. A manual of the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church, South [electronic resource], including the decisions of the College of bishops and rules of order applicable to ecclesiastical courts and witness by proving;him to be of such a bad character as to be unworthvof credit. But if a witness state facts against theinterest of the party that called him, another witnessmay be called by the same party to disprove or cor-rect the statements. The last witness is called to cor-rect some supposed misstatement or to rectify an error:the object is not to discredit the first witness
. A manual of the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church, South [electronic resource], including the decisions of the College of bishops and rules of order applicable to ecclesiastical courts and witness by proving;him to be of such a bad character as to be unworthvof credit. But if a witness state facts against theinterest of the party that called him, another witnessmay be called by the same party to disprove or cor-rect the statements. The last witness is called to cor-rect some supposed misstatement or to rectify an error:the object is not to discredit the first witness, andthe impeachment of his credit is incidental only andconsequential. 15. A member of this Church cannot be al-lowed to be impeached as a witness, but thefacts stated by him may be disproved by thetestimony of other witnesses. 16. When the crime is alleged to have beencommitted in the absence of any other party orparties competent to give testimony, the state-ment of both the accused and the accuser mustbe taken, and the committee before whom thecase is brought for trial, must give both state-ments whatever weight they deem them enti-tled to, in rendering their verdict for guilt orinnocence. (Discipline.). 170 CANONS OF TESTIMONY. 17. The records of any regular Church-court, whether of investigation or of original ju-risdiction, if properly authenticated by the Sec-retary and President, should be received in evi-dence in any other Church-court. 18. A difference between witnesses on pointsof little importance, affords no reason to suspecttheir veracity. These variations in testimonyoccur every day in the transactions of life, andmay be explained on the commonest principlesof human nature. Men relate facts as they seethem from their point of view, and as they re-member them; and the powers of observationand memory are different. It is too exact a co-incidence among witnesses in minute particularsthat excites suspicion of collusion and contriv-ance. It would be impossible to est
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