id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9449 Holley, Marietta Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 .txt text/plain 19472 1001 75 The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church is the highest are, women are not eligible as lay delegates in the General Conference." abide that the General Conference granted to the women of the Church the right to vote on a great and important question in ecclesiastical law. of lay delegation, the women of the Church were granted the right of when the right to vote was granted to women in the Church. General Conference handed the question of lay delegation down to the Constitution of the United States, said, "Women may be officers of the Discipline of the Church, will place these women delegates in this body Electoral Conferences, and they vote in elections for delegates from Lay Electoral Conferences, and they vote in elections for delegates from Lay honorable women, into the General Conference of the Church by the same the Methodist Episcopal Church are women eligible as lay delegates in ./cache/9449.txt ./txt/9449.txt