Presbyterians

Contributions, Presbyterians, Methodists

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Contributions, Presbyterians, Methodists (1): Where certain persons by contributions built a church and the title was taken and held by the Presbyterians who permitted all other denominations to hold services therein, all of which was a condition of the subscriptions for establishing the church, when the Presbyterians sold out to the Methodists and they held it for their own exclusive use, those who contributed the money had the right to resort to the court to enforce their rights to worship in such church.555

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

See Also

• Religion
• Church

Christian Leadership; Separation of Church and State; Congregational Churches; Great Awakening; Knox, John; Kuyper, Abraham; Paton, John; Presbyteries; Reformed Churches; Scottish Christianity; Westminster Confession

Further Readings

Bauswein, J.-J.; Vischer, L. (eds.) (1999). The Reformed family worldwide: A survey of Reformed churches, theological schools, and international organizations. Eerdmans Grand Rapids, MI.
Benedetto, R.; Guder, D. L.; McKim, D. K. (1999). Historical dictionary of Reformed churches. Scarecrow Press Lanham, MD.
Cashdollar, C. D. (2000). A spiritual home: Life in British and American Reformed congregations, 1830-1915. Pennsylvania State University Press University Park.
Coalter, M. J.; Mulder, J. M.; Weeks, L. (eds.) (1992). The re-forming tradition: Presbyterians and mainstream Protestantism. Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, KY.
Cornick, D. (1998). Under God’s good hand: A history of the traditions which have come together in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom. United Reformed Church London.
Hart, D. G.; Noll, M. A. (eds.) (1999). Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition in America. InterVarsity Press Downers Grove, IL.
Marshall, G. (1980). Presbyteries and profits: Calvinism and the development of capitalism in Scotland, 1560-1707. Clarendon Press Oxford.
McKim, D. K.; Wright, D. F. (eds.) (1992). Encyclopedia of the Reformed faith. Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, KY.
Murdock, G. (2004). Beyond Calvin: The intellectual, political and cultural world of Europe’s Reformed churches, c.1540-1620. Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke.
Roxborogh, J. (2007). Persistent Presbyterianism? Lay leadership and the future of the Reformed tradition. In J. Stenhouse; B. Knowles (eds.), Christianity in the post secular west. ATF Press Adelaide, pp. 241-255.
Scobie, C. H. H.; Rawlyk, G. A. (1997). The contribution of Presbyterianism to the Maritime Provinces of Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal.
Sell, A. P. F. (2005). Testimony and tradition: Studies in Reformed and dissenting thought. Ashgate Aldershot.
Smith, D. C. (1987). Passive obedience and prophetic protest: Social criticism in the Scottish church, 1830-1945. P. Lang New York.
Todd, M. (2002). The culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland. Yale University Press New Haven, CT.
Vischer, L. (ed.) (2003). Christian worship in Reformed Churches past and present. Eerdmans Grand Rapids, MI.