Wesley Corpus

(11.) Let no organ be placed anywhere, till pro posed in the Conference. (12.) Recommend our tune-book everywhere; and if you cannot sing yourself, choose a person or two in each place to pitch the tune for you. (13.) Exhort every one in the congregation to sing, not one in ten only. (14.) If a Preacher be present, let no singer give out the words. (15.) When they would teach a tune to the congrega tion, they must sing only the tenor. After preaching, take a little lemonade, mild ale, or candied orange-peel. All spirituous liquors, at that time especially, are deadly poison. Q. 40. Who is the Assistant? A. That Preacher in each Circuit who is appointed, from time to time, to take charge of the societies and the other Preachers therein. Q. 41. How should an Assistant be qualified for his charge? A. By walking closely with God, and having his work greatly at heart; by understanding and loving discipline, ours in particular; and by loving the Church of England, and resolving not to separate from it. Let this be well observed. I fear, when the Methodists leave the Church, God will leave them. But if they are thrust out of it, they will be guiltless. Q. 42. What is the business of an Assistant? A. (1.) To see that the other Preachers in his Circuit behave well, and want nothing. (2) To visit the classes quarterly, regulate the Bands, and deliver tickets. (3.) To take in or put out of the society or the Bands. (4.) To keep watch nights and love-feasts. (5.) To hold quarterly-meetings, and thereindiligently to inquire both into the temporal and spi ritual state of each society. (6.) To take care that every society be duly supplied with books; particularly with “Kempis,” “Instructions for Children,” and the “Primitive Physic,” which ought to be in every house. O why is not this regarded ! (7.) To send from every quarterly-meeting a cir cumstantial account to London of every remarkable conversion and remarkable death. (8.) To take exact lists of his socie ties every quarter, and send them up to London. (9.) To meet the married men and women, and the single men and women, in the large societies, once a quarter. (10.) To over look the accounts of all the Stewards. Q.”43. Has the office of an Assistant been well executed? A.