My account will comprehend the general practice, or that which ought to be the practice of those, who profess Quakerism.] If the reader be a lover of virtue, and anxious for the moral improvement of mankind, he will be desirous of knowing what means the Quakers have used to have preserved, for a hundred and fifty years, this desirable reputation in the world.
If we were to put the question to the Quakers themselves for their own opinion upon it, I believe I can anticipate their reply.

They would attribute any morality, they might be supposed to have, _to the Supreme Being_, whose will having been discovered by means of the scriptures, and of religious impressions upon the mind, when it has been calm, and still, and abstracted from the world, they have endeavoured to obey.

But there is no doubt, that we may add, _auxiliary causes_ of this morality, and such as the Quakers themselves would allow to have had their share in producing it, under the same influence.

The first of these may be called their moral education.

The second their discipline.