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Immediately before the Benediction, shall be said the following Prayers.

Most merciful Father, we beseeeh thee to send down upon this thy servant thy heavenly blessing, and so endue him with thy Holy Spirit, that he, preaching thy word, may not only be earnest to reprove, beseech and rebuke with all patience and doctrine, but also may be to such as believe a wholesome example in word, in conversation, in love, in faith, in chastity, and in purity; that faithfully fulfilling his course, at the latter day he may receive the crown of righteousness laid up by the Lord, the righteous Judge, who liveth and reigneth, One God, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help, that in ail our works begun, continued and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy,obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost be amongst you, and remain with you always. Amen.

END OF THE SPIRITUAL PART.

THE

TEMPORAL ECONOMY

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

PART SECOND,

SECTION I.

Of the boundaries of the Annual Conferences, &c.

1. The Ohio Conference shall include Ohio, Muskingum, Miami, Kentucky and Salt River Districts.

2. The Tennesee Conference shall include Holston, Nashville, Cumberland, Wabash, Illinois and Mississippi Districts.

3. The South-Carolina Conference shall include Georgia, South Carolina, and that part of North Carolina not included in the Virginia and Tennesee Conferences.

4. Virginia Conference shall include the circuits situated on the branches of the Yadkin, and that part of North-Carolina on the North side of Cape Fear River, (except Wilmington) and that part of Vir ginia on the south side of Rappahannock, and east of the Blue Ridge.

5. The Baltimore Conference shall include the remaining part of Virginia not included in the Tennessee and Virginia Conferences, the western shore of Maryland, and that part of Pennsylvania east of the Ohio River, and west of Susquehannah, not included in the Genese Conference.

6. The Philadelphia Conference shall include the whole of the Peninsula between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, and all that part of

Pennsylvania lying between the Delaware and Susquehannah Rivers, except, what is included in the Genese Conference; and all the State of New-Jersey, with Staten Island.

7. New-York Conference shall include all the State of New-York, not included in the Genese and Philadelphia Conferences; that part of Connecticut and Massachusetts west of the Gonnecticut River, and that part of Vermont lying west of the Green Mountain.

8. The New-England Conference shall include the remaining part of Vermont, and all the New-England States east of Connecticut River.

9. The Genese Conference shall include the bounds of the Susquehannah, Cayuga and Upper and Lower Canada Districts. Provided, nevertheless, The Bishops have authority in the interval of General Conference, to appoint another annual Conference down the Mississippi, if they judge it necessary. Provided, also, that they. have authority to appoint other annual Conference in the interval of the General Conference, if a sufficient

number of new circuits be any where formed; but no district or circuit, shall be added to such new Conference, without the consent of the old Conference to which it belongs. Quest. 2. How are the districts to be formed?

Answ. According to the judgment of the Bishops.

In case that there be no Bishops to travel through the districts, and exer cise the episcopal office, on account of death or otherwise, the districts shall be regulated in every respect by the yearly Conferences and the Presiding Elders, till the ensuing General Conference (ordination only excepted.)

Each annual conference is to pay its proportionable part toward the allowance of the Bishops.

SECTION II.

Of the Building Churches, and the Order to be observed therein.

Quest. 1. Is any thing adviseable in regard to building ?

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