The platform from which I was to speak had been erected near the ruins of the old church above mentioned, of which my grandfather had been a ruling elder, my father, mother, and other kindred the earliest members.
About the year 1696, Mr. William Wallis, a ruling elder in the Church, embraced the sentiments of the Baptists, and took upon him to baptize by immersion some of the members of the Church.
In 1691, brother William Powers, from Welford, was chosen to be a ruling elder.
At both of these places we administered the Lord's Supper, ordained Daniel Renville as a ruling elder, and licensed Peter Big-Fire and Simon Anawangmane to preach the Gospel.
For nearly all that time he has been a ruling elder in the church, and for ten years past a licensed exhorter.
Mr. Renville, who was a ruling elder in the church, took this position, and the members of the mission were not a unit against it.
Let us look at his work as a ruling Elder of the Church of Christ.
In 1850 he was carefully examined, and when found qualified for the sacred office, was duly ordained a ruling elder in the Second Reformed Presbyterian Church.
On Easter Sabbath, April, 1877, he was regularly installed into office as a Ruling Elder.
The life of a ruling elder in the Church, and in the world, is like the erection of a beautiful building.
The ruling elder's office is described and delineated by these several clauses, which set out so many requisites for the making up of a ruling elder, viz: 1.
Certainly if the Scriptures lay not before us grounds more than prudential for the ruling elder, it were better never to have mere ruling elders in the church.
So that every church officer must first be a Church member, a member of the visible organical body: consequently a ruling elder must be such a member.
What conscientious person durst have a hand in acting as a ruling elder, did he not apprehend the word of God holds forth a divine right for the ruling elder?
This same right of preference is to be exercised in deciding whether or not a church should support a ruling elder.
In the following July, the Boston church inquired of the churches of Plymouth, Salem, Dorchester, and Watertown, whether a ruling elder could at the same time hold office as a civil magistrate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruling elder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
