tion ordered by 419, § 4, be taken annually in each Sunday School. § 28. To register carefully Marriages and Baptisms. § 29. To give an account of his Charge every quarter to his District Superintendent. § 30. To make a written report at each Quarterly Conference in the order, and covering all the items, set forth in the following form: I. Sunday Schools and Religious Instruction 1. Number of Sunday Schools.. 2. State of the Schools... 3. Average Attendance. 4. Number of Sermons preached by the Pastor to the Children....... 5. Number of times the Pastor has catechised the Children 6. Number of Classes of Children formed for religious instruction... II. Changes in Membership [NOTE.-Enter under each item the names of the persons and places concerned.] 1. Persons desiring to Unite with the Church. 2. Persons Received into Membership. 3. Persons Received into Membership by Certifi cate. 4. Persons Churches. Received from Other Evangelical 5. Persons Dismissed by Certificate and to what Charge. 6. Certificates Acknowledged to the Charges issuing the same. 7. Certificates Issued to other Charges acknowledged by the same. 8. Deceased. 9. Removed Without Letter. 10. Where new address is known has Pastor been Notified? 11. Withdrawn. 12. Excluded. III. Pastoral Labor 1. Number of Pastoral Visits.. 2. Other Items.... IV. Benevolent Collections this Quarter 1. Board of Foreign Missions.... 2. Board of Home Missions and Church Extension.. 3. Board of Education.. 4. Board of Sunday Schools.. 5. Board of Conference Claimants: Connectional Fund... Permanent Fund.. 6. Freedmen's Aid Society. 7. American Bible Society.. 8. Other Objects.. V. Subscribers for Periodicals [NOTE.-To be reported only at Fourth Quarterly Conference.] 4. Sunday School Advocate... 5. The Classmate... 6. Epworth Herald. 7. Other Periodicals. .Preacher in Charge. § 31. To make an exact report to the Annual Conference of all the items embraced in the Statistics of the Conference, and to deliver to the Conference Treasurer all moneys raised for benevolent causes, or satisfactory vouchers for the same (¶ 85, §§ 2, 3); and to report in open Conference whether he has presented the claims of our benevolent causes according to the requirements of the Discipline. § 32. To make at the close of each Conference year a Visiting List of the Members in Towns and Cities, by streets and numbers, and to leave it to his successor, together with a particular account of his Charge and a list of subscribers for our Periodicals. ¶ 174. No Pastor shall engage an Evangelist other than one of those appointed by the Bishop of his own Conference, without first obtaining the written consent of his District Superintendent. ¶ 175. No preaching place shall be discontinued in the intervals between the sessions of the Annual Conference without the consent and advice of the Quarterly Conference and of the District Superintendent; and when thus discontinued the names of the members shall be transferred to such contiguous Classes as the members may select. CHAPTER VI SUPERNUMERARY MINISTERS ¶ 176. A Supernumerary Minister is one who, because of impaired health, or other equally sufficient reason, is temporarily unable to perform full work. This relation shall not be granted for more than five years in succession. He may receive an appointment, or be left without one, according to the judgment of the Annual Conference of which he is a Member; and he shall be subject to all the limitations of the Discipline in respect to reappointment and continuance in the same Charge that apply to Effective Ministers. In case he has no Pastoral Charge he shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of membership, in the place where he resides. He shall report to the fourth Quarterly Conference and to the Pastor all Marriages solemnized and all Baptisms administered. In case he resides beyond the bounds of his Conference, he shall forward annually a Certificate similar to that required of a Superannuated Minister, and in case of failure so to do the Conference may locate him without his consent. He shall have no claim on the Conference funds except by vote of the Conference. CHAPTER VII SUPERANNUATED MINISTERS ¶ 177. Every Superannuated Minister, who is not employed as Pastor of a Charge, shall have a seat in the Quarterly Conference, and all the privileges of membership in the Church where he resides. He shall report to the fourth Quarterly Conference and to the Pastor all Marriages solemnized and all Baptisms administered. of the Conference of which he is a Member, he shall annually forward to his Conference a certificate of his Christian and Ministerial conduct, together with an account of the number and circumstances of his family, signed by the District Superintendent of the District or the Pastor of the Charge within whose bounds he resides; without which the Conference shall not be required to allow his claim, and may, after due notice and due form and record of trial, locate him without his consent. If he resides without the bounds [For Conference Claimants, see TT 300, 309-318, 423.] |