of the Church, as well as the rules, regulations and orders of the Provincial Synod are faithfully executed.

b. To supply the churches with the requisite pastors, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Provincial Synod.

c. To oversee the educational institutions.

d. To superintend the financial concerns of the Sustentation Fund, and the financial matters of the Province in general. Vacancies in the Provincial Elders' Conference.

Vacancies which may occur in the Provincial Elders' Conference, during the interval between two stated Provincial Synods, shall be filled by a Provincial Synod to be convened for that purpose.

Finances of the Province.

The entire management of the Sustentation Fund of this Province shall be entrusted to a "Financial Board," composed of the Provincial Elders' Conference and three other members to be elected by the Provincial Synod at its stated meetings: vacancies occurring by death or otherwise among the three members thus elected, to be filled by the Board. Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed as justifying the Financial Board in thwarting the action of the Provincial Elders' Conference, by refusing to defray the expenses necessarily incurred in such matters as belong to their duties as the Governing Board of the Province; as for instance, the formation and organization of new churches, the calling and appointing of ministers, &c.

From the Sustentation Fund shall be paid:

a. The salary of the President of the Provincial Elders' Conference, and the general expenses of this Conference and the Province.

b. The pensions of the superannuated ministers and others; who have been in the service of the church in the Province. c. Any appropriations in aid of destitute churches.

d. The expenses of the general education of the children of ministers and others in the service of the church in the Province.

e. The expenses of the education of young men engaged in a course of theological study.*

C. CONSTITUTION OF THE CONTINENTAL PROVINCE.

THE

PROVINCIAL SYNOD.

Powers of the Provincial Synod.

The Provincial Synod of the Continental Province shall have power:

a. To fix the time and place of meeting for the next Provincial Synod.

b. To direct and examine all financial matters of the Province.

c. To direct and control all the educational concerns of the Province.

d. To regulate the organization of new churches, and to change the constitution of existing churches.

e. To direct the home mission work in the Province, and the work of the Diaspora.

f. To direct and control all church publications in the Province, subject to the established doctrine and liturgy.

g. To hear and redress complaints and grievances.

* The Sustentation Fund consists almost exclusively of the sum received by this Province as its share on the final settlement and separation of the financial affairs of the Unity, at the General Synod of 1857. It is managed and controlled by the "Financial Board," which appoints a treasurer, who may or may not be a member of said Board.

Organization of the Provincial Synod.

The President of the existing Unity's Elders' Conference shall open the Synod; but the Synod shall organize by electing its own president and other officers.

Members of the Provincial Synod.

The following shall be members of the Continental Provincial Synod :

a. The members of the Unity's Elders' Conference.

b. The bishops of the Moravian Church residing in the Province.

c. The delegates of the churches, of which each churchsettlement having a population of eight hundred souls, or more, shall send two, as also the settlement in the midst of which the Synod may be held; but every other church-settlement or church'shall send one.

d. The deputies of the Elders' Conferences, each of which Conferences must be represented by one deputy.

e. The members of the Elders' Conference in the settlement in which the Synod is held, of whom, however, only one shall have a vote, as the representative of that Conference.

f. Delegates of other Provinces of the Unity, and such other brethren as the Unity's Elders' Conference, in its capacity of Provincial Conference may invite, shall be advisory members, but have no vote.

THE PROVINCIAL ELDERS' CONFERENCE.

Until the meeting of the next General Synod, the Unity's Elders' Conference shall, at the same time, be the Provincial Elders' Conference of the Continental Province, and as such, responsible to the Synod of that Province; exercising in the Continental Province the same powers which the other Provincial Elders' Conferences hold in their respective Provinces.

D. CONSTITUTION OF THE BRITISH PROVINCE.

THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD.

1. The Provincial Synod of the British Province shall have power:

a. To fix the time and place of meeting for the next Provincial Synod.

b. To direct and examine all financial matters of the Province.

c. To direct and control all the educational concerns of the Province.

d. To regulate the organization of new churches, and to change the constitution of existing churches.

e. To direct the home mission work in the Province. f. To direct and control all church publications in the Province, subject to the established doctrine and liturgy.

g. To hear and redress complaints and grievances.

h. To elect the Provincial Elders' Conference, which shall consist of three brethren; and two-thirds of the votes shall be necessary to a choice.

2. At the Provincial Synod of the British Province, the President of the Provincial Elders' Conference shall preside.

3. The following shall be members of this Provincial Synod:

a. The members of the Provincial Elders' Conference.

b. The bishops in the Province.

c. The Advocatus and Secretarius Fratrum.

d. The agent of the Foreign Missions.

e. Members of Elders' Conferences, and ministers who can leave their place of residence without prejudice to the office they hold.

f. Delegates from the churches, each church having the right to choose one.

g. Members of the Unity's Elders' Conference, and the delegates of other Provinces shall be advisory members, but without a vote.

THE

PROVINCIAL ELDERS' CONFERENCE.

1. The Provincial Elders' Conference of this Province shall resign at each Provincial Synod, which shall elect a new board, the former members being re-eligible. One of the elected members shall be appointed President by the Unity's Elders' Conference.

2. This Provincial Elders' Conference shall be subordinate and responsible to the Unity's Elders' Conference.

3. In case of a vacancy occurring in the Provincial Elders' Conference, it shall be filled by the Unity's Elders' Conference, guided by the votes of the ministers of the Province, together with a vote of each church-committee.

CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION.

No proposition affecting the constitution of the British Provincial Synod, or the Provincial Elders' Conference, shall be brought forward in a Provincial Synod, unless it has, three months previously, been communicated by its author to the Provincial Elders' Conference, and through them to the churches of the British Province.

SECTION III. THE USE OF THE LOT.

As this subject refers particularly to the ecclesiastical government of the church, a brief account of the principles upon which the use of the Lot is based, must be appended to the chapter on Constitution.

The use of the lot, in the Moravian Church, is neither a mysterious, theosophic appliance, nor an exclusive right