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EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION of See also:North See also:America, a religious See also:denomination, founded about the beginning of the 19th See also:century by See also:Jacob See also:Albright (1959-1808), a See also:German Lutheran of See also:Pennsylvania. About 1790 he began an itinerant See also:mission among his See also:fellow-countrymen, chiefly in Pennsylvania; and See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with considerable success, he was, at an See also:assembly composed of adherents from the different places he had visited, elected in 1800 presiding See also:elder or See also:chief pastor, and shortly afterwards rules of See also:government were adopted somewhat- similar to those of the Methodist Episcopal 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 theological See also:standards of the two bodies are also in See also:close agreement. In 1807 Albright was appointed See also:bishop of the community, which adopted its See also:present name in 1818. In 1816 the first See also:annual See also:conference was held, and in 1843 there was instituted a See also:general conference, composed of delegates chosen by the annual conferences and constituting the highest legislative and judicial authority in the church. The members of the general conference hold See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for four years. In 1891 a See also:long See also:internal controversy resulted in a See also:division. A See also:law-suit awarded the See also:property to the See also:branch making its See also:head-quarters at See also:Indianapolis, whereon the other party, numbering 40,000, that met at See also:Philadelphia, constituted themselves the See also:United Evangelical Church. The Association in 1906 had about 105,000 members, besides some 1o,000 in See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland, and has nearly 2000 churches and 1200 itinerant and other preachers. There are four bishops. It distributes much_ evangelical literature, and supports a mission in See also:Japan.
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