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 encourage the support of missions* and Sunday-schools, and the publication and distribution of Bibles, tracts,† and Sunday-school books, by forming societies and making collections for these objects in such way and manner as the Annual Conference to which he belongs shall from time to time direct.

16. To publicly catechise the children in the Sunday-school and at special meetings appointed for that purpose. It shall also be the duty of each Preacher, in his report to each Quarterly Conference, to state to what extent he has publicly or privately catechised the children of his charge.

17. To form Bible classes for the larger children, youth, and adults; to attend to all the duties prescribed for the training of children in part i, chap. i, § 3 and part iv, § 1.

18. If the Annual Conference to which he belongs should not give any directions on the subject, to take up a collection in ́ the course of the year, or raise a subscrip

See part iv, § 2. + See part iv, §§ 1 and 5.

tion, as he may judge expedient, the proceeds of which shall be at his disposal in the purchase and distribution of tracts.

19. To lay before the Quarterly Conference, at each quarterly meeting, as far as practicable, to be entered on its journal, a written statement of the number and state of the Sunday-schools in the circuit or station, and to report the same to his Annual Conference according to the form published by the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church, together with the amount raised for the support of missions, and for the publication of Bibles and tracts.

20. To take an annual collection in each of his appointments in behalf of the SundaySchool Union.

21. 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.

22. 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, including an account of the subscribers for our periodicals.

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

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

5. 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 the Methodist Episcopal Church." And to inform them that, without such a certificate, they will not be received into the Church in other places.

6. To recommend everywhere decency and cleanliness.

7. 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.

8. The Preacher who has the charge of a circuit shall appoint prayer-meetings whereever he can in his circuit.

9. Wherever it is practicable he shall so arrange the appointments as to give the

Local Preachers regular and systematic employment on the Sabbath.

10. He shall take care that a fast be held in every society in his circuit on the Friday preceding every quarterly meeting, and that a memorandum of it be written on all the class papers.

11. To license such persons as he may judge proper to officiate as exhorters in the Church, provided no person shall be so licensed without the consent of the Leaders' Meeting, or of the class of which he is a member, where no Leaders' Meeting is held; and the exhorters so authorized shall be subject to the annual examination of character in the Quarterly Conference, and have their license annually renewed by the Presiding Elder, or the Preacher having the charge, if approved by the Quarterly Conference.

Quest. 3. What can be done to supply the circuits during the sittings of the Conferences?

Answ. 1. Let all the appointments stand according to the plan of the circuit.

2. Engage as many Local Preachers and exhorters as will supply them, and let them be paid for their time in proportion to the allowance of the Traveling Preachers.

3. If Preachers and exhorters cannot attend let some person of ability be appointed in every society to sing, pray, and read one of Mr. Wesley's sermons.

4. But if that cannot be done let there be prayer-meetings.

N. B. The Preachers who have the oversight of circuits are required to execute all our rules fully and strenuously against all frauds, and particularly against dishonest insolvencies, suffering none to remain in our Church on any account who are found guilty of any fraud.

For the mode of procedure in case of insolvency of members, and in settling. disputes, etc., as to the payment of debts or otherwise, see part ii, chap. x, 2, item 6.