. Religious denominations of the world : comprising a general view of the origin, history, and condition of the various sects of Christians, the Jews, and Mahometans, as well as the pagan forms of religions ... with sketches of the founders of various religious sects. es in India; also a homemission society, a Sunday-school union, and an e<lucationsociety for training men for the sacred oiBce. Their ecclesiastical government is a mixture of Congre-gationalism and Presbyterianism. The discipline of privatemembers belongs to the churches with which they are con-nected. They have quarterly mee
. Religious denominations of the world : comprising a general view of the origin, history, and condition of the various sects of Christians, the Jews, and Mahometans, as well as the pagan forms of religions ... with sketches of the founders of various religious sects. es in India; also a homemission society, a Sunday-school union, and an e<lucationsociety for training men for the sacred oiBce. Their ecclesiastical government is a mixture of Congre-gationalism and Presbyterianism. The discipline of privatemembers belongs to the churches with which they are con-nected. They have quarterly meetings, consisting ofministers ami lay delegates. To these bodies ministers areamenable. The quarterly meeting possesses very muchthe character of a presbytery. Several quarterly meetings,united in an annual council, make what they term a yearlymeeting. All the annual meetings are convened togethertriennially as a general conference. The denomination has been divided by the question ofslavery, the greater portion of the church having withdrawnfrom about four thousand communicants in South Carolina,on account of their beinii^ slaveholders. For the samereason they declined receiving into their connection sometwelve thousand from Kentucky, who sent a delegation to. ^r AS. Walter ^^o^ k h)y /^ Co m^ DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 145 tlie general conference to solicit a union. They holtl whatis commonly understood by Armenian doctrines, denyingthe doctrine of personal election and the inadraissiblenessof grace. They have a book concern and printing estab-lishment at Dover, N. H. Its trustees are appointed bythe general conference. If we reckon in the statistics of the denomination thosewho have been disowned on account of their connectionwith slavery, we shall find that they had, according to theBaptist Register of 1846, 115 quarterly meetings, com-prised in 25 yearly meetings, 1249 churches, 1076 minis-ters, and 55,323 communicants. They have now 133associations, 1720 churches, 965 ordained
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