of Home Missions and Church Extension, and ten per cent to the Board of Sunday Schools; and all contributions of the Sunday Schools shall be reported in a separate column in the Annual and General Minutes. It shall be the duty of the Sunday School Missionary Society, with the consent of the Sunday School Board, to provide 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 Foreign Missions, Home Missions and Church Extension, and the Board of Sunday Schools. § 6. It shall be the duty of the Pastor to organize Mission Study Classes on his Charge where practicable. CHAPTER III WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY ¶ 416, § 1. 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. § 2. 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 Committee of Foreign Missions. § 3. All Missionaries sent out by this Society shall labor under the direction of the particular Conferences or Missions of the Church in which severally they may be employed. They shall be appointed annually by the President of the Conference or Mission, and shall be subject to the same rules of removal that govern other Missionaries. 8 4. All the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in foreign lands shall be under the direction of the Conferences or Missions and their Committees in exactly the same manner as the work of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Superintendent or District Superintendent having the same relation to the work and the person in charge of it that he would have were it a work in the Pastoral Charge of any Member of the Conference or Mission. 417, § 1. The funds of the Society shall not be raised by collections or subscriptions taken during any of our regular Church services, nor in any Sunday School, but shall be raised by such methods as the Constitution of the Society shall provide, none of which shall interfere with the contributions of our people and Sunday Schools to the treasury of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and the amount so collected shall be reported by the Pastor to the Annual Conference, and be entered in a column among the Benevolent Collections in the Annual and General Minutes. § 2. The provisions of § 1 of this paragraph shall not be interpreted so as to prevent the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society from taking collections in meetings convened in the interest of their Societies; nor from securing memberships and life memberships in audiences where their work is represented; nor from holding festivals or arranging lectures in the interest of their work. CHAPTER IV BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS AND CHURCH I. Incorporation ¶ 418. For the prosecution of Missionary and Church Extension work in the United States, its Territories, and insular possessions, there shall be a Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, duly incorporated according to law and having its office in the city of Philadelphia; said Board being subject to such rules and regulations as the General Conference from time to time may prescribe. NOTE.-For Charter, Constitution, By-Laws, etc., see Annual Report and other publications of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. II. General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension ¶ 419, § 1. There shall be a General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension consisting of (1) the Bishops, one of whom, as they may determine from time to time, shall be chairman; (2) the three Corresponding Secretaries elected by the General Conference; the President, the Treasurer, and Recording Secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension; the Recording Secretary being ex officio Secretary of the General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension; (3) two representatives from each General Conference Districtone Minister and one Layman-elected by the General Conference on the nomination of the delegates of the Districts, respectively, who shall be the same persons elected to serve on the General Committee of Foreign Missions; (4) as many representatives elected by the Board as there are General Conference Districts, not more than five of whom shall be from any one Annual Conference, and including, as nearly as may be, an equal number of Ministers and Laymen; (5) the representatives provided for in the chapter on City Societies. § 2. It shall be the duty of the General Committee to meet annually in such place and on such day in the month of November as shall be appointed by the Corresponding Secretaries. ¶ 420. The General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension shall determine: (1) What amount each Annual Conference, Mission Conference, and Mission shall be asked to raise by collections for Home Missions and Church Extension; (2) what amount shall be appropriated for Home Missions and what amount shall be authorized for Church Extension within each Annual Conference, Mission Conference, and Mission; (3) what amount shall be set apart for the Contingent Fund for Home Mission purposes and what amount shall be set apart as an Emergency Fund in the Church Extension Department; (4) what amount shall be set apart for office expenses, salaries, traveling expenses, publications, and other items; (5) what amount shall be set apart for the education of missionaries among foreign-speaking peoples in the United States. 421. The General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension shall have authority to counsel and direct the Board in the administration of the trusts committed to its care; provided, however, that no direction shall be given to the Board as to donations or loans to particular Churches. 422, § 1. Expenses incurred by the General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension in discharge of its duties shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Board. § 2. The General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension may set apart a sum to be used as a Contingent Fund for Home Mission purposes. This fund shall be used only in the case of unforeseen and unexpected need, and the Board may grant aid from the Contingent Fund on the application of the Pastor, indorsed by the Executive Committee of the Conference Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, with the approval of the District Superintendent. § 3. The General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension may appropriate an amount each year as an Emergency Fund for Church Extension purposes. § 4. The General Committee of Home Missions and Church Extension shall have power to make such appropriations as it may deem necessary to aid in the |