(2) The Publishing Agents at New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.

(3) The Editors and Assistant Editors at New York, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco, Portland, New Orleans, and Athens, Tenn., and the Editor of Zion's Herald.

(4) Chaplains in the Army and Navy, and to Prisons, Reformatories, Sanatoriums, and Charitable Institutions.

(5) Preachers for Seamen.

(6) Ministers in the service of the American Bible Society, or of any State Bible Society auxiliary thereto; or of the Sunday League of America.

(7) The Presidents, Principals, and Teachers of institutions of learning under our care. (8) The Secretaries and Superintendents of City Missions.

§ 4. If requested by an Annual Conference, he may appoint:

(1) An Agent to travel throughout such Conference for the purpose of distributing Tracts.

(2) An Agent or Agents to promote the cause of Temperance.

(3) Instructors in Institutions of Learning not under our care.

(4) An Agent or Agents for the benefit of our Institutions of Learning.

(5) An Agent for the German Publishing

Fund.

(6) Agents for other benevolent institutions.

(7) Editors of unofficial Papers or Magazines published in the interest of the Methodist Episcopal Church; provided, that in no such case shall the Church incur any financial responsibility.

(8) One or more Members of an Annual Conference to do evangelistic work on Charges within that Conference, if invited by the Pastors and in coöperation with them; or in neglected territory within any District, when requested by, and in coöperation with, the District Superintendent of such District; provided, that the Conference shall determine by vote how many of its members may be thus appointed; and that the said Annual Conference shall by vote of two thirds of its members present and voting request such appointment.

IV. Powers

204. The Bishops shall prescribe the studies upon which those applying for License to Preach, for Orders as Local Preachers, and for Reception on Trial, respectively, shall be examined; also a Course of Study for Local Preachers, extending through four years; and a Conference Course of Study, extending through four years, to be pursued by those who have been received on Trial in an Annual Conference.

¶ 205. A Bishop may leave without appointment a Preacher on Trial or a Member of an Annual Conference who desires to attend any of our literary or theological seminaries, whenever he shall be requested to do so by the Annual Conference and it

shall seem to him expedient; provided, however, that the time thus spent in school shall not count on that required for Trial in the Annual Conference, except when at least two full years shall have been spent in regular work under appointment by a District Superintendent who, together with the Quarterly Conference, certifies to the efficiency of his work. A preacher thus left without appointment may be employed as a supply in another Conference by a District Superintendent without being transferred.

¶ 206. Bishops are relieved from the duty of investigating and reporting upon charges of erroneous teaching in our theological schools; but when charges of that nature are made to, or laid before them, they may refer the same without action thereon to the Annual Conference of which the accused is a member for such proceeding as such Conference may deem appropriate in the premises. If, however, the Professor be a layman, the charges shall be sent to his Pastor and he shall be brought to trial according to the provisions of ¶ 247 of the Discipline. But in case the complaints affect the manner of teaching, or personal fitness, and not doctrinal soundness, the Bishops, after due consideration, shall communicate their judgment in the case to the governing board of the school directly concerned.

¶ 207. A Bishop, when he judges it necessary, may unite two or more Pastoral Charges for Quarterly Conference purposes, without affecting their separate financial interests or pastoral relations.

¶ 208. If a Bishop cease from traveling at large among the people without the consent of the General Conference he shall not thereafter exercise, in any degree, the Episcopal Office in our Church.

¶ 209. In case there be no Bishop to travel at large through the Districts and exercise the Episcopal Office, on account of death or otherwise, the Districts shall be regulated in every respect, ordination excepted, by the Annual Conferences and the District Superintendents in the interval of the sessions of the General Conference.

CHAPTER XI

RETIRED BISHOPS

I. General Superintendent

¶ 210, § 1. A General Superintendent who has reached the age of seventy years may be released both from the obligation to travel through the Connection at large, and from that of residential supervision, by giving notice in writing to the Board of Bishops that he so elects; and when a General Superintendent has been released, in this manner, the Board of Bishops shall report the fact to the Book Committee and to the next General Conference.

§ 2. A General Superintendent, at the close of the General Conference nearest his seventy-third birthday, shall be released from the obligation to travel through the Connection at large, and from residential supervision.

§ 3. A General Superintendent at any age and for any reason deemed sufficient by the General Confer

ence, may be released by that body from the obligation to travel through the Connection at large, and from residential supervision.

II. Missionary Bishop

¶ 211, § 1. A Missionary Bishop who has reached the age of seventy years may be released from the obligation to travel through the Foreign Mission field for which he was elected, by giving notice in writing to the Board of Bishops, the Board of Foreign Missions, and the Book Committee; and when a Missionary Bishop has been released, in this manner the Board of Bishops shall report the fact to the next General Conference.

§ 2. A Missionary Bishop, at the close of the General Conference nearest his seventy-third birthday, shall be released from the obligation to travel through the Foreign Mission field for which he was elected.

§ 3. A Missionary Bishop, at any age and for any reason deemed sufficient by the General Conference, may be released by that body from the obligation to travel through the Foreign Mission field for which he was elected.

III. General Provisions

¶ 212, § 1. A General Superintendent who has been released from the obligation to travel through the Connection at large in accordance with any of the foregoing provisions shall not preside thereafter over any Annual Conference, Mission Conference, or Mission, nor make appointments, nor preside at the General Conference, but may take the chair tempo