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See also:CHRISTIAN See also:CATHOLIC See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
CHURCH , the name assumed by a religious organization founded at See also:Zion See also:City near See also:Chicago, IIlinois, U.S.A., in 1896, by See also:John See also:Alexander See also:Dowie (q.v.). Its members added to the usual tenets of See also:Christianity a See also:special belief in faith-healing, and laid much stress on See also:united See also:consecration services and the threefold See also:immersion of believers. To assist Dowie, assistant overseers were appointed, and the operations of the community included religious, educational and commercial departments. Small branches sprang up in other parts of the United States, See also:Mexico, See also:Canada, See also:Europe and See also:Australasia. At the end of 1901 there were nearly 12,000 baptized believers. After 1903 considerable dissension arose among Dowie's followers: he was deposed in 1906; and after his See also:death (1907) the city gradually became a community of normal type.
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