dren. The
Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove Schools are supported by the denomination
for the free training of the children of preachers. Then steps were
taken for the establishment of the Wesleyan Theological Institution at
Richmond and Didsbury. In 1866 it was resolved to have one at Headingley
for training missionaries. The responsibility of recommending candidates
for the ministry originally rested upon the superintendent. He proposes
him to the quarterly meeting. The candidate is then recommended to the
ensuing annual district meeting, and they recommend him to Conference,
who decide. The candidate must previously have been a local preacher.
After a certain time of trial the candidate is ordained or admitted into
full connexion, after a private examination by the President and a few
senior ministers whom he may select. The ordination is by imposition of
hands. No travelling preacher can marry during the term of his probation
without violating the rules and rendering himself liable to be dismissed
from his itinerancy. There are besides, assistants and superintendent
preachers. Every preacher shall be considered as a supernumerary for
four years after he has desisted from travelling, and shall afterwards be
deemed superannuated. No person is eligible to be a local preacher
unless he be a regularly accredited member of society, and meet in class.
He has to undergo an examination of a private nature.

It would take far more space than I have at command to continue the
subject. The Wesleyans have a Stationary Committee to draw up a plan for
stationing ministers; a Committee to guard their privileges; a Committee
to look after and support worn-out preachers; another to consider the
case of the widows; another for the maintenance of the children of
ministers; another for the Home Mission and what is called the Contingent
Fund. In 1862 Juvenile Home and Foreign Missionary Societies were
established. The General Wesleyan Missionary Society, as it is now
known, dates from 1817.

The chapels are, of course, the property of the denomination, and the
same may be said of the preachers' dwelling-houses. There is a Chapel
Loan Fund, a Connexional Relief and Extension Fund, a Wesleyan Chapel
Committee, and a Metropolitan Committee for the same purpose, which,
since 1862, has granted 11,625_l._ to nineteen chapels in the
metropolitan districts, which cost altogether 89,499_l._, and gave
accommodation to more than 17,000