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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The <em>Book of Discipline</em> (or <em>Rules and Discipline), </em>contain the body of rules and regulations governing the exercise of the authority of the church in the care and control of its members for the maintenance of purity of faith and life, the removal of offenses, and the general edification of the church, and including penalties for disobedience up to and including excommunication. All Catholic and Protestant denominations have such a body of rules and regulations, written or unwritten, and many of them specifically term the written form "the discipline" or "the book of discipline." For instance, the Presbyterian Church in the USA first adopted its present 30-page "book of discipline" in 1788. The Methodist Episcopal Church has a <em>Book of Discipline</em> of over three hundred pages.<br />
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Printed disciplines either of congregations or conferences were found in all North American Mennonite branches in the mid-20th century. All the district conferences of the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church (MC)]] had a printed conference "discipline," which usually had its origin at the very beginning of the conference. The [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Eastern District Conference]] of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]<strong> </strong>published its <em>Ordnung </em>in 1848. The [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania]] (later<strong> </strong>[[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]]) published its first <em>Doctrine of Faith and Church Discipline </em>in 1867 (tr. of <em>Glaubenslehre und Kirchenzucht-Ordnung </em>of 1866). In those groups that have congregational autonomy, the "disciplines" are usually congregational, sometimes stated in the form of constitutions or articles of faith; in others they are conference disciplines.<br />
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