Decision Number 162

Decision

It is the decision of the Judicial Council that, in determining the eligibility of a ministerial member of an Annual Conference for election as a ministerial delegate to the General Conference and the Central Conference under Article IV, Section VII, Division Two of the Constitution, years on trial may be counted in the requirement that he shall have been a traveling preacher "for at least four years next preceding" his election; that U. B. Ernest was, therefore, eligible for such election at the meeting of the Indus River Annual Conference on September 7, 1959. The ruling of Bishop Rockey is hereby affirmed.