from the use of tobacco in all its forms; and use no spirituous liquors.

Remember, it is your imperious duty, not to preach yourself, but Christ crucified, the great sacrifice for sin, and the only Saviour of the world. We "charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead, at his appear ing; preach the word: be instant, in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and doctrine."

ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT.

See the Constitution, Article xi. page 27.

1. The president shall have the preference of the pulpit in every place he may visit. He shall, in conjunction with the superintendent and the senior unstationed minister present, (that is, he who has longest exercised the ministerial office) regulate all the appointments for preaching at quarterly meetings, campmeetings, and protracted meetings; and shall perform a due proportion of the ministerial labour. In the absence of the president, the superintendent in conjunction with the senior unstationed minister present, shall make the appointments for preaching.

2. He shall see that every superintendent in the district duly enters upon, and continues n the faithful discharge of all his official duties.

3. When a president makes an exchange of a minister or preacher from one circuit or sta tion to another, it shall be his duty to give him a written certificate of said change; which shall be his only passport to the new appointment. He shall also give a certificate of employment to ministers, preachers, and missionaries, whom he may employ, in the recess of the conference, without which no minister, preacher, or missionary shall be recognized as regularly appointed.

4. When any president of a frontier district, from his own experience and observation, and the counsel and advice of others, shall be convinced that the work is so extended toward the frontiers of the settlements, as to make a division of said district necessary, he may communicate a statement of the facts to one or more annual conferences that may meet previously to the one of which he is president, and request of them permission or consent to divide said district, and the consent of any one conference, so applied to, shall authorize his annual conference to divide the district, if they judge proper, without making any subsequent application to any other annual conference.

DUTIES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.

See the Constitution, Article xi.

1. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of a circuit or station, to fill the pulpits or have them filled, in accordance with the regulations of the annual and quarterly conferences, except where otherwise provided for by the discipline; and to administer the ordinances, assisted by his brethren in the ministry.

2. To receive persons on probation, and execute discipline.

3. To visit all the classes, at least once a quarter, if practicable; and see that they are duly and properly met by their respective leaders; and that the members regularly attend their classes. And to hold an election, within the last quarter, in each conference year, of a class leader, in each class of his circuit or station: but should any class refuse or neglect to elect, the superintendent shall then appoint a leader for said class.

4. To give due notice, from all the pulpits in his circuit or station, of the time and place of holding the ensuing quarterly conference.

5. To hold love feasts, general class meetings, and watch meetings, and appoint prayer meetings; to renew the tickets quarterly for the admission of members into love feasts and to give notes to serious persons who desire to be present; to see that suitable door keepers be appointed to prevent the ad mission of improper persons; to visit the sick the poor, the aged and infirm members, a

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well as those in health and better circumstances. No superintendent either of a circuit or station shall permit any love feast to be held as a public meeting, by allowing persons to come into it promiscuously; but shall use the best regulations he can to accomplish its design, as a meeting of religious confidence and edification. And he shall take the counsel and direction of the quarterly conference in regard to the most prudent methods of bringing love feasts under proper regulations according to discipline.

6. To detain the society occasionally, after preaching, for the purpose of giving them such advice and exhortation as may be requisite.

7. To organize the children of members in classes of moderate size, provided the parents or guardians of the children concur in the measure, and appoint suitable leaders, male or female; whose duty it shall be, to instruct them in the principles and precepts of the Christian religion.

8. To keep an exact record of all the members belonging to his station or circuit, and of the baptisms, and marriages; and report the same to the quarterly conference, and the numbers in society in his charge, to the annual conference.

9. To report, quarterly, when practicable, to the president, the state of his circuit or station; and, at the close of his year, to leave his successor a plan of the circuit.

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10. To give certificates to those who desire to remove to another station, circuit, or society. But no certificate shall be valid longer than six months after date, except unavoidable circumstances shall have put it out of the power of the holder to join within the above named period.

No superintendent shall withhold a certificate or testimonial from persons whose moral character stands fair. A suitable testimonial shall not be withheld from those who purpose to withdraw from the fellowship of the Methodist Protestant Church.

11. The superintendent shall have authority to cause his assistant minister or preacher to aid him in the discharge of all the above named duties; and also, if necessary, to employ other ministers, or official members of the circuit or station, to assist him.

DUTIES OF THE ASSISTANT MINISTER.

It shall be the duty of every assistant minister and preacher to preach statedly in all the appointments or preaching places in his circuit or station; to aid the superintendent, and to give him timely information of every occurrence that may come to his knowledge, with which the superintendent should be made acquainted