Besides Church and Sunday School I went to out-of-door meetings on the sidewalk at the church door.

I will show you a great many who have become worse through following it .... The solemn prayers of the Church are abolished, but now there are very many who never pray at all .... I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances of all of them displaying rage, and wonderful ferocity, as though they were animated by the evil spirit .... Who ever beheld in their meetings any one of them shedding tears, smiting his breast, or grieving for his sins ?...

Methodist denominations typically give lay members representation at regional and national meetings ( conferences ) at which the business of the church is conducted, making it different from most episcopal government ( The Episcopal Church USA, however, has a representational polity giving lay members, priests, and bishops voting privileges ).

The movement gained popularity in England in the wake of the Enlightenment and began to become a formal denomination in 1774 when Theophilus Lindsey organised meetings with Joseph Priestley, founding the first avowedly Unitarian congregation in the country, at Essex Street Church in London.

Subsequent meetings addressed economic issues, property rights, protection of Serbian Orthodox Church heritage and institutional guarantees for the rights of Kosovo's minorities.

* Test Act: Those who refuse to receive the sacrament of the Church of England cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities and assemble for meetings.

One of the early camp meetings took place in July 1800 at Gasper River Church in southwestern Kentucky.

Its members today include most mainstream Christian churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church, which sends accredited observers to meetings.

Recent meetings of scholars and clergy have attempted to soften the antithesis between Protestant and Catholic conceptions of the role of faith in salvation, which, if they were successful, would have far reaching implications for the relationship between most Protestants and the Catholic Church.

In Orthodox churches, synods of bishops are meetings of bishops within each autonomous Church and are the primary vehicle for the election of bishops and the establishment of inter-diocesan ecclesiastical laws.

The Proclamation has been repeatedly discussed in General Conferences of the Church as well as in virtually all other kinds of church meetings throughout the world.

The meetings of the Church of the Nazarene were actually held in a member ’ s house, until 1903 when a building was erected.

* St. Joseph's Catholic Church Hall, located on main street immediately adjacent to St. Joseph's Catholic Church, this facility has been used by area residents for weddings, wakes, celebrations, and meetings since its construction in the early 1960s.

Besides new businesses, the decade saw the establishment of many social institutions such as the Hysham Community Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Hysham School, the Hysham Women's Club and the Buffington Hall, which was used for dances, basketball games, community meetings and other programs until it burned down in 1939 ( Kimball 1976 ; Cheney 1984 ).

During the month of February 1878, the people of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rocky Hill brought an evangelist, Miss Lizzie Sharp, to conduct revival meetings in their church.

Sometime between 1717 and 1730, a meeting house was constructed for weekday meetings conducted by the pastor of the Woodbridge Presbyterian Church.

Originally created by the Methodist Church close to the depot for the summer church meetings popular at the time, it soon became part of the Chautauqua movement, which appealed to a desire for self-improvement.

In 1794, east of Donora, the Whiskey Insurrectionists held several meetings at Fells Church.

At this time several Free Blacks and slaves were members of Barnwell Baptist Church, and they asked to use the 1829 sanctuary for worship services and meetings.

Eventually the parliamentarians won the Civil War and established the Commonwealth of England, in which alehouses were shut on Sundays and theatres and race meetings abandoned: the Puritans visited the then Church of England houses of worship and destroyed anything they thought to be idolatrous.

Begun in 1814 by Peter Spencer in connection with the " quarterly " meeting ( or " conference ") of the African Union Church -- of the four meetings during the year, the one in August became the " annual conference " of the Church when ministers ' assignments for the next year were announced, among other business -- it was a time for free blacks and slaves alike to come together ( from the multi-state area ) and celebrate their faith with singing, dancing, testifying, and feasting.

* Christadelphians, Church of God General Conference and other " Biblical Unitarians " are typically Socinian in their Christology, not Arian.

The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

When the Church chooses to canonize new material, it is typically added to the Doctrine and Covenants ; the most recent changes were made in 1981.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

The Restoration Branches generally use the older RLDS Church Doctrine and Covenants, typically sections 1 – 144.

Prior to the 1906 separation, congregations would typically be named " Disciples of Christ ," " Christian Church ," and " Church of Christ.

The Eastern Orthodox Church also has ordination to minor orders ( known as cheirothesia, " imposition of hands ") which is performed outside of the Divine Liturgy, typically by a bishop, although certain archimandrites of stavropegial monasteries may bestow cheirothesia on members of their communities.

Some evangelicals are doubtful if the Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy are still valid manifestations of the Church and usually reject religious ( typically restorationist ) movements rooted in 19th century American Christianity, such as Mormonism ; also Christian Science, or Jehovah's Witnesses as not distinctly Christian.

Informer Cosimo Capodieci said the SCU used " the Corona because it resembles a crown, meaning the rosary typically used in Church in order to carry out the functions of Jesus Christ and the cross ... Unita because it was necessary to be connected to one another, similar to the rings of a chain.

Many Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Church to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red, the color of blood, in recognition of the blood of the sacrificed Christ ( and, of the renewal of life in springtime ).

Although the term " clergy " is not typically used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it would most appropriately apply to ward bishops and stake presidents.

Rather, the coronation of 751 is seen typically as a product of the aspirations of one man, Pepin, and of the Church, which was always looking for powerful secular protectors and for the extension of its spiritual and temporal influence.

The Church states that typically only people with " false data " about Scientology are antagonistic, so it encourages members to first attempt to provide " true data " to these people.

Anglo-Saxon crosses were typically more slender, and often nearly square in section, though when, as with the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, they were geographically close to areas of the Celtic Church, they seem to have been larger, perhaps to meet local expectations, and the two 9th century Mercian Sandbach Crosses are the largest up to that period from anywhere.

English Dissenters ( such as Puritans and Presbyterians ) who violated the Act of Uniformity 1559 may retrospectively be considered Nonconformists, typically by practising or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the Established Church.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, the Melchizedek priesthood is one of two governing priesthoods, which is typically given as a matter of course to worthy male members 18 years and older.

Typically, at least some of these days were used for religious feast, typically those of the Russian Orthodox Church, but in some localities possibly those of other religions as well.

Some Historicists typically interpret the seven churches as representing seven different periods in the history of the Church from the time of Paul until the return of Jesus Christ.

The site had been dedicated to Saint Michael by at least 1044 ( when the death of " Aedh of Scelic-Mhichí " is recorded ), however this dedication may have occurred as early as 950, around which time a new church was added to the monastery ( typically done to celebrate a consecration ) which was called Saint Michael's Church.

The majority of schools were Sunday schools, run by the Church, and children would typically attend for one or two years only.