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¶397. It shall be the duty of the preacher in charge to preach to children, to catechize them in the Sunday school and in public meetings appointed for that purpose, and to form classes wherever he can for the instruction of the larger children and youth in the Bible and in the doctrines and history of our Church; and where he cannot superintend them personally, to appoint suitable leaders for that purpose. In his pastoral visitation he shall pay special attention to the children and speak to them personally on experimental and practical godliness, according to their capacity.

¶398. It shall be the duty of the preacher in charge to see that a Committee on Missions and Social Service is appointed in each Sunday school, that one Sunday in each month is observed as Missionary and Social Service Day, and that an offering is taken on that day, in accordance with the provisions of ¶392, and to see that an annual installation service for Sunday school officers and teachers is held. It shall also be his duty to see that the third Sunday in April, or as near thereto as practicable, is observed in each Sunday school as Sunday School Day, and that an offering is taken, and to have it forwarded at once to the Treasurer of the Conference Sunday School Board.

$399. It shall be the duty of the preacher in charge to make a written report to each Quar

terly Conference on the number and state of Sunday schools, including information in regard to all phases of work provided for in the standards of the General Sunday School Board; and annually to the Conference Sunday School Board on blanks furnished by the Board, and to the Annual Conference on the following items: (1) Number of Sunday schools; (2) number of officers and teachers; (3) number on Cradle Roll; (4) number in Home Department; (5) number of members not included in (2), (3), and (4); (6) total enrollment, including (2), (3), (4), and (5); (7) average weekly attendance; (8) number of pupils uniting with Church during the year; (9) number of persons taking our training course; (10) number of Wesley Classes; (11) amount raised on Sunday School Day; (12) amount raised for missions during the year; (13) amount raised for all other purposes during the year; (14) total amount raised during the year.

SECTION V.

THE PRESIDING ELDER.

¶400. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to promote the Sunday school cause by aiding in the establishment of new schools, visiting the schools of his District as often as practicable, preaching on the religious training of children, and encouraging the holding of Sunday

School Conferences, Institutes, and Training Schools.

¶401. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to urge in his institutes, in his visitation to Sunday schools, and especially, under the missionary question in the Quarterly Conference, that every Sunday school in his District be organized for missions by appointing a Missionary Committee and observing Missionary Day and to see that Sunday School Day is observed in each congregation in his District.

¶402. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to see that the Quarterly Conference of each charge performs its duties as a Board of Managers of the Sunday Schools, to inquire at each Quarterly Conference whether the schools are organized according to the requirements of the Discipline and are supplied with our own books and periodical literature; whether the rule respecting the instruction of children has been faithfully observed, and to furnish to the Chairman of the Sunday School Board at each Annual Conference a complete list of the Sunday school superintendents of his District, with their post office addresses and the names of the charges and schools with which they are connected.

CHAPTER XIII.

EPWORTH LEAGUE BOARD.

SECTION I.

PURPOSES OF THE EPWORTH LEAGUE.

Question. What directions are given concerning the organization of our young people into societies under the control of the Church?

¶403. Ans. Let Epworth Leagues be organized in all our congregations for the cultivation of Christian fellowship among young people, the expression of their Christian experience in prayer, testimony, and exhortation; their instruction and training in personal evangelism; their training in Church life and teaching; their employment in works of charity and social service; their instruction in missionary ideals and principles, and their training in Christian stewardship; their direction to lives of service at home and abroad; and the supplying of their normal requirements of recreation and social life under the safeguards of religion and by the aid of courses of reading and study.

SECTION II.

THE GENERAL EPWORTH LEAGUE BOARD.

The purposes herein expressed shall be carried out by a Board and executive officers organized under the following Constitution:

¶404. The name of this organization shall be "The Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South."

¶405. The management of the Epworth League shall be vested in a Board of seventeen members, constituted as follows: There shall be seven clerical and seven lay members elected by the General Conference on nomination of the Committee on Epworth Leagues; the President of the Board (appointed by the College of Bishops), the General Secretary, and the Home Cultivation Secretary of the Board of Missions. The Board shall have power at any regular or called meeting to fill vacancies that may occur.

¶406. The Board shall have authority to regulate its own proceedings, raise money under the provisions of this Constitution, appropriate money to defray its expenses and the expenses of its officers in the discharge of their duties, to provide the officers with clerical help, and to pass by-laws for its own government. It shall have supervision, according to the intent of this Constitution, of the young people's societies herein described, and shall be charged with the for

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