The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . their graves, before the com-mencement of the Millennium, and those of the wicked at its end.—Trey practise what they consider a New Testament ordinance —wash-ing the feet of Christians, and are very strongly as a body opposed tointemperance, war, and slavery. A weekly paper is issued by Mr. Winebrenner, from Harrisburgh,bearing the title of The Church Advocate and other publicationsfor the use of the church are issued by a Board
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . their graves, before the com-mencement of the Millennium, and those of the wicked at its end.—Trey practise what they consider a New Testament ordinance —wash-ing the feet of Christians, and are very strongly as a body opposed tointemperance, war, and slavery. A weekly paper is issued by Mr. Winebrenner, from Harrisburgh,bearing the title of The Church Advocate and other publicationsfor the use of the church are issued by a Board appointed for that pur-pose. The societies connected with this church are chiefly to be foundin Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. 799 800 WlNEBRENNARIANS. This body has, we believe, one annual Conference, four elderships,or local associations, somewhat more than one hundred ministers, aboutone himdred and seventy organized churches, upwards of three hundredpreaching places, and probably rather more than twelve thousand mem-bers. No information is given us in the census as to the number orvalue of their church edifices. DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, OK jERE we have a denomination calling them-selves by the first name given above, butfrequently passing under that of Reformers,or still oftener are they called Campbellites,*7 after the Rev. Alexander Campbell, the pre-sident of their college at Bethany, Virginia,who, as will soon be seen, may be regardedas their founder. For the account we areabout to give of them we are indebted princi- Sfl nlfW pally to an article originally prepared by for The Encyclopedia of Reli-gious Knowledge nearly twenty years ago,but revised, enlarged, and printed by someardent friends of the body in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1850. The rise of this society, if we only look back to the drawing ofthe lines of demarcation between it and other professors, is of recentorigin. About the commencement of the present century, the
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