among the people without the consent of the General Conference he shall not thereafter exercise, in any degree, the Episcopal Office in our Church. 200. In case there be no Bishop to travel at large through the Districts and exercise the Episcopal Office, on account of death or otherwise, the Districts shall be regulated in every respect by the Annual Conferences and the District Superintendents in the interval of the sessions of the General Conference, ordination excepted. CHAPTER XI SUPERANNUATED BISHOPS ¶ 201. A Superannuated General Superintendent is relieved from the obligation to travel through the Connection at large, and may choose the place of his residence. He shall not be assigned to the Presidency of Annual Conferences nor make appointments; but, if requested by a Bishop presiding, he may take the chair temporarily in a General or Annual Conference; and, at the request of the Bishop presiding in the Annual Conference, he may ordain candidates previously elected to orders. ¶ 202. A Superannuated Bishop shall be an advisory member of the Board of Bishops; and his name shall be printed with the signatures of Bishops in the introduction to the Discipline, the Hymnal, and the Journal of the General Conference. He shall also be a member of the different Boards and General Committees of which Bishops are ex officio members, and may also preside over the General Conference Standing Committee on Boundaries. CHAPTER I LOCAL PREACHERS ¶ 203. Wherever a District Conference exists, the powers hereinafter conferred on Quarterly Conferences in relation to Local Preachers and Exhorters shall be exercised only by the District Conference; but it shall not license any person to preach, nor renew the License of any person to preach or exhort, nor recommend any Local Preacher to the Annual Conference for Orders or for Recognition of Orders or for Reception on Trial, without the previous recommendation of the Quarterly Conference, or of the Leaders and Stewards' Meeting of the Charge of which such person or Preacher is a member. ¶ 204. The Quarterly Conference, where no District Conference exists, shall have authority § 1. To license proper persons to preach; provided, they shall have been previously recommended by the Society of which they are members, or by the Leaders and Stewards' Meeting; shall have passed a satisfactory examination in the studies prescribed for candidates for License to Preach; shall have been examined in the presence of the Conference on the subject of Doctrine and Discipline, and shall also have satisfactorily answered the question, “Will you wholly abstain from the use of tobacco?" And no member of the Church shall be at liberty to preach without such → License. § 2. To examine Local Preachers in the Course of Study prescribed for them; to inquire into the gifts, |