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Seventh Query.-Friends are mostly careful to live within the bounds of their circumstances, and to keep to moderation in their trade or business; are punctual to their promises, and just in the payment of their debts; and care has been generally extended to such as give grounds for fear on these accounts.

Eighth Query.-Care is taken to deal with offenders in the spirit of meekness-without partiality, in order for their help and generally without unnecessary delay, and where such labor has proved ineffectual, judgment has been issued, it is believed, in the authority of Truth.

Ninth Query.-Care is taken to keep regular records. of Births and Deaths.

A memorial concerning our deceased Friend, William Haines, prepared by Woodbury Monthly Meeting, endorsed by Salem Quarterly Meeting and introduced by the Representative Committee, was read, approved and directed to be recorded.

Fifth Day Afternoon-Sixteenth of the Month.

In the consideration of the Ninth Query, as read at a former sitting, the meeting was introduced into exercise on account of the irregularity apparent in the answers thereto.

The subject was again introduced at this sitting, and it was concluded to advise and enjoin upon our members in their different meetings to extend renewed care to this

important subject, so that the old records of births and deaths may be properly preserved, and in the future we may be able to report that due care is taken to keep regular records thereof.

A memorial concerning our deceased Friend, Jonah Kelly, prepared by North-west Fork Monthly Meeting, endorsed by Southern Quarterly Meeting, and introduced by the Representative Committee was read, approved and directed to be recorded.

The First, Second and Third Annual Queries were read, and the following summaries comprised from the reports, were adopted.

Answers to First Annual Query.-Philadelphia informs that the time of holding the morning meetings at Spruce Street for public worship, has been changed from 10 to 10 o'clock, and the First-day afternoon meeting to 3 o'clock.

Abington.-Abington Monthly Meeting reports the time for convening our meetings has been changed from 10 to 10 o'clock from the first of the Tenth to the first of the Fourth Month.

Bucks.-Buckingham Meeting has changed the time. of gathering from 10 to 10 o'clock.

Caln.-Bradford Mid-week Meeting discontinued and their Preparative Meeting held on First-day before Monthly Meeting.

Western.-A meeting for worship has been set up at Oxford, Pa., to be held on the First-day of the week, under the joint care of Pennsgrove and Nottingham Monthly Meetings, to convene at 10 o'clock A. M.

Fishing Creek.-The time for gathering of Fishing Creek Mid-week Meeting has been changed from 11 to 10 o'clock from Fourth Month 1st to Tenth Month 1st. No other changes reported, and not any new Meeting established.

Answers to Second Annual Query.-We have 40 schools, superintended by Committees appointed either in the Monthly or the Preparative Meeting, employing 92 teachers of whom 69 are in membership with us. The pupils of 32 of these schools attend Mid week Meetings with their teachers.

Reports from seven of our Quarterly Meetings repre sent their schools attended in the aggregate by 1756 pupils, 500 of whom are members, 180 where one parent is a member, and two reports inform that 862 attend their schools where neither parent is a member.

Answers to Third Annual Query." They are."

The Joint Committee on the subject of Education and Schools made the following report, which was read. This interesting concern claimed some attention of the meeting. It was then concluded to refer the subject to a future sitting for further consideration.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

To the Yearly Meeting:

In presenting this, our Annual Report, we are encouraged to believe that there is an increasing interest amongst Friends, in reference to a guarded education for their children; but there is yet much room for concern and labor in this respect. Conferences have been held during the past year at the following places: Upper Dublin, Gwynedd, Quakertown, Stroudsburg, Trenton, Middletown, Edgewood, Mount Holly, Medford, Solebury, Buckingham, Newtown, Fallsington, Rancocas, and Bristol. These have been generally satisfactory, and we trust will be productive of good. The meetings of the general committee have been well attended, and have been occasions of much interest. At one of these, earnest desires were expressed that our schools should be conducted more in accordance with our principles and testimonies. A committee was appointed, who gave the subject careful consideration and prepared an address. "To Teachers, School Committees, and all interested in the management of schools under the care of Friends," in which attention was called to the excellent advices contained in our Book of Discipline on the subject of Education. After alluding to the dignity and usefulness of the Teacher's calling, and to our testimony to simplicity in dress, salutation, &c., and to the consistent use of the plain language, the members of our various meetings having charge of schools, were exhorted to exercise care in the selection of committees to have over

sight thereof, and the desire expressed that these committees encourage the attendance of the children, with their teachers, at meetings for Divine Worship held in the middle of the week, and that both teachers and committees seek after a qualification to carry out the purpose for which these schools have been established. Two conferences have been held with Teachers, School Committees and others, in which were considered the various subjects of the address, and the advantages of well-organized Friends' Schools to Friends' children. These were largely attended, and gave opportunity for comparison of views, and we think were seasons of instruction and encouragement to many. We would call the attention of the Yearly Meeting to some localities, where, owing to the scattered condition of Friends, difficulties present themselves to the establishment of schools under the care of Preparative or Monthly Meetings, and ask whether the Yearly Meeting will authorize the use of its funds to aid schools in such places.

An examination of the statistics, so far as received from the different Preparative and Monthly Meetings, shows there are 2880 children of a suitable age to attend school, where one or both parents are members. Of these 1782 are members and 1098 with one parent a member.

Of the whole number of children reported, 1176 members and 606 with one parent a member, belong to localities where they have Friends' Schools, and, 563 members and 535 one parent a member, live where no Friends' Schools are reported.

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