approved by the Quarterly Conferences shall be organized into District Superintendents' District Leagues, and may also be formed into General Conference District Leagues. The District Superintendent shall be ex officio a member of the District Cabinet. Other groupings may be arranged for the advantage of the work, such as Annual Conference Leagues, State Leagues, and City Leagues, and whenever such organization shall be made it shall become thereby a regular Disciplinary organization within the provisions of this section. The Chapter shall be under the control of the Quarterly Conference and Pastor. Any Young People's Society may become an affiliated Chapter of the Epworth League, provided that it adopt the aims of the League, that its President and other Officers and its general plans of work are approved by the Pastor and Official Board or Quarterly Conference, and that it is enrolled at the Central Office.

§ 4. ARTICLE IV. Government. The management of the Epworth League shall be vested in a Board of Control, which shall consist of a Bishop, the General Secretary, the Editor of the Epworth Herald, and one member from each General Conference District, nominated by the delegates of the respective General Conference Districts and elected by the General Conference. There shall also be three members at large, consisting of two Laymen and one Minister, appointed by the Board of Bishops. The Bishop shall be President of the Epworth League and of the Board of Control. The German Assistant Secretary, the Assistant Secretary of the Colored Conferences, and the Assistant Secretary of the Junior League shall be advisory members of the Board of Control. In case

of a vacancy in the office of General Secretary during the quadrennium, the same shall be filled by the Board of Control. Any vacancy occurring in the District membership of the Board of Control by a District member's removal from the District from which he was elected, or by any cause whatsoever, shall be filled by the Board of Control from the Conference to which said member belonged. The Board of Control shall meet at least four times during each quadrennium.

§ 5. ARTICLE V. Officers. The Officers of the League shall be a President, a Vice-President, a General Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer. The President shall be chosen as herein before provided. The Vice-President and Recording Secretary shall be chosen by the Board of Control from its own body. The General Secretary shall be elected by the General Conference, and shall be the executive officer of the League. He shall have charge of the correspondence, shall keep the records of the League, and may speak or provide speakers for Annual Conference anniversaries, and perform such other duties as the Board of Control may direct. The Editor of the Epworth Herald shall be elected by the General Conference, and shall perform such duties as relate to the editorial departments of Epworth League publications. The Treasurer shall be elected by the Board of Control.

These Officers shall be elected quadrennially, and shall hold office until their successors are chosen.

Vacancies in any of the above-mentioned positions, except the Presidency and the Editorship of the Epworth Herald, shall be filled by the Board of Control.

§ 6. ARTICLE VI. German Assistant Secretary. The Editor of Haus und Herd is constituted the German Assistant Secretary of the Epworth League.

§ 7. ARTICLE VII. Assistant Secretary for Colored Conferences. There shall be an Assistant Secretary of the Epworth League for work within colored Conferences, to be elected quadrennially by the Board of Control, who shall perform such duties as the Board of Control may direct.

§ 8. ARTICLE VIII. Finances. The salary of the Editor of the Epworth Herald shall be fixed by the Book Committee and paid by the Book Concern. The salaries of the General Secretary and Assistant Secretary for work within colored Conferences shall be fixed by the Board of Control, and shall be paid, together with such administrative expenses as may be authorized by the Board of Control, and in such amount as the Board of Control may designate, from contributions by the Local Chapters, and the profits on Epworth League publications and supplies.

§ 9. ARTICLE IX. Central Office. The Central Office of the Epworth League shall be in Chicago, Illinois.

§ 10. ARTICLE X. Local Constitution. The Constitution for Local Chapters shall be determined by the Board of Control; provided, however, that no enactment shall be made which shall in any manner conflict with this General Constitution.

§ 11. ARTICLE XI. By-Laws. The Board of Control shall have power to enact such By-Laws for its own government as will not conflict with this Constitution.

§ 12. ARTICLE XII. Amendments. This Constitution shall be altered or amended only by the General Conference.

II. Presidents of Local Chapters

¶ 489. The President of an Epworth League Chapter must be a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and shall be elected by the Chapter and confirmed by the Quarterly Conference, of which body he shall then become a member if approved by it for membership therein. It shall be his duty to present to the Quarterly Conference a report of his Chapter, together with such other information as the Conference may require and he may be able to give.

III. District Superintendents and Pastors

490. It shall be the duty of the District Superintendents when holding District or Quarterly Conferences to inquire into the condition of Epworth League Chapters and such other Young People's Societies as may be under the control of the Quarterly and District Conferences, and to ascertain whether they are conducting their affairs in harmony with the purpose and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

¶491. It shall be the duty of Pastors to organize and maintain, if practicable, Chapters of the Epworth League.

See ¶ 578.

CHAPTER XII

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

CHAPTER XIII

BOARD OF TEMPERANCE, PROHIBITION, AND PUBLIC MORALS

¶ 492, § 1. In order to make more effectual the efforts of the Church to create public sentiment and crystallize the same into successful opposition to the organized traffic in intoxicating liquors, the General Conference hereby authorizes the organization of a Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church under the following constitution:

§ 2. ARTICLE I. The object of this Board is to promote voluntary total abstinence from all intoxicants and narcotics by the members of the Church, Sunday School, Junior and Epworth Leagues, and to secure the speedy enactment of statutory and constitutional laws prohibiting the traffic in alcoholic liquors.

§ 3. ARTICLE II. The management of this Society shall be vested in a Board of Managers consisting of a Bishop, who shall be the President, and twenty persons at least two thirds of whom shall reside in the territory in, near or convenient of access to Washington, D. C. These shall be nominated by the Board of Bishops and elected by the General Conference. The Board of Managers shall meet annually, and at such annual meetings shall fill vacancies in the Board caused by death, resignation, or otherwise.

§ 4. ARTICLE III. The officers of the Board shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The President shall be a Bishop, chosen by the Board of Bishops, and the other officers shall be elected by