This electronic edition of S. G. Yahn's Polity of the Churches of God in North America has been transcribed from the second edition, published in 1929. Thanks to Pastor Charles T. Carl for lending me his copy of the book.

      The text is transmitted as printed, with the following exceptions: (1) corrected one misspelled word ("therefore" for "therefor"); (2) inserted a missing closing parenthesis; (3) enclosed words used as words within quotation marks when not done so; (4) substituted arabic numbers for lower case roman numerals in Scripture references; (5) inserted Scripture references within square brackets when not provided.

      Page breaks are indicated by the page number within square brackets, placed after the last whole word on a page. The range of pages in a chapter is also indicated at the end of the chapter.

      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA

Completed 15 August 1996