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THE

UNIVERSALIST

CHURCH COMPANION.

PREPARED BY

THE MERRIMAC RIVER MINISTERIAL CIRCLE,

FOR

THE USE OF ITS MEMBERS AND OTHERS;

AND

BY ORDER OF SAID CIRCLE

REVISED AND ENLARGED.

BY I. D. WILLIAMSON.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY A. TOMPKINS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

BY A. TOMPKINS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS;

New England Type and Stereotype Foundery,
BOSTON.

54-7822

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OF MEMBERSHIP.

Sec. 1. Qualifications for Members.

2. Application
for Membership. 3. Reference of Application to Elders.
4. Procedure on Report. 5. Members sign Constitution.

ARTICLE II.

PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS.

Sec. 1. Must attend Meetings. 2. Watch with Sick.
3. Attend Funerals. 4. Report Cases of Sickness or
Want. 5. May withdraw, and how. 6. Objections, how
made and disposed of. 7. Entitled to Letter.

ARTICLE III.

OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHARITIES.

Sec. 1. Contribution to Funds. 2. Register of Names
and Sum to be paid monthly. 2. Entitled to Aid. 4.
Deacons must visit the Sick. 5. Watchers provided. 7.
Widows and Orphans provided for. 8. Orphans in
charge of Elders.

ARTICLE IV.

OF DISCIPLINE AND TRIALS.

Sec. 1. Members entitled to a Hearing. 2. First Steps
with the erring. 3. Charges, how made and referred.

4. Proceedings of Elders thereon. 5. Must investigate
and report. 6. How report is disposed of. 7. Offices
may be vacated, and how. 8. Penalties for unworthy
Conduct. 9. Difficulty with Pastor, how settled. 10.
Officers, how deposed.

ARTICLE V.

OF CHURCH MEETINGS.

Sec. 1. Time of holding. 2. How opened and closed.
3. The Lord's Supper. 4. Dedication of Children. 5.
Who to preside. 6. Officers' Reports, when made. 7.
Funds, how expended.

ARTICLE VI.

OF RELATIONS TO OTHER CHURCHES.

ARTICLE VII.

OFFICERS, AND THEIR DUTIES.

Sec. 1. Officers enumerated. 2. Pastor, how elected
and dismissed. 3. Elders and Deacons, how elected.
4. Clerk and Steward, how elected. 5. Duties of Pas-
tor. 6. Duties of Elders. 7. Duties of Deacons. 8.
Duty of Clerk. 9. Duty of Steward.

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