Circuit to the Sunday School Secretary of the District immediately after the Fourth Quarterly Meeting.

14. The authority of a Superintendent, who is removing, to administer discipline upon a Circuit shall cease with the final reading of the Stations to the Conference.

SECTION II.

EXHORTERS AND LOCAL PREACHERS.

The Local Preachers' Meeting.

180. A Local Preachers' Meeting is composed of the local preachers and exhorters on the Circuit, provided there are six local preachers on the Circuit of three years' continuous standing.

181. The Superintendent of the Circuit shall regularly meet the local preachers and exhorters once a quarter; and no person shall be put upon the plan as a local preacher or exhorter, or be permitted to preach among us as such, without the approbation of that meeting on the nomination of the Superintendent; or, if in any Circuit such a Local Preachers' Meeting cannot be held, they shall be proposed and appointed by the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit; but no minister or probationer for the ministry who has been suspended or expelled by the Conference shall, on any account, be employed as a local preacher without the consent of the Annual Conference.

182. The Superintendent of the Church, at each regular Local Preachers' Meeting, or at the Fourth meeting of the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit, shall inquire into the religious and moral character, doctrines, abilities to preach, and punctuality in attending appointments, of each local preacher and exhorter by name.

183. The questions proposed in the examination of the character of local preachers and exhorters shall be the same as those proposed in regard to ministers, viz.: (1) Is there any objection to his moral or religious character? (2) Is there any objection to his doctrinal views and teachings? (3) Has he duly observed our Discipline? (4) Is he punctual in attending all his appointments? (5) Has he competent abilities for a local preacher or exhorter?

184. Local Preacher's Examination.

Every person proposed to be received as a local preacher shall be asked by the Chairman or Superintendent the following questions, to which a distinct answer shall be required:

What is your religious experience? Have you faith in Christ? Are you going on to perfection? Do you expect to be perfected in love in this life? Are you earnestly striving after it? Are you resolved to devote. yourself to God and His work? Do you sincerely and fully believe the doctrines of Methodism, as contained in the Articles of Religion, and as taught by Mr. Wesley in his Notes on the New Testament and Volumes of Sermons, especially the following leading ones: A Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the God

head; the total depravity of all men by nature in consequence of Adam's fall; the Atonement made by Christ for the sins of all the human race; Justification by Faith; the direct Witness of the Spirit; the possibility of falling from a state of justification and holiness, and perishing everlastingly; the absolute necessity of holiness both in heart and life; and the proper eternity of rewards and punishments? What is Evangelical Repentance? What is Justification? What is Justifying Faith? What is the direct Witness of the Spirit? What is the indirect Witness of the Spirit? What is Christian Perfection? What is the difference between Justification and Regeneration? What is the difference between Sanctification and Entire Sanctification?

Will you endeavor fully and faithfully to preach these doctrines?

185. Regulations in reference to Local Preachers. 1. All local preachers shall meet in Class. No exception shall be made in respect of any who may have been ministers or probationers for the ministry in former years.

2. A license shall be issued by the Superintendent of the Circuit to an exhorter on passing the examination on the course of study for exhorters, and giving satisfactory evidence that he has qualifications for his work.

3. Candidates for the office of local preacher shall pass an examination upon the course of study for local preachers when a license shall be issued. Candidates must be exhorters for not less than six months before writing on this examination.

4. The examinations for exhorters and local preachers

shall be entirely in the hands of the Examining Board of each Annual Conference.

5. The period of probation for the office of local preacher shall be twelve months, during which time at least four sermons shall be preached, and the Superintendent of the Circuit shall report to the licensing body upon the candidate's ability to preach.

6. The name of every local preacher shall be recorded on the Journal of the Quarterly Official Board of the Circuit in which he resides.

7. No local preacher shall hold Love-feasts without the consent of the Superintendent of the Circuit, nor in any wise interfere with his ministerial duties.

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8. Ministers who withdraw from connection with an Annual Conference, and ministers who are located by the action of an Annual Conference, may, should they desire it, be considered as local preachers, and shall be subject to all the regulations affecting local preachers; and, if charged with immorality, shall be proceeded against as other local preachers, and the Superintendent of the Circuit or Mission shall report the case to the Annual District Meeting.

9. When an ordained local preacher is expelled, the President of the Annual Conference shall require of him the credentials of his ordination to be filed with the papers of the Annual Conference within the limits of which the expulsion has taken place. And should he at any future time produce to the Annual Conference a certificate of his restoration, signed by the Chairman and countersigned by the Secretary of the District Meeting, his credentials shall be restored to him.

10. When a local preacher or exhorter removes from one Circuit to another, he shall obtain from the Superintendent of the Circuit a certificate of his official standing in the Church at the time of his removal, without which he shall not be received as a local preacher or exhorter in other places.

11. No local preacher or exhorter coming to reside on any of our Circuits from another part of the world, although duly recommended, shall be allowed to preach or hold meetings in our churches unless he become a member of the Church and submit to its Discipline.

12. Should any local preacher or exhorter belonging to any other Methodist Church make application to be received into our Church, the Superintendent of the Circuit, in concurrence with the Quarterly Official Board, or the Local Preachers' Meeting of the Circuit on which such local preacher or exhorter may reside, is authorized to receive him, after having inquired into his qualifications and all the circumstances of his case.

13. Any local preacher may be admitted to examination on the Theological subjects of the Conference Preliminary Examination, and to the examination on all the subjects of the Ordinary Course of Study for probationers for the ministry for the three years on circuit, Greek being optional. On the completion of the course, a certificate to that effect shall be granted, and should such local preacher become a probationer for the ministry, such examinations shall be credited to him on the course for probationers on circuit.

14. All preachers who received ordination in any of