to the Pastors entitled to receive the same, except in the case of City Societies, as provided for in ¶ 438, § 1. IX. Italian Missions ¶ 432, § 1. Where Quarterly Conferences are properly organized, the English-speaking District Superintendent within the bounds of whose District the Italian work is being carried on shall preside in the Quarterly Conference and have charge of the local administration, subject to the approval of the Bishop in charge of the Mission. Where there are no regularly organized Quarterly Conferences within the bounds of the Mission, the English-speaking District Superintendent shall visit such local Missions at least twice a year for the purpose of intelligently directing the work. § 2. The appointment of Italian-speaking Ministers and workers shall be under the direction of the Mission, and said appointment shall be made by the Bishop in charge. § 3. Where there are city organizations they shall have the right to elect from three to five persons to membership in the Mission Quarterly Conference, either from the membership of the said organizations or otherwise, as the city organizations may designate. The persons so elected shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of membership in the Quarterly Conference. § 4. All regular statistical reports and all moneys collected for the Church benevolences within the bounds of the Mission shall be reported by the Mission and shall not appear in the report of the Annual Conferences except as supplementary. § 5. A committee on estimate, composed of the Bishop in charge of the Mission, a secretary from the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, the Superintendent of the Mission, and one Italian Minister and one Layman (the last two to be named by the Bishop in charge of the Mission), shall prepare a report prior to the meeting of the General Committee, which, after due presentation of the claims of the Mission through the District Superintendent, shall be transmitted to the General Committee through the District Representative. § 6. All Italian candidates for our Ministry, either traveling or local, shall be examined in the prescribed course of studies by the committee appointed for that purpose in the Mission, and such candidates shall be examined in the Italian language, and all recommendations for admission into Annual Conferences shall come from said Mission. X. Annual Conferences and Home Missions and ¶ 433. It shall be the duty of each Annual Conference to examine strictly into the state of the Missions within its bounds, and to allow none to remain on its list of Missions which, in the judgment of the Conference, are capable of self-support. It shall annually report through its Secretary to the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension at Philadelphia the name of each District and Charge, within its bounds, sustained in whole or in part by said Conference as a Mission, together with the amount of missionary money appropriated to such for the year; and shall publish the same in the Journal of the Annual Conference. The detailed statement shall be given, with totals by Districts and for the Conference, with the certified approval of the Bishop. It shall furnish such other information as may be required by the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. Each Annual Conference shall send through its Secretary to the office of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension a copy of its printed Journal as soon as may be practicable. Each Annual Conference shall arrange, in such way as it may deem best, for an anniversary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, to be held during the session of the Conference. XI. District Superintendents ¶ 434. It shall be the duty of each District Superintendent to bring the subject of Home Missions and Church Extension before the Quarterly Conference of each Charge within his District at the last Quarterly Conference in each year; and said Quarterly Conference shall appoint a Committee, of which one Epworth League President and one Sunday School Superintendent shall be members, to be called the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, whose duty it shall be to aid the Pastor in carrying into effect the provisions of the Discipline and the plans of the Board for the support of this cause, and in securing at least the amount asked of the Pastoral Charge; and the District Superintendent shall inquire in each Quarterly Conference of each year what has been done for this cause, and whether the amount asked has been received; and if not, he shall urgently request that such measures be taken às will secure the amount before the close of the year. He shall see that the provisions of this section are faithfully executed in his District. He shall inquire at each session of the Quarterly Conference if the Sunday Schools have been organized into Missionary Societies, and if the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension has been properly represented in each school. He shall also urge that the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension shall be presented to the Congregations and people separately from every other cause. XII. Pastors ¶ 435, § 1. The support of Home Missions and Church Extension is committed to the Churches, Congregations, and Societies as such. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, to provide for the diffusion of information concerning the work of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. He shall preach, or cause to be preached, a sermon on this subject in each Congregation every year. He shall secure a separate presentation of the cause of Home Missions and Church Extension, and a collection separate from every other cause for the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, and, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, shall solicit a contribution from each member of the Church and Congregation, endeavoring to secure at least the amount asked as above provided; and he shall, at the Annual Con ference, report the amount received. He shall invite also special contributions in aid of the Annuity and Loan Fund of the Board. Each Pastor is exhorted to utilize the services of the Committee appointed by the Quarterly Conference. § 2. It shall be the duty of the Pastor, aided by the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension, to institute a bimonthly missionary prayer meeting or lecture in each Society, Church, Congregation, or Sunday School wherever practicable, for the purpose of imploring the divine blessing on Home Missions and Church Extension, and for the diffusion of missionary intelligence. § 3. It shall be the duty of the Pastor to see that each Sunday School on his Charge is organized into a Missionary Society, and that at least one Sunday of each month is observed in the interest of Missions and a collection taken, which shall be divided as follows: forty-five per cent to the Board of Foreign Missions, forty-five per cent to the Board 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. With the coöperation of the Local Sunday School Board, it shall be the duty of the Sunday School Missionary Society to provide brief missionary exercises in the Sunday School on the day that the monthly missionary collection is taken, to cause suitable literature to be distributed in the Sunday School, and to arrange for occasional missionary concerts. The Sunday School Missionary Society shall include Home Missions and Church Extension, Foreign Missions, and the Board of Sunday Schools. |