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candid hearing by the committee of the yearly meeting, appointed from the most impartial part of it, this poor woman, who had stood as it were single and alone, was restored to her right of membership in the society. I believe that meetings for discipline sometimes lose their proper weight and authority, by active members getting into a cold, unfeeling manner of treating those who may have been brought under dealing. The habit of constantly speaking to cases which occur, endangers our getting into a customary form; and the mind, by this means, runs considerable risk of becoming less sensible of the tendering impressions of divine influ- ence. It is well frequently to remember this great truth, that the more closely we attend to this sea- soning virtue, the more will our minds be clothed with meekness and charity, and we shall thereby be preserved from doing or saying any thing that may have a tendency to irritate or wound, even by the smallest delinquent. The business of the appeal being disposed of, the propriety of continuing the second day morn- ing meeting was entered into; on which it was agreed, that the meeting should be discontinued, and a minute to that purpose was accordingly made. A report from the Committee on Indian Affairs was brought in and read, with a statement of the re-