Christian Guardian, and an Editor of the Canadian Methodist Magazine and Sabbath School Periodicals, under the direction of the Western Section of the Book Committee; and an Editor who shall have the editorial management of the Wesleyan, under the direction of the Eastern Section of the Book Committee.

35%. It shall be the duty of the Editors to make their respective periodicals soundly Scriptural and instructive, and to put forth all reasonable efforts to render them the means of promoting right views on social, moral and religious questions, and of stimulating the zeal of our people in supporting all our Connexional enterprises.

358. They shall likewise carefully supervise the printing of all books and periodicals published at the respective Book Rooms; and it is required that in all matters respecting the publication of the periodicals, the Book Stewards and Editors shall act in harmony.

359. The Book Stewards and Editors elected by the General Conference shall hold office for four years from the time of their election, or from one General Conference to another, and shall be eligible for re-election; but they shall continue in office, after the appointment of their successors, till the meeting of the Annual Conferences to which they belong.

CHAPTER II.

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

SECTION I.

THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

I. Name.

360. This Society shall be known as The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church."

II. Object.

361. The object of the Society is the support and enlargement of the Indian, French, Domestic, Foreign and other Missions, which are carried on under the direction of the General Board and the Conferences of the Methodist Church.

III. Members.

362. Every person paying annually the sum of Five Dollars and upward, and every person collecting annually Ten Dollars and upward for this Society, shall be deemed a member, and entitled to a copy of the Annual Report.

IV. Auxiliary and Branch Societies.

363. The Methodist Missionary Societies within the bounds of any Annual Conference shall collectively be

entitled "The Auxiliary Missionary Society" of that Conference, and severally shall be entitled "Branch Societies." of such Auxiliary. Every Sunday School shall be a Branch of the Conference Auxiliary. Epworth Leagues or other Young People's Associations may form Missionary Societies among their members as branches of the Conference Auxiliary, and students in colleges may organize as elsewhere provided.

V. Treasurers.

364. Each Annual Conference may appoint a Treasurer, through whom all remittances to or from the General Treasurers may be sent. In case any Annual Conference does not make such an appointment, then all remittances to and from the Mission Rooms shall be made through the Chairman of Districts of such Conference.

The Chairman of the District shall be ex officio the Treasurer of all missionary money collected on his District. The Superintendent of a Circuit or Mission shall be Treasurer of the Branch Society of his Circuit or Mission; but the Missionary Committee of the Circuit, or the Quarterly Board, if there be no Missionary Committee, may, at the request of the Superintendent and on his nomination, appoint a local Missionary Treasurer.

VI. Remittances.

365. The money raised on any Circuit or Mission shall be transmitted, as soon as collected, to the Chairman of the District, deducting only what has been disbursed for incidental and local expenses; and the District Chairman

shall, in turn, remit promptly to the General Treasurer, through the Conference Treasurer, or directly, if there be no Conference Treasurer.

VII. Circuit Lists.

366. The Superintendent of each Circuit or Mission shall prepare annually, not later than the first day of the Annual District Meeting, a list of all subscribers of Two Dollars and upward, also the aggregate of all collections and sums under Two Dollars; such lists to be sent without delay to the Conference Treasurer or the Chairman of the District, who shall immediately forward them to the Mission Rooms, together with a statement of the gross receipts, local disbursements and remittances.

VIII. The General Board.

367. 1. There shall be a General Missionary Board for the management of the Missionary Fund, which shall meet annually at such time and place as it may appoint.

2. The General Board shall be composed of the General Superintendent, the officers of the Society, one minister and one layman from each Annual Conference, elected by ballot by the ministers and laymen of the Annual Conference voting separately, except that the Newfoundland and British Columbia Conferences shall be entitled to only one representative each, a minister or a layman, as the Conference may determine, to be elected by the joint vote of ministers and laymen, together with twelve other persons appointed by the General Conference, who shall continue in

office four years; the Japan Conference to have such representation as is otherwise provided for.

3. The Mission Conference of each Foreign Mission shall have the right to elect one of its members as a representative to the General Board as often as this can be done without incurring the necessity of a journey home for that purpose, or at any time when the General Board or Executive Committee shall authorize such action.

4. The duties and powers of the Board shall be to review the missionary field of the Church at home and abroad; apportion the Missionary funds to the various Conferences or other departments of the work; authorize the erection of mission houses, churches or buildings for educational purposes on other than home missions, and provide for the cost of the same when necessary; select through its responsible officers (after consultation and agreement with Annual Conference authorities), missionaries for the Indian and Chinese work, and fix annually the stipends and other allowances for the same; select and appoint missionaries for the foreign fields, and fix a scale of stipends and other allowances for missionaries on each of such foreign fields, such scales to be subject to revision by the General Board at any of its annual sessions; grant furloughs to the missionaries in the foreign field when deemed expedient, or recall them permanently if considered necessary; decide when and where new Missions may be opened in the Indian, French, Chinese or foreign fields; select and appoint teachers for our Mission schools, and fix their stipends; select and appoint Principals for the various Indian or other Institutes, and fix their stipends; take