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This little work that we now present to the Brotherhood has grown out of an often-repeated want, on the part of many, for some kind of a form or guide for the proper performance of the many duties that are incumbent upon the members of the Christian Church. To meet all these wants in a small volume that would be low in price, convenient to carry, and ever ready for reference, has been our study for several years.

Since in the publishing business, we have had numbers of calls for forms for baptism, installations, ordinations, marriages, burials, how to organize Sunday-schools, etc., etc. As a result of these many inquiries we now offer this small volume. In its compilation we give the forms as sanctioned by our Annual Conference upon all the subjects upon which it has given expression, and on others, such forms as have been accepted by common consent, and seemed to be most in