In the unfamiliar setting of a Presbyterian church, of all places, I had been moved to astonished tears which came from so deep inside me that to this day I have never fathomed them, I wanted to learn more about the source of those tears and the object of that astonishment.

Thomson was an elder of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and his deep religious convictions informed his work.

He nominated Koputai as its deep water port to be called ' Port Chalmers ' after the Presbyterian Free Church leader Thomas Chalmers.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

The breakdown of religious uniformity and incomplete Presbyterian Settlement of 1646 enabled independent churches to flourish.

Although Christmas Day held its normal religious nature in Scotland amongst its Catholic and Presbyterian communities, the Presbyterian national church, the Church of Scotland, had discouraged the celebration of Christmas for over 400 years.

Towards the end of Charles ' reign those with more radical Presbyterian opinions, known as the Covenanters, who favoured rejecting all compromise with the state, began to move away from religious dissent to outright political sedition.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

He was thus " converted " to King's religious beliefs, and received ordination in the Presbyterian denomination, not being satisfied with that which he had from the bishop.

His mother, intensely religious, was an evangelical of Scottish Episcopal origins, and his father joined the Church of England, having been a Presbyterian when he first settled in Liverpool.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the largest religious denomination, followed by the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland.

An 1870 map of Memphis shows religious buildings of the Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and other Christian denominations and a Jewish congregation.

A deeply religious person, he was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church.

A large religious meeting house, thought to have been Presbyterian, was demolished and its furniture burned on the Cornhill in 1683.

He grew up in a Presbyterian household, although he was not terribly religious.

However, after meeting some Presbyterian elders who had moved from North Carolina to his area in Missouri, Crowe became interested in pursuing a religious education.

As part of the broader political conflict in the British Isles brought on by religious war, The Killing Time was characterized by a Scottish civil war between Presbyterian dissenters ( Covenanters ) and Charles II's and James VII's episcopal Anglican church policy.

The Neshaminy Presbyterian Church is one of the earliest religious association in Pennsylvania dating back to 1726.

Some time in the years before 1785 the first mention of a religious group called Hartslog Presbyterian Congregation was formed.

However, the expansion of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area into Payson has changed the city's ethnic and religious makeup with additions of Catholic ( including Eastern Rite Catholic and Greek Catholic brought in by Greek, Italian and Yugoslav settlers ), Presbyterian, Evangelist, and Wiccan.

In 1868 formal ties with Presbyterian and Congregational churches were cut, but Ripon remained somewhat religious for much of its history.

He was to carry the strict Presbyterian religious convictions of the Kirk forward into his adult life.

Several prominent Presbyterian officers, mainly expatriate Scottish professional soldiers, refused to serve in the New Model Army on religious grounds.

Preston then donated the title of the College to the Presbyterian Church, marking the beginning of Belhaven's religious affiliation.

The eight strongest religious affiliations in the area were in descending order: No religion, Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox Christian, Buddhism, Uniting Church, Presbyterian and Reformed, and other Christian.

Hearst was raised a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith in the 1840s.

Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ.

" In the sermon, he asserted some current Presbyterian church leaders might be academic " Pharisee-teachers " who did not have the same faith or enthusiasm as newly converted followers, a controversial view which divided the church.

Over the course of an hourlong chat with the writer and Presbyterian minister in his kitchen, they recur any number of times in response to questions about his faith and theology.

Its name is taken from the Westminster Assembly of 1643, which laid out the basic tenets of the Presbyterian faith.

The Reverend James Boyd was an early minister of the Presbyterian faith who served the community.

Not long since a gentleman of the Presbyterian faith came to this town ( Kirtland ) and proposed to lecture upon the abolition question.

She says her faith is “ the most important thing in my life .” Harris grew up in the Presbyterian Church in America ( she has criticized the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) for being " more liberal ").

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

Galt appears to have had a very non-sectarian approach to religious faith and although the grandson of a Calvinist theologian, Alexander Galt supported both the Methodist and Anglican churches while his wife, Amy, was a lifelong Presbyterian.

With the demise of the monarchy, the Westminster Confession of Faith ( 1646 ) was officially declared the statement of faith for both the Church of England ( Anglican / Episcopal ) and Church of Scotland ( Presbyterian ).

Writing to his father, an Arian Baptist, of his purpose to make a public profession of his Christian faith in connection with the Presbyterian Church, he stated the chief points of his religious belief, quoting a " thus saith the Lord " for each.

Holliday's mother had been raised a Methodist and later joined a Presbyterian church ( her husband's faith ), but objected to the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination and reconverted to Methodism publicly before she died, saying she wanted her son John to know what she believed.

Angelina converted to the Presbyterian faith in April 1826, aged 21.

This incident led to Grimké ’ s loss of faith in the values of the Presbyterian church.

His last words expressed his faith in " that good old Presbyterian doctrine of predestination.

‘ Reformed Theology as set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith & the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as adopted by the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, is the system of doctrine taught in Scripture, and therefore is to be learned, taught, and proclaimed for the edification and government of Christian people, for the propagation of the faith, and for the evangelization of the world by the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It can be by no means accidental that Borges ( the author, not the character ) has placed into the hands of an evangelical Presbyterian an " immediate object ," the sense of which seemingly undermines plain faith in a Christian eschatology.

In 1588 he signed the Presbyterian confession of faith, but continued to engage in plots for the Spanish invasion of Scotland.

Best was raised in the Free Presbyterian faith.

While loosely associated with the Presbyterian Church ( USA ), the college is non-denominational and does not require students to sign a statement of faith, though they are required to attend sixteen chapel services per semester.