eldership

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That man I met going to prayer meeting was J. B. McCleary, with whom I am at the present time associated in the Eldership of the church at Effingham.

From Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings by Hastings, Z. S.

He was stationed at Green Bay in 1835, Brother Clark having been assigned to the Presiding Eldership.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

As we began to think about the Eldership," says Zinzendorf himself, in telling the story, "it occurred to us to accept the Saviour as Elder.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

This being the second year of my Presiding Eldership, the Disciplinary limit required several removals, but I need not give them in detail, as they can be ascertained, if desirable, by consulting the Minutes.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

Prospered in his business, he soon became wealthy and an extensive landholder, and rising in the estimation of his fellow-citizens, was promoted to the magistracy and the Eldership of the Presbyterian Church.

From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by Hunter, C. L.