CHAPTER III.

RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE

I. ORGANIZATION

1. Upon the convening of the General Conference, and after religious exercises, the Secretary of the preceding General Conference shall call the roll. If a quorum be found present, the General Conference shall elect a Secretary and as many assistant secretaries as may be necessary.

2. The Presiding Bishop shall appoint a committee on Credentials, consisting of one member from each Episcopal District.

II. TIME OF MEETING AND ADJOURNMENT

After the first day's session the time of the opening shall be 9 o'clock a. m. and 1:30 p. m., respectively. However, these time limits may be changed at the discretion of the General Conference. A ten minutes recess shall be taken at 11:30.

III. THE PRESIDENT'S DUTIES

1. At the appointed hour the President shall take the chair, and after devotional exercises, a quorum being present, the minutes of the preceding session shall be read and approved. The President for the day shall then take up the business of the Conference in the regular order according to these Rules of Order, and other rules and regulations adopted by the General Conference.

2. The President shall decide all questions of order, and his decision shall be subject to an appeal to the General Conference. And when an appeal from his decision has been made, such appeal shall be decided without debate, provided the President shall be allowed to state the grounds of his decision and the appellant the grounds of his dissent.

3. Unless otherwise ordered by the Conference, the President shall appoint all committees.

4. When the President accords the floor to a member, he shall distinctly announce the name of said member and the Annual Conference he represents.

IV. ORDER OF BUSINESS

The following shall be the Order of Business:

1. Devotions.

2. Reading the Journal of the previous session.

3. The calling of the roll of Conferences in alphabetical order for the presentation of appeals, resolutions, and miscellaneous business for immediate consideration. The member introducing a proposition under this call may speak to it if it be seconded. If a motion to refer be made, it shall be entertained and decided without debate; or if the question of consideration be raised immediately after the proposition has been offered, and immediately before the person who introduced the proposition has spoken, the question of consideration shall then be put without debate. If there be a two-third vote against consideration, the proposition will not be entertained.

4. Reports of the standing committees, then those of special committees; provided always, that each call shall have been completed before either preceding one shall be repeated.

5. Miscellaneous business.

V. DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS

1. When a member rises to speak or to present to the Conference any matter he shall respectfully address the President, and shall not proceed until recognized by him. The member desiring to speak must address the President from the place assigned the delegation of his Annual Conference.

2. The President may call to order any speaker who may be out of order. There shall be no unwarranted interruption of the speaker by any other member. However, any member may call the attention of the President when he deems any speaker out of order. Also any member has the privilege of explanation when he is misrepresented by the speaker.

3. When a speaker raises a question of privilege it shall not be in order for him to speak to it until the President shall have decided it a question of privilege. The following are questions of privilege: matters relating to the rights and welfare of the individual member or of the whole body. Such matters must be imperative in character in order to justify the interruption of the regular order.

4. No member shall speak more than twice on any question without the consent of two-thirds of the members present; nor may he make a second speech until every member choosing to speak thereto shall have spoken. In no case shall any speech be more than five minutes in length unless by consent of the Conference, provided, however, that the chairman of a committee making a report or one of its members selected by the chairman or the committee shall in all cases be entitled to close the debate with a five minutes speech, despite the motion to lay the report on the table, or the call for the previous question. When a report consists of two or more propositions, the right of the committee, its chairman or its appointee, shall be the same as above defined, even though the propositions be debated and voted on separately.

5. No member shall absent himself from the sessions of the Conference without leave unless he is sick or unable to attend.

VI. MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS

1. The mover of every resolution shall present it in writing and in duplicate. If the President, Secretary or any member request it, any motion shall be reduced to writing.

2. All written motions and communications to the Conference shall be read by a Secretary of the Conference.

3. All motions and resolutions when properly introduced and seconded and all reports read by the Secretary to the Conference or stated by the President, shall be deemed the property of the Conference. But the mover of any resolution or motion may withdraw it at any time before amendment or decision.

4. The following motions shall be undebatable: (a) To adjourn; (b) To suspend the rules; (c) To lay on the table; (d) To take from the table; (e) The question of consideration; (f) The call for the previous question.

5. Every motion or resolution must be disposed of before a new one can be considered. Procedure in the order of motions shall be according to the following table: (a) To fix the time to adjourn; (b) To adjourn; (c) To take recess; (d) To lay on the table; (e) The previous question; (f) To postpone to a given time; (g) To refer; (h) To substitute; (i) Amendment; (j) To postpone indefinitely.

6. The motion for the previous question cannot be laid on the table.

7. It shall be in order to move only one amendment to an amendment. But it shall be in order to move a substitute to the main question, and the substitute may be amended. If the substitute is accepted, it shall take the place of the original question.

8. The motion to adjourn is always in order except in five instances, to wit:

(1) When a member has the floor.

(2) When a question is about to be put or a vote is about to be taken, or final decision reached.

(3) When a question is pending on sustaining the demand for the previous question.

(4) When the previous question has been called and sustained and action is pending.

(5) When a motion to adjourn has been voted down and no business or debate has intervened.

9. Any member who in the first instance voted on a motion or resolution with the prevailing side is entitled to make the motion for a reconsideration, but no one else shall.

10. All resolutions contemplating verbal alterations of the Discipline shall state the language of the paragraph and the line to be altered, and also the language to be substituted. Two hours each day or such amount of time as is necessary to deal with the disciplinary changes offered, shall be given to the revision of the Discipline, taking it chapter by chapter, and all amendments shall be offered while the section is under consideration; and each section shall be amended and passed before proceeding to another.

VII. VOTING

1. Unless excused for special reasons by the Conference, every member within the bar of the Conference must vote upon every question submitted for voting. Voting shall be done by standing, or by "yeas" and "nays" except that voting on all questions relating to the Episcopacy shall be done by ballot.

2. On a call for the "yeas" and "nays" by any member, the call shall be sustained by a one-third vote of the members present except on subjects relating to the Episcopacy.

VIII. MEMORIALS, RESOLUTIONS AND PAPERS FOR UNANIMOUS REFERENCE

1. Memorials, resolutions and miscellaneous papers not presented for immediate consideration, shall be placed in the hands of the Secretary without announcement. Such papers as above referred to must have written in plain hand on the back of them:

(1) The name of the member presenting the paper.

(2) The Conference to which he belongs.

(3) Subject to which it relates.

(4) Committee to which he desires it referred.

2. On the call of Conferences for the presentation of resolutions, petitions, etcs., no Conference shall be allowed to offer more than three resolutions, petitions or memorials before the call of Conferences has gone through the entire list of Conferences.

IX. COMMITTEES

The standing committees shall be:

1. Episcopacy. 2. Itinerancy. 3. Boundaries. 4. Revision. 5. Education. 6. Sunday School. 7. Church Extension. 8. Literature. 9. State of the Church. 10. Publishing Interests. 11. Temperance and Prohibition. 12. Missions. 13. Epworth League. 14. On Entertaining the next General Conference. 15. Finance. 16. State of Country.

The several Annual Conference delegations shall appoint one member for each committee.

The report of the General Officers shall be made in the following order:

1. The Quadrennial Address of the Bishops. 2. The Book Agent's Report. 3. The Secretary of Church Extension. 4. The Secretary of Missions. 5. The Secretary of Epworth League. 6. The Secretary of Education. 7. Ministerial Aid. 8. Superintendent of African Missions.

The reports shall be made during the first days of the General Conference session, and shall be referred to the appropriate committees.

X. MISCELLANEOUS

1. No person shall be allowed to stand in the open spaces of the Conference room.

2. There shall be appointed a sufficient number of Orderlies to keep the aisles clear, and none shall be admitted within the enclosure constituting the bar of the Conference except delegates and visitors invited therein by the Conference.

3. The Conference shall be governed in all matters not herein provided for by the common practices of parliamentary usage.

4. These rules shall not be suspended except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting.

J. A. BRAY, Chairman, C. H. TOBIAS, Secretary, R. S. STOUT, J. H. MOORE, N. L. SMITH, L. H. BROWN, E. W. WHITE.

WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY

I. NAME

This organization shall be called the Woman's Missionary Society of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.

II. OBJECT

The object of this society shall be to promote the welfare of women and children at home and abroad through educational and evangelistic work, to stimulate united prayer and study, to secure a fuller development of resources and to foster religious movements and community betterment.

III. BOARD OF MISSIONS

There shall be a Woman's Board of Missions with headquarters located in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.

IV. MEETINGS

1. Annual meetings shall be held for conference and the transaction of business and in such place and at such time as the Board shall determine.

2. Special meetings may be called by the President and two other members or by the Executive Committee.

V. OFFICERS

The officers of the Woman's Board of Missions shall be a President, Vice-President, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, a Superintendent of Young People's and Children's work, a Recording Secretary, and an Organizer and such other officers as shall be found necessary. The officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting.

VI. MEMBERSHIP

These officers and the President and Corresponding Secretary of each conference Missionary Society shall constitute the membership of the Board of Missions.

VII. FUNDS

The funds of this organization shall be derived from membership dues, special contributions at meetings appointed in the interest of the society, mite boxes, donations, bequests, or by any other means approved by the Board.

VIII. COMMITTEES

There shall be an Executive Committee, such Standing Committees and such Special Committees as shall be deemed necessary.

IX. AMENDMENTS

This Constitution may be amended by a two-third vote at any annual meeting. No change which was not submitted to the previous annual meeting shall be voted on.

NOTE.

In the Index, which follows, the first figures refer to page, and the second to Article or Section. An expression like this, 232:6, is read, Page 232, section 6. This expression, 210:IV:I, is read, Page 210, Article 4, Section 1. This brief statement will serve as a key to the Index given below.

INDEX

Abstinence, 33;78:4.

=Admission of=, ministers on trial, 82; ministers into full connection, 83.

Adults, baptism of, 278.

=Agent=, book, see Book Agent; for Bible Society, 70:1:b; Sunday School, 70:d; literary institutions, 71:1:e.

American Bible Society, 70:1:b.

Alms giving, Article, 28.

=Annual Conference=, members of, 43:1-4; number and boundary of, 44; Enabling Act, 44; time and place of meeting, 45:3-4; presiding officer, 45:5; order of business, 46; preachers on trial, 82:1; discontinued, 83:3; in full membership, 83:2; located, 101:3; institutions of learning, 50; 214; 237; parsonages and churches, 51; 166; committees of examination, 51; candidates for the ministry, 52:5; examinations, standard of, 52:6; General Minutes, 53:8; Statistical secretary, 53.

Apparel, General Rule, 30.

=Appeals=, right of, 41:5; of a member, 149:3; 156; 60; of a local preacher, 144; 155; of a traveling preacher, 140; 150; courts of, Quarterly Conference, 149; Annual Conference, 144; ministerial court of, 150; General Conference, 153:1-2.

=Arbitration=, stewards on, 107:2; disputes between members, 148; 215:1.

=Articles of Religion=, 15; not to be changed, 40.

Auditing Committee, 189:3.

=Baptism=, Article on, 23; administered to: infants, 273; to adults, 278; to be recorded by pastor, 80:12; administered by deacon, 87:3; elder, 89:3; a sacrament, 22.

Baptized children, 121.

Benediction, Apostolic, 117:4.

Bible Classes, 122:5.

Bible, only rule of faith and practice, 17; 33.

Bible Society, American, 70.

=Bishops=, election and duties of, 69; 227:8; 232:6; 197:7; consecration of, 339; support of, 164:3; 179:IV:1; retirement of, 74:15; organize annual conferences, 74:10; president of boards, 75:18; 188:2; 202:II; 210:IV:1; 214:2; 229:3.

=Boards=, Church Extension, Missions, Publishing, Education, Sunday School, Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans, Epworth League, see departments of; of Finance, see Joint Board; directors, 229; Equalization, 177:II; General Departments, members of, 357.

=Book Agent=, 53:8; 177:2; 178:2-3; duties of, 179; 180:5-6; 182:7; 190; 191:2-6; salary, 191:2; 197:2.

Book House, 190:1.

Books and periodicals, 79:9; 187:3-5; 224:3.

Books, reading of, General Rule against, 30.

Borrowing, rule, 31.

Boundaries of Annual Conferences, 247.

Building Churches and parsonages, 166.

Burial of the dead, form of, 295.

Buying and selling, General Rules, 30.

Buying church property, 170.

Call to preach, 97.

=Candidates=, for the ministry, recommended by quarterly conference, 59:6; 62:13-14; directed to studies, 77:8; to be admitted, on trial, 82; into full connection, 83; for deacons, 86; for elders, 87; course of study, 361.

Canonical Books, Article on, 17.

Catechism, to be used, 122:4; 224:2.

Ceremonies, Article on, 26.

=Certificate of membership=, 81; ministers from other churches, 93:4.

Chaplaincy, provision for, 70.

Charitable institutions, 166:1.

Children, instruction of, 121.

Children's Day, 233.

=Christian Index=, 187; Editor of, 188:5; 191:1-2; price of, 188.

=Christian Man's Oath=, Article on, 28; goods, Article on, 28.

Church, Article on, 21.

Church Conference, 63.

=Church Extension=, Board of, 358; members of, 202; authority of, 202:2-4; executive committee, 203:III:1-3; Secretary of, 203:IV:1-7; revenue, 205:5; form of application, 206:7; further authority of, 206:6; conference board of, 207:8; books, 208:10.

=Church membership=, how secured, 115; baptism, form of, 278; reception, 285; how lost, 33; 144; record of, 80:13; members from other churches, 115.

=Church=, laying corner stone of, 305; dedication of, 311; buying lots, 170; division or sale of church property, 172; building churches, 166; building parsonages, 169; trustees of, 110.

Circuits, stations and missions, uniting and dividing, 73:8.

Circulation of books and periodicals, 79:9; 187:3; 198:4; 224:3.

Class Leaders, 104.

Class Meetings, 119.

=Collections=, Class, 104; General Funds, 178; missionary, 194:4; 205:5; 219; 231.

=Commissions=, Unification; Book House; Federal Council; Churches of Christ; Compilation of Discipline; Educational Standards, 357.

=Committees=, of examination, 51; of investigation: of Bishops, 129; of presiding elders, 135; of traveling preachers, 134; of local preachers, 141; of members, 145:a.

Communion, see Lord's Supper.

Community of goods, not enjoined, Article, 28.

Complaints, 60; against a traveling preacher, 138:5.

=Conferences=, General, 37; Annual, 43; District, 54; Quarterly, 57; Church, 63; records of: Church Conferences, 64:2; Quarterly Conferences, 60:8; District Conferences, 55:4; Annual Conferences, 57:3.

Confirmation, not a sacrament, Article 22.

=Constitutions=, Church Extension, Epworth League, Education, Missions, Publishing, Sunday School, Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans; Woman's Missions, see departments of.

Conversation, uncharitable, General Rule, 30.

Corner Stone laying, 305.

Council, Federal, Churches of Christ in America, 357.

=Course of Study=, local preachers, 361; traveling preachers, 362.

Court of Appeals, 150.

=Credentials=, Elders and deacons, deprivation of, 158:1; restoration of, 158:2; local deacons and elders, deprivation of, 159:1; restoration of, 159:2.

Cross Bearing, General Rule, 32.

Cup of the Lord, Article, 24.

Dancing, 147:2.

Day of the Lord, not to be profaned, General Rule, 30.

=Deacons=, how constituted, 86:1; missionary rule, 87; qualifications, 82:2; duties of, 87:3; local preachers, 99:2; ritual of ordination, 317.

=Decision=, Episcopal, 72; Presiding Elder, 76:5.

Deed of settlement, 170.

=Delegates=, General Conference, clerical and lay, 37; restrictive rule, 40-42; laymen to Annual Conference, 43:1-3; 56:3; laymen to District Conference, 55:2.

Deprivation and restoration of Credentials, 158.

Diligence and frugality, General Rule, 32.

Directions to preachers, 84.

Directory, to be kept by pastors, 79:10.

Disputes, how settled, 148.

Dissension, sowing of, 147:3.

Districts, Annual Conference, 73:7; General conference, 74:12.

Division, transfer, and sale of church property, 172.

Divorced women, preachers not to marry, 59:6.

=Doctrines of the church=, 15; contrary one not to be disseminated, 138:4; 143;4.

Dress, General Rule, 30.

Drunkenness, General Rule, 30.

Eastern Index, 237.

=Editors=, Christian Index, 188:5; duty of, 191:5; salary of, 191:2; Eastern & Western Index, 188:6; salary, 192:3.

=Education=, Board of, 358; constitution of, 214; General Secretary, 218; salary, 219:8; meetings, 216:4; revenue, how derived, 220:9; vacancies in, 217:3; Annual Conference Board, 220:10; educational standards, 221.

=Elders=, how constituted, 87:1; qualifications, 88; duties, 89:3; local, 99; restoration of credentials, 158:2; 159:2; ritual of ordination, 324.

=Election of=, Bishops, 69:1; general officers, see constitutions of departments; delegates to General Conference, 37:1-2; to Annual Conference, 56:3; to Orders, 46; 47:9-16; 86.

Enabling Act, 44.

Episcopacy: see Bishops.

Episcopal decisions, how guarded, 72.

=Epworth League=, object of, 209:2; departments of, 209:3; boards of, 210:4; duties of secretary, 212; revenue of department, 213:7; Annual Conference, District Conference, and local, chapters, 210.

Evil Speaking condemned, General Rule, 30.

=Examination= of, preachers, 51; 82.

Exhorters, license, 102:1; duties, 103:2; further directions, 103:3.

Extreme Unction, not a sacrament, 22.

Family and private prayer, 33.

Fasting and abstinence, 33; 78:4; 84:2.

Fighting, general rule, 30.

=Finance=, Joint Board of, how constituted, 184:2; duties of, 185; 53:9; Recording Steward, 186.

=Financial plan=, general assessment and division, 177:1-2; Board of Equalization, 177.

Founder's Day, 245.

Free Will, Article, 19.

Frugality, General Rule, 32.

Full Connection, 83.

=General Conference=, how composed, 37:1-2; delegates, clerical and lay, 37; voting by Orders, 38:3; time and place of meeting, 38:4; special session and delegates, 38; quorum, 39:8; presiding officer, 39:9; restrictions: cannot change articles of religion, 40:1; restrictive rule for election of delegates, 40:2; Episcopacy, not to be destroyed, 41:3; General Rules, not to be revoked or changed, 41:4; right of appeals, not to be destroyed, 41:5; how to change restrictive rules, 41; unconstitutional laws, 42.

=General Missionary Society=, members of, 193:2; authority of, 194:3; revenue, 194:4; General Missionary Day, 234:2; 195:5; the secretary and his duties, 196.

=General Rules=, 29; must be read by pastors, 78:3.

Ghost, the Holy, Article, 16.

God, Article, 15.

Gold, putting on, General Rule, 31.

Good doing, General Rule, 31.

Good works, Article, 20.

Goods, Christian man's, Article, 28.

Goods, not paid for, General Rule, 30.

Government, duty to, 27.

Grace, means of, 32; 116; 235.

Holy Ghost, Article, 16.

Holy Scriptures, Article, 17.

Hospital, 166:1.

Index, Christian, 187:4; Editor of, 188:5; 191:5; price of, 188:4.

Index, Eastern, 237; Editor of, 188; 236.

Index, Western, 236; Editor of, 188; 236.

Infant Baptism, Article on, 23; ritual for, 273.

=Institutions=, of learning, provisions concerning, 50:8; 214; 237; charitable, 166:1.

Investigation, see committees of.

=Joint Board of Finance=, how constituted, 184:2; duties of, 53:9; 185; recording Steward, 186.

Junior Stewards, 108:5.

Junior Stewardesses, 109:2.

Journal of Conferences, 53:7; 60:8.

Judicial administration, 129.

Justification, Article, 19.

Law, Bishops' decisions on, and appeal from, 72:5.

Law, Presiding Elders' decisions on, and appeal from, 76:5.

Law, going to, Rule, 30.

Laying Corner Stone, 305.

Lay delegates, 37:1; 43:2; 56:3.

Leaders, Class, 104:1.

Leaders' meeting, 235.

League, Epworth, see Epworth League.

Lessens in Public Worship, 116:1.

Local Deacon, 99:2.

Local Elder, 99:3.

Local Preachers, 98.

Locate preachers, 101:3.

Lord's Day, not to be profaned, General Rule, 30.

Lord's Prayer, in Public Worship, 116:1.

Lord's Supper, Article, 24; General Rule, 33.

Love Feasts, 120.

Magistrates, speaking evil of, 30.

Marriage of ministers, Article, 26; not to marry divorced women, 59.

Marriages to be recorded, 80:12.

Marriage performed by: deacon, 87:3; elder, 89:3.

Masses condemned, 25.

Matrimony, not a sacrament, Article, 22; ritual, 290.

Means of Grace, 32; 116; 235.

Meditation and prayer, 85:3.

=Members of the Church=, how received, 115; ritual, 285; removal, 81; trial, 144; appeal, 156.

Ministers of other churches, how received, 91.

=Ministers of the Gospel=, (pastors and preachers), members of annual conferences, 43:2; examination of, 51-52; duties of, 78-81; 121-122; deacons, 86; elders, 87; how appointed, 70:b; advice to, 84-86; trial of, 134; appeal of, 140; 150; unacceptable, 138; support of, 163; credentials, deprivation of, 158:1; restoration of, 158:2; ceasing to travel, 101:3.

Ministerial Court of Appeals, 150.

Ministerial Delegates, 37.

Ministers, speaking evil of, 30.

Ministry of the Word, 32.

=Ministry=, support of, pastors, 163; presiding elders, 163; bishops, 164.

Missionaries, provisions for, 197:7; 199:2.

Missionary on foreign fields admitted in full connection, 84:3.

Missionary Department, General, see General Missionary Department.

Missionary Board, Woman's, see Woman's Missionary Board.

Missionary Society, Woman's General, see Woman's General Missionary Society.

Neglect means of grace, 235.

Oath, Christian man's, Article, 28.

Obedience to civil authority, Article, 27.

Oblation of Christ, Article, 25.

Official Board, or Leaders' meeting, 235.

Old Testament, Article, 18.

Order of Public Worship, 116.

Orders, not a sacrament, 22.

=Orders=, deacons, 86; local, 99; Elders, 87; local, 100; examination necessary, 86-88.

Orders, voting by, 38.

=Ordination Ritual=, Deacons, 317; Elders, 324; Bishops, 339.

Original sin, Article, 18.

Orphans and widows of ministers, provisions for, 228.

Parsonages, building, 169; securing, 170; sale, 172.

Pastors, see ministers.

Pastoral Visitation, 79:10; 85.

Pelagianism, 18.

Penance, not a sacrament, 22.

Periodicals, 187:3; 224:3.

Poor, collections for, 106:2.

Post Office Addresses, 355.

=Prayer=, family, 33; public, 116; Lord's Prayer to be used, 116.

Prayer Meetings, 118.

Preachers in charge, duties of, 78.

Preachers, local, 98; on trial, 82:1.

Preachers from other churches, 91.

=Presiding Elders=, appointment, 71:2; duties, 75; support, 163; trial, 134.

Probationers for the Ministry, 82.

Public Worship, enjoined, 32; how conducted, 116.

=Publishing Department=, object of, 187:3; the Index, 188:4; management, 188:5; members of Board, 188:II; annual meeting, 189:II:3; Auditing Committee, 189:III; Agent, see Book Agent; editors, see Editors; publishing fund, 177; 182:7; surplus, 192:VI:1.

Punctuality, enjoined, 85:2.

Purgatory, 21.

=Quarterly Conference=, how composed, 57:1; time and place, 57:2; presiding officer, 57:3; business, 58-60; order of business, 60-63.

Quorum, 39:8; 189:3; 203:2.

Readmission, to Annual Conference, 46; 59:6.

Reading the Scriptures, 33.

=Reception= of members, into church, 115; on trial, 82:1; into ministry, 83.

=Recommendation=, to Annual Conference for admission on trial, 82:2; local deacon, 99:2; local elder, 99:3.

Recording Steward, 60; 109; 186:4.

=Records of=, membership, 80:12-13; Church Conference, 64:2; Quarterly Conference, 60:8; District Conference, 55:4; Annual Conference, 53:7; investigation: of Bishops, 130; of preachers, 135; trial of, local preachers, 145:4; members, 146:d.

Refusing to attend work, minister, 139:6.

Representation in General Conference, ratio of, 37:1.

Reproach of Christ, General Rule, 32.

Restoration of credentials, 158:2; 159:2.

Restrictive Rules, 40.

Resurrection of Christ, Article, 16.

Retired Bishops, 74:15; support of, 164:3; 179:2.

Riches, laying up, General Rule, 31.

Right of trial and appeal, 41.

Rites and ceremonies, Article, 26.

Ritual, 261.

Rulers of the United States, Article, 27.

Sabbath breaking, General Rule, 30.

Sacraments, 22.

Saints, not to be envoked, 21.

=Schools and Colleges=, 50:8; 214; 237; consent of conference necessary to build, 50:1.

=Scriptures=, canonical, 17; duty of searching, 33; sufficiency of, Article, 17; Testament, the old, Article, 18.

Secretary, general, see departments.

Securing churches and parsonages, 170.

Self denial and cross bearing, General Rule, 31.

Self indulgence, General Rule, 31.

Sick, visiting the, 85:3; 106:2; 320.

Sin original, Article, 18.

Singing, directions concerning, 118.

Slander forbidden, General Rule, 30.

Societies, see departments.

Softness, General Rule, 31.

Songs, rule against, improper, General Rule, 30.

Speaking in strange tongues, Article, 22.

Special or called session, General Conference, 39:6.

Spirituous liquors, General Rule, 30.

=Standing Committees=, Annual Conference, committees on Course of Study, 51.

Statistics, 53; 77:9; 81:15; 47.

Statistician, 53.

Stewards, 105; Junior, 108:5; Recording, 60; 109:6; 186:4.

Stewardesses, 109:7; Junior, 109:VII:2.

Study, Course of, 361.

=Sunday School=, 123; department of, 223; superintendent of, 59:7; 60; 123; object, 224:2; editor, 224-225; Sunday School Boards in Annual, District and Quarterly Conferences, 226:7; appointment of boards, 227:8; order of business, 228.

Superannuated Preachers, 47; 90; provisions for, 228.

=Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans=, object of, 228:1:2; Board of Directors, 229:3-5; Secretary-Treasurer, 229-230; funds of, 231:III:1-2; payment of superannuates, 231; claims of widows and orphans, 232:V:1-3; report from Joint Boards, 185, a-b; 233:I:4.

Supererogation, Article, 20.

Supernumerary preachers, 89.

=Support of ministry=: pastors, 163; presiding elders, 163; Bishops, 164.

=Suspension=, by a Bishop, 71:3; of a Bishop, 130; of a traveling preacher, 136.

Temper, improper, 147:2; 137:3.

Temperance, General Rule, 30.

Testament, the Old, see scriptures.

Time, profitable employment of, 85.

Tongues, speaking in unknown, Article, 22.

Tracts, 77; 224:3.

Transubstantiation, Article, 24.

Traveling preachers, see minister.

Treasure on earth, General Rule, 31.

Trial of those who think they should preach, 97.

=Trials=, right of guaranteed, 41:5; of a Bishop, 129; of a traveling preacher, 134; of a local preacher, 141; of a member, 145.

Triers of appeals, 150.

Trinity, Article 15.

Trustees of church property, 110.

Tunes, directions concerning, 118.

Unacceptable preachers, 138:5.

Unction, extreme, 22.

United Society, rise of, General Rule, 29.

Usury, General Rule, 30.

Vacancies, Joint Board, 184:2; in departments, see constitutions of.

Veto, 42.

Visiting from house to house, 85.

Voting, by orders, 38:3; two-third vote, 41.

=Widows and Orphans= of: preachers, 48; provisions for, 232; bishops, 165:6; 179:3.

Will, free, Article, 19.

Witness, see trials of members, preachers, etc.

Woman's General Missionary Society, 375.

=Woman's Home Missionary Society=, constitution of, 199; object of, 199:2; controlled by Annual Conference, 199:3; officers, 200:4; revenue, 200:5.

Word, the, Article, 15.

=Works=, good, Article, 20; supererogation, Article, 20.

=Worship=, attending, General Rule, 32; neglect of, 235; order of public, 116.

Year Book, 54.