reparation for elder's orders; and the fact of assing an approved examination on this course hall be stated in the recommendation, which shall e signed by the President and Secretary of the Conference. He shall present to the Annual Conerence such recommendation, with a note certifyng his belief in the doctrines and discipline of our Church, the whole being examined by the Annual Conference; and, if approved, he may be ordained: provided, that if he has been a local deacon for three years successively, and on trial in the traveling ministry one year next following, he shall be eligible to the office of an elder on obtaining the approbation of the Annual Conference.

Ques. 4. What further directions are given concerning local preachers?

175. Ans. 1. It shall be the duty of local preachers to aid the preacher in charge of the circuit, station, or mission, to which they belong, in supplying the people with the ministry of the word They shall accordingly be applied to by the preacher in charge, as soon as he enters on his work, to state what amount of service they are able and willing to perform; he may then draw up a plan by which their labors shall be regulated, and they shall be authorized to form new congregations, to take a list of the names of all candidates for Church membership, and, if expedient, receive

gregations, candidates, and members be rep as soon as possible, to the preacher in charg order that they may be placed immediately his pastoral care; and they shall report annua writing to the District Conference the exten result of their labors.

¶176. Ans. 2. Every local elder, deacon licentiate shall have his name recorded or journal of the Quarterly Conference of whi is a member.

¶ 177. Ans. 3. When any traveling preach located, he shall be amenable to the District ference of the District within the bounds of he last traveled, until he presents his certific location to some Quarterly Conference.

¶ 178. Ans. 4. When a local elder, deaco licentiate removes from one circuit, station, of sion to another, he shall procure from the P ing Elder of the District, or from the pre having charge, a certificate of his official sta in the Church at the time of his removal, wi which he shall not be received as a local pre in other places.

179. Ans. 5. A preacher receiving a certi of location or of official standing, and faili present the same to some Quarterly Confe within the period of six months from the d said certificate, shall not be recognized as a

erly Conference to which he may apply that the ailure to do so was unavoidable.

SECTION XII.

OF RECEIVING MINISTERS FROM OTHER CHURCHES.

Question. How shall we receive those ministers who may offer to unite with us from other Christian Churches?

¶ 180. Ans. 1. Ministers of other Churches, who may desire to unite with us as local preachers, may be received by a District Conference, upon giving satisfaction that they are suitable persons, and provided they stand an approved examination on the Course of Study prescribed for local preachers; but they shall not exercise the peculiar functions of deacons or elders until their orders are recognized by the Annual Conference: provided, that the Bishop may, at his discretion, allow ministers thus received to exercise their functions as deacons or elders until the session of the Annual Conference.

181. Ans. 2. After such reception, and a recommendation by the District Conference, the Annual Conference, if satisfied of their being in orders, and of their agreement with us in doctrine and discipline, and also of their gifts, grace, and usefulness, may recognize them accordingly, without the reimposition of hands, on the condition

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they cannot attend the Annual Conference, shall send up a certified subscription to our trines and discipline, and to our ordination vo

¶182. Ans. 3. Ministers of other Churches, accredited as ministers or elders, who may to unite with us as traveling preachers, may b mitted as deacons or elders into full connecti an Annual Conference: provided, that the Co ence is satisfied with their gifts, grace, and u ness, and their agreement with us in doctrin discipline, on the condition that they take them our ordination vows, without the rein tion of hands: provided, further, that all min except those who come to us from the Met Episcopal Church, the British Wesleyan Ch the Methodist Church of Canada, and the M dist Protestant Church, be required to pass th the Course of Study prescribed by our Bisho our undergraduates, and that their examinat approved by the various committees: and pro finally, that this paragraph shall not apply t preachers.

183. Ans. 4. When a minister has be ceived and recognized in orders, he shall b nished with a certificate signed by one Bishops, in the following words, viz.:

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e having been ordained to the office of a deacon or an elder, as the case may be], according to the sages of the Church, of which he has been a nember and minister; and he is hereby authorized o exercise the functions pertaining to his office in he Methodist Episcopal Church, South, so long as his life and conversation are such as become the gospel of Christ.

Given under my hand and seal, at in the year of our Lord

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this

SECTION XIII.

OF EXHORTERS.

Question 1. What directions are given concerning the licensing of persons to exhort?

་། 184. Ans. 1. The Quarterly Conference shall have authority to license proper persons to exhort, and to renew their licenses annually, when, in its judgment, their gifts, grace, and usefulness will warrant it.

¶185. Ans. 2. No person shall be licensed to exhort without the recommendation of the Church of which he is a member, or of the leader's meeting of the charge to which he belongs; nor shall any license be valid unless signed by the President of the Conference.

Ques. 2. What are the duties of an exhorter?

186. Ans. To hold meetings for prayer and