This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...or charitable institutions, secretaries and superintendents of city missions and the principals of institutions of learning, which are under our care, though not elected by the General Conference, are appointed and registered in a similar manner. In addition, the General Conference has enacted that a Bishop may, if ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...or charitable institutions, secretaries and superintendents of city missions and the principals of institutions of learning, which are under our care, though not elected by the General Conference, are appointed and registered in a similar manner. In addition, the General Conference has enacted that a Bishop may, if requested by an Annual Conference, appoint an agent to distribute tracts, an agent or agents to promote temperance, an agent or agents for the benefit of institutions of learning, an agent for the German Publishing Fund, and agents for other benevolent institutions, and also instructors in institutions of learning not under our care. He may also, if requested, appoint editors of unofficial papers or magazines, published in the interest of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one or more members of an Annual Conference to do evangelistic work on charges. At first glance the power exercised by the General Conference in connection with the foregoing appointments, especially those with which the Bishop cannot deal without being requested to do so by the Annual Conference, would seem to be an invasion of the constitutional rights of the Bishops; but it does not tend "to do away the episcopacy" or destroy "the plan of our itinerant General Superintendency"; and as it is often a relief to the Bishop, it comes under the "full power" to make rules and regulations for the Church, conferred by the Constitution on the General Conference. CHAPTER XXVI The Third Restrictive Rule (Continued) POWERS OF THE BISHOP WHEN PRESIDING IN GENERAL CONFERENCE For a full iDterpretation of this important question, an account of the original relation of the Bishops to the Conference is necessary. Early in the history of the Church the prerogative...
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