE BALBY EPISTLE: 
  ADVICES FROM THE ELDERS AT BALBY.........................57