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METHODIST NEW CONNEXION , a See also:Protestant See also:Nonconformist 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, formed in 1797 by See also:secession from the Wesleyan Methodists, and merged in 1907 into the See also:United Methodist Church (q.v.). The secession was led by See also:Alexander See also:Kilham (q.v.), and resulted from a dispute regarding the position and rights of the laity, Kilham and his party desiring more See also:power for the members of the Church and less for the ministers. In its conferences ministers and laymen were of equal number, the laymen being chosen by the circuits and in some cases by ". See also:guardian representatives " elected for See also:life by See also:conference. Otherwise the doctrines and See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Connexion were the same as those of the Wesleyans. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:union with the See also:Bible Christians and the' United Methodist See also:Free Church in 1907 the Methodist New Connexion had some 250 ministers and 45,000 members.
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