The Doctrines and Discipline of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church / Revised Edition 1918

Transcriber's Note:
Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been rationalised.
The text is divided into fifty eight Chapters, which are grouped into nine Parts. The Chapters are not identified in the Contents pages: they mostly coincide with the topics noted there, though not with their numbering. The numbering of pages is occasionally out of sequence, generally when a topic is discussed more than once.
Both the Index and the Contents Pages use expressions that identify the page number and section/subsection to which they relate. These expressions are explained in the Note immediately before the Index.
A number of words and phrases are bolded in the original. These have been bolded in this text. Where the original treatment is unclear a guess has been necessary.
Passages in smaller font in Part IX (The Ritual), that describe actions to be taken by a minister or the congregation, are indented.
REVISED EDITION 1918
COPYRIGHTED 1918, By The AGENT and Publishers of the COLORED M. E. CHURCH

To the Members of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church:
We esteem it our duty and privilege most earnestly to recommend to you, as members of our Church, our form of Discipline, which has been founded on the experience of a long series of years.
We wish to see this publication in the house of every member of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church; and the more so, as it contains the Articles of Religion maintained more or less, in part or in whole, by every reformed Church in the world.