Sec. 15. Of employing our time profitably

when we are not travelling, &c..........Page 71

Sec. 16. Of the necessity of union among our-

selves

Sec. 17. Of supernumerary and superannuated

or worn-out preachers.......

Sec. 18. Of local preachers................

CHAPTER V.

OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.

Sec. 1. Of public worship................................

72

73

74

77

Sec. 2. Of the spirit and truth of singing....... 78

Sec. 3. Of class-meetings and love-feasts........ 79

Sec. 4. Of band societies....

81

CHAPTER VI.

OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.

Of Sunday schools and the religious instruction

of children......

85

CHAPTER IX.

OF BRINGING MINISTERS AND MEMBERS TO TRIAL,

AND OF THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.

96

Sec. 1. Of the trial of a Bishop........Page 90

Sec. 2. Of the method of proceeding against

accused travelling ministers or preachers... 91

Sec. 3. Of the trial of local preachers............

Sec. 4. Of bringing to trial, finding guilty, and

reproving, suspending, or excluding, dis-

orderly persons from society and Church

privileges..........

98

Sec. 3. Of the ministration of baptism to such

as are of riper years.......

107

CHAPTER III.

FORMS OF ORDINATION.

Sec. 1. The form of ordaining a Bishop...Page 122

Sec. 2. The form and manner of ordaining

Elders.....

Sec. 3. The form and manner of making of

Deacons.....

132

144

CHAPTER IV.

THE FORM OF SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.

The form of solemnization of matrimony...... 149

CHAPTER V.

ORDER OF THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

The order of the burial of the dead.............. 155

OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY.

Sec. 1. Of building churches, and the order to

be observed therein......

169

Sec. 2. Form of a deed of settlement............ 171

Sec. 3. Of trustees.......

175

CHAPTER III.

OF SUPPORT AND SUPPLIES.

Sec. 1. Of the support of bishops.......Page 178

Sec. 2. Of the allowance to ministers and

preachers, and to their wives, widows, and

children...

Sec. 3. Local preachers to have an allowance

in certain cases.....

Sec. 4. Of the qualifications, appointment, and

duty, of the stewards of circuits and sta-

tions.....

Sec. 5. Of raising annual supplies for the prop-

agation of the gospel, &c..

179

182

182

184

Sec. 6. Of building and renting houses for the

use of the travelling preachers................................................. 188

CHAPTER IV.

THE SUPPORT OF MISSIONS.

The support of missions.........

CHAPTER V.

OF THE CHARTERED FUND.

190

Of the Chartered Fund.....

195

CHAPTER VI.

PRINTING AND CIRCULATING OF BOOKS.

Of printing and circulating of books............ 197

CHAPTER VII.

OF SLAVERY.

Of slavery.........

209

THE

DOCTRINES AND DISCIPLINE

OF THE

METHODIST E. CHURCH.

PART I.

Origin, Doctrines, and Administratibe
Bules.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN AND ARTICLES.

SECTION I.

Of the Origin of the Methodist E. Church. THE preachers and members of our society in general, being convinced that there was a great deficiency of vital religion in the Church of England in America, and being in many places destitute of the Christian sacraments, as several of the clergy had forsaken their churches, requested the late Rev. John Wesley to takę such measures, in his wisdom and prudence, as would afford them suitable relief in their distress.

In consequence of this, our venerable friend, who, under God, had been the father of the great revival of religion now extending over the earth, by the means of the