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

by Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

• Eastern Index, [237].
• Editors, Christian Index, [188]:5;
  • duty of, [191]:5;
  • salary of, [191]:2;
  • Eastern & Western Index, [188]:6;
  • salary, [192]:3.
• Education, Board of, [358];
  • constitution of, [214];
  • General Secretary, [218];
  • salary, [219]:8;
  • meetings, [216]:4;
  • revenue, how derived, [220]:9;
  • vacancies in, [217]:3;
  • Annual Conference Board, [220]:10;
  • educational standards, [221].
• Elders, how constituted, [87]:1;
  • qualifications, [88];
  • duties, [89]:3;
  • local, [99];
  • restoration of credentials, [158]:2; [159]:2;
  • ritual of ordination, [324].
• 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;
  • duties, [103]:2;
  • further directions, [103]:3.
• 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;
  • duties of, [185]; [53]:9;
  • Recording Steward, [186].
• 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;
  • authority of, [194]:3;
  • revenue, [194]:4;
  • General Missionary Day, [234]:2; [195]:5;
  • the secretary and his duties, [196].
• 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;
  • Editor of, [188]:5; [191]:5;
  • price of, [188]:4.
• Index, Eastern, [237];
  • Editor of, [188]; [236].
• Index, Western, [236];
  • Editor of, [188]; [236].
• Infant Baptism, Article on, [23];
  • ritual for, [273].
• Institutions, of learning, provisions concerning, [50]:8; [214]; [237];
  • charitable, [166]:1.
• Investigation, see committees of.

• Joint Board of Finance, how constituted, [184]:2;
  • duties of, [53]:9; [185];
  • recording Steward, [186].
• 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];
  • General Rule, [33].
• 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;
  • elder, [89]:3.
• Masses condemned, [25].
• Matrimony, not a sacrament, Article, [22];
  • ritual, [290].
• Means of Grace, [32]; [116]; [235].
• Meditation and prayer, [85]:3.
• Members of the Church, how received, [115];
  • ritual, [285];
  • removal, [81];
  • trial, [144];
  • appeal, [156].
• 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];
  • presiding elders, [163];
  • bishops, [164].
• 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];
  • local, [99];
  • Elders, [87];
  • local, [100];
  • examination necessary, [86]-88.
• Orders, voting by, [38].
• Ordination Ritual, Deacons, [317];
  • Elders, [324];
  • Bishops, [339].
• Original sin, Article, [18].
• Orphans and widows of ministers, provisions for, [228].