its receipts and disbursements, and such other items as may be of general interest, and at such time and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the General Board; (5) it shall coöperate with the General Board in raising special Loan Funds, to be administered by the General Board according to its regulations for the benefit of the particular section in which such funds are requested by the District Board concerned: provided, that the District Board shall have the right of appropriation. A District Board shall file a copy of its Charter, Constitution, and By-Laws with the General and Conference Boards of Church Extension.

SECTION IV

SUNDRY PROVISIONS

$499. ART. XIV. With the consent of the Annual Conference and the Bishop in charge any Annual Conference, City, or District Board of Church Extension may employ a Secretary to give all or part of his time to the interests of the Board in the territory represented by it.

Whenever practicable, these auxiliary organizations shall establish Loan Funds, which shall be administered through the office of the Board of Church Extension in the interest of church building within the Annual Conference,

city, or Presiding Elder's District represented. The interest earned by such Loan Funds may be used, as donations, to assist needy congregations in building churches, if so desired, and the principal loaned within the territory represented, if there be demand for it, and the security be approved by the Board of Church Extension.

¶500. ART. XV. Presiding Elders shall bring the subject of Church Extension prominently before the District and Quarterly Conferences and see that the most efficient plans are adopted for raising the amounts apportioned to each charge; and the Bishops shall call for a report of the Annual Conference Board in the regular order of Conference proceedings, and direct attention to the subject.

¶501. ART. XVI. The Conference Board may elect a committee, one of whom may be the President of the Conference Board, which, together with a like committee of the Conference Sunday School Board, shall constitute a Joint Committee on Architecture, whose duties it shall be to promote the standards of Sunday school and church architecture provided by the Joint Committee on Architecture from the General Sunday School Board and the Board of Church Extension.

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CHAPTER XVII

BOARD OF TEMPERANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICE

SECTION I

OF THE EVIL OF INTEMPERANCE

Question. What shall be done for the extirpation of the great evil of intemperance?

¶502. Ans. 1. Let all our preachers and members faithfully observe our General Rule which forbids "drunkenness, or drinking spirituous liquors unless in cases of necessity."

¶503. Ans. 2. In cases of drunkenness let the Discipline be administered as in case of immorality; drunkenness being a crime expressly forbidden in the word of God. In cases of drinking, except of necessity, let the Discipline be administered as for imprudent or improper conduct.

9504. Ans. 3. Let all our preachers and members abstain from the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage, from signing petitions for their sale, from becoming bondsmen for any person as a condition for obtaining a license, from acting as a dispenser or voluntarily accepting an appointment or election as such under the laws of any State in which there is a dispensary law authorizing the sale of

intoxicating liquors by the State, county, or municipality, and from renting property to be used for such sale. If any member shall violate any of the provisions of this paragraph, he shall be deemed guilty of immorality: nevertheless, in the case of a member who shall sign a petition for such sale, or shall become a bondsman for any person engaged in such traffic, or shall rent property to be used for such sale, or shall act as a dispenser or voluntarily accept election or appointment to any office created for the purpose of selling or dispensing intoxicating liquors on behalf of the State, county, or municipality, it shall be the duty of the pastor to deal with the offender as provided for in ¶290. This paragraph shall not apply to persons who are acting under instructions or decrees of any court, or who are acting as officers, of the law otherwise than as voluntary dispensers.

SECTION II

GENERAL BOARD OF TEMPERANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICE

¶505. There shall be a Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to be composed of seventeen members: one Bishop, five traveling preachers, five lay members (at least one of whom shall be a woman) who shall be nominated by the Committee on Temperance and Social Service,

and elected by the General Conference, together with the General Secretary of the Board, the Sunday School Editor, the General Secretary of the Epworth League Board, the General Secretary of the Board of Lay Activities, the General Secretary of the Board of Missions, or one person whom each shall designate to represent him; and the Superintendent of Social Service of the Woman's Missionary Council.

¶506. At the call of the Bishop who is a member, or at the call of three members, the Board shall assemble for organization within sixty days after its election by the General Conference. It shall organize by the election of a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other officers as it deems necessary. It shall appoint such standing committees as are needed. The Board shall meet annually at such time and place as it may designate, and at such other times as the Board may determine. It shall choose the place of its headquarters.

507. For the ensuing quadrennium the General Secretary shall be elected by the Board, and thereafter by the General Conference. He shall be the executive officer of the Board and see that its plans are faithfully carried out. The Board shall elect such assistants as are necessary for its work. It shall fill