SUNDAY SCHOOLS Number of Schools Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars. EPWORTH LEAGUES Number of Senior Chapters. Number of Members. Number of Junior Chapters. Number of Members. CHURCH PROPERTY Number of Churches. Probable Value. Number of Parsonages. Probable Value. Amount paid on Buildings and Improvements. Present Indebtedness. § 2. Statistics No. II.-Sunday Schools Number of Schools. Number of Officers and Teachers. Number of Scholars of all grades in the Sunday Schools. Average Attendance of all grades in the Sunday Schools. Number of members in the Home Department. Total Enrollment in all Departments. Number of Officers and Teachers who are Church Members or Probationers. i Number of Scholars (whether attendants or mem bers in the Home Department) who are Church Members or Probationers. Number of Members of the Sunday School converted during the year. Current expenses: Lesson Leaves, Books, etc. §3. Statistics No. III.-Church Expenses NOTE 1.-The General Conference has ordered that in reporting the amount raised in each Pastoral Charge for "Ministerial Support" the amount reported shall include the several sums raised for the support of the Pastor, for the support of the Conference Claimants, for the support of the District Superintendent, and for the support of the Bishops; and shall also include rent paid for a House for the Pastor; and in case the Pastor occupies a Parsonage then it shall include, instead of rent paid, a sum equal to a fair rental value of the said Parsonage. Missionary appropriations are not to be included. NOTE 2.-Any Conference desiring to do so may use separate columns in Statistics No. III, for House Rent and Traveling Expenses. SUPPORT OF PASTOR Claims: House Rent. Total. Receipts: Salary. House Rent. Total. Deficiencies. SUPPORT OF CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS Amount Apportioned. Amount Paid. SUPPORT OF DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS Amount Apportioned. Amount Paid. § 4. Statistics No. IV.-Benevolent Collections Board of Foreign Missions: a. Church. b. Sunday Schools. Board of Conference Claimants: Connectional Fund. Permanent Fund. Freedmen's Aid Society. American Bible Society. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Woman's Home Missionary Society: a. Cash. b. Supplies. Total Disciplinary Collections. Other Benevolent Collections. Local Educational Interests. Total Benevolent Collections. General Conference Expenses. Central Office Expenses of Epworth League. Final Total. NOTE.-Applications for blanks are to be made to the Methodist Book Concern, New York, by the Secretary of each Conference, for distribution among the Pastors. Orders for the Spring Conferences should be made by October 1, and will then be filled by December 1. Orders for the Fall Conferences should be made by March 1, and will then be filled by June 1. Applications must state the name of Conference, number of Districts, number of Charges, and how many of the Districts have over forty Charges. CHAPTER III LAY ELECTORAL CONFERENCES The Composition, Organization, and Powers of the Lay Electoral Conference are set forth in the Constitution of the Church, Division III, Chapter II, Article III, pages 37-44. I. Election of Delegates 87, § 1. The first or third Quarterly Conference of each Charge for the Conference year within which a Lay Electoral Conference is to be convened shall appoint one Judge of Election and two Tellers, who shall constitute the Election Board of the Charge; provided the said Charge be composed of but one Church. The Election Board shall fix the time and place for the holding of an election for one Lay Dele gate to the Lay Electoral Conference and one Reserve Lay Delegate in accordance with the provisions of Division III of the Constitution of the Church. § 2. It shall see that suitable public notice of the time and place of the election shall be given, public announcement of the same being made at two regular preaching services at least, on different days, within six weeks immediately preceding the election. It shall take charge of the election, receive and count the ballots, and certify the whole number of votes cast and for whom cast to the fourth Quarterly Conference, which shall declare the result and give to the person receiving the highest number of votes for each place a certificate of election, which shall be signed by the District Superintendent and the Secretary of the Quarterly Conference. § 3. In every Charge which consists of more than one Church or Society the Quarterly Conference shall appoint a Judge of Election and two Tellers for each of such Churches or Societies, and each of such Boards shall proceed as is above provided for the Election Board of a single Church. The Quarterly Conference shall proceed in the same manner as is above provided for Charges having but one Church or Society. § 4. The Secretary of the fourth Quarterly Conference shall certify the result of the ballot without delay to the Secretary of the preceding Lay Electoral Conference or to any other person designated by said Conference to prepare the roll of the ensuing Lay Electoral Conference. Said certificate shall contain the names of the Lay Delegate and of the Reserve Lay Delegate elected, the post office of each and the name of the Pastoral Charge. |