Indexes

( ) indicate dates
T indicates a testimony or similar to the Friend named

Man, Isle of: 6.01, 6.12, 16.24
Management Meeting: 7.04.e, 8.03, 8.06, 8.07, 8.20, 8.21, 14.15, 14.17
Manchester Conference: 19.60 (conclusion)
marriage: 1.02.23, 1.03.23, 4.10.o, ch 16, 22.33–39, 22.41–43; advice for those attending: 16.31; application: 16.12–13; appointment of meeting for worship: 16.27–31, 16.32; certificate: 16.40–43, in English: 16.40, in Welsh: 16.41; declaration: 16.36–39, in English: 16.36, in Welsh: 16.37; difficulties: 10.23, 22.47–50; equality within: 22.38; help from overseers: 12.13.o, 16.21.b; meeting for clearness: 16.05, 16.13–14, 16.19–21; notice to registrar: 16.22; permission to non-members: 16.04, 16.18; practising peace within: 22.34; public notice: 16.23, 16.35; registers & registration: 16.44–46, 16.48; religious act: 16.02–03; remarriage of divorced persons: 12.22, 16.17, 22.76, 22.79; residents outside Great Britain: 16.24, 16.55; same sex: 22.45; summary of procedures: 16.07; termination: 10.23, 22.73–79; testimony on: 16.01–03, 16.13, 16.15, 22.75; see also commitment, registering officers, Scotland (for particular regulations)
materion cymdeithasol: 5.05.b
mediation: 4.23, 24.36–38
meditation – individual: 2.47, 20.07; not in meeting for worship: 2.37
Meeting for Sufferings: Ch 7; AM nominations & representatives: 7.05.a, 7.06, 7.07; accountable to BYM: 6.28; annual report to BYM: 6.25, 6.28, 7.02.e; appeals against AM decisions addressed to: 4.25, 4.26; appointments: 7.07, 8.10, 9.05–07, 9.12, 14.29 & as representatives to other YMs 7.02.l; approves transfer of local meetings: 4.12, 7.02.n; clerks: 6.19, 7.11; communication: 7.02.i; communicating with: 7.04; concerns from AM: 7.02.h, 13.13, 13.15; constitution: 7.05; co-options: 7.05.f, 7.09; determines dates for BYM: 7.02.f; expenses paid: 14.12; financing of centrally managed work: 7.01, 7.02.a, 14.05–07, 14.15, functions: 7.02.a-s; history: 7.01; maintains register of Friends before the courts for matters of conscience: 7.01, 7.02.k; minutes of liberation & travelling minutes: 13.28; minutes received: 7.02.j; public statements: 7.02.b; responsibilities given to Meeting of Friends in Wales: 5.04, 5.05 & to Scotland GM: 5.03; sets priorities for centrally managed work: 7.02.a; supports spiritual life & develops BYM’s visionary & prophetic role: 7.02.g; time of meeting: 7.10; Trustees – BYM: 6.28, 7.02.a,c,d,j,q, 7.03, 7.04, 7.05.e
meeting houses – care: 15.05, 15.14; financial support: 14.02.f; handbook: 15.14; lettings & use of: 13.35, 15.16; loans & grants: 15.15; new: 15.15; registration: 15.13; see also wardens
Meeting Houses Funds: 15.15
Meeting of Friends in Wales: see Wales, Meeting of Friends
meetings for church affairs: 1.02.14–15, 1.03.14–15, 2.85–92, ch 3, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10.b, 4.33.e, 19.49 (preamble); corporate decision making: 3.04, 3.06; duties & responsibilities of those attending: 3.07–11, 19.51; elders responsible for right holding: 12.12.e; participation in: 3.01, 3.08–11, 3.28–30, 10.06, 11.01, 11.09, 12.13.b; right holding: 2.92, 3.03–06, 3.10–11, 3.28, 19.57; sense of the meeting: 3.05–07; shared experience: 10.03; small groups: 3.26
meetings for clearness: 4.23, 10.21, 11.11, 12.10, 12.22–25; discernment: 13.08, 13.11; for marriage: 16.05, 16.13–14, 16.19–21, & for ending marriage: 22.75
meetings for worship: p?14, pp?15–16, 1.02.8–13, 1.03.8–13, ch 2, 4.10.a, 4.33.a, 10.16, 19.35, 21.05; attendance: 2.46, 12.13.a; beware of additions to ministry: 2.55; centring down: 2.51–54; children: 2.50, 2.74–76; in colleges: 13.56; community of people: 2.38, 10.08; not for debating: 2.68–70; elders responsible: 2.71, 12.12.a-d; equality in: 2.75; establishing: 4.31; gathered: 2.38–40, 2.47, 2.76–77; in the home: 2.83–84, 10.12, 12.12.g; individual in: 2.41–54, 2.75; laying down: 4.31; punctuality: 2.47, 12.12.d; regularity in attending: 1.02.10, 1.03.10, 2.37, 2.44–46; right holding: 4.10.a, 4.33.a; for the sick: 10.12; wandering mind: 2.48–49, 2.53; see also funerals, marriage, meditation, memorial meetings, worship
membership: Ch 11; AM responsibility: 4.02, 4.10.f.g.i, 4.32; becoming a member: 3.19, 10.29, 11.01, 11.04–17; change of address: 11.20–27; children’s: 11.13–19 & resignation: 11.18, 11.36; commitment: 10.25–34, 11.01, 11.05, 11.10, 13.01; discernment: 11.10–12; discipleship: 11.42; discipline: 11.01, 11.08, 11.09, 11.10; dual: 10.30–31; financial responsibility: 1.02.20, 1.03.20, 4.33.g, 14.01, 14.03–08; not acquired by marriage: 16.56; pastoral care: 11.12; records: 4.45, 11.07.b, 11.20, 11.38–41; resignation: 11.30, 11.36, 11.37.a,c; responsibilities: 11.01, 11.12; sojourning: 4.32, 6.14, 11.28; supporting Friends: 11.08, 11.11, 11.12; termination: 11.29–35; transfer 11.20–27; visitors appointed: 11.11; welcoming Friends into: 11.12; see also becoming a Quaker, convincement, overseers, tabular statement
memorial meetings: 17.10
ministry: 10.05, 10.07, 12.02; to dying & bereaved: 12.12.g; of healing: 21.71–73; of prayer: 10.05, 10.18, 17.05; prison: 13.54; of service: 10.05, ch 13; silent: 1.02.12, 1.03.12, 2.01, 2.37–38, 10.05, 10.09; of teaching: 2.67, 10.05; travelling in the: 13.21–32, 22.06
ministry, vocal: 1.02.12–13, 1.03.12–13, 2.01, 2.05, 2.37, 2.39, 2.55–73, 10.05; acceptable: 2.64–5; beware of additions: 2.55; by or for children: 2.74, 2.76; creative: 2.70; elders nurture: 2.71, 12.12.c; funerals: 17.04; judging whether to speak: 2.55–59, 2.64, 28.04; language: 2.63; women’s: 2.56, 2.62
minute – of liberation: 13.28; travelling: 13.28
minutes – adoption: 3.14–15; draft: 3.12–13, 3.15; making: 3.1, 3.11, 3.14–15; responsibility of meeting: 3.07; signing: 3.15; uniting with: 3.06
moderation: 20.37–42
money – care of: 20.64; love of: 20.58; see also income
moving abroad: 11.23, 11.25; see also 13.21–26
music: 21.30–31