is the title assumed by a body of Christians who were represented by a convention at Columbus, Ohio, in 1863, and whose organization was effected in 1865. Their fundamental principles, as officially stated by themselves, are:<\/p>\n
(1) The unity of the Church; <\/p>\n
(2) Christ its only Head; <\/p>\n
(3) the Bible the sole rule of faith and practice; <\/p>\n
(4) “Good Fruits” the one condition of membership; <\/p>\n
(5) the avoidance of all controversy; <\/p>\n
(6) self-government of each local Church; <\/p>\n
(7) no partisan politics to be preached.<\/p>\n
They hold very liberal views of Church affiliation; require no particular creed; practice baptism as a mode of admission; are open-communion; and fraternize with all evangelical Christian bodies. They are chiefly found in the Western States, where they are said to number about thirty thousand members, with a following of more than one hundred thousand. They hold state councils yearly, and a general council every fourth year. One newspaper, The Christian Witness, is published by them at MacArthur, Ohio, and they have issued a number of books and tracts. <\/p>\n
Christian Union Churches is the title assumed by a body of Christians who were represented by a convention at Columbus, Ohio, in 1863, and whose organization was effected in 1865. Their fundamental principles, as officially stated by themselves, are: (1) The unity of the Church; (2) Christ its only Head; (3) the Bible the sole … Continue reading “Christian Union Churches”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}