Cleveland Congregationalists 1895: Historical Sketches of Our Twenty-five Churches and Missions and Their Work in Missions--local Growth and Social Life, with Full Directories of Members to January 1, 1896

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Albert Barnes Cristy
Williams Pub. and Electric Company, 1896 - Churches, Congregational - 259 pages
 

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Page 226 - Those believers who dwell together in one place become a church by their recognition of each other, and their mutual agreement to observe Christ's ordinances in one society. Their covenant with Christ to be his disciples and obedient subjects becomes, by that mutual recognition and agreement, their covenant with each other to be fellow-disciples and helpers of each other's faith in a distinct church.
Page 196 - I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.
Page 33 - ... they are now distinguished from it, in the whole tenor of their pursuits, and current of their affections. They accord not with its sentiments; they have no longer a relish for its pleasures; they affect not its society, its honours, its wealth, its grandeur. They will have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, whatever be the specious names under which their deformity may be veiled.
Page 15 - Constitution, that the object of the Society is "to diffuse the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, among the heathen and others in destitute places.
Page 226 - To do this they require no consent or authority from without. The church thus constituted has power to make its own rules, select its own officers, choose and call its own pastor, adopt its own form of worship, and manage its own affairs. 4. The Fellowship of the Churches. — But inasmuch as all evangelical churches should be in communion one with another, they should extend to each other the formal recognition of that fellowship, and manifest it by assisting each other with advice and necessary...
Page 226 - Lay hands suddenly on no man," requires that due examination be first made as to natural gifts, education, knowledge of the Scriptures, Christian experience, and the divine call to preach the Word. Nor is any man to be regarded as retaining fellowship as an ordained minister unless he remain in orderly connection with some body of churches capable of certifying their continued approval. The service of ministers in various other departments of Christian work is necessary, but no man can by virtue...
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