such member appears and claims membership, he may be restored by a vote of the meeting.

4. The following is suggested as the general order of business:

I. Receive reports

1st. From the preachers, of their labors since the last meeting.

2d. From the class-leaders.

3d. From the Sunday-schools. 4th. From the steward or stewards of that Church.

II. The Conference shall inquireIst. What is doing for the relief of the poor of the Church?

2d. Is the Church here doing its duty for the cause of missions and other Church enterprises, and for the collections ordered by the Annual Conference?

3d. Is our religious literature circu

4th. Can the Church extend its work by establishing additional prayer-meetings, Sunday-schools, or in any other way?

5th. Can any thing more be done to strengthen and build up the Church in the community, and to advance the cause of Christ?

5. If the observance of this order of business is likely to protract the session beyond a reasonable limit, the president may, from time to time, select the most important matters and bring them forward.

6. Let the Church Conference be opened and closed with religious service, and conducted in a devout and prayerful spirit.

OF THE TRIAL OF THOSE WHO THINK

THEY ARE MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST
TO PREACH.

Ques 1. How shall we try those who profess to be moved by the Holy Ghost to preach?

Ans. Let the following questions be asked, namely:

1. Do they know God as a pardoning God? Have they the love of God abiding in them? Do they desire nothing but God? And are they holy in all manner of conversation?

2. Have they gifts (as well as grace) for the work? Have they (in some lerable degree) a clear, sound under

standing, a right judgment in the things of God, a just conception of salvation by faith? Do they speak justly, readily, clearly?

3. Have they fruit? Are any truly convinced of sin and converted to God by their preaching?

As long as these three marks concur in any one, we believe he is called of God to preach. These we receive as sufficient proof that he is moved by the Holy Ghost.

SECTION II.

OF THE ELECTION AND CONSECRATION
OF BISHOPS, AND OF THEIR DUTY.

Ques. 1. How is a Bishop to be constituted?

Anc By the election of the General

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Ques. 2. If by death, expulsion, or otherwise, there be no Bishop remaining in our Church, what shall we do?

Ans. The General Conference shall elect a Bishop; and the elders, or any three of them, who shall be appointed by the General Conference for that purpose, shall ordain him according to our form of ordination.

Ques. 3. What are the duties of a Bishop?

Ans. 1. To preside in the General and Annual Conferences.

2. To fix the appointments of the preachers in the Annual Conferences: provided he shall not allow any preacher to remain in the same circuit or station more than four years successively; except the preachers sta