and be entered in a column among the Benevolent Collections in the Annual and General Minutes.

5. The provisions of § 4 of this paragraph (375) shall not be so interpreted as to prevent the Women from taking collections in meetings convened in the interests of their Societies; nor from securing memberships and life-memberships in audiences where their work is represented; nor from holding festivals or arranging lectures in the interests of their work.

WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

¶ 376. There shall be an organization known as the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which Society shall have authority to collect and disburse money, employ Missionaries, and do work among the neglected populations in the home field under the same Disciplinary rules and regulations as those which apply to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, except the requirements contained in §§ 2 and 3 of ¶ 375.

NATIONAL CITY EVANGELIZATION UNION.
1. National Union.

¶ 377. The National City Evangelization Union shall be composed of representatives from all the Local Organizations or Unions, by whatever name known, in the cities of the United States, working for City Evangelization and City Church Extension under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The object of the National Union is to promote the

efficiency of the Local Unions, to bring them into helpful and fraternal relations, to encourage the formation of similar Unions in all the cities, or in contiguous communities, where the Methodist Episcopal Church has three or more Pastoral Charges, and in general to keep before the Church its responsibility for the evangelization of the cities.

The Board of Managers shall consist of the officers of the Society and of thirty other Members, Laymen or Ministers, who shall be elected at such times as the Constitution of the National Union shall provide. The Bishops shall be ex officio members of the Board. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary elected by the National City Evangelization Union to conduct the correspondence of the Union, and in general to promote the interests of City Evangelization throughout the Church by the circulation of literature, the visitation of cities and Annual Conferences, and by such cooperation with the Local Unions as may be found practicable.

The National Union shall present to each General Conference a report, for the quadrennium next preceding, of its general condition and work, and of the receipts and expenditures of all the federated Unions.

2. Local Unions.

¶ 378. To promote City Evangelization and City Church Extension, it is recommended that in every city, or in contiguous communities, in the United States where the Methodist Episcopal Church has three or more Charges a Local Union be organized with such Board of Management as it shall determine. Every Pastor and Presiding Elder in the city, with the resident Bishop, if there be one, shall be

recognized as Members, and each Quarterly Conference shall be entitled to representation in the Union.

The scope of the work of the Local Union may, among other objects, include properly the planting of Churches and Sunday Schools, the aid of weak Churches, Missions to foreign populations, the transforming of downtown Churches into new centers with modern methods of service, the institution of Kindergartens and Industrial Schools, evangelistic, social, and Christian Settlement Work, conducting Rescue Missions and institutions for the relief of the destitute and the recovery of the outcast. A Local Union may also combine with its plans for evangelization methods for promoting the connectional social life of the several Churches.

§ 1. The Local Unions shall have authority, each in its own territory, to collect and disburse money for the object contemplated in its organization.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder whose District includes a city, or contiguous communities, with three or more Charges to use his influence to secure their organization into such a Union as is herein provided for, and he shall exercise special supervision over it until it shall make other provision for its superintendence. And he shall include in his annual report to the Conference the needs and conditions of such organization.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of each Pastor stationed within the territory included in the Charter or Constitution of any such Local Union approved by the Annual Conference to take up a collection annually for this cause and report the amount to the Annual Conference.

§ 4. The Annual Conferences are directed to take such friendly cognizance of the Local Unions within their bounds as may promote their efficiency and facilitate their work, and also to provide for publishing their tabulated reports in the Conference Minutes.

§ 5. The General Missionary Committee is requested to cooperate with the City Evangelization Union as far as may be found practicable.

CHAPTER VI.

CHURCH EXTENSION.

I. Parent Board.

379. There shall be a Board of Church Extension, consisting of thirty-two Ministers and thirtytwo Laymen, to be chosen by the General Conference, and to be duly incorporated according to law, with such powers and prerogatives as may be needful to the object of its appointment; said Board to be subject to the control of the General Conference. The Bishops shall be ex officio members of the Board.

380. The term of service of the members of the Board shall begin on the second Wednesday in June following their appointment, and continue during the ensuing four years, and until their successors shall be duly chosen and have entered upon their duties, unless otherwise ordered by the General Conference. If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, during the interval between the

sessions of the General Committee, the Board shall have power to fill the vacancy.

¶ 381. The Officers of the Board shall be a President, five Vice Presidents, one Corresponding Secretary, who shall be the executive officer of the Board, and a first Assistant Corresponding Secretary, with such additional Assistant Corresponding Secretaries as the General Committee of Church Extension may authorize and appoint, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Assistant Treasurer, all of whom shall be elected by the Board at the first regular meeting in November of each year, except as hereinafter provided.

¶ 382. The Corresponding Secretary and the first Assistant Corresponding Secretary shall be elected by the General Conference. They shall, under the provisions of the Discipline and the directions of the General Committee and of the Board, conduct its correspondence, and shall, in all their official conduct, be subject to the authority and control of the Board, by whom their salaries shall be fixed and paid. They shall be exclusively employed in conducting the affairs of the Board, and, under its direction, in promoting its general interest, by traveling or otherwise. Should a vacancy occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Board shall have power to provide for the duties of the office until the Bishops, or a majority of them, shall fill the vacancy.

¶ 383. An additional Assistant Corresponding Secretary, or more than one, may be appointed at any time by the General Committee, on the nomination of the Bishops; which Secretary or Secretaries shall receive such salary, and render such service, as the Board may determine.