ARTICLE 11. Amendments.-This Constitution shall be altered or amended only by the General Conference.

II. Duties of Presiding Elders and Pastors. T340. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elders when holding District or Quarterly Conferences to inquire into the condition of Epworth League Chapters and such other Young People's Societies as may be under the control of the Quarterly and District Conferences, and to ascertain whether they are conducting their affairs in harmony with the purpose and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

¶ 341. It shall be the duty of Pastors to organize, if possible, and to maintain, if practicable, Chapters of the Epworth League.

III. Duties of the President of a Chapter.

¶ 342. The President of an Epworth League Chapter must be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and shall be elected by the Chapter and confirmed by the Quarterly Conference, of which body he shall then become a member if approved by it for membership therein. It shall be his duty to present to the Quarterly Conference a report of his Chapter, together with such other information as the Conference may require and he may be able to give.

CHAPTER III.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

For the moral and religious instruction of our children, and for the promotion of Bible knowledge among all our people let the following order be observed:

I. Sunday School Board.

T343, § 1. Every Sunday School of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall be under the supervision of a Sunday School Board, and shall be auxiliary to the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

§ 2. The Sunday School Board shall consist of the Pastor, who shall be ex officio Chairman, the Sunday School Committee appointed by the Quarterly Conference, the Superintendent, the Assistant Superintendents, the Secretaries, the Treasurer, the Librarians, and the Teachers of the School. In case of the withdrawal of Officers or Teachers from the School, they shall cease to be members of the Board.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the Sunday School Board, whenever practicable, to organize our schools into Temperance Societies, under such rules and regulations as the Board may prescribe, the duty of which Societies shall be to see that temperance instruction is imparted to the School, and secure, so far as possible, the pledging of its members to total abstinence.

II. Officers and Teachers.

344, § 1. The Superintendent shall be nominated annually by the Sunday School Board, and confirmed by the Quarterly Conference at its next session after such nomination: and in case of a vacancy the Pastor shall superintend or secure the superintending of the School until such time as a Superintendent nominated by the Sunday School Board shall be confirmed by the Quarterly Conference.

§ 2. The other officers of the School shall be elected by the Sunday School Board.

§ 3. The Teachers of the School shall be nominated by the Superintendent, with the concurrence of the Pastor, and elected by the Board.

§ 4. The place of any Officer or Teacher habitually neglecting his or her duty, or being guilty of improper conduct, may be declared vacant by a vote of two thirds of the Board present at any regular or special meeting. § 5. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to report to each Quarterly Conference:

1. Name of Sunday School.

2. Number of Officers and Teachers.

3. Number of Scholars in all grades.

4. Number of Scholars in Home Department. 5. Average attendance.

6. Number of Officers and Teachers Members of the Church or Probationers.

7. Number of Scholars (whether attendants or members of Home Department) Members of the Church or Probationers.

8. Number of members of the Sunday School converted during the quarter.

9. Current expenses for the quarter.

III. Duties of Presiding Elders.

¶ 345. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elder to bring the subject of Sunday Schools before the last Quarterly Conference of each year; and said Quarterly Conference shall appoint a Committee of Members of our Church of not less than three nor more than nine for each Sunday School in the Charge, to be called the Committee on Sunday Schools, whose duty it shall be to aid the Pastor and the Officers of the Sunday Schools in procuring suitable Teachers, in promoting in all proper

ways the attendance of children and adults on our Sunday Schools and at our regular Public Worship, and in raising money to meet the expenses of the Sunday Schools of the Charge. Of this Committee the Pastor shall be Chairman.

VI. Duties of Pastors.

¶ 346. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Superintendent and the Committee on Sunday Schools, to decide as to what books and other publications shall be used in the Sunday Schools.

¶ 347. It shall be the special duty of the Pastor, with the aid of the other Preachers and the Committee on Sunday Schools, to form Sunday Schools in all our Congregations where ten persons can be collected for that purpose, which Schools shall be auxiliary to the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church; to engage the cooperation of as many of our Members as they can; to visit the Schools as often as practicable; to preach on the subject of Sunday Schools and the religious instruction of children in each Congregation at least once in six months; to form classes, wherever they can, for the instruction of the larger children, youth, and adults, in the word of God; and where they cannot superintend them personally, to see that suitable teachers are provided for that purpose.

¶ 348, § 1. It shall be the duty of our Ministers to enforce faithfully upon parents and Sunday School Teachers the great importance of instructing children in the doctrines and duties of our holy religion; to see that our Catechisms be used as extensively as possible in our Sunday Schools and families; and to preach to the children, and catechise them publicly in the Sunday

Schools and at public meetings appointed for that purpose.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of every Minister in his pastoral visits to pay special attention to the children; to speak to them personally and kindly on the subject of experimental and practical godliness, according to their capacity; to pray earnestly for them; and diligently instruct and exhort all parents to dedicate their children to the Lord in Baptism as early as convenient.

¶ 349. Each Pastor shall lay before the Quarterly Conference, to be entered on its Journal, the number and state of the Sunday Schools in his Charge, and the extent to which he has preached to the children and catechised them, and shall make the required report on Sunday Schools to his Annual Conference.

CHAPTER IV.

MISSIONARY WORK.

THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

I. Incorporation and Officers.

¶ 350. For the better prosecution of Missionary work in the United States and in foreign countries, there shall be a Missionary Society, duly incorporated according to law, and having its office in the city of New York, said Society being subject to such rules and regulations as the General Conference may from time to time prescribe.

NOTE.-For Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, etc., etc., see Annual Report of Missionary Society.

¶ 351. The Board of Managers of the Missionary So