SECTION III.

OF LOVE-FEASTS.

103. Ques. 1. What directions are given concerning love-feasts?

Ans. 1. Love-feasts shall be held quarterly, or at such other times as the preacher in charge may consider expedient, with closed doors, to which, besides Church-members, other serious persons may be admitted by him.

Ans. 2. In conducting the love-feast, after singing and prayer, the preacher may make a short address, setting forth the nature and design of this institution; every one present then partakes of a little bread and water, in token of brotherly love; the members then give brief details of their religious experience; and the meeting is closed with singing and prayer.

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SECTION IV.

OF CLASS-MEETINGS.

T104. Ques. 1. What directions are given concerning class-meetings?

Ans. 1. Let the membership of every church, wherever it is practicable, be divided into smaller companies, called classes, according to their respective places of abode; and let the members be exhorted to attend the meetings of the same.

Ans. 2. Two or more classes may meet at the same time and place, at their own option, and their leaders may alternate in conducting the exercises.

Ans. 3. The pastor shall visit every class once a quarter, and report its condition to the Quarterly Conference; and let him hold general class-meetings as often as he shall find it expedient.

105. Ques. 2. Can any thing be

done in order to make the class-meet

ings more profitable?

Ans. 1. Change improper leaders. Ans. 2. Let the leaders frequently meet each other's classes.

Ans. 3. Let us observe which leaders are the most useful; and let these meet the other classes as often as possible.

SECTION V.

OF SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.

106. Ques. What directions shall be given concerning Sunday-schools? Ans. 1. Let Sunday - schools be formed in all our congregations, where ten persons can be collected for that purpose; and let mission - schools be formed wherever practicable.

Ans. 2. Let all the Sunday-schools connected with our congregations be under the control of our own Church; and

let them use our own Catechisms, Question-books, and periodical literature.

Ans. 3. The Quarterly Conference of each circuit and station shall be a Board of Managers, having the supervision of all the Sunday-schools within its bounds. It shall elect at the fourth Quarterly Conference of each year, on nomination of the preacher in charge, a superintendent for each Sunday-school under its care: provided, that when a vacancy occurs in the superintendency of any Sunday-school during the interim of the Quarterly Conference, the preacher in charge shall appoint a superintendent to serve until the meeting of the next Quarterly Conference: and provided, also, that the preacher in charge shall appoint a superintendent for any new school that may be organized between the meetings of the Quarterly Conference.

Ans. 4. It shall be the duty of the preacher in charge of every circuit and station to be present in all the Sundayschools in his charge as often as practicable, to catechise the children, to preach to them as often as convenient, to exhort them to attend regularly upon divine service, to see that they are instructed in the doctrines and usages of our Church, and to look after their spiritual welfare as a part of his regular pastoral charge. He shall also lay before the Quarterly Conference, at each quarterly-meeting, to be entered upon its journal, a written statement of the number and state of the Sunday-schools in his charge, and of the pastoral instruction of children, and make a report of the same to his Annual Confer

ence.

Ans. 5. Each Annual Conference shall establish a Sunday-school Board,