. 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 ember, or before the Quarterly orAnnual Conference by any member of saidConference. A member of a Church-court,after pleading in a case, should not be allowedto sit in judgment on it. 10. The right of religious societies to inquireinto the conduct of their members, to pass votesof expulsion, and to record their proceedingsagainst those who violate their covenant rela-tions, has bee
. 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 ember, or before the Quarterly orAnnual Conference by any member of saidConference. A member of a Church-court,after pleading in a case, should not be allowedto sit in judgment on it. 10. The right of religious societies to inquireinto the conduct of their members, to pass votesof expulsion, and to record their proceedingsagainst those who violate their covenant rela-tions, has been fully recognized by the civil tri-bunal ; nor will courts of justice inquire whetherthe conduct of the aggrieved member meritedsuch discipline, provided that the proceedingsof the Church were according to the establishedusages of the denomination, and done in goodfaith, without malice. And even if the casehas been submitted to a jury, on the trial ofthe indictment against the accused, and the evi-dence considered insufficient, by them, to con-vict him of the crime in question, it operates asno bar to the investigation of the case de novo,by the religious society, according to its estab-lished regulations.*. JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. 85 As to civil courts interfering with ecclesiastical pro-cedure which is in accordance with the Constitution ofthe religious body, all jurists concur with Lord JusticeClerk Hope, who said, in the case of Sturrock vs. Gregg,in 1849: In matters clearly within the cognizance of Church-officers or courts, as subjects of Church-censure, whenthe Church-judicatory is thus exercising the govern-ment so intrusted to it, its judicatories and ministersare not amenable to the civil courts of the country indamages for alleged wrong. They have been trustedas a separate government. The declaration of the au-thority under which they act, (viz., the appointment ofthe Lord Christ,) assumes that it must be separately ad-ministered—free from subjection to civil courts
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