Wesley Corpus

such until the election of another President or Secretary in the next, or other subsequent Conference ; and the said Presi- dent shall have the privilege and power of two members in all acts of the Conference during his presidency, and such other powers, privileges, and authorities, as the Conference shall from time to time see fit to entrust into his hands . Seventh, Any member of the Conference absenting himselffrom the yearly assembly thereof for two years successively, without the consent or dispensation of the Conference, and be not pre- sent on the first day of the third yearly assembly thereof, at the time and place appointed for the holding of the same, shall cease to be a member of the Conference from and after the said first day of the said thirdyearly assembly thereof, to all intents and purposes, as though he were naturally dead. But the Conference shall andmaydispense with or consent to the absence of any member from any of the said yearly i assemblies for any cause which the Conference may see fit or necessary ; and such member, whose absence shall be so dis- pensed with or consented to by the Conference, shall not by such absence cease to be a member thereof. 1 Eighth, The Conference shall andmay expel and put out from being amember thereof, or from being in connexion there- with, or from being upon trial, any person, member of the Conference, or admitted into connexion, or upon trial, for any cause which to the Conference may seem fit or necessary ; and every member of the Conference so expelled and put out, shall cease to be a member thereof, to all intents and pur- poses, as though he was naturally dead. And the Confer- ence, immediately after the expulsion of any member thereof as aforesaid, shall elect another person to be a member of the Conference, in the stead of such member so expelled. Ninth, The Conference shall and may admit into connexion with them, or upon trial, any person or persons whom they shall approve, to be Preachers and Expounders of God's Holy Word, under the care and direction of the Conference ; the name of every such person or persons so admitted into con- nexion or upon trial as aforesaid, with the time and degrees of the admission, being entered in the Journals or Minutes of the Conference.