office vacant. The Board shall have authority to fill any vacancy in the Editorship or General Secretaryship occurring during the interval of General Conferences.

4371. The Board shall appoint or elect a Committee of Five on Religious Education, which, together with a like committee from the Board of Education, shall constitute a Joint Committee on Religious Education, whose duty it shall be to promote the work of specific religious instruction and training for religious leadership in the educational institutions of the Church and other institutions of learning.

¶372. The Board shall elect five persons, who, together with five representatives elected by the Board of Church Extension, shall constitute a Joint Committee on Sunday School Architecture. This committee shall have authority to prepare standards for Sunday school architecture for the Church and to recommend such standards to the coöperating Boards. The committee shall also be authorized, under such provisions as the Boards may agree upon, to, offer advice and guidance to the Church in the erection of Sunday school buildings.

9373. For the purpose of developing the members of our Sunday schools in Christian character and training them for Christian service through intelligently directed religious activity, the Board shall promote the organi

zation and enrollment of Adult, Young People's, Senior, and Intermediate Wesley Classes.

9374. For the inspiration, instruction, and training of our Wesley Class officers and leaders and in order to encourage mutual fellowship and coöperation between Wesley Classes, the Board shall aid Conference Sunday School Boards in promoting the organization of Charge, City, District, and Conference Wesley Class Federations: When it is deemed best, the annual meeting of the Conference Wesley Class Federation shall be held in connection with the Sunday School Conference of the Annual Conference.

¶375. In order that the Sunday school workers of the Annual Conference may take counsel together for united effort, the Board shall cooperate with Conference Sunday School Boards in promoting the holding annually in each Conference of a Conference-wide meeting to be known as the Sunday School Conference of the Annual Conference. This Conference may elect such officers and provide such organization in harmony with the plans of the General Sunday School Board as the Conference Sunday School Board may determine.

¶376. The funds of the Board shall be raised (a) through an assessment laid by the General Conference; (b) through such a percentage of missionary offerings raised in the Sunday school

as shall be agreed upon after mutual conference between the Sunday School Board and the Board of Missions; (c) through such specials taken in the Sunday school for support of Sunday school work in mission fields as shall be arranged jointly by the Sunday School Board and Board of Missions, and for such other objects as may be selected by the Board in its own field of work; and (d) through gifts and bequests.

¶377. The Board may, at its discretion, elect such Field Secretaries as the needs of the work may require, who shall travel in such territory and under such supervision as the Board may determine, for the promotion of any phases of Sunday school work that may be assigned to them by the General Board.

SECTION II.

THE CONFERENCE SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD.

¶378. Each Annual Conference, at the session next succeeding the General Conference, shall elect for the quadrennium a Conference Sunday School Board composed of one lay member from each district and an equal number of traveling preachers, the preachers to be selected without regard to district lines; provided, however, that no Conference shall have a Board of less than six members, composed of equal num

bers of lay members and preachers. (¶¶645, 646.) The members of this Board should be selected on the basis of their knowledge of Sunday school work and their efficiency. Vacancies in the Board shall be filled by the Conference. Two consecutive unexcused absences from the sessions shall cancel membership in the Board. Under the provisions of this chapter and in harmony with the policies of the General Sunday School Board, the Conference Board shall have power to determine the scope of its operations.

$379. The Board shall organize by the election of a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee; provided, that a majority of members shall be present at the organization meeting. Meetings

of the Board shall be held annually during the sessions of the Conference, but a meeting may be called at any time by the Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee shall transact the business of the Board between its meetings, but its actions shall be subject to the approval of the Board. The Committee shall, if practicable, meet quarterly, but may be called together at any time by the Chairman. The Chairman of the Board shall be a member of the Executive Committee and shall be its chairman. A majority of the committee shall constitute a quorum.

¶380. The Board is authorized, with the consent of the Conference, to employ an Executive Secretary, who shall be the Conference Superintendent of Sunday school work. He shall have general supervision of the work. committed to the Board, under such regulation as the Board may adopt, and shall direct and supervise the work of all its workers. He shall make quarterly reports to the Executive Committee and an annual report to the Board, and do such other work as the Board shall direct. The Board is authorized, on recommendation. of the Chairman and the Conference Superintendent, to employ any other workers deemed necessary. Funds to meet the expenses of the Board shall be provided (a) through the regular Conference budget, (b) through Sunday School Day offerings, and (c) through such other channels as the Board may find available.

¶381. The duties of the Board shall be as follows:

1. To have general oversight of the Sunday school work of the Conference, including allied. weekday religious instruction.

2. To promote the organization and development of new Sunday schools and to assist needy schools in securing proper literature and supplies.

3. To promote evangelism through instruc