CHAPTER XI.
ADMITTING ON TRIAL AND INTO FULL CONNECTION.
ELECTION TO DEACON'S AND ELDER'S ORDERS.
I. ADMITTING PREACHERS ON TRIAL
Ques. How is a preacher to be admitted on trial into the traveling connection?
Ans. 1. By the Annual Conference. In the interval of the Conference, he may be received and employed in the work by a Bishop, or the Presiding Elder of the District, until the sitting of the Conference.
2. No one shall be admitted on trial unless he procures a recommendation from the Quarterly Conference; nor shall a vote be taken upon the admission of any candidate who shall not have passed an approved examination upon the course of study prescribed by the Bishops, before a committee appointed by the Bishop for the purpose.
3. The Annual Conference may then admit him as a probationer by a vote of the majority. Observe taking on trial is entirely different from admitting a preacher into full connection. One on trial may be, either admitted or rejected without doing him any wrong; otherwise it would be no trial at all.
II. ADMITTING PREACHERS INTO FULL CONNECTION
Ques. Who shall be admitted into the Conference in full connection?
Ans. 1. No one except a preacher who has been employed two successive years in the regular itinerant work, (which is to commence from his being admitted on trial at the Annual Conference,) and who is approved by the Annual Conference.