Canada
The books of discipline of Canadian Yearly Meeting are made up of three publications:
- Canadian Yearly Meeting Organisation and Procedure (current edition published 2004) - which concerns the organisation, government and structure of Canadian Yearly Meeting, as well as chapters on membership, marriage procedures, etc.;
- The 1967 edition of Christian Faith and Practice in the Experience of the Society of Friends of London Yearly Meeting, originally developed and used by Quakers in Britain, remains part of Canadian Yearly Meeting's books of discipline, and is still published by Canadian Yearly Meeting even though it is now no longer used by Britain Yearly Meeting - this book concerns Quaker beliefs and practices;
- Advices and Queries - Canadian Yearly Meeting uses the same edition as Britain Yearly Meeting.
In 2000, Canadian Yearly Meeting appointed a Faith and Practice Development Committee to co-ordinate development of its own Faith and Practice, published in 2011.
Read more about this topic: Book Of Discipline (Quaker), Current Books of Discipline
Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)