The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . m England to the UnitedStates in 1817. Mr. Metcalfe, with a portion of the party settled in 791 792 Bible Christians. Philadelphia, where after a series of disappointments, they have suc-ceeded in raising a church edifice, and collecting together communi-cants to the number of rather more than one hundred. Although indifferent parts of the United States, there are those who embrace theirtheological views, and abstain from animal
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . m England to the UnitedStates in 1817. Mr. Metcalfe, with a portion of the party settled in 791 792 Bible Christians. Philadelphia, where after a series of disappointments, they have suc-ceeded in raising a church edifice, and collecting together communi-cants to the number of rather more than one hundred. Although indifferent parts of the United States, there are those who embrace theirtheological views, and abstain from animal food, we believe there is noother ecclesiastical organization than the one in Philadelphia. Indeedtheir great dislike to the idea of a Sectarian Church, may probably domuch to prevent their increase. Their theological views, so far as theyhave hitherto become separated from other bodies, closely approximateto those of Emanuel Swedenborg. Their religious services consist insinging or chanting, extempore prayer, and exposition of the Scrip-tures. They baptize both adults and children, generally by immer-sion, and practically regard the Lords Supper. CHRIST-IANS,. LANCING at the history of this body ofprofessing christians, we must speak of themas one of the very few ecclesiastical com-munities which are purely of American originally composed of seceders,—they seceded from different bodies, in verydifferent parts of the country, not at one time,but presenting a separation which coveredseveral years ; we may add that their conduct in doing all this, wasunknown to each other, and that several years elapsed before the factsrelating to the separation of each party were at all known to the 1793, a secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church tookplace in North Carolina, known at the time as the OKelly Seces-sion. The seceding party first took the name of Republican Metho-dists, but after a while resolved to be known only as Christ-ians, thefirst syllable pronou
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