NOTE. INDEX Abstinence, [33] ;78:4. Admission of , ministers on trial, [82] ;ministers into full connection, [83] . Adults, baptism of, [278] . Agent , book, see Book Agent;for Bible Society, [70] :1:b; Sunday School, [70] :d; literary institutions, [71] :1:e. American Bible Society, [70] :1:b. Alms giving, Article, [28] . Annual Conference , members of, [43] :1-4;number and boundary of, [44] ; Enabling Act, [44] ; time and place of meeting, [45] :3-4; presiding officer, [45] :5; order of business, [46] ; preachers on trial, [82] :1; discontinued, [83] :3; in full membership, [83] :2; located, [101] :3; institutions of learning, [50] ; [214] ; [237] ; parsonages and churches, [51] ; [166] ; committees of examination, [51] ; candidates for the ministry, [52] :5; examinations, standard of, [52] :6; General Minutes, [53] :8; Statistical secretary, [53] . Apparel, General Rule, [30] . Appeals , right of, [41] :5;Arbitration , stewards on, [107] :2;Articles of Religion , [15] ;Auditing Committee, [189] :3. Baptism , Article on, [23] ;administered to: infants, [273] ; to adults, [278] ; to be recorded by pastor, [80] :12; administered by deacon, [87] :3; elder, [89] :3; a sacrament, [22] . Baptized children, [121] . Benediction, Apostolic, [117] :4. Bible Classes, [122] :5. Bible, only rule of faith and practice, [17] ; [33] . Bible Society, American, [70] . Bishops , election and duties of, [69] ; [227] :8;
[232] :6; [197] :7;Boards , Church Extension, Missions, Publishing, Education,
Sunday School, Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans, Epworth
League, see departments of;of Finance, see Joint Board; directors, [229] ; Equalization, [177] :II; General Departments, members of, [357] . Book Agent , [53] :8; [177] :2; [178] :2-3;Book House, [190] :1. Books and periodicals, [79] :9; [187] :3-5; [224] :3. Books, reading of, General Rule against, [30] . Borrowing, rule, [31] . Boundaries of Annual Conferences, [247] . Building Churches and parsonages, [166] . Burial of the dead, form of, [295] . Buying and selling, General Rules, [30] . Buying church property, [170] . Call to preach, [97] . Candidates , for the ministry, recommended by quarterly conference, [59] :6;
[62] :13-14;directed to studies, [77] :8; to be admitted, on trial, [82] ; into full connection, [83] ; for deacons, [86] ; for elders, [87] ; course of study, [361] . Canonical Books, Article on, [17] . Catechism, to be used, [122] :4; [224] :2. Ceremonies, Article on, [26] . Certificate of membership , [81] ;ministers from other churches, [93] :4. Chaplaincy, provision for, [70] . Charitable institutions, [166] :1. Children, instruction of, [121] . Children's Day, [233] . Christian Index , [187] ;Christian Man's Oath , Article on, [28] ;Church, Article on, [21] . Church Conference, [63] . Church Extension , Board of, [358] ;members of, [202] ; authority of, [202] :2-4; executive committee, [203] :III:1-3; Secretary of, [203] :IV:1-7; revenue, [205] :5; form of application, [206] :7; further authority of, [206] :6; conference board of, [207] :8; books, [208] :10. Church membership , how secured, [115] ;Church , laying corner stone of, [305] ;dedication of, [311] ; buying lots, [170] ; division or sale of church property, [172] ; building churches, [166] ; building parsonages, [169] ; trustees of, [110] . Circuits, stations and missions, uniting and dividing, [73] :8. Circulation of books and periodicals, [79] :9; [187] :3;
[198] :4; [224] :3. Class Leaders, [104] . Class Meetings, [119] . Collections , Class, [104] ;Commissions , Unification; Book House; Federal Council; Churches of
Christ; Compilation of Discipline; Educational Standards, [357] .Committees , of examination, [51] ;of investigation: of Bishops, [129] ; of presiding elders, [135] ; of traveling preachers, [134] ; of local preachers, [141] ; of members, [145] :a. Communion, see Lord's Supper. Community of goods, not enjoined, Article, [28] . Complaints, [60] ;against a traveling preacher, [138] :5. Conferences , General, [37] ;Annual, [43] ; District, [54] ; Quarterly, [57] ; Church, [63] ; records of: Church Conferences, [64] :2; Quarterly Conferences, [60] :8; District Conferences, [55] :4; Annual Conferences, [57] :3. Confirmation, not a sacrament, Article [22] . Constitutions , Church Extension, Epworth League, Education,
Missions, Publishing, Sunday School, Superannuated Preachers, Widows
and Orphans; Woman's Missions, see departments of.Conversation, uncharitable, General Rule, [30] . Corner Stone laying, [305] . Council, Federal, Churches of Christ in America, [357] . Course of Study , local preachers, [361] ;traveling preachers, [362] . Court of Appeals, [150] . Credentials , Elders and deacons, deprivation of, [158] :1;restoration of, [158] :2; local deacons and elders, deprivation of, [159] :1; restoration of, [159] :2. Cross Bearing, General Rule, [32] . Cup of the Lord, Article, [24] . Dancing, [147] :2. Day of the Lord, not to be profaned, General Rule, [30] . Deacons , how constituted, [86] :1;missionary rule, [87] ; qualifications, [82] :2; duties of, [87] :3; local preachers, [99] :2; ritual of ordination, [317] . Decision , Episcopal, [72] ;Deed of settlement, [170] . Delegates , General Conference, clerical and lay, [37] ;restrictive rule, [40] -42; laymen to Annual Conference, [43] :1-3; [56] :3; laymen to District Conference, [55] :2. Deprivation and restoration of Credentials, [158] . Diligence and frugality, General Rule, [32] . Directions to preachers, [84] . Directory, to be kept by pastors, [79] :10. Disputes, how settled, [148] . Dissension, sowing of, [147] :3. Districts, Annual Conference, [73] :7;General conference, [74] :12. Division, transfer, and sale of church property, [172] . Divorced women, preachers not to marry, [59] :6. Doctrines of the church , [15] ;contrary one not to be disseminated, [138] :4; [143] ;4. Dress, General Rule, [30] . Drunkenness, General Rule, [30] . Eastern Index, [237] . Editors , Christian Index, [188] :5;Education , Board of, [358] ;Elders , how constituted, [87] :1;Election of , Bishops, [69] :1;general officers, see constitutions of departments; delegates to General Conference, [37] :1-2; to Annual Conference, [56] :3; to Orders, [46] ; [47] :9-16; [86] . Enabling Act, [44] . Episcopacy: see Bishops. Episcopal decisions, how guarded, [72] . Epworth League , object of, [209] :2;departments of, [209] :3; boards of, [210] :4; duties of secretary, [212] ; revenue of department, [213] :7; Annual Conference, District Conference, and local, chapters, [210] . Evil Speaking condemned, General Rule, [30] . Examination of, preachers, [51] ; [82] .Exhorters, license, [102] :1; Extreme Unction, not a sacrament, [22] . Family and private prayer, [33] . Fasting and abstinence, [33] ; [78] :4; [84] :2. Fighting, general rule, [30] . Finance , Joint Board of, how constituted, [184] :2;Financial plan , general assessment and division, [177] :1-2;Board of Equalization, [177] . Founder's Day, [245] . Free Will, Article, [19] . Frugality, General Rule, [32] . Full Connection, [83] . General Conference , how composed, [37] :1-2;delegates, clerical and lay, [37] ; voting by Orders, [38] :3; time and place of meeting, [38] :4; special session and delegates, [38] ; quorum, [39] :8; presiding officer, [39] :9; restrictions: cannot change articles of religion, [40] :1; restrictive rule for election of delegates, [40] :2; Episcopacy, not to be destroyed, [41] :3; General Rules, not to be revoked or changed, [41] :4; right of appeals, not to be destroyed, [41] :5; how to change restrictive rules, [41] ; unconstitutional laws, [42] . General Missionary Society , members of, [193] :2;General Rules , [29] ;must be read by pastors, [78] :3. Ghost, the Holy, Article, [16] . God, Article, [15] . Gold, putting on, General Rule, [31] . Good doing, General Rule, [31] . Good works, Article, [20] . Goods, Christian man's, Article, [28] . Goods, not paid for, General Rule, [30] . Government, duty to, [27] . Grace, means of, [32] ; [116] ; [235] . Holy Ghost, Article, [16] . Holy Scriptures, Article, [17] . Hospital, [166] :1. Index, Christian, [187] :4; Index, Eastern, [237] ; Index, Western, [236] ; Infant Baptism, Article on, [23] ; Institutions , of learning, provisions concerning, [50] :8;
[214] ; [237] ;Investigation, see committees of. Joint Board of Finance , how constituted, [184] :2;Junior Stewards, [108] :5. Junior Stewardesses, [109] :2. Journal of Conferences, [53] :7; [60] :8. Judicial administration, [129] . Justification, Article, [19] . Law, Bishops' decisions on, and appeal from, [72] :5. Law, Presiding Elders' decisions on, and appeal from, [76] :5. Law, going to, Rule, [30] . Laying Corner Stone, [305] . Lay delegates, [37] :1; [43] :2; [56] :3. Leaders, Class, [104] :1. Leaders' meeting, [235] . League, Epworth, see Epworth League. Lessens in Public Worship, [116] :1. Local Deacon, [99] :2. Local Elder, [99] :3. Local Preachers, [98] . Locate preachers, [101] :3. Lord's Day, not to be profaned, General Rule, [30] . Lord's Prayer, in Public Worship, [116] :1. Lord's Supper, Article, [24] ; Love Feasts, [120] . Magistrates, speaking evil of, [30] . Marriage of ministers, Article, [26] ;not to marry divorced women, [59] . Marriages to be recorded, [80] :12. Marriage performed by: deacon, [87] :3; Masses condemned, [25] . Matrimony, not a sacrament, Article, [22] ; Means of Grace, [32] ; [116] ; [235] . Meditation and prayer, [85] :3. Members of the Church , how received, [115] ;Ministers of other churches, how received, [91] . Ministers of the Gospel , (pastors and preachers), members of
annual conferences, [43] :2;examination of, [51] -52; duties of, [78] -81; [121] -122; deacons, [86] ; elders, [87] ; how appointed, [70] :b; advice to, [84] -86; trial of, [134] ; appeal of, [140] ; [150] ; unacceptable, [138] ; support of, [163] ; credentials, deprivation of, [158] :1; restoration of, [158] :2; ceasing to travel, [101] :3. Ministerial Court of Appeals, [150] . Ministerial Delegates, [37] . Ministers, speaking evil of, [30] . Ministry of the Word, [32] . Ministry , support of, pastors, [163] ;Missionaries, provisions for, [197] :7; [199] :2. Missionary on foreign fields admitted in full connection, [84] :3. Missionary Department, General, see General Missionary Department. Missionary Board, Woman's, see Woman's Missionary Board. Missionary Society, Woman's General, see Woman's General Missionary Society. Neglect means of grace, [235] . Oath, Christian man's, Article, [28] . Obedience to civil authority, Article, [27] . Oblation of Christ, Article, [25] . Official Board, or Leaders' meeting, [235] . Old Testament, Article, [18] . Order of Public Worship, [116] . Orders, not a sacrament, [22] . Orders , deacons, [86] ;Orders, voting by, [38] . Ordination Ritual , Deacons, [317] ;Original sin, Article, [18] . Orphans and widows of ministers, provisions for, [228] . Parsonages, building, [169] ; Pastors, see ministers. Pastoral Visitation, [79] :10; [85] . Pelagianism, [18] . Penance, not a sacrament, [22] . Periodicals, [187] :3; [224] :3. Poor, collections for, [106] :2. Post Office Addresses, [355] . Prayer , family, [33] ;Prayer Meetings, [118] . Preachers in charge, duties of, [78] . Preachers, local, [98] ; Preachers from other churches, [91] . Presiding Elders , appointment, [71] :2;Probationers for the Ministry, [82] . Public Worship, enjoined, [32] ; Publishing Department , object of, [187] :3;the Index, [188] :4; management, [188] :5; members of Board, [188] :II; annual meeting, [189] :II:3; Auditing Committee, [189] :III; Agent, see Book Agent; editors, see Editors; publishing fund, [177] ; [182] :7; surplus, [192] :VI:1. Punctuality, enjoined, [85] :2. Purgatory, [21] . Quarterly Conference , how composed, [57] :1;time and place, [57] :2; presiding officer, [57] :3; business, [58] -60; order of business, [60] -63. Quorum, [39] :8; [189] :3; [203] :2. Readmission, to Annual Conference, [46] ; [59] :6. Reading the Scriptures, [33] . Reception of members, into church, [115] ;Recommendation , to Annual Conference for admission on trial, [82] :2;local deacon, [99] :2; local elder, [99] :3. Recording Steward, [60] ; [109] ; [186] :4. Records of , membership, [80] :12-13;Church Conference, [64] :2; Quarterly Conference, [60] :8; District Conference, [55] :4; Annual Conference, [53] :7; investigation: of Bishops, [130] ; of preachers, [135] ; trial of, local preachers, [145] :4; members, [146] :d. Refusing to attend work, minister, [139] :6. Representation in General Conference, ratio of, [37] :1. Reproach of Christ, General Rule, [32] . Restoration of credentials, [158] :2; [159] :2. Restrictive Rules, [40] . Resurrection of Christ, Article, [16] . Retired Bishops, [74] :15; Riches, laying up, General Rule, [31] . Right of trial and appeal, [41] . Rites and ceremonies, Article, [26] . Ritual, [261] . Rulers of the United States, Article, [27] . Sabbath breaking, General Rule, [30] . Sacraments, [22] . Saints, not to be envoked, [21] . Schools and Colleges , [50] :8; [214] ; [237] ;consent of conference necessary to build, [50] :1. Scriptures , canonical, [17] ;duty of searching, [33] ; sufficiency of, Article, [17] ; Testament, the old, Article, [18] . Secretary, general, see departments. Securing churches and parsonages, [170] . Self denial and cross bearing, General Rule, [31] . Self indulgence, General Rule, [31] . Sick, visiting the, [85] :3; [106] :2; [320] . Sin original, Article, [18] . Singing, directions concerning, [118] . Slander forbidden, General Rule, [30] . Societies, see departments. Softness, General Rule, [31] . Songs, rule against, improper, General Rule, [30] . Speaking in strange tongues, Article, [22] . Special or called session, General Conference, [39] :6. Spirituous liquors, General Rule, [30] . Standing Committees , Annual Conference, committees on Course of Study, [51] .Statistics, [53] ; [77] :9; [81] :15; [47] . Statistician, [53] . Stewards, [105] ; Stewardesses, [109] :7; Study, Course of, [361] . Sunday School , [123] ;department of, [223] ; superintendent of, [59] :7; [60] ; [123] ; object, [224] :2; editor, [224] -225; Sunday School Boards in Annual, District and Quarterly Conferences, [226] :7; appointment of boards, [227] :8; order of business, [228] . Superannuated Preachers, [47] ; [90] ; Superannuated Preachers, Widows and Orphans , object of, [228] :1:2;Board of Directors, [229] :3-5; Secretary-Treasurer, [229] -230; funds of, [231] :III:1-2; payment of superannuates, [231] ; claims of widows and orphans, [232] :V:1-3; report from Joint Boards, [185] , a-b; [233] :I:4. Supererogation, Article, [20] . Supernumerary preachers, [89] . Support of ministry : pastors, [163] ;Suspension , by a Bishop, [71] :3;of a Bishop, [130] ; of a traveling preacher, [136] . Temper, improper, [147] :2; [137] :3. Temperance, General Rule, [30] . Testament, the Old, see scriptures. Time, profitable employment of, [85] . Tongues, speaking in unknown, Article, [22] . Tracts, [77] ; [224] :3. Transubstantiation, Article, [24] . Traveling preachers, see minister. Treasure on earth, General Rule, [31] . Trial of those who think they should preach, [97] . Trials , right of guaranteed, [41] :5;Triers of appeals, [150] . Trinity, Article [15] . Trustees of church property, [110] . Tunes, directions concerning, [118] . Unacceptable preachers, [138] :5. Unction, extreme, [22] . United Society, rise of, General Rule, [29] . Usury, General Rule, [30] . Vacancies, Joint Board, [184] :2;in departments, see constitutions of. Veto, [42] . Visiting from house to house, [85] . Voting, by orders, [38] :3; Widows and Orphans of: preachers, [48] ;Will, free, Article, [19] . Witness, see trials of members, preachers, etc. Woman's General Missionary Society, [375] . Woman's Home Missionary Society , constitution of, [199] ;Word, the, Article, [15] . Works , good, Article, [20] ;supererogation, Article, [20] . Worship , attending, General Rule, [32] ;