J The deaconesses receive assignments of duty such as we have described regarding the clergy.

The plan on page 7 shows the distribution of the work among four clergymen, three deaconesses, and four other workers. It is made out for a year.

Once every week, with unfailing regularity, the members of the staff meet the Rector in his study. The hour is immediately after the nine-o'clock service on Monday morning. Only the most imperative excuse is accepted for absence from this conference. The impressions of Sunday are fresh in mind, and successes and failures are frankly considered. In one of the departments of the Sundayschool the attendance was unsatisfactory; what was the matter? Yesterday, at the evening service, the Rector heard one of the assistants preach. The Rector tells what he thought of the sermon-praise or blame, as is deserved or needed. There is a great bundle of letters in three piles; one clip holds those which the Rector answers by his stenographer; another, those which he assigns to his secretary to answer; the third lot he submits to the staff for discussion. The members of the staff, in turn, bring up the condition and problems of the various organizations, confessing failures and asking for direction. Cases of individuals are considered.

A page from the secretary's note-book will show with what care and particularity the interests of individual parishioners are studied.

The meeting ends with a prayer, after which each person, including the Rector, submits a written report of the week's work. These figures are entered in a book under the respective names.

Besides this formal meeting, the members of the staff are always welcome at the Rector's study, and see much of him in the Parish House. It is expected, however, that they will so far as possible work out matters of detail individually, or by consultation among themselves.

Once in awhile, say every three years, is held a general conference of workers. The Rector presides, and the head of each department reads a paper; except where the head is one of the staff, in which case it is read by another member.

These reports are made in the following form:

REPORT

Conference of Workers in St. George's Parish

Wednesday, February 24th, 8 P.M., Memorial Building.

Name of organization.

Purpose of

Number of workers

(Officers, teachers, associates, etc.)

Number of members.

Times and place of meeting.

Running Expenses.

1. Appropriation

2. Collected

3. Total

Work done during past year.

Present weakness of organization

Remarks:

This report must not take more than three minutes to read.