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
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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Again, the ordinance about suspension of scandalous persons from the sacrament appointeth other work to classes, beside preaching and disputing, namely, the receiving and judging of appeals from the congregational eldership.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
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 Andrew A. Bonar
