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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tas these amounts depend on voluntary contributions, they have as yet inno case reached the sums specified. They have a book concern, and acharitable society, both located in Pennsylvania, the proceeds of whichare divided among the superannuated preachers, and their widows andorphans. This body has no literary institution of its own, but its membersare favorable to the cause of education, as also to the support of Sun-day Schools, and Temperance, and Missionary Societies. We have already said that the articles of their faith and theirrules of government generally correspond with those of the MethodistEpiscopal Church. They have quarterly conferences in every circuit,an annual one in every district, and a third, of the whole body once infour years, called the General Conference. These last are composedof ministers and delegates. The last statiscal accounts we have been able to obtain, representthem as having about 190 churches, 300 regular, and 400 local preach-ars, and 17,000 members.
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Friends Meeting House and Penns Grave. FRIENDS, OR QUAKERS. ORTHODOX. ORE frequently as they are calledQuakers, this Society of Friends beganto be distinguished in England aboutthe middle of the seventeenth century.Their doctrines were first promulgatedby George Fox, about the year 1647,for which he was imprisoned at Noting-ham in 1649, and the year following atDerby. The appellation of Quakers wasgiven them by way of contempt; some say on account of their trem-blings under the impression of divine things ; but they themselves sayit was first given them by one of the magistrates who committedGeorge Fox to prison, because the moral hero had told him and thoseabout him to tremble at the word of the Lord. Who George Fox was, and what was his character, and whatwere his objects, are questions of deeper meaning and importance thanreaders generally believe. We regard Fox as one of the most extraor-dinary men of one of the most extraordinary periods of the worlds his-tory. He was most decide

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