§ 4. The Ministerial members of the General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension shall constitute a Judicial Conference to hear appeals of Local Preachers convicted at an Annual Meeting, said Judicial Conference to be presided over by a Bishop. § 5. Wherever Methodist Episcopal Churches are organized in territory outside of an Annual Conference, or of any regular Mission of our Church, such work may be attached to such Annual Conference as the said Churches may elect with the concurrence of the Bishop having charge of said Conference, and may be constituted a District Superintendent's District. VIII. Annual Conferences and Home Missions and Church Extension 399. It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the Missions within its bounds, and to allow none to remain on the list of its Missions which, in the judgment of the Conference, are capable of selfsupport. It shall report through its Secretary, annually, to the Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension at Philadelphia the name of each District and Charge, within its bounds, sustained in whole or in part by said Conference as a Mission, together with the amount of missionary money appropriated to such for the year, and also the number of years that each Mission has received assistance from the Missionary Treasury, and whether consecutively or otherwise, and such other information as may be required by the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. Each Annual Conference shall arrange, in such way as it may deem best, for an anniversary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, to be held during the session of the Conference. IX. Duties of District Superintendents ¶ 400. It shall be the duty of each District Superintendent to bring the subject of Home Missions and Church Extension before the Quarterly Conference of each Charge within his District at the last Quarterly Conference in each year; and said Quarterly Conference shall appoint a Committee, to be called the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, whose duty it shall be to aid the Pastor in carrying into effect the provisions of the Discipline and plans of the Board for the support of this cause, and in securing at least the amount asked of the Circuit or Station; and the District Superintendent shall inquire in each Quarterly Conference of each year what has been done for this cause, and whether the amount asked has been received; and if not, he shall urgently request that such measures be taken as will secure the amount before the close of the year. He shall see that the provisions of this section are faithfully executed in his District. He shall inquire at each session of the Quarterly Conference whether the Sunday Schools have been organized into Missionary Societies, and if the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension has been properly represented in each school. He shall also urge that the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension shall be presented to the Congregations and people separately from every other collection. X. Duties of Pastors 401, § 1. The support of Home Missions and Church Extension is committed to the Churches, Congregations, and Societies as such. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, to provide for the diffusion of information concerning the work of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. He shall preach, or cause to be preached, a sermon on this subject in each Congregation every year. He shall secure a separate presentation of the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension, and a collection separate from every other cause for the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, and solicit, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, a contribution from each member of the Church and Congregation, endeavoring to secure at least the amount asked as above provided; and he shall, at the Annual Conference, report the amount received. He shall also invite special contributions in aid of the Annuity Funds and Loan Fund of the Board. Each Pastor is exhorted to utilize the services of the Committee appointed by the Quarterly Conference. § 2. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, to institute a bimonthly missionary prayer meeting or lecture in each Society, Church, Congregation, or Sunday School wherever practicable, for the purpose of imploring the divine blessing on Home Missions and Church Extension, and for the diffusion of missionary intelligence. § 3. It shall be the duty of the Pastor to see that each Sunday School on his Charge is organized into a Missionary Society, and that at least one Sunday of each month is observed in the interest of Missions and a collection taken, which shall be divided equally between the Board of Foreign Missions and the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension; and all contributions of the Sunday Schools shall be reported in a separate column in the Annual and General Minutes. It shall be the duty of the Sunday School Missionary Society to provide, with the consent of the Sunday School Board, for brief missionary exercises in the Sunday School on the day that the monthly missionary collection is taken, to cause suitable literature to be distributed in the Sunday School, and to arrange for occasional missionary concerts. The Sunday School Missionary Society shall include Home and Foreign Missions and the contributions shall be divided equally between the two Boards. XI. Applications for Church Extension Aid 402, § 1. All applications for Church Extension aid shall be made in accordance with blank form, to be furnished by the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. Every such application shall be forwarded to the Conference Board, and the Conference Board shall forward the same, with proper recommendations, to the Corresponding Secretary, who shall submit all applications to the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension at a regular or special meeting. And the Board shall not consider any application without the recommendation of the Conference Board, except as herein before provided. § 2. Nothing in the chapter defining the Conference organization of the work of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension shall supersede or affect the administration of the Missionary work and appropriations in cities as provided for in the chapter on City Evangelization. CHAPTER V WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY ¶ 403. There shall be an organization known as the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which Society shall have authority to collect and disburse money, employ Missionaries, and do work among the neglected populations in the home field under the same Disciplinary rules and regulations as those which apply to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, except the requirements contained in ¶ 388, §§ 2, 3. CHAPTER VI CITY EVANGELIZATION I. National City Evangelization Union 404, § 1. For the promotion and coördination of the work of evangelization there shall be an organization known as the National City Evangelization Union. It shall be composed of representatives |