§ 4. To preside in the District Conference in the absence of a Bishop. ¶ 90.

§ 5. To be present, as far as practicable, at all the Quarterly Meetings, especially at the first and fourth, and at each to call together the Quarterly Conference to transact the business assigned to it by the Discipline. 97.

§ 6. To issue Licenses and to renew them, in accordance with the action of the District or Quarterly Conferences. ¶ 197.

§ 7. To oversee the spiritual and temporal business of the Church in his District.

§ 8. To see that all Charters, Deeds, and other Conveyances of Church property in his District conform strictly to the laws, usages, and forms of the State or Territory within which such property is situated, and also to the Discipline.

§ 9. To see that all Church property is well insured.

§ 10 To promote by all proper means the interests of Missions (¶¶ 366, 367), Church Extension (¶ 401), Education (T 338), Sunday Schools ( 348), Epworth Leagues (340), and Ladies' Aid Societies (350); to observe the rules of the Church on these and other benevolent causes, and to secure conformity thereto by both Pastors and Quarterly Confer-ences; and to report in open Conference whether the provisions of the Discipline for the support of the various benevolences of the Church have been carried out in his District.

§ 11. To inquire carefully in every Charge whether the apportionment for the Episcopal Fund has been paid in accordance with the provision of the Discipline.¶288.

§ 12. To inquire carefully in every Charge whether the apportionments for the expenses of the General Conference have been paid.

§ 13. To report to the Annual Conference the condition and statistics of the literary and theological institutions located in his District, and under the care of our Church: and to ask at the last Quarterly Conference of each Charge the questions set forth in ¶ 338.

§ 14. To carefully inquire at each Quarterly Conference whether the rules respecting the instruction of children have been faithfully observed; and to report to the Annual Conference the names of all Pastors within his District who have not observed these rules.[[53,349.

§ 15. To take care that every part of our Discipline be enforced in his District.

§ 16. To decide all Questions of Law involved in proceedings pending in a District or Quarterly Conference, subject to an appeal to the President of the next Annual Conférence; but in all cases the application of law shall be with the Conference. ¶ 229.

§ 17. To attend the Bishop when present in his District, and to give him by letter, when absent, all necessary information of the state of his District.

§ 18. To furnish the Member of the General Missionary Committee for his General Conference District, prior to the annual meeting of that Committee, a written statement of the condition of the Missions under his care, and of their pecuniary needs.

§ 19. To direct the attention of candidates for the Ministry to the advantages of a thorough training in the literary and theological schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also to direct those who are

admitted on Trial to the Course of Study prescribed by the Bishops.

§ 20. To explain to Preachers on Trial, as well as to those who are to be proposed for Trial, that the Annual Conference may refuse to admit them to Full Membership without doing them any wróng.

¶ 191. If any Pastor absent himself from his Charge the Presiding Elder shall, as far as possible, fill his place with another Preacher, who shall be paid for his labors out of the allowance of the absent Pastor, and in proportion thereto.

¶ 192. A Presiding Elder shall not employ a Preacher who has been rejected by the previous Annual Conference, unless the Conference give him authority.

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CHAPTER VIII.

PASTORS. (Preachers in Charge.)

193 The duties of the Pastor of a Station or Circuit are:

§ 1. To have the oversight of the other Preachers in his Pastoral Charge.

§ 2. To appoint all the Leaders; to change them when he deems it necessary; and to examine each of them, with all possible exactness, at least once a quarter, concerning his method of leading a Class.

§ 3. To receive persons on Probation, and into Full Membership after Probation; to receive and dismiss Members by Certificate; and to administer the Discipline within his Charge.

§ 4. To read and explain the General Rules at least once a year in every Congregation.

§ 5. To enforce vigorously but calmly the rules of the Church.

§ 6. To appoint Prayer Meetings wherever advisable in his Charge.

§ 7. To arrange the appointments, wherever practicable, so as to give the Local Preachers regular and systematic employment on the Sabbath.

§ 8. To license such persons as he may deem proper to officiate as Exhorters in the Church, according to the provisions of the Discipline. ¶ 203.

§ 9. To hold Watch-night Meetings yearly, and Love Feasts quarterly; suffering no Love Feast to last above an hour and a half; to hold Quarterly Meetings in the absence of the Presiding Elder, and of the Traveling Elder appointed by him as his substitute.

§ 10. To take care that every Society be supplied with our Church literature.

§ 11. To form Classes of the larger children, youth, and adults for instruction in the word of God; and to attend to all the duties prescribed for the training of children. ¶¶ 53, 349.

§ 12. To catechise the children publicly in the Sunday School, and at special meetings appointed for that purpose, and also privately; to report to each Quarterly Conference the extent to which he has done this work.

§ 13. To organize, if possible, and to maintain, if practicable, Chapters of the Epworth League... § 14. To organize and maintain, if practicable, Ladies' Aid Societies.

§ 15. To examine the accounts of the Stewards.

16. To see that the Stewards provide whenever practicable unfermented wine for use in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

§ 17. To appoint a person to receive the quarterly collection in the Classes.

§ 18. To see that public collections be made quarterly, if need be.

§ 19. To call the Committee on Temperance together at least once in three months for the purpose of considering the best means to be employed for promoting the cause of Temperance in the community. § 20. To recommend everywhere decency and cleanliness.

§ 21. To attend to all the duties enjoined upon Pastors in reference to Education, Sunday Schools and the Sunday School Union, Missions, Church Extension, the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, and the distribution of Tracts, forming societies and taking collections to aid these objects in such manner as the Discipline shall from time to time direct.

§ 22. To take a collection or subscription, if the Annual Conference shall not give other directions on the subject, the proceeds of which shall be at the disposal of the Pastor for the distribution of Tracts.

§ 23. To take an annual collection in behalf of the American Bible Society.

§ 24. To take a collection previous to the session of each General Conference to aid in defraying the expenses thereof; and the sums so collected shall be brought up by the Delegation to the General Conference, and applied to the object above specified in proportion to the expenses of the several Delegates.

§ 25. To take an annual collection in behalf of the Sunday School Union, and to see that the collection ordered by ¶ 346, § 4, be taken annually in each Sunday School.