4. The Board or Boards of Trustees of every circuit, station, or mission, shall be members of, and responsible to, the Quarterly Conference of the same, which shall have power to dismiss any of them from office; and shall be required to present a report of their acts, at least once a year, to the Quarterly Conference.
5. No person who is a Trustee shall be ejected while he is in joint security for money, unless such relief be given him as is demanded, or the creditor will accept.
PART V.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, ORDER OF WORSHIP, MEANS OF GRACE,
CHILDREN, AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL
CHAPTER XVIII.
HOW TO RECEIVE MEMBERS.
Ques. How shall members be received into the Church?
Ans. 1. When persons offer themselves for Church-membership, let the preacher in charge inquire into their spiritual condition, and receive them into the Church when they have given satisfactory assurances of their desire to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved from their sins; and also, of the genuineness of their faith, and of their willingness to keep the rules of the Church.
2. When satisfied on these points, let the minister bring the candidates before the congregation, whenever practicable, and receive them according to the prescribed form.
3. If a member in good standing in any other Church shall desire to unite with us, such applicant may, by giving satisfactory answers to the usual inquiries be received without these formalities.