HANDBOOK of Practices and Procedures
Friends Meeting of Washington
of the Religious Society of Friends
2111 Decatur Place NW
Washington, DC 20008-1912
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The Friends Meeting of Washington Handbook [1]
NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE HANDBOOK
This Handbook is intended to supplement Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice [2], presenting who does what and the commonly accepted ways of doing things to carry out the purposes and corporate leadings of the Meeting. “Tested and established practices in a religious society are as important as are good habits for an individual.... A religious group which has a definite character and yet is open to new incursions of Truth is in a better position than one which stresses outworn traditions or one which so neglects the wisdom of the past embodied in inherited custom as to have become like a man without a memory.” Howard H. Brinton, Guide to Quaker Practice (1946 and 2006)