The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ercised to so construct its governmentas to put it on a safe foundation and at the same time sonear the heart of the people as to enlist their cordial every pastoral charge the Quarterly Conference is con-stituted a Board of Managers having supervision and controlof all the Sunday schools within its territory- It elects asuperintendent for each school under its care. The pastoris expected to give his personal attention to the catecheticaland other religious instruction of the school and pay specialattention to its religious state. He
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ercised to so construct its governmentas to put it on a safe foundation and at the same time sonear the heart of the people as to enlist their cordial every pastoral charge the Quarterly Conference is con-stituted a Board of Managers having supervision and controlof all the Sunday schools within its territory- It elects asuperintendent for each school under its care. The pastoris expected to give his personal attention to the catecheticaland other religious instruction of the school and pay specialattention to its religious state. He is to look upon theschools as an integral part of his pastoral field. Each Annual Conference establishes a Sunday SchoolBoard, consisting of one layman and one preacher from each district, whose duty it is to give special attention to all the 1333 1334 American Methodism Sunday school interests within the Conference territory. ThisBoard meets annually at the seat of the Annual Conference,and serves as the Conference Committee on Sunday JAMES ATKINS, of Sunday School Publications. Prior to 1854 the interests of the Sunday school were pro-moted by local churches and Annual Conferences; there wasno general connectional society linking all the schools and Con-ference societies together. The General Conference of that Sunday School Interests 1335 year organized such a society The constitution adoptedmade the senior bishop president of the society and twoother bishops vice presidents. The number of vice presi-dents was multiplied by the election of one by each AnnualConference and two others by the society itself. The cor-responding secretary was elected by the General was also to be the editor of the Sunday School addition to the members already named, a recording sec-retary, a treasurer, thirty lay members, the preachers sta-tioned in Nashville, the presiding elder of the NashvilleDistrict, and the book agents were members of the Board
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