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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I MEMBERSHIP L Admission into the Church If 48. In order to prevent Improper persons from gaining admission into the Church, and in order to exercise the power of godly admonition and discipline: 1. Let great care he taken in receiving members, and let no one be enrolled as a probationer unless he gives satisfactory evidence of an earnest desire to be saved from his sins, and to enjoy the fellowship of God's people. 2. Let the Pastor and the Class Leaders see that all who seek admission are made acquainted with the doctrines, rules, and regulations of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Such persons are expected to conform carefully to all the rules and usages of the Church; they are entitled to all its spiritual privileges and aids; but they may not be members of the Quarterly Conference, nor take part in judicial proceedings except as witnesses. 3. Let no one be admitted into full membership in the Church until he has been recommended by the Official Board or the Leaders and Stewards' Meeting, with the approval of the Pastor; has been baptized, and, on examination, has given satisfactory assurances both of the correctness of his faith and of his willingness to observe and keep the rules of the Church, when he may be admitted in accordance with the form prescribed in l f 463. 4. A member in good standing in any Orthodox Evangelical Church who desires to unite with us may, on giving satisfactory answers to the usual inquiries, be received into membership. 5. Let the Pastor and the Committee on Church Records be careful to see that the names of all persons received into the Church are duly recorded; and the Pastor shall report at each Quarterly Conference all changes that have occurred in the membership during the quarter. If 173, 30. II. Ba...