They liked to take his advice on general things, and elected him to the civil eldership as years went on, which greatly added to his influence; and with might and main he continued to strive for love of peace in the parish.
It was concerning this business that Taras very nearly lost his eldership by reason of a word of sensible advice.
Could we tell when this work of Hermas was written, we could also perhaps name the very year when the president of the eldership was first called bishop.
It is not probable that Polycarp was at the head of the eldership of Smyrna much earlier.
Considering these things, Machermore hung its head, and the wailing of its eldership was heard afar.
The ministry of the church is without doubt an outgrowth and adaptation of the eldership of the synagogue.
Ordination is the act of the church, not the act of a privileged class in the church, as the eldership has sometimes wrongly been regarded, nor yet the act of other churches, assembled by their representatives in council.
He confessed that the eldership was an expedient to which he was driven by circumstances, though after creating it he naturally enough endeavored to procure Scriptural proof in its favor.
A plural eldershipis natural and advantageous, only where the church is very numerous and the pastor needs assistants in his work: and only in such cases can we say that New Testament example favors it.
It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.
Lang Tammas spoke no more against Gavin, but he would not go to the marriage, and he insisted on resigning his eldership for a year and a day.
When an Eldership proves Heretical, then the Classical Presbytery helps to convince them of their Heresies, which the people are not able ordinarily to do, and thereby to preserve the Congregation from spiritual contagion.
We allow the Congregationall Eldership to judg in all matters which concern that particular Church; and to keep from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, all those whom they finde to be ignorant or scandalous.
Eldership to be guilty of another mans unworthy receiving?
As for instance, some member in the congregation may conceive himself so wronged by the eldership thereof, that he cannot submit to their unjust sentence; shall he not in such case have liberty of appeal from them?
Such intricate cases may fall out as cannot be determined and settled by the eldership of a single congregation.
What one church without its eldership can be instanced in the New Testament, that in such cases once presumed to exercise such power, which might be precedent or example for it to other churches?
But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.
The courts appointed for the determination of the minor causes in each locality were composed of the same persons who constituted the eldership of the synagogue.
In the synagogue and by the eldership offenders were both tried and punished.
He had driven a few posts into the sward, and on these was nailing planks to form a rough bench or two, for the eldership and the elite of the congregation.
I call upon any who may be among us, once serving in the eldership of this church, to come forward and aid us to dispense the pledges of forgiving love to other sinful men.
In St. Cuthbert's, the pride of eldership was chiefly vested in their wives and daughters.
I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past.
The eldership has ever been a tower of strength in the Covenanted Church.
The chairman answered curtly: "If the pastor did not respect the eldership sufficiently to advise it, I think it can hardly be expected of him to advise the congregation; or that the congregation would take his advice if he gave it.
The term General Eldership was, however, applied at first only to the presbyteries or Elderships of sections or States, which held their sessions annually.
I was much overcome with emotion as I tried to speak of my meeting with the Eldership for the first time in that house nine years ago.
At the Eldershipmeeting which convened at Beaver Dam on Oct.
They wondered whether they should form a new Eldership or whether they had anything at all to do in the new procedure, cut loose as they were from all human organizations.
Application was made to the General Eldership, which assembled in Ohio in May, 1875, and an Eldership of the Church of God in Nebraska was chartered.
Lacking, however, in the quality of letting the Spirit of God rule, eldership organizations were soon set up, a man rule came in, and they also became a sect.
At the General Eldership I found that the leaven of full salvation was working.
The Church of God, spelled with a capital C, and more fully denominated General Eldership of the Churches of God in North America, was founded by John Winebrenner, in 1830.
Forney says in his History of the Church of God: "During several of these years the Eldership was contending against inroads of heresies advocated by D.
Our next of the diary accounts begins in the following December and finds him back in Ohio fields, whither, probably by decision of the Board of Missions or Eldership he was called to labor again.
There were others in attendance at the Eldership meeting who had heard his preaching against spiritual Babylon and who also took the same step with him.
In fact, the eldership is used in the Second Book of Discipline itself as a convertible term with presbytery, and is often so used in the acts of contemporary assemblies.
The weight of authority is certainly very decidedly in favour of the opinion which identifies this eldership with the presbytery.
Election is defined to be the choosing out of a person or persons most able for the office that is vacant, by the judgment of the eldership and consent of the congregation to which the person or persons are appointed.
Thereupon, Mr. Nowell resigned his eldership in the Boston church.
The system further exalted the eldershipand the pastoral power.
John Robinson and his followers had held more closely to Robert Browne's standard of Congregationalism, for Robinson maintained that the government of the church should be vested in its membership rather than in its eldership alone.
Obviously, the Separatist clergyman did not emphasize so strongly the rule of the eldership which New England church life in general had developed.
The evident advance along the line of a more authoritative eldership had developed out of the experience of the first two English churches in Amsterdam.
The ruling eldership also was gradually discontinued; but at first the churches generally had, with the exception of widows, the full complement of officers as appointed by Browne and Barrowe.
To buy my brother's eldership and his birthright, I fear, would be a great offence in God's sight.
Or, if I should need have Esau to my son, Would God thou, Jacob, haddest theeldership won.
And the chief priest coming, and those with him, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Remember, also, that the credit of the eldership is involved with my own.
The eldership has been an unspeakable blessing to Scotland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eldership" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: age; antiquity; atavism; inveteracy; primogeniture; senility; seniority
