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mine annually what schools and educational enterprises, and also what persons, shall receive aid, and the amount, terms, and conditions thereof; to appropriate money for the necessary expenses of carrying on the work of the Board: provided, however, that no appropriation shall be made for buildings except from funds contributed for that particular purpose: and provided, further, that all persons who shall desire to become beneficiaries of the loan funds of the Board must be recommended by the Board of Education of an Annual Conference, and if preparing for the mission field also by the Board of Missions, and that preference shall be given as follows: (1) To students for the foreign or home ministry; (2) to other promising and needy students, especially the children of our itinerant preachers.

¶445. The Board shall have authority to increase both its endowment and loan funds. These shall be held separate from funds raised for general distribution. The interest only of the endowment and loan funds shall be used (unless in the case of loan funds the donor shall otherwise direct). The Board shall have authority to receive and to hold in trust for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, any real or personal property, and to sell and convey it for the uses and objects herein declared.

¶446. No educational institution or educa

tional foundation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, shall hereafter be established or receive support from the funds of the Church unless its plans and organization have been first submitted to the Board of Education for its counsel and advice.

¶447. No institution of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, shall change its type of organization-for example, from an academy to a college without having first secured the approval of the Board of Education.

¶448. All the educational institutions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, shall make provision in their curricula for the study of religious education, including courses in the Bible.

$449. The Board shall gather statistics and other educational information, and shall prepare, publish, and distribute leaflets, pamphlets, and other publications suitable to advance the cause of Christian education in our homes and schools and among our people. Through its members, agents, Annual Conference Boards of Education, and other agencies, the Board shall seek to secure funds with which to increase endowment and otherwise strengthen our institutions in harmony with the general educational policy of the Church; to correlate existing institutions, and to originate new ones where they can be judiciously established and main

tained: provided, that in so doing the Board shall not create or assume any debt beyond the resources actually in hand and applicable to such purpose: and provided, also, that no new institutions shall be established or adopted without the approval of the patronizing Conference or Conferences.

¶450. The Board may establish an agency which shall serve as a medium of communication between teachers desiring employment and institutions needing their services, and also between Directors of Religious Education desiring positions and Churches which need their services.

¶451. The Board may serve as a Board of Reference or Arbitration, and, when necessary, may take measures to protect the property interests of our educational institutions.

¶452. The Board shall conduct a Department of Life Service, including ministerial supply and training. This department shall seek to secure recruits for the ministry and for other forms of Christian service. It shall keep before the Church its responsibility for raising up young men and women for such service. It shall inspire candidates for the ministry and for other forms of Christian service with high ideals of their work and stimulate them to a thorough preparation; by developing and correlating the agencies of the Church for the education of can

didates for Christian service; by giving to candidates preparing for Christian service financial assistance from the Christian Workers' Education Aid Fund, and from any other funds that may be in the hands of the Board for this purpose; by conducting Correspondence Courses for the benefit of preachers, teachers, and other Christian workers; and by such other methods as the Board from time to time may deem desirable.

¶453. The General Board shall seek, in closest possible coöperation with the Annual Conference Boards, to promote religious education in the homes of the people, in the institutions of the Church, and in tax-supported and independent institutions, including the public schools. It shall assist in prosecuting evangelistic work in universities, colleges, and secondary schools. It shall have authority to coöperate with the Sunday School and other connectional Boards in the promotion of religious education, to the end that all the religious educational efforts of the Church may be harmoniously and helpfully related; and also to coöperate with Boards other than those of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to the end that the blessings of Christian education may be more widely diffused.

9454. The revenues of the Board shall be

derived from assessments, collections. gifts, devises, bequests, and otherwise.

$455. The Board shall have authority to solicit, create, and administer a fund which shall aid in providing retiring allowance for presidents, professors, and other members of the faculties of the educational institutions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and may adopt rules and regulations for its administration.

¶456. The Board shall have authority to administer any funds, gifts, or bequests committed to it for educational purposes, and shall be authorized to solicit and create any special funds deemed wise in the carrying out of the objects and purposes of the Board and to administer them under such rules and regulations as it may adopt.

¶457. The Board may from time to time adopt by-laws for the regulation of its affairs not inconsistent with its charter or with General Conference legislation.

SECTION II

ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOARD OF EDUCATION

$458. Each Annual Conference shall organize within its bounds an Annual Conference Board of Education, which shall have special charge of all educational work within the Con

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