SECTION IX. SUSTENTATION FUND. 489. Each of the Annual Conferences may have a Sustation Fund. The government of such fund, and also › full control and management of its income, shall be left tirely with the several Annual Conferences. 490. The object of this fund shall be to secure salaries of t less than $750 for ordained married ministers; $400 for lained unmarried ministers, and $350 for probationers. SECTION X. TEMPERANCE WORK. 191. There shall be a Standing Committee on Tempere, Prohibition and Moral Reform, appointed by the neral Conference, and divided into groups representing erent sections of the Dominion of Canada and Newndland. It shall be the duty of the several groups to rd the interest of the temperance reform within their pective jurisdictions under the principles laid down by General Conference; and it shall be the duty of the ire Standing Committee to lend them all possible aid, I to promote the temperance reformation and all moral >rms by all proper means throughout the Dominion. 192. A public Temperance Meeting shall be held annu7 on each of our Circuits and Missions at the discretion of the superintendent minister, at which a sermon on temperance or addresses on that subject shall be delivered, and a collection taken to defray the expenses of our temperance work. This may be done on a Sunday set apart for that purpose, to be called Temperance Sunday. The collections are to be forwarded to the Financial Secretary, and by him to the Treasurer of the General Conference Standing Committee. 493. The question of Temperance shall be made the subject of exhortation and prayer, as may be profitable or necessary in our week-evening services. THE RITUAL. T494 I. ORDER OF BAPTISM. 494. 1. THE MINISTRATION OF BAPTISM TO INFANTS. The Minister coming to the font, which is to be filled with pure water, shall use the following, or some other exhortation suitable to this sacred office. DEARLY BELOVED: Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in sin, and that our Saviour Christ saith, "Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God;" I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that having, of His bounteous mercy, redeemed this child by the blood of His Son, He will grant that he, being baptized with water, may also be baptized with the Holy Ghost, be received into Christ's Holy Church, and become a lively member of the same. Then shall the Minister say,-Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, who of Thy great mercy didst save Noah and his family in the ark from perishing by water; and also didst safely lead the children of Israel, Thy people, through the Red Sea, figuring thereby Thy |