Advices and Queries
The little red book Advices
and
Queries is published separately from the big red book Quaker
Faith
&
Practice but the text is also included in QF&P.
Background: Since the 1700s
London (now Britain) Yearly Meeting asked local meetings questions
about their activities; and later included advice about ensuring
consistency of conduct among Friends. After revisions and extensions
every 20 to 40 years the
present text was approved in
1994.
The Introduction explains:
Advices and queries
are not a
call to increased activity by each
individual Friend but a reminder of the insights of the Society.
and also (from a group of elders in 1656):
"Dearly
beloved
Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule
or form to walk by, but that all, with the measure of light which is
pure and holy, may be guided; and so in the light walking and abiding,
these may be fulfilled in the Spirit, not from the letter, for the
letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life."
The
full Introduction to "Advices and Queries" can be accessed here.
The full text of the 43 sections of "Advices and Queries" can be
accessed here.
Extracts from each section of
Advices and
Queries
appear below, with
references.
