Word: ordained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. n, p. 51, alleged mention is made of the "better known" denominations that ordain women. The Baptists ordained one in 1882 and many since, and the Free Baptists ordained one in 1878. Aren't Baptists well known...
Four years ago the brothers had acquired enough grip on the Nickel Plate, the Erie, the Pere Marquette, the Hocking Valley and the Chesapeake & Ohio to ordain a great railroad system (the Nickel Plate) like the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio-if the I. C. C. would not disapprove. Two years ago the I. C. C. did disapprove, chiefly because the Nickel Plate was to be the holding company...
Undismayed, John Wesley and his "Methodists" went into the towns, the prisons, the open fields, stirring the stagnancy of the church of the day with a living word. Their word was Church of England, until opposition moved Wesley to ordain his own ministers and proclaim his personal interpretation of the creed. His followers have divided and sub- divided among themselves since, but on administrative issues only. Tens of millions of living souls-Wesleyans, Methodists and the dozen or so sects articulated specially in different times and climes-all revere the one man, the young deacon who followed his youth...
Normal Park Baptist Church in Chicago has called Milton M. McGorrill to be the shepherd of its flock. A few months ago the Long Island Baptist Association refused to ordain Mr. McGorrill because he declined to affirm the Virgin birth. There immediately arose a question the answer to which has never been made plain to the public: When is a church Baptist and when is it not? Ditto, every Protestant denomination...