supervise the work of all its workers. He shall make quarterly reports to the Executive Committee and an annual report to the Board, and do such other work as the Board shall direct. The Board is authorized, on recommendation of the Chairman and the Conference Superintendent, to employ any other workers deemed necessary. Funds to meet the expenses of the Board shall be provided (a) through the regular Conference budget, (b) through Sunday School Day offerings, and (c) through such other channels as the Board may find available.

¶375. The duties of the Board shall be as follows:

1. To have general oversight of the Sunday school work of the Conference, including allied week-day religious instruction.

2. To promote the organization and development of new Sunday schools and to assist needy schools in securing proper literature and supplies.

3. To promote evangelism through instruction, better organization and equipment, instruction and training in the principles and practice of Christian stewardship; and more effective training in worship and in missionary, social service, and other forms of religious activity.

4. To promote the training of Sunday school

teachers and officers and other Christian work

ers.

5. To promote the observance of Sunday School Day, Promotion Day, and Decision Day.

6. To promote the use of our own literature and such additional literature as may be approved by the General Sunday School Board.

7. To publish and distribute such promotion literature as it deems necessary for the advancement of its work.

8. To coöperate with the General Sunday School Board in carrying out its plans and policies, including the promotion of standards, of Conference, district, subdistrict, city, and circuit Sunday school organization, of training schools, of Wesley Class Federations, and of Conference-wide Sunday School Conferences.

9. To furnish the General Sunday School Board, at the close of each Conference year, a summary of its work, together with the names and addresses of Sunday school superintendents and of district and Conference officers, giving the district, charge, and school of each.

10. To present a written report of its work annually to the Conference, and whenever practicable to hold a Sunday School Anniversary during the Conference session.

11. To estimate annually the amount of money that may be required for the support of the work under its charge and report the amount

to the Conference Commission on Budget for their consideration and direction in fixing the percentages of the various Conference interests.

¶376. The Board may elect a committee of three or five, one of whom shall be the Conference Superintendent, which, together with a like committee from the Conference Board of Education, shall constitute a Joint Committee on Religious Education, whose duties it shall be to promote the introduction and study of courses of religious education in our Church schools and other institutions of learning. This committee shall work in coöperation with the Joint Committee on Religious Education of the General Sunday School Board and the General Board of Education.

¶377. The Board may elect a committee, one of whom shall be the Conference Superintendent, which, together with a like committee of the Conference Board of Church Extension, shall constitute a Joint Committee on Architecture, whose duties it shall be to promote the standards of Sunday school architecture provided by the Joint Committee on Architecture from the General Sunday School Board and the General Board of Church Extension.

¶378. The Board may, with the authority of the Annual Conference, purchase, lease, or improve property for the purpose of providing a place for the training of workers and for the in

tellectual, religious, and social culture of our young people, or for any other use of the Board. Such property, if purchased, shall be deeded to a Board of Trustees to be held in trust for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the work of this Board. The trustees shall be nominated by the Sunday School Board and elected by the Conference. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees shall be filled in the same way. The trustees shall be a Board of Control of the property and may raise funds for its improvement and maintenance. The trustees shall make an annual report through the Sunday School Board to the Annual Conference.

SECTION III

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

¶379. A Sunday school shall be organized in every congregation where ten persons can be assembled for that purpose, and mission Sunday schools shall be organized wherever practicable.

4380. Let all Sunday schools connected with our congregations be under the control of our own Church and use our own literature.

4381. The Quarterly Conference of each circuit and station shall be a Board of Managers, having charge of all Sunday schools within its bounds. At its fourth session each year, on

nomination of the preacher in charge, it shall elect a superintendent of each Sunday school (¶758) under its care, and, on nomination of the superintendent, with the concurrence of the pastor, all necessary assistant superintendents, superintendents of departments, and general officers: provided, that when a vacancy occurs in the superintendency of any school during the interim of Quarterly Conferences, the preacher in charge shall appoint a superintendent to serve until its next session: and provided, that the preacher in charge shall appoint a superintendent for any new school that may be organized between the meetings of the Quarterly Conference. It shall be the duty of the Quarterly Conference to keep itself informed as to the condition and needs of the Sunday schools under its care, and to see that they are furnished with all necessary equipment.

4382. The Quarterly Conference may constitute the pastor, the Sunday school officers elected by it, and not more than three other persons a Sunday School Committee. The duties of this committee shall be as follows: to determine the policies of the school, supervise its work, including that relating to allied week-day religious instruction, and to provide for the coordination of its various departments and activities; to elect annually, on nomination of the superintendent, the pastor concurring, the