MINISTERS AND CIVIC OFFICE
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY METHODIST CONFERENCE
Recommendations governing the taking of civic office by clergymen, as drawn up by a special committee of the Methodist Church, were adopted without discussion at the Methodist Conference yesterday. The president, the Rev. E. P. Blamires, said that the provisions would not be retrospective.
The provisions were that active ministers or probationers should not accept nomination for public office for which payment would be received, or which would interfere with their ministerial duties without the consent of their quarterly meetings, and of the president of the conference and .his committees of advice, of which the chairman of the applicant's district should be a member. If either or both of these authorities refused consent, the minister must tender his resignation. In all such cases the committee of advice must refer the matter to the committee of complaints and appeals or such committee as the conference appointed to make recommendations to conference for final decision.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 14
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