eldership

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That man I met going to prayer meeting was J. B. McCleary, with whom I am at the present time associated in the Eldership of the church at Effingham.

From Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings by Hastings, Z. S.

In 1824, an agitation was commenced, with a view to take the appointment of the Presiding Eldership out of the hands of the Bishops, and make the office elective by the annual Conferences.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

He was stationed at Green Bay in 1835, Brother Clark having been assigned to the Presiding Eldership.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

As we began to think about the Eldership," says Zinzendorf himself, in telling the story, "it occurred to us to accept the Saviour as Elder.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

I returned to the buggy and asked my wife how she liked the Presiding Eldership.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage