THE SOUTH CHURCH. fj.'i 



5. Members of other churches intending to commune with 

 the Church for more than one year, are requested to ])rin^ their 

 letters and enter into fellowship with us. 



V. DISMISSION OF MEMBERS. 



1. Members of this Church in regular standing may re- 

 ceive letters of dismission and recommendation to other 

 churches by vote of the Church, but their relations to this 

 Church will not cease until actually received by another church. 



2. If any member of this Church shall leave its fellowship 

 and unite with another church without asking a letter of dis- 

 mission, his name may be dropped from the roll of membership 

 by vote of the Church. 



3. Members of this Church who remove their residence 

 from this place and become permanently located within a con- 

 venient distance of an evangelical church, are expected to 

 transfer their relation to some other church within one year, 

 and such members shall be reminded of this rule by the pastor 

 or clerk of the Church. 



4. It shall be the duty of the standing committee to make 

 an annual examination of the roll of membership and enter 

 upon a separate list of ''Absent Members," the names of such 

 persons as have been absent from the place for more than one 

 year, and are permanently resident in some other locality. 



5. Absent members who have been duly notified of rule 3, 

 in this section, if, after two years from the time of their re- 

 moval, they neglect to give satisfactory reasons for not taking 

 their letter or to ask for a dismission, may, by vote of the 

 Church, upon recommendation of the standing committee, be 

 dropped from the roll of membership. 



VI. DISCIPLINE OF MEMBERS. 



1. The object of all discipline shall be to reclaim the 

 erring. Only when this shall fail shall the Church withdraw 

 its fellowship from any member, for the maintenance of its own 

 purity in the sight of God and the world. 



2. In case of private or personal offense, the procedure 

 must be according to the rule presented by our Lord in Mat- 



