THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL
Ques. What directions are given concerning Sunday-schools?
Ans. 1. Let Sunday-schools be formed in all our congregations, where ten
children can be collected for that purpose. And it shall be the especial
duty of preachers having charge of circuits and stations, with the aid
of the other preachers, to see that this be done; to engage the
co-operation of as many of our members as they can; to visit the schools
as often as practicable; to preach on the subject of Sunday-schools and
religious instruction in each congregation; to have the Superintendents
lay before the Quarterly Conference, at each quarterly meeting, to be
entered on its journal, a written statement of the number and state of
the Sunday-schools within their respective circuits and stations, and to
make a report of the same to their several Annual Conferences.
2. Each Quarterly Conference shall be deemed a Board of Managers, having
supervision of all the Sunday-school Societies within its limits.
3. It is recommended that each Annual Conference, where the general
state of the work will allow, request the appointment of a special
agent, to travel throughout its bounds, for the purpose of promoting the
interests of Sunday-schools and his expenses shall be paid out of
collections which he shall be directed to make, or otherwise, as shall
be ordered by the Conference.
4. Let our Catechisms be used as extensively as possible in our
Sunday-schools; and let the preachers faithfully enforce upon
Sunday-school teachers the great importance of instructing children in
the doctrines and duties of our holy religion.
5. The Superintendent of the Sunday-school shall be nominated by the
preacher in charge, subject to the confirmation or rejection of the
Quarterly Conference.
=PART VI.=
JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION