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The meeting was mostly silent, just a gathering of men, women, and children sitting on unpainted and straight-backed benches for an hour. The boys did not always enter pro- foundly into the spiritual exercise of the occasion, and some- times perhaps even the older ones had not such sustained mystical communion as their faces then seemed to indicate. But after all, the lesson of the supremacy of religious duty over all business affairs was well taught, and the quiet in- A Pennsylvania Quaker Boy... 17 fluence of the Spirit was not always a delusion; while the cramped physical powers of the healthy boy found relief after- wards in an unrestrained and joyous exercise. The habit of at least formal attention to religious obligations was seldom lost. It was in the "monthly meetings" that the moral stan- dards were set and maintained. These business sessions were as imperative upon old and young as the purely religious gatherings. The "queries" were to be answered in open meet- mg, not individually but as a body, and the answer inscribed in a book.
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