the Faculty in each case, and the ministers of our Church residing in the place where the Institution is located, the Chairman of the District presiding, or, in his absence, the Dean of the Theological Faculty.

161. Standing in the Course of Study.

1. All probationers and candidates shall present to the District Meeting their certificates of standing in their course of study. The secretary shall announce and record how far the required course is completed for transmission of the information to the Annual Conference, and shall at once return the certificates to the probationers and candidates.

2. The Secretary of the Board of Examiners for Theological Faculties, when reporting the result of examinations shall specify the particular author studied, and if not the same as in the regular course for probationers on Circuits, shall designate for which author in that course such work is designed to be an equivalent.

3. In the case of probationers, the Secretary of the Faculty shall send a certificate of standing of each student at college to the Secretary of the Examining Board of the Conference concerned.

4. A certificate of a student's having passed in any subject in one of our Colleges shall be taken in lieu of an examination in such subject.

5. Candidates and probationers for our French, Indian and Foreign Work shall pursue the respective courses of study prescribed.

6. Graduates in Divinity shall be exempted from the ordinary course of study. In the case of probationers who,

by permission of the Conferences to which they belong, are pursuing the B.D. course in any of our Theological Colleges, the annual examination in such course of study shall be accepted instead of the annual examination in the regular course for any year. But prior to being recommended to be received into full Connexion and ordained, they shall be examined on Wesley's Sermons, the History of Methodism, Fletcher's Check V. (on Christian Perfection), Steele's Antinomianism, and the Discipline of the Methodist Church. This examination shall also be required of all probationers passing through our Theological Colleges, who have not been examined on these subjects in their course of study.

162.

Attendance at District Meeting.

1. Probationers attending college are not required to be present at the District Meeting to which they belong, except when eligible for recommendation for reception into full Connexion and ordination, but their names shall be called, and the reports from their College District Meeting shall be read, and their cases recommended to the Conference as the District Meeting shall determine.

2. Every probationer who has been recommended by the Annual District Meeting for reception into full Connexion shall attend the Conference of that year, except those laboring in distant Missions.

3. Probationers for the ministry appointed to attend College shall be responsible to such District Meeting as the Conference may determine, and shall be recommended by said District Meeting, from year to year, for continuance on trial, or for reception into full Connexion and ordina

tion; nevertheless, any such probationer who has been removed from College, by the proper authorities, to a Circuit or Mission, shall be a member of the District to which such Circuit or Mission belongs, and by its District Meeting shall his relation be considered and presented to Conference.

163. Sundry Regulations.

1. A probationer who marries without the consent of the Annual Conference shall be dropped in silence.

2. When a probationer's name is not inserted in the Minutes, he must receive a written license from the Presisident or Chairman of the District on which he resides.

3. If a probationer desist from want of health, or be proved guilty of immorality, it shall be stated in the Minutes. In all other cases his name shall be dropped in silence.

4. Any minister who has received aid from the Educational Society, and retires from our ministry, shall refund such amount to the Society before receiving a certificate of his standing.

5. When a probationer for the ministry on the List of Reserves has not been called out into the work in the course of the year, the Chairman of the District shall make inquiry of the Superintendent of the Circuit where he resides whether he be still deemed a proper person to be employed in our regular ministry, and the result shall be reported to the Annual District Meeting.

6. Observe: taking on trial is entirely different from admitting a probationer into full Connexion. One on trial may be either admitted or rejected without doing him any

wrong; otherwise it would have been no trial at all. Let every Chairman explain this to those on trial.

SECTION III.

Candidates for the Ministry.

164. The Chairmen are required not only to examine very minutely, in the Annual District Meetings, all persons proposed as candidates for our ministry, but also to report distinctly in their District Minutes, for the consideration of Conference, the opinion of the District Meetings after such examinations respecting their health, piety, moral character, ministerial abilities, educational acquirements, belief of our doctrines, attachment to our Discipline, and freedom from debt, as well as from all secular encumbrances.

165. Recommendation by Quarterly Official Board.

1. Before a District Meeting shall recommend a candidate to the Conference, to be admitted on probation, such candidate must have been a member of our Church for one year, and a local preacher in good standing for six months, and approved and recommended by the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit or Mission on which he resides. He must also have a certificate of having completed his Preliminary Course.

2. No student of less than two years' standing at one of our Connexional Institutions shall be received as a candidate for our ministry without the recommendation of the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit upon which he was

resident before entering College, together with a certificate of good moral and religious standing from the President of the College, or the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, with which he has been connected.

3. After passing the preliminary examination at College, students recommended by a Quarterly Official Board shall return to the District to which such Quarterly Official Board belongs for their further examination and recommendation to the Annual Conference.

166. District Meeting Examination.

1. Every candidate thus recommended shall attend the ensuing District Meeting, and be examined before all the brethren present respecting his religious experience, his knowledge of divine things, his educational acquirements, his reading, his views of the doctrines of the Gospel, and his regard for Methodism in general.

2. Every candidate proposed to the District Meeting is then to be asked by the Chairman the following questions, to each of which a distinct answer shall be required:

Have you been converted to God? Have you now faith in Christ? Are you going on to perfection? Do you expect to be made perfect in love in this life? Are you earnestly striving after it? Are you resolved to devote yourself wholly to God and His work? Have you been baptized? What are your views on Infant Baptism and the Lord's Supper? Do you know the Rules of the Society? Do you keep them? Do you take snuff, tobacco, or intoxicating drinks? And will you continue to abstain from the use of them? Have you read the whole Discipline? Are you willing to conform to it? Have you considered "the