CHAPTER XLV.

MISCELLANEOUS

CHILDREN'S DAY.

Ques. What directions are given concerning Children's Day?

Ans. 1. There shall be held annually throughout the Church, a day to be known as Children's Day.

2. The exercises of this day shall consist of appropriate services held in all our congregations for the especial benefit of the children.

3. The first collection at every service on that day shall be for the cause of education.

4. Each Annual Conference shall decide as to which of the recognized connectional schools the money raised for education on this day shall be appropriated.

5. Each Annual Conference shall reserve the right to fix its Children's Day.

II. GENERAL MISSIONARY DAY

The second Sunday in August of each year shall be observed in every pastoral charge throughout the connection as General Missionary Day. On said day the congregation should be asked to make an offering for the extension of our Church. Presiding Elders and pastors in charge should put forth every effort to make this day a success.

III. OFFICIAL OR LEADERS' MEETING

Ques. 1. What directions are given concerning Official or Leaders' Meetings?

Ans. 1. They shall be held weekly in every pastoral charge wherever practicable.

2. The Official Meeting shall be composed of the pastor in charge, all the Stewards, Class-leaders and Local Preachers of the circuits, stations or mission, over which the pastor or some one appointed by him shall preside.

3. The following shall be the general order of business:

(a) Are there any sick?

(b) Are there any who require temporal relief?

(c) Are there any who walk disorderly and will not be reproved?

(d) Are there any who wilfully neglect the means of grace?

(e) Are there any to be recommended for license to exhort?

(f) What amount has been raised for the pastor in charge?

(g) What amount has been raised for the Presiding Elder?

(h) Is there any other business?

IV. THE WESTERN INDEX

1. The Western Index shall be published weekly at such place as the Editor and a special committee may determine. The subscription price shall be one ($1.00) dollar per annum. The Editor shall be elected by the General Conference, and the special committee shall be composed of one member selected by each Annual Conference West of the Mississippi River.

2. The paper shall be under the management of the General Committee or Publishing Interest and the Editor.

3. The Editor shall serve an appointment, and the General Committee shall supplement the salary received from such appointment by paying him six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum.

4. All expenses incurred in running the Western Index shall be paid out of subscriptions to, and advertisements in, the paper.

5. The Editor shall keep an account of the receipts and expenditures of the paper and report the same to the General Committee. He shall purchase no property nor printing presses unless authorized by the General Committee in its regular meeting. Any such contract or obligation made without authority of the Committee shall be on the Editor's personal responsibility, and the Committee shall in no case be responsible for any such obligation.

V. THE EASTERN INDEX

The Eastern Index shall be under similar management and subject to the same rules and regulations as the Western Index.