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

by Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

6. The Editor of the Sunday School Department shall be amenable for his official conduct to the General Sunday School Board and to the General Conference who shall have right and power for cause sufficient to them to remove him from office; the General Board having the right to suspend and to fill the vacancy until the ensuing General Conference.

7. All of the Sunday Schools of the C. M. E. Church shall be under the management of the Sunday School Department, the regulations of which shall be as follows: There shall be a Sunday School Board in every Annual Conference and District Conference, and District Sunday School Convention, and Quarterly Conference. It shall be the duty of the Annual Conference Sunday School Board to inquire into the reports read by the pastors, as to the kind and amount of literature each Sunday School uses, and to make full reports to the Annual Conference in session on our Sunday School work, with the recommendations. This report must be printed annually in the Minutes.

As in the order above, the District Conference and District Sunday School Convention shall confine their reports and recommendations to the Sunday School work of the District. The Quarterly Conference Sunday School Board shall be composed of the pastor and superintendents, officers and teachers of a station, circuit or mission; whose duty shall be to extend the circulation and influence of our Sunday School literature into every possible local precinct, and to make report with recommendation of the progress of Sunday School work, to the quarterly conference and church conference and to the district conference and Sunday School Convention. A Sunday School Board, like a committee, may consist of from three to forty-nine.

8. An Annual Conference Sunday School Board shall be appointed by the Presiding Bishop and shall continue their work for four years. All of the district and quarterly conference Boards shall be affected and reorganized by the appointments of a Presiding Elder and pastor.

9. It shall also be the duty of the Sunday School Editor to assist the Book Agent by supplying our Sunday Schools (including needy schools) with our own literature. Suggested order of business for a local Sunday School Board.

(a) Devotion.

(b) Reading Minutes of previous meeting.

(c) Unfinished business.

(d) Report and recommendation of Superintendent.

(e) Treasurer's report.