The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

In June 1848, approximately 200 Hicksites, including the Hunts and the M ' Clintocks, formed an even more radical Quaker group, known as the Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends, or Progressive Friends.

Chesham MosqueThere is a United Reformed Church, formerly called the Congregational Church, in The Broadway, there was a Gospel Hall in Station Road ( which closed at the end of 2008 ), a Roman Catholic church ( St Columba's ) in Berkhampstead Road ( built in 1960 ), a Methodist chapel in Bellingdon Road, a Salvation Army Citadel in Broad St, Hiving's Free Church in Upper Belmont Road, an historic Quaker Friends Meeting House in Bellingdon Road, The King's Church charismatic fellowship which meets at Chesham Park Community College.

The Congregational Church and the Unitarian Church separated in 1825 just prior to the Hicksite Separation of Friends.

The Goschen Meeting House was a centre of the Congregational Friends and were involved with Temperance and Peace, health reform, anti-slavery, women's rights and socialistic utopianism.

The Society of Friends opened a Meeting House at the corner of Glebe Street and Prebend Street in 1876 and, by 1886, several more places of worship had been built-a Congregational Chapel on London Road, a Wesleyan Church and Sunday school on the corner of Saxby Street and Sparkenhoe Street and the Victoria Road Baptist ( now Seventh Day Adventist ) Church and Sunday school at the corner of London Road and Victoria ( now University ) Road.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

Her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, were both Congregational Church clergy, and together served as pastors at the church of Thomas K. Beecher near Elmira, New York.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

#* The Adamses were originally members of Congregational churches in New England.

The new branch that formed was the Congregational Unitarians, which Morse as pastor thought were anti-Federalists, as they had a different belief related to religious salvation.

Prayers were said by the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa for an accident-free changeover and Samoa's Red Cross carried out a blood donation campaign in case of a surge of accidents.

In the United States, the Unitarian movement began primarily in the Congregational parish churches of New England, which were part of the state church of Massachusetts.

Brown withdrew his membership from the Congregational church in the 1840s and never officially joined another church, but both he and his father Owen were fairly conventional evangelicals for the period with its focus on the pursuit of personal righteousness.

The Asquiths were a middle-class family and members of the Congregational church.

Her father, William Smith ( 1707 – 1783 ), a liberal Congregationalist, and other forebears were Congregational ministers, and leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.

The original 40 families of the parish began their own Congregational church and were allowed by Norwalk to hire a minister ( Robert Sturgeon, who also became the town's first schoolmaster ), open schools and build roads.

Ebenezer Gay, a renowned Congregational minister ; U. S. Postmaster General Gideon Granger ; real estate speculator Oliver Phelps, once the largest landowner in America ; composer Timothy Swan ; architect Henry A. Sykes ; sculptor Olin Levi Warner ; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators ; and Thaddeus Leavitt, inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.

During this period, the Congregational Church received a makeover, commercial enterprises were eliminated for aesthetic purposes, and restrained but elegant summer homes — many of them designed by Rossiter himself — were constructed.

First Congregational Church, located near Town HallThere were 1, 575 households out of which 38. 9 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72. 6 % were married couples living together, 6. 5 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 17. 8 % were non-families.

As it was completely useless, arrangements were made to house the High School in the Congregational Church and the grades in the West Side school, St. Patrick's auditorium, the Nazarene Church, and the basement ' of the Carnegie Library.

Both Catholic and Lutheran religious services were held here, and a Congregational Church was built.

A Congregational church was organized about October 30, 1771, and small appropriations for preaching were made annually.

The first religious services were held in Adams County in Ritzville in April 1882 at the McKay Home and the First Congregational Church was soon organized, a church would be built in 1885.

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

Congregational churches were widely established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, later New England.

Under the Act of Parliament that dealt with the financial and property issues arising from the merger between what had become by then the Congregational Church of England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England, certain assets were divided between the various parties.

The change was prompted in part by a decline in Congregational attendance that began in 1828 when its popular pastor, John Gleed, a fellow fossil collector, left for the United States to campaign against slavery.

At age nineteen, David and his father left the Church of Scotland for a local Congregational church, influenced by preachers like Ralph Wardlaw who denied predestinatarian limitations on salvation.

At age thirteen, Charles left the Presbyterian Church to join the Congregational Church.

Surrounded by trees are Christ Episcopal Church pictured on the right, and First Church of Christ Congregational with carriage shed on the left.

Over the next century, the Wheelers left their mark on the town through a number of legacies including providing large donations to the Congregational Church and the school system.

With arrival of British troops in Newport in late 1776, Stiles left Newport and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 1777 until 1778, when he became president of Yale until his death.

Some more ecumenically minded Congregationalists left the Fellowship of Congregational Churches in 1995 and formed the Congregational Federation of Australia.

Eventually, he left the Chinese Independent Congregational Church and began meeting with the Benjamin Newton branch of the Brethren Assembly in Yantai.

Congregational Church on left, Henniker Historical Society Museum on right

He published lectures such as the Atonement ( which is still in print ), sermons, the ' Manual of Congregational Principles ' ( also still in print ), and, at his death, he left an unfinished history of Congregationalism, revised by his son, A. W. W. Dale.

In 1934, Plymouth Church merged with the Congregational Church of the Pilgrims, the first Congregational Church in Brooklyn, which left its Richard Upjohn-designed church at Henry and Remsen Streets – now Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church – and the resulting combined congregation was named Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims.

Scofield left the liberalizing Congregational Church to become a Southern Presbyterian and moved to the New York City area where he supervised a correspondence and lay institute, the New York Night School of the Bible.

From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855-1860 as preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard ; he then left the Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became pastor of the newly established Emmanuel Church of Boston.

View of the center of Bethlehem by John Warner Barber ( published 1836, 46 years after Bellamy's death ) " Bellamy's house is the one to the right of the two trees in the center of the drawing and to the left of the Congregational Church.