eldership

"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.

A canny Scot had got himself installed in the eldership of the church, and, in consequence, had for some time carried round the ladle for the collections.

In spite of Hung's line of ancestry and his father's eldership, they were far from being well supplied with the good things of this life; in fact, their freehold was barely sufficient to support them.

All these prerogatives belonged to the united eldership, in which the lay element was distinctly predominant.

I soon perceived that I could do little unless I had power vested in me--unless I were elected to the eldership.