eldership
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"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023
You’ve been dinging me doited about that eldership, and we’ll play for’t.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
The senior minister ceased to preside over the eldership; and the Church was no longer governed, as heretofore, by the "blessed presbyters."
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
He was blessed to attract and reclaim very many of the most degraded; and by Sabbath schools and a regular eldership, to take superintendence of the population to a great extent.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through 144 water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
