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wholly to God and his work? Do you know the rules of society?-of the bands ? Do you keep them? Do you constantly attend the sacrament? Have you read the form of discipline? Are you willing to conform to it? Have you considered the rules of a preacher, especially the first, tenth, and twelfth ? Will you keep them for conscience' sake? Are you determined to employ all your time in the work of God? Will you endeavour not to speak too long or too loud? Will you diligently instruct the children in every place? Will you visit from house to house? Will you recommend fasting or abstinence, both by precept and example? Are you in debt?

We may then, if he give us satisfaction, receive him as a probationer, by giving him the form of discipline, inscribed thus :-To A. B. "You think it your duty to call sinners to repentance. Make full proof hereof, and we shall rejoice to receive you as a fellow labourer." Let him then carefully read and weigh what is contained therein; and if he have any doubt, it may be removed. Observe! taking on trial is entirely different from admitting a preacher into full connexion. One on trial may be either admitted or rejected, without doing him any wrong:otherwise it would be no trial at all. Let every one that has the charge of a circuit explain this to those who are on trial, as well as to those who are in future to be proposed for trial.

But no one shall be received on trial unless he first procure a recommendation from the quarterly meeting of his circuit. After two years probation, which is to commence from his being received on trial at the annual conference, and being approved by theannual conference, and examined by the president of the conference, he may be received into full connexion, by giving him the form of discipline, inscribed thus :"As long as you freely consent to, and earnestly endeavour to walk by these rules, we shall rejoice to acknowledge you as a fellow labourer."

If any preacher absent himself from his circuit without the leave of the presiding elder, the presiding elder shall, as far as possible, fill his place with another preacher, who shall be paid for his labours out of the allowance of the absent preacher, in proportion to the usual allowance.

SECTION IX.

Of the Duties of those who have the charge of Circuits.

Quest. 1. What are the duties of the elder, deacon, or preacher, who has the special charge of a circuit?

Answ. 1. To see that the other preachers in his circuit behave well, and want nothing.

2. To renew the tickets for the admission of members into love feast quarterly, and regulate the bands.

3. To meet the stewards and leaders as often as possible.

4. To appoint all the leaders, and change them when he sees it necessary.

5. To receive, try, and expel members, according to the form of discipline.

6. To hold watch nights and love feasts. 7. To hold quarterly meetings in the absence of the presiding elder.

8. To take care that every society be duly supplied with books.

9. To take an exact account of the numbers in society in their respective circuits, and deliver in such account to the annual conference, that they may be printed in the minutes.

10. To give an account of his circuit every quarter to his presiding elder.

11. To meet the men and women apart, in the large societies, once a quarter, whereever it is practicable.

12. To overlook the accounts of all the stewards.

13. To appoint a person to receive the quarterly collection in the classes.

14. To see that public collections be made quarterly, if need be.

15. To raise a yearly subscription in those circuits that can bear it, for building churches and paying the debts of those which have been already erected.

16. To choose a committee of lay members to make a just application of the money where it is most wanted.

Quest. 2. What other directions shall we give him ?

Answ. Several:

1. To take a regular catalogue of the societies in towns and cities, as they live in the

streets.

2. To leave his successor a particular account of the circuit.

3. To see that every band leader have the rules of the bands.

4. To enforce, vigorously, but calmly, all the rules of the society.

5. As soon as there are four men or women believers in any place, to put them into a band.

6. To suffer no love feast to last above an hour and a half.

7. To warn all, from time to time, that none are to remove from one circuit to another, without a note of recommendation from the preacher of the circuit, in these words:-" A. B. the bearer, has been an acceptable member of our church in C;"-and to inform them that, without such a certificate, they will not be received into the church in other places..

8. To recommend every where decency and cleanliness.

9. To read the rules of the society, with the aid of the other preachers, once a year in every congregation, and once a quarter in every society.

10. On any dispute between two or more of the members of our church, concerning the payment of debts, or otherwise, which cannot be settled by the parties concerned, the preacher who has the charge of the circuit shall inquire into the circumstances of the case; and shall recommend to the contending parties a reference, consisting of one arbiter chosen by the plaintiff, and another chosen by the defendant; which

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