he education of their children, of their attachment to the
principles of the society, and should solicit restoration to membership,
should be admitted into it again without any acknowledgment of past
errors, and wholly as new and convinced members.

With respect to the second of the immediate and original causes, which
is to be found in tithes, I may observe that it is, as for as I can
collect, but a small and an inferior one, few being disowned on this
account, and still fewer now than formerly. It would be desirable,
however, few as these instances may be, to prevent them. But I fear that
no remedy can be pointed out, in which the Quakers would acquiesce,
except it could be shewn, that a distinction might be made between the
payment of ecclesiastical and lay-tithes, which would not interfere with
the great tenets of the society on this subject.

A third cause of disownment, but this belongs to the original and
remote, was shewn to be the pursuit of trade, connected as it is with
the peculiar habits of the society and a residence in the towns. I may
propose as remedies for this, first, that parents should be careful to
exhibit a good example to their children. Secondly, as I have before
observed, that they should prescribe to themselves moderation in the
acquisition of wealth, either by relinquishing trade at a given time, or
by dealing out the profits of it more liberally than common in the way
of benevolence, so that their children, in each case, may never have the
misfortune of the prospect of a large moneyed independence before their
eyes. Or lastly, that they should give them a better education than
they do at present, on which subject, according to the prescribed order
of things, I am now to speak.

A fourth cause then, but this belongs also to the original and remote,
was shewn to exist in education. And education, as it was promotive of
the diminution of the society, was of two kinds.

With respect to that part of it which is alien, the remedy is easy.
There has been great difficulty in procuring proper schoolmasters, I
mean such as have been Quakers. Two reasons may be given for this. The
first is, that the society having been backward in affording due
encouragement to learning, few of any great literary acquisitions have
been brought up in it. The second is, that persons have found, that they
could make much less of their time in such a line of employment than in
the way of trade. But surely the Quakers, a