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INSTITUTIONAL 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 generally applied both in the See also:British Isles and in See also:America to a type of church which supplements its See also:ordinary See also:work by identifying itself in various ways with the See also:secular interests of those whom it seeks to See also:influence. The See also:idea of such See also:extension of See also:function See also:grew out of the recognition of the fact that the normal activities of church work entirely failed to retain the See also:interest of a large class of the See also:population to whom the See also:ritual formality of ordinary services was unacceptable. Various attempts were made to overcome this deficiency, e.g. by modifying the See also:form of service or of some services, by the addition to the ordinary services of more or less informal meetings (e.g. the Pleasant See also:Sunday Afternoon services), by specially excusing persons from wearing the normal church-going attire in See also:holiday resorts, and by holding services out of doors. The principle underlying all these changes is systematized in the Institutional Church which, in addition to its See also:main See also:building for
specifically religious services, provides other rooms or buildings which during the See also:week are open for the use of members and See also:friends. Lectures, concerts, debates and social gatherings are organized; there are See also:reading rooms, gymnasiums and other recreations rooms; various clubs (See also:cycling, See also:cricket, See also:football) are formed. The organization of the whole is subdivided into See also:special departments managed by committees. By these various means many persons are attracted into the See also:atmosphere of the church's work who could not be induced to attend the formal services.
This expansion of normal church work may be traced back in See also:England to at least as See also:early as 184o, but the full development of the Institutional Church belongs only to the latter' years of the 19th See also:century. The See also:chief example in England is See also:Whitefield's Central See also:Mission in See also:Tottenham See also:Court Road, See also:London, a church which, in addition to an elaborate organization on the lines above described, has an See also:official See also:journal. In the See also:United States the See also:movement may be said to date from about 1880. The name " Institutional " was first applied to See also:Berkeley See also:Temple, See also:Boston, by Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Jewett See also:Tucker, then See also:president of See also:Dartmouth See also:College. The obvious See also:criticism that this epithet emphasizes the administrative and secular See also:side to the exclusion of the spiritual led to the tentative See also:adoption of other titles, e.g. the " Open Church," the " See also:Free Church," the former of which is the more commonly used. In 1894 was formed the " Open and Institutional Church See also:League " at New See also:York, which held a number of conventions and served as a headquarters for the numerous See also:separate churches. In connexion with this league was formed the " See also:National Federation of Churches and See also:Christian Workers," which held a See also:convention in 1905. ,
See C. See also:Silvester See also:Horne, The Institutional Church (London, 1906); G. W. See also:Mead, See also:Modern Methods in Church Work (New York, 1897); R. A.
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