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Subtitle: Or, a Popular Exposition of the Doctrines, Peculiar Usages, and Ecclesiastical Machinery of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South Subjects: Methodism Religion / Christianity / Methodist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X. GOVEBNMENT OF THE CHURCH I. The General Conference. The supreme government of the Church is rested in the General Conference. It is a law-makiny body. It is composed of the Bishops of the whole Church,, and of ministerial and lay delegates who are elected by the several Annual Conferences. The clerical members of each Annual Conference elect one representative of their number for every twenty-eight of the whole body. An equal number of lay delegates is then elected by the lay members. The Business Of The General Conference. 1. The election of Bishops when deemed necessary. 2. To create and readjust the boundaries of the An nual Conferences. 3. To revise the laws and rules of the Discipline. 4. To superintend the interest of Foreign Missions. 5. To elect officers to conduct the business of the general Publishing House. These items embrace the leading matters of the General Conference work. That body, however, has full powers to make rules and regulations for the Church, under the following restrictions: (1) They cannot change the Articles of Religion, or the standards of doctrine; (2) cannot change certain ratio of Annual Conference representation; (3) cannot destroy the episcopacy; (4) cannot change the General Rule of the Unitad Societies; (5) cannot destroy the privi leges of trial as prescribed in Discipline; (6) canno ap...