Numbers refer to paragraph numbers

A

Abstinence:

53, 621(6), 675(16).


Administration:

101-103, 205, 512, 622, 651(3), 653(4).


Admission into full connection:

674-676.


Admission on trial:
See Member on trial.




Adult department:

365(9).


Adult division:

366(3).


Affiliation:

62, 204, 209.


Affiliation resolution:

204.


Amendments to Constitution:

111, 112.


Annual Church Conference:
83, 202, 206, 209, 210, 231-244, 258, 276, 281, 282, 284, 285, 303(4,5), 321, 323, 327(5), 342(1), 344(4), 345, 346, 434, 501, 622(2), 623, 643(1).


Annual Mission Conference:
See Mission Conference.




Annuities:

431, 643(11).


Apostles Creed:

901.


Appeals:

541(3), 961-967.


Approved evangelist:

684.


Approved song evangelist:

682, 683.


Articles of incorporation:
See Incorporation.




Articles of religion:

11, 21-46, 541, 621(3).


Asbury, Francis:

8.


Assistant general superintendent:

513, 521.


Assistant pastor:
258.


Audit:

235, 271, 346, 429, 550.


Auditing Committee:

235, 271, 346.


Authority to speak for the church:

548.

B

Baptism:

36, 37, 204, 222, 621(2), 951, 961.


Basic denominational principles:

71-103.


Beginners department:

365(3).


Bequests:

303(1).


Bible: See Word of God.



Boards:
260, 439, 440, 441, 506(4), 508(3), 523, 547.

Bonds:
429, 550, 831(5).

Boundaries:
545.

Boundary Committee:
526.

Budget:
240(4), 276, 280(3), 303(1), 327(5), 344(1).

Building Maintenance Committee:

272.

Burial of the dead:
621(2), 1001, 1011.

By-Laws:
62, 121-122, 201-899, 431.

C

Cabinet:

505, 546.


Call to preach:

601.

Calls to evening worship: 921.
Calls to worship: 911, 921.
Children: 366(1), 623(3,4), 951, 1011.
Children's division: 366(1).
Christian education: 273, 329, 422, 621(5).
Christian Education, Board of: 439, 523.
Church: 33, 201-211.
Church Conference:
See Annual Church Conference.

Church Council: 381-383.
Church government: 61-64.
Church membership:
See Membership.

Church property:
See Property.

Church secretary: 204, 224, 233, 235, 241, 342, 381, 383.
Church treasurer:
See Treasurer.

Civil Authority: 43.
Coke, Thomas: 8.
Commissioning: 1041.
Committees: 234, 235, 240, 260, 271-289, 325, 440, 441, 508(3), 523, 526, 528, 547.
Communion: See Lord's Supper.
Communion Committee: 235, 274.
Communion service: 941.
Conferences: 81-83, 204, 231-244, 251-258, 401-479, 501-552.
Conference Support: 205-207, 327(6), 344(3), 622(5), 623(6), 802.
Congregational: 61, 63-64, 204.
Connectional: 61, 62, 204.
Constitution: 21-199, 542.
Cornerstone, ritual for laying: 1081.
Counsel: 813(1), 818, 824, 843.
Counselors:
See Youth Counselors.
Course of study: 475(5), 671, 674, 685, 711-714.
Board of Ministerial Education and Advanced Studies: 523, 677, 711-500.
Court of appeals: 627, 813, 861-867.
Cradle roll department: 365(1).
Credentials: 405, 475, 475(6), 477, 479, 546, 701, 702, 705, 825, 842.

D

Deaconess: 91, 92, 242, 404, 438, 474, 475, 479, 685, 711, 714, 801, 802, 815, 841, 1041.
Death: 621(2), 623(2), 1001, 1011.
Dedication: 951, 1031, 1091.
Deeds: 305(1).
Delegate: 202, 235, 404, 503, 504.
Denominational principles: 71-103.
Departments: 510, 527, 529, 547.
Director of Christian Education:
258, 273, 422.
Discipline (of the Evangelical Methodist Church):
62, 63(2), 64, 81, 82, 83, 102, 103, 111, 121, 202, 204, 208, 210, 238, 252, 303(2), 321, 406, 409, 474, 475, 521, 548, 549, 621(11), 622(1), 643(6, 13, 14, 15), 653(9), 675, 677, 500, 801, 831, 833, 1051, 1052, 1061, 1062.
Discipline Revision, Board of: 524, 549.
Discontinuance: 209, 239, 279(5), 436, 437, 702-707, 714.
Dismissal of pastor: 251, 252.
District Conference: 82, 91, 103, 112, 204-207, 235, 240(5), 242, 401-479, 501, 524, 545, 547, 622(2, 3), 643(2, 6, 9, 12), 651(1), 653(3), 671, 674, 676, 685, 702, 706, 714, 802, 811, 815-819, 825, 835.
District Council: 407, 408.
District Secretary: 408, 424, 643(9), 702, 817, 819.
District Superintendent: 101, 103, 204, 206, 208, 209, 211, 231, 233, 243, 251-254, 402, 403, 408, 425, 429-431, 435- 438, 441, 473, 475(3,6), 476, 479, 505, 506(5), 622(3, 7), 641-643, 653(4), 671, 674-679, 682, 683, 685, 701, 702, 705, 706, 714, 801, 802, 811, 812, 814-818, 821, 822, 834, 835, 849, 862.
District Treasurer: 205, 207, 408, 424.
Divorce: 236, 476.
Dope: 475(4).
Drugs: 621(6).

E

Elder: 91, 92, 404, 425, 438, 441, 475, 479, 503, 651(1), 674, 676, 677, 711, 500, 714, 801, 802, 811, 812, 813(2), 815, 818, 841, 861, 862, 1021.

Elections: 235-237, 240(3), 323, 362(7), 424, 439, 440, 475, 512, 513, 521-530, 642, 644, 652, 676.
Employees: 258, 259, 272(2), 544.
Endowments: 303(1), 743(11).
Enrollment: 723(3).
Envelope system: 285(7), 327(3), 343(4).
Evangel Church: 13.
Evangelism: 71, 74, 275, 328, 621(7), 653(7).
Evangelism, Board of: 439, 523, 684.
Evangelism Committee: 235, 275, 328(3).
Evangelist:
See Approved Evangelist.
Examinations: 471-479.
Exhorter's License: 242.
Expulsion: 475(4), 623(2), 825, 842.
Extended pastoral call: 256.

F

Fasting: 53, 775(16).
Finance, Board of: 439, 512, 523.
Finance Committee: 235, 276, 280(3), 344(1).
Financial secretary: 234, 240(2), 271, 343, 345, 367, 381.
Fiscal year: 271, 346, 433.
Fourth Sunday school offering: 327(7), 343(2), 344(3), 367.
Fraternal Relations, Department of:
527.
Free will: 28.
Friendship Committee: 277.
Fundamental: 71, 72.

G

Gambling: 475(4).
Gardener: 272(2).
General Conference:
62-64, 81-83, 92, 102, 103, 111, 112, 122, 202, 204-206, 401, 404, 409, 422, 424-425, 427, 439, 441, 501-552, 643(3, 8), 653(1), 684, 702, 813, 861.
General Conference Evangelist:
684.
General Conference Lay Leader:
404, 506(3), 522.
General Conference Secretary:
404, 428, 503, 506(2), 521, 522.
General Conference Secretary-Treasurer:
404, 503, 506(2), 522.
General Conference Statistician:
404, 428, 522.
General Conference Treasurer:
205, 207, 327(7), 503, 506(2), 522, 653(8).
General Council: 502, 506-512, 521, 522, 549, 653(2), 711, 811, 812.
General Rules: 51-54, 541(2), 621(3), 675(6).
General Superintendent: 101, 102, 204, 403, 404, 475(3, 6), 506(1), 511(1), 512, 521, 550, 622(3), 643(8), 651-653, 801, 811-814, 841, 861, 1021, 1031, 1041.
General Superintendent (Mexico):
506(7), 513.
Gospel: 15, 327(1), 601, 611(2), 621(1), 643(4).
Government: 61-64.
Ground breaking: 1071.

H

Habits: 236.
Headquarters, International: 204, 542.
Health Insurance & Retirement, Department of:
527.
Historian: 341.
Historical Committee: 526.
Historical statement: 1-16.
Holiness: 2, 15, 46, 204, 611.
Holy Spirit: 24, 74, 601.
Holy Trinity: 21.
Homosexuality: 475(4).

I

Incorporation: 302, 303, 430, 431, 543.
Indebtedness: 210, 427, 510.
Infants: 37, 951, 1011.
Installation service: 237, 1051, 1052, 1061, 1062.
International Headquarters: 204, 542.
Investigation and trial of lay members:
831-836.
Investigation and trial of ministers:
811-825.
Investigation Committee: 439, 802, 811, 812, 815-817, 821, 834, 841, 865.
Investments: 512, 643(11).
Invocations: 931.
Involuntary location:
See Location without consent.

J

Janitor: 272(2).
Judicial administration: 801-867.
Junior department: 365(5).
Junior High department: 365(6).
Justification: 2, 29, 30, 32.

L

Lay delegates: 204, 235, 503.
Lay Exhorter's license: 242.
Lay Leader: 408, 506(3), 522.
Lay member trial: 831-836.
Laying cornerstone of church: 1081.
Legal papers: 305(1,2).
License for song evangelist: 683.
License to preach: 242, 643(9), 842.
Liquor: 51, 475(4), 621(6), 831(5).
Literature Committee: 278.
Local church: 61-64, 111, 201-383.
Local preacher: 91, 92, 242, 434, 472, 475, 479, 621(2,12), 643(9,10), 679, 702, 711, 714, 801, 802, 821, 841.
Location without consent: 437, 706.
Lord's Supper: 36, 38, 39, 274, 288(3), 621(2), 941.
Love feast: 621(7).

M

Marriage: 36, 41, 236, 475(4), 476, 621(2), 991, 992.
Member on trial: 91, 92, 242, 404, 475, 479, 503, 671, 673, 678, 711, 500, 714, 801, 815, 841.
Membership: 204, 209(4), 210, 221-226, 232, 233, 239, 251, 279, 342(2), 426, 477, 621(9), 623(2), 836, 971, 981.
Membership book: 225, 279(2), 622(6, 7).
Membership Committee: 239, 279, 328(3).
Memorials: 547.
Men, Evangelical Methodist: 234, 240(2), 281(4), 282(4), 381, 404, 421(4), 503, 506(6), 552.
Mexican Mission Conference: 12, 513.
Mexican Evangelistic Mission: 12.
Minister of music: 258.
Ministerial orders: 91.
Ministerial relations: 671-685, 701-707.
Ministerial Relations,
Board of:
434-437, 439, 441, 472-476, 523, 531, 643(9), 671, 673, 674, 677-682, 702, 706, 500, 825.
Ministry: 91, 92, 601-714.
Minutes: 204, 233, 324, 342, 643(9), 702, 813.
Minutes Committee: 439, 523.
Missionary: 71, 73, 421(2), 423, 435, 438, 621(8,11), 1041.
Missionary offering: 205, 327(6,7), 343(2), 344(3), 367.
Mission Conference: 501, 503, 513.
Mission Conference General Superintendents: 506(7), 513.
Missions: 205, 327(7), 343(3), 421(2).
Missions, Board of World: 423, 439, 523, 525.
Missions Committee: 235, 289.
Music Committee: 280, 682.

N

New birth: 204.
New Testament: 25, 26.
Nominating Committee: 235, 240(3), 281, 282, 362(7), 439, 522-527.
Nursery department: 365(2).

O

Oaths: 45.
Oblation of Christ: 40.
Offenses: 801, 802, 815.
Offerings: 288(2), 303(1), 327(3), 343-346, 367.
Officers and teachers: 361, 362, 367, 381, 1051, 1052, 1061, 1062.
Old Testament: 25, 26.
Order of worship: 901.
Organist: 280(1).
Original sin: 27.
Ordination: 91, 438, 474, 676, 677, 842, 1021.
Outlook: 71-75.

P

Parliamentarian: 551.
Parliamentary procedure: 551.
Parsonage: 205, 272(3).
Pastor: 64, 204, 206, 207, 209(1,3), 222, 224, 231, 233, 234, 240(2), 243, 244, 251-260, 274, 275, 276(3), 279-283, 321, 324-326, 328, 329, 330, 362(7,8), 381, 434, 437(1,2), 621-624, 643(4), 653(4), 821, 831(5), 832-834.
Pastoral call: 64, 251-257.
Pastoral changes: 251-257, 624.
Pastoral Relations Committee: 235, 243, 244, 251, 252, 254, 260, 282, 283.
People's Methodist Church: 14.
Perfect love: 46, 675(3).
Pianist: 280(1).
Policy Committee: 284.
Prayer Department: 527.
Prayer and Planning Conference:
406.
Prayer meeting: 621(7).
Preacher in charge: 204, 621-624.
Preaching, the manner and method of:
611.
Pre-millenial: 71.
Primary department: 365(4).
Profession of faith: 221, 971.
Program Committee: 439, 523(2).
Promotion Day: 364.
Property: 63, 204, 208, 210, 211, 303, 542, 621(7), 643(11).
Property rights: 63, 204.
Public accountant: 429, 550.
Publications, Department of: 627.
Purgatory: 34.

Q

Quorum: 232, 507, 834, 861, 862

R

Rally Day: 364.
Recall of pastor: 251, 256.
Records: 204, 241, 271, 279(2), 285, 324, 341, 342, 343, 429, 474, 550, 702, 706, 842, 848.
Records Committee: 285.
Regeneration: 204.
Remarriage: 236, 476.
Reports: 233-235, 240, 303(4), 327(4), 344, 362(2), 383, 432-434, 475, 546, 550, 622(2), 623.
Resignation of pastor: 251, 257, 624.
Resolutions Committee: 439, 523(2).
Restoration 825, 836.
Resurrection: 23, 221, 901.
Retirement: 527, 681.
Riches: 44, 51.
Rites and Ceremonies: 42.
Ritual: 901-1091.
Roll Call: 239.
Rulers: 43.
Rules of order: 551.

S

Sabbatical leave: 475.
Sacraments: 5, 33, 36-39, 201, 621(2).
Salaries: 257-259, 276(3), 544, 814, 820.
Sale of property: 208, 303(2).
Sanctification: 2, 46, 74, 204, 236.
Scriptures: 10, 25, 53, 611.
Second coming: 71.
Secret meetings: 244.
Senior High department: 365(7).
Service record: 702, 706.
Sin: 27, 32.
Son of God: 22, 221.
Song evangelist: 682-683.
Speaking in tongues: 35, 204.
Special church conference: 210, 235, 242, 243, 251-258, 276(3), 321,330, 345, 382.
Special church conference on pastoral relations: 251-258.
Standing Rules Committee: 439.
Statistics: 622(2), 643(12).
Stewards, Board of: 234, 235, 240(2), 243, 252, 258, 259, 271, 272(2), 279(4), 281(2), 282(2), 321-330, 344(2, 4), 362, 381, 382, 404, 603, 621(11), 622(4), 643(4), 821, 831(5), 832, 941.
Stewardship: 621(4-6).
Stewardship and tithing campaign:
286(2).
Stewardship and Tithing Committee:
286.
Sunday school: 241, 281(3), 282(3), 326(3), 327(7), 343(2), 361-367, 404, 421(3), 503, 623(3).
Sunday school departments: 365, 366.
Sunday school superintendent: 234, 235, 240(2), 329(1), 362, 381.
Superannuated minister: 437(8), 681.
Supererogation: 31.
Supernumerary minister: 437(8), 680.
Surety bond: 429, 550.
Surrender of credentials: 701, 705.
Suspension: 811-814, 817, 819, 821, 825, 866.

T

Teacher training: 362(6).
Teachers: 240(3), 326(3), 361, 362.
Temperance Committee: 287.
Tithing: 286, 303(1), 327(3), 621(4, 6).
Tobacco: 475(4), 621(6).
Tongues: 35, 204.
Transfer: 224, 226, 621(9), 623(2), 653(6), 677-679, 701, 702, 981.
Transubstantiation: 38.
Traveling preacher: 91, 477, 478, 815.
Treasurer: 205, 206, 234, 240(2), 271, 323, 327(7), 343-346, 367, 381, 424, 506(2), 522, 550, 653(8).
Trial: 541(3), 801, 811-849.
Trial court: 531(3), 813, 819, 835, 846, 861-867.
Trinity: 21.
Trustees, Board of: 211, 234, 235, 240(2), 281(1), 282(1), 301-305, 330, 381, 430-432, 523, 621(7).
Trust funds: 643(11).

U

Unified budget: 345.
Unified financial system: 345, 367.
Ushers Committee: 288.

V

Vacancies: 330, 407, 508(2), 861, 862.
Virgin birth: 22, 221, 901.
Visitation: 279, 326(2), 328(2,3), 621(10), 622(7), 675(15).
Voluntary location: 705.
Vows of membership: 222, 223, 971, 981.

W

Watch night: 621(7).
Wedding ceremonies: 991, 992.
Wesley, John: 2-6, 8-11, 675.
Withdraw: 209, 225, 226, 623(2), 702-704, 841, 865.
Withdrawal under complaints: 703, 822, 841.
Withdrawal under charges: 704, 822, 841.
Women, Evangelical Methodist:
234, 240(2), 272(3), 281(5), 282(5), 381, 404, 421(5), 503, 506(6), 552.
Word of God (Bible): 15, 22, 33, 34, 35, 42, 53, 54, 72, 201, 203, 221, 326(3), 621(5), 801(5), 831(4).
Works: 30, 31.
World Mission, Board of: 423, 439, 523, 525.
World Missions Committee: 235, 289.
Worship: 53, 201, 203, 621(5), 901, 911, 921.

Y

Young Adult's department: 365(8).
Young Adult's division: 366 (3).
Young People's division: 366(2).
Youth: 329(1), 366(2).
Youth Activities, Board of: 439, 523.
Youth counselors: 235, 326(3), 381.
Youth department: 326(3), 366(2).
Youth, Evangelical Methodist: 234, 240(2), 281(6), 282(6), 381, 404, 421(6), 503, 506(6), 552.
Youth minister: 258.
Youth pastor: 258.