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5. Are you resolved to devote yourself wholly to God and his work?

6. Do you know the General Rules of our Church?

7. Do you keep them?

8. Have you studied the Doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church?

9. After full examination do you believe that our Doctrines are in harmony with the Holy Scriptures?

12. Will you preach and maintain them?

1. Have you studied our form of Church Discipline and Polity?

12. Do you approve our Church Government and Polity?

13. Will you support and maintain them?

14. Have you considered the Rules of a Preacher, especially the first, ninth, and eleventh?

15. Will you keep them for conscience' sake? 16. Are you determined to employ all your time in the work of God?

17. Will you dilligently instruct the children in every place?

18. Will you visit from house to house?

19. Will you recommend fasting or abstinence, both by precept and example?

20. Are you in debt so as to embarrass you in the work of the Ministry?

21. Will you wholly abstain from the use of tobacco?

¶ 155. A Preacher on Trial may be admitted into Full Connection in the Annual Conference after he has been employed in the regular itinerant work on Circuits, in Stations, or in our Institutions of Learning for two successive years from the time he was received on Trial; provided he has given satisfaction and is approved by the Conference after examination by the President.

¶ 156. A Missionary employed on a Foreign Mission may be admitted into Full Connection if recommended by the Superintendent of the Mission where he labors, without being present at the Annual Conference for examination; but he shall in all cases answer the questions in T 154 in the presence of the Annual Meeting of the Mission when practicable; otherwise in the presence of the Superintendent.

The Reception of Ministers from other Evangelical Churches.

¶ 157. Ministers of other Churches who may offer to unite with us may be received in the following manner :

§ 1. If they come to us properly accredited from any branch of the Methodist Church they may be received, according to their credentials,

as Local Deacons or Elders by an Annual Con... ference, they having been duly recommended by a Quarterly Conference. Those of them who are duly certified as members in good standing in Annual Conferences, until the time of their dismissal therefrom, may be admitted by an Annual Conference either on trial or into full connection, with recognition of their orders, upon giving satisfaction as to their literary and other qualifications for the work of the ministry; and a previous reception of such ministers as Local Deacons or Elders shall not be a bar to such admission by the Annual Conference, provided that they are duly recommended by the Quarterly Conference.

§ 2. If Ministers come to us properly accredited from any other Evangelical Church they may be received by the Quarterly Conference as Preachers not entitled to administer the Sacraments; and the Annual Conference being satisfied as to their qualifications for the Ministry, and of their agreement with us in Doctrine and Discipline, may recognize their Orders, on condition of their taking upon them our Ordination Vows, and may also admit them on Trial or into Full Connection.

¶ 158. Whenever a Minister is received according to either of the foregoing sections he shall be furnished with a Certificate, signed by a Bishop, in the following words, namely:

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cuit,] he having been ordained to the office of a Deacon, for an Elder, as the case may be,] according to the usages of the ...... Church, of which he has been a Member and Minister; and he is hereby authorized to exercise the functions pertaining to his Office in the Methodist Episcopal Church so long as his life and conversation are such as become the Gospel of Christ. "Given under my hand and seal, at .... day of ......1 in the year of our Lord

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The Election of Bishops and their Duty.

¶ 159. A Bishop is to be constituted by the election of the General Conference and the laying on of the hands of three Bishops, or at least one Bishop and two Elders. But the General Conference may authorize the election of a Missionary Bishop in the interim of the General Conference. ¶ 160. If by death, or otherwise, there be no Bishop remaining in our Church, the General Conference shall elect a Bishop, and the Elders, or any three of them, who shall be appointed by the General Conference for that purpose, shall consecrate him according to the Ritual.

¶ 161. The duties of a Bishop are: § 1. To preside in our Conferences.

§ 2. To form the Districts according to his judgment.

§ 3. To fix the appointments of the Preachers; provided, he shall not allow any Preacher to remain in the same Station more than five years successively; except the Presiding Elders; the Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society; the Corresponding Secretary and Assistant Corresponding Secretaries of the Board of Church Extension; the Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society; the Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education; the Editors, Assistant Editors, and Agents at New York and Cincinnati; the Editors and Assistant Editors at Syracuse, Pittsburg, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, and New Orleans; the Editor of the Zion's Herald; the Editor of the Methodist Advocate at Chattanooga; Missionaries among the Indians, Welsh, Swedes, Norwegians, and other Missionaries among Foreigners, (not including the Germans in the United States, except those on the Pacific Coast,) where supplies are difficult to be obtained; our Preachers in Germany and Switzerland; Missionaries to neglected portions of our cities and on foreign stations; Chaplains to reformatory, sanitary, and charitable institutions; to prisons, and in the army and navy; those Preachers who may be appointed to labor for the

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