Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Discipline Of The Methodist Episcopal Church. Discipline Of The Methodist Episcopal Church is a comprehensive compendium of the doctrines, articles of religion, general rules, governance, and ritual of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It traces the origin of Methodism in America from its Wesleyan roots, lays out the Articles of Religion, and details the church’s polity, membership, means of grace, and discipline, including trials, appointments, and administrative structures such as conferences, bishops, presiding elders, traveling and local preachers, stewards, and trustees. The work covers education, benevolent institutions, and temporal economy, with extensive sections on church property, church extension, missions, and the publication and distribution of religious literature. It also delineates sacred rites (baptism, the Lord’s Supper, matrimony, burial) and the sequence for ordination and consecration of church officers, along with appendices containing procedural rules and historical notes. The edition reproduces the classic disciplinary framework that guided Methodism in the United States in the 18th–19th centuries.