from each District, to be elected by the Annual Conference on the nomination of the District Superintendents. The Annual Conference shall elect the officers of the said Board from among the members of the Board on the nomination of the District Superintendents.

§ 2. The said Board shall present an annual report to the Annual Conference through its President; and shall have charge of the anniversary of the Board of Foreign Missions at the Annual Conference session, to which an entire evening shall be given.

§ 3. There shall be at least one meeting of the Annual Conference Board of Foreign Missions each year for the consideration and furtherance of the interests of Foreign Missions within the bounds of the Conference, at which meeting a Secretary or other representative of the Board of Foreign Missions shall be present if possible, and the said Board shall provide for the presentation of the cause of Foreign Missions within the bounds of the Conference and may arrange for conventions.

V. District Board

384, § 1. There shall be in each District Superintendent's District a District Board of Foreign Missions composed of the members from the District on the Annual Conference Board of Foreign Missions. The District Superintendent shall be the President of said District Board and the District Missionary Secretary shall be its Secretary. Meetings of the said District Board shall be held at the call of the President; provided that at least one meeting shall be held each year.

§ 2. The said District Board shall aid the Pastors in the presentation of the cause of Foreign Missions within the District, and may arrange for conventions.

VI. District Missionary Secretaries

385. The presiding Bishop shall appoint, on the nomination of the District Superintendent, a Member of the Annual Conference as Missionary Secretary for each District Superintendent's District, who shall serve without salary, and whose duty it shall be to assist the District Superintendent in carrying on the plans in the interests of Foreign Missions on the District; and who, by correspondence and otherwise, shall aid in the securing and distribution of missionary literature in every Charge; coöperate with the missionary office in New York city in the distinctive work of the Young People's Department, and keep said office informed as to foreign missionary conditions on the District.

VII. Duties of District Superintendents

¶ 386, § 1. It shall be the duty of the District Superintendent to see that the provisions of the Discipline concerning Foreign Missions are faithfully executed in his District, and in order thereto he shall inquire at each session of the several Quarterly Conferences, what has been done toward raising funds for the support of Foreign Missions during the preceding quarter, and particularly what has been done in the Sunday Schools for this cause.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the District Superintendent to see that a Committee on Foreign Missions is appointed at the fourth Quarterly Conference of each Pastoral Charge, of five or more persons, including one Sunday School Superintendent and one Epworth League President, of which Committee the Pastor shall be Chairman. Its duty shall be to aid the Pastor in disseminating missionary information, planning for the Annual Foreign Missionary Day, and securing a thorough canvass of the members of the Churches and Congregations in the interest of Foreign Missions.

VIII. Duties of Pastors and Churches

¶ 387, § 1. The support of Foreign Missions is committed to Pastors, Congregations, Sunday Schools, and Epworth Leagues.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Foreign Missions, to provide for the diffusion of missionary information among the members of his Church, Congregation, Sunday School, and Epworth League.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Foreign Missions, to institute a monthly missionary prayer meeting or missionary address in his Charge, for the purposes of imploring the divine blessing upon Missions throughout the world, and for the diffusion of missionary intelligence among the people.

§ 4. The Pastor, aided by the Official Board and the Committee on Foreign Missions, shall provide for a thorough foreign missionary canvass and an Annual Missionary Day, when the Pastor, or some

one invited by him, shall present the cause of Foreign Missions, when contributions shall be taken for our foreign work exclusively. If so desired, the contributions may be paid weekly or monthly, and the Board of Foreign Missions shall supply envelopes for the same.

§ 5. 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 in 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 School 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 on the day that is set apart for the monthly missionary collection to be taken, to cause suitable literature to be distributed in the Sunday Schools, and to arrange for occasional missionary concerts. The Sunday School Missionary Society shall include both Foreign Missions, and Home Missions and Church Extension, and the contributions shall be equally divided between the two Boards.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the Pastor to organize Mission Study Classes on his Charge where praeticable.

CHAPTER III

WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

¶ 388. For the more successful prosecution of the Missionary work of the Church among women in foreign lands, there shall be an organization known as the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to be governed and regulated by its Constitution, which may be altered or amended by the General Conference as the necessities of the work may require.

§ 1. This Society shall work in harmony with, and under the supervision of, the authorities of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The appointment, recall, and remuneration of Missionaries, and the designation of their fields of labor, shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Managers of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and annual appropriations to Mission fields shall be submitted for revision and approval to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

§ 2. All Missionaries sent out by this Society shall labor under the direction of the particular Conferences or Missions of the Church in which they may be severally employed. They shall be annually appointed by the President of the Conference or Mission, and shall be subject to the same rules of removal that govern the other Missionaries.

§ 3. All the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in foreign lands shall be under the direc