eldership
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley
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
I soon perceived that I could do little unless I had power vested in me--unless I were elected to the eldership.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
