member from each Presiding Elder's District, and to continue in office four years.

¶ 68. Ans. 10. Let every Annual Conference, at its first session after each General Conference, appoint a Board on Lay Activities, to consist of the Conference Lay Leader, who shall be chairman of the Board, and the District Lay Leader from each Presiding Elder's District. The duties of this Board to consist of considering plans for the better support of the ministry, the larger activity of the laymen in evangelistic work, and cooperation with the other Conference Boards in executing their plans for larger service in all Church work.

SECTION III.

OF THE DISTRICT CONFERENCES.

Question. What directions are given concerning the District Conferences?

¶ 69. Ans. 1. There shall be held annually, in each Presiding Elder's District, a District Conference. The time shall be fixed by the Presiding Elder, and the place by the Conference; but should it become necessary, from any unforeseen cause, to change the place after it has been fixed by the Conference, the Presiding Elder shall have power to make the change.

traveling and local, including supera preachers (whether resident without or wi limits of the Annual Conferences to whi belong), the District Lay Leader, the Cha Leaders, and other laymen, the number of and their mode of appointment, each Annu ference may determine for itself.

¶ 71. Ans. 3. A Bishop, or, in his abse Presiding Elder, shall preside; and if absent, the Conference shall elect a Presid

72. Ans. 4. The Conference shall eled retary, who shall keep a record of all its ings.

¶73. Ans. 5. It shall be the duty of t ference to inquire particularly into the c of the several charges in the District:

(1) As to their spiritual state, and the ance upon the ordinances and social mee the Church.

(2) As to missions within the District new ones should be established, and what 1 should be raised to circuits or stations; ar the condition and work of the Woman's Missionary Society, and the Woman's Ho sion Society, within the several charges in rict.

(3) As to Sunday schools, and the ma

Society within the District, and also as to whether collections have been taken in all the charges for this society.

(5) As to their financial systems, and contributions to Church purposes; and as to the condition of houses of worship and parsonages, and the necessity for new ones.

(6) As to the manner in which the records of the Quarterly Conferences have been kept.

(7) As to Epworth Leagues, their number and general condition.

(8) As to ministerial supply and training, whether there are any candidates for the ministry and what is being done to aid them in their preparation therefor.

(9) As to lay activities and what the Committee on Lay Activities is doing in the bounds of the District.

¶74. Ans. 6. The District Conference shall elect annually, by ballot, from the District, four delegates to the ensuing Annual Conference: provided, that no member of the Annual Conference shall vote in said election.

75. Ans. 7. At these Conferences prominence shall be given to religious exercises, such as preaching, prayer meetings, love feasts, and the administration of the sacraments.

76. Ans. 8. The District Conference shall

those who are called of God to the ministry their fitness for this work, and to aid them preparation therefor; it shall license prop sons to preach, when, in its judgment, the grace, and usefulness will warrant; it sh cognizance of all the local preachers wit District, and annually inquire, by comm otherwise, as to their development in C life, their progress in literary and the studies, and their success in Christian wor when satisfied as to their fitness, shall ren licenses on application for the same. All license shall be by ballot.

77. Ans. 9. The District Conferen recommend suitable candidates to the Annu ference for deacon's or elder's orders in t connection, and for admission on trial, mission, into the traveling connection: p that no person shall be recommended to nual Conference for admission on trial or dination without first passing before a co of three, to be appointed by the Presiding an approved examination in the Course o prescribed by the Bishops for such can All votes to recommend preachers for ad on trial, or for readmission, into the travel nection, or for deacon's or elder's orders,

of any force after the session of the Annual Conference next following the grant of such recommendation.

T78. Ans. 10. The District Conference shall elect annually, on nomination of the Presiding Elder, a Licensing Committee of six or four, of which the Presiding Elder shall be a member and chairman. They shall serve until the ensuing Annual Conference, and, in cases of absolute necessity, shall have the power, by unanimous vote, on thorough examination on the prescribed Course of Study, to license proper and duly recommended persons to preach, and to recommend proper persons to the Annual Conference for admission on trial and for readmission. In cases where it is clearly impossible for the applicant to reach the District Conference, the Presiding Elder may examine him and report to the Conference.

79. Ans. 11. Before the ballot for the license of an applicant is taken, either in the District Conference or Licensing Committee, he shall be urged to abstain from the use of tobacco for reasons, at least, of ministerial prudence. See ¶ 148.

80. Who is elected District Lay Leader, and who constitute the Committee on Lay Activities? (Let this committee be composed of the District Lay Leader, who shall be chairman, and the Charge