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Rh forms of government, viz: the monarchial, the oligarchial, and democratical. In church, the monarchial stands for the Roman Catholic Church government, where the Pope is from his throne infallible, he cannot be overruled. The democratic form stands for the Free Will and the Missionary Baptist Churches and the Congregational Church, where each congregation is sovereign within itself, without any dictation or conection from any other body. The oligarchial stands for the Episcopal, Presbyterian and the Methodist polity because these forms are representative forms of government, where general assemblies and general conferences are held, and a few of the members are elected as delegates and these make the laws governing the whole connection, just as a few are elected from among us to congress and the senate and they make the laws for over 110,000,000 people of our country. Some who do not know the: polity of the Methodist believe that the Bishops are kings with power like the Pope, no such thing, they are only like the president or governor of one of our states, with the exception, they are chosen so long as they have good behavior. They carry out the will of the people as they