(a) Members not communicants,
where such is the usage....530
(b) Only baptized persons al-
lowed to vote for ruling
elders...
.530
(c) Neither the presiding officer
nor the Session may dis-
qualify voters whose stand-
ing has not been impaired by
judicial process.
.531
(d) Most consonant to our form

of government that commu

nicants only be the electors.531 (e) No distinction to be made as

to the age of electors........531 (f) The roll of members is the list of voters... ..531 (g) Two-thirds mended in some cases.. .532 14. All office-bearers must faith

vote recom

..526

8. Irregularity in call of meeting does not necessarily invalidate the election....

9. Ministers are not eligible to the eldership....... ...527 An exception allowed in the case of foreign missionaries..529 10. Uniformity in the mode of election deemed impracticable.... 11. The mode most approved and in use may be changed by the congregation. Direct vote advised..

.529

..529

.534

4. Installation required on resuming the office....

.534

12. The right of the superior judicatory to interfere with the mode in use disavowed.....530 13. Who are the electors of ruling

elders and deacons?........530

5. An elder who has removed or resigned, if reëlected, must be again installed.... ...535

Length of service left to the decision of the church......536 2. Restoration to church privileges does not restore to the eldership..

.536

.537

3. An elder without charge can sit in no church court......537 Section 7. Withdrawal from service.. 1. Elders who cannot acquiesce in the decisions of the superior courts should resign.. .537 2. Elders may cease to act in order to promote the peace of the church. ...537 3. The superior court directs an

elder to cease to act........538 4. The Presbytery without the request of the Session or of the members of the church, may declare that an elder shall cease to act.. .538 5. If a member of Session be unacceptable, and the matter cannot be arranged by consent, the proper step is to memorialize Presbytery....538 6. Resignation of an elder or deacon to be tendered to the Session, and to take effect when accepted...

......538

7. The removal of suspension restores all rights and privileges to an elder....

....538 8. When an elder resigns, the Presbytery is not competent to order his restoration.....539 9. The official relations of an elder to his church terminate with his dismission... Section 8. Term service..

..540 .541

..541

1. Elders not reëlected on the adoption of term service cease to be acting elders in that particular church......541 2. When reëlected, should be reinstalled... 3. The above not retroactive, and does not invalidate the action of the Session .......541 4. Reinstallation of a reëlected elder not essential to the validity of his office, but is more orderly... .542 5. One or two elders may be elected under Sec. 8........542 6. In introducing term service, one or more classes may be elected for less than three years.... .542

7. The term must be three years and the classes three.......543 8. Elders not reëlected under this section may be delegates to the superior judicatories.....

.543

..571

Section 13. Questions to people at ordination.. Section 14. Form of ordination...571 1. Lay ordination invalid......572 2. Elders not to participate in

the ordination of ministers by the laying on of hands..572 3. An elder, being moderator of Presbytery, cannot preside at the ordination of a minister, nor propound the constitutional questions, nor take part in the laying on of hands of the Presbytery, nor make the ordaining prayer..572 4. The part which ministers of other bodies may take in ordinations and installations..573 Section 15. Ordination of evangelists....

.573

1. Ordination as an evangelist to labor in feeble churches..573 2. Ordination of a licentiate who proposed to continue teaching. .....573 3. Presbyteries should not ordain the candidates of other Presbyteries

4. Ordination sine titulo.

.578

.574