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See also:UNITED PRESBYTERIAN See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
CHURCH .)
The first See also:moderator was Dr See also:Rainy (q.v.). The See also:Free Church brought into the See also:union 1077 congregations, the United Presbyterians J99; the See also:revenue of the former amounted to £706,546, of the latter to £361,743. The missionaries of both churches
1 The See also:sect is not to be confused with the Moravian Brethren (q.v.), whose See also:official name, Unitas Fratrum, is commonly rendered in See also:English " United Brethren. "
s Otterbein was an intimate friend of See also:Francis See also:Asbury and was greatly influenced by him.joined the union, and the United Church was then equipped with See also:missions in various parts of See also:India, in See also:Manchuria, in See also:Africa (See also:Lovedale, Livingstonia, &c.), in See also:Melanesia and in the See also:West Indies. The See also:formula which was adopted allowed for development of See also:doctrine, the See also:candidate stating that he believes " in the doctrine of this Church, set forth in the See also:Confession of Faith," the Church being thus set above the confession. The Church has three divinity halls, at See also:Glasgow, See also:Edinburgh and See also:Aberdeen, served by seventeen professors and five lecturers.
The minority of the Free Church who had refused to join the union lost no See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in testing the legality of the See also:act of the See also:majority in entering it. Their See also:summons, dated the 14th of See also:December 'goo, claimed that in uniting with the United Presbyterian Church, which did not hold the principles of the Free Church, the majority had forfeited the right to the See also:property of the Free Church, which must be judged to belong to the minority who remained faithful to the principles of the Free Church and were that Church. In the Scottish courts the See also:case was decided in favour of the union by See also:Lord See also:Low on the 9th of See also:August 1901, and by the second See also:division of the See also:Court of Session on the 4th of See also:July 1902, it being held in both trials that the old Free Church had a right within limits to See also:change its views and to do by its See also:Assembly what had been done. The proceedings before the See also:House of Lords on See also:appeal were protracted by the See also:death of one of the See also:judges, which involved the See also:necessity of a second See also:hearing, and it was not till the 1st of August 1904 that the See also:verdict was pronounced. By a majority of five to two the House of Lords reversed the decision of the Court of Session, allowed the appeal, and found the minority entitled to the funds and property of the Free Church. It was held that the majority of an See also:independent church, adopting new See also:standards of doctrine & ceasing to hold essential or fundamental doctrines of the church, forfeit the right to the property, which remains with the minority holding the church's See also:original doctrine: also that the See also:establishment principle was a fundamental doctrine of the Free Church, and that by entering a union on terms leaving that doctrine an open question, the majority had violated the conditions on which the property of the Free Church was held. On the plea that by the Declaratory Act of 1892 the Free Church had abandoned its doctrinal position, See also:argument was her d, but the House of Lords did not decide.
Few legal decisions have occasioned so See also:great consternation or such serious See also:practical difficulties. At first sight it deprived the Free Church See also:section of the United Church of all its material goods—churches, manses, colleges and missions, even of the See also:provision for the old See also:age of the See also:clergy. It appeared to divert large amounts of church property from the uses for which it had been provided, and to See also:hand it over to a See also:body with which the United Church was deeply out of sympathy and which could have little prospect of making effective use of it. A See also:conference held in See also:September between representatives of the United Free and of the (now distinct) Free Church, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to come to some working arrangement in view of the decision, found that no basis for such an agreement could be arrived at. Nothing remained but to invoke the intervention of See also:parliament to put an end to an impossible situation. A See also:convocation of ministers and elders of the United Free Church, held on the 15th of December, decided that the union should go on, and resolved to " take every lawful means of appealing to the nation and to parliament to See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue the funds and buildings of the Church for the sacred purposes for which they had been provided." The Free Church could not refuse to consent to this, and in December a See also:commission was appointed, consisting of Lord See also:Elgin, Lord Kinnear and See also:Sir See also:Ralph See also:Anstruther, to inquire into matters connected with the two churches, while the question of See also:interim See also:possession was referred to Sir See also:John See also:Cheyne, as See also:commissioner, for inquiry and See also:action. The commission sat in public, and after hearing See also:evidence on both sides, issued their See also:report in See also:April 1905. They reported that the See also:state of feeling on one See also:side and on the other had made their See also:work difficult. They had concluded however that the Free Church
was unable in many respects to carry out the purposes of the See also:trusts, which, under :the the verdict of the House of Lords, was a See also:condition of their holding the property, and that there was a case for See also:parliamentary interference. They recommended that an executive commission should be set up by act of parliament, in which the whole property of the Free Church, as at the date of the union, should be vested, and which should allocate it to the United Free Church, where the Free Church was unable to carry out the See also:trust purposes. The commission was to entertain suggestions which might be made to them for friendly arrangements.
The Churches (See also:Scotland) Act, which gave effect to these recommendations, was passed on the 11th of August 1905. It contained (see SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF) a clause (No. 5) providing for the relaxation of subscription in the Established Church, parliament thus interesting itself in the affairs of all Presbyterian churches. The commissioners were those on whose report the act was formed, with the addition of two others. In See also:October 1906 the 'commission intimated that the Assembly See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, with the New See also:College Buildings and the High Church, were to be the property of the United Free Church, the Free Church receiving the offices in Edinburgh, and a See also:tenement to be converted into a college, while the library was to be vested in the United Free Church, but open to members of both churches. After having occupied class-rooms in the university for two sessions, and held an assembly (1905) in another hall, the United Free Church in 1906 again occupied in its own right the historic buildings of the Free Church. All the See also:foreign missions and all the See also:continental stations were adjudged to the United Free Church. The allocation of churches and manses was a slow business, but in 1908 over See also:loo churches had been assigned to the Free Church. Some of the dispossessed United Free Church congregations, most of them in the High-lands, found shelter for a time in the See also:parish churches; but it was See also:early decided that in spite of the objection against the erection of more church buildings in districts where many were now See also:standing empty, 6o new churches and manses should at once be built at a cost of about £150,000. (A. M.*)the union of the two crowns, and the See also:adoption of the name of Great See also:Britain for the See also:common See also:country (Teulet, See also:Mesa. See also:Caine d M. de la Mothe, Dec.
2o). But in See also:England the innovation at first met with great opposition. Various objections, sentimental and practical, were urged against it in parliament; and the judges, when appealed to by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, declared that the adoption of the See also:title would invalidate all legal processes. At length, on the 20th of October 1604, the king, weary of the discussion, cut the See also:knot by assuming the title by royal See also:proclamation, and in due course the inscription " J. D. G. Mag. Brit. F. et H. Rex " appeared on his coins. In See also:November 1604 we find the king instructing the lords commissioners of the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot to try and discover if the prisoner was the author of a most " cruel pasquil " against him for assuming the name of Britain.
For further details see See also:Calendar of State Papers, Domestic See also:Series; and J. See also:Spedding, Letters and See also:Life of Lord See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, vol iii. (See also:London, 1861-1874).
England and See also:Wales, Scotland and See also:Ireland are politically united under a parliament (q.v.), consisting of the king, the House of Lords2 and the House of See also:Commons,3 the prerogatives of the See also:Crown being exercised through responsible ministers. The executive See also:government is carried on under the supervision of the ministers of state (see See also:MINISTRY), the more important of whom are united in the See also:cabinet (q.v.). The first See also:minister of the Crown or See also:prime minister (q.v.) is appointed by the king, and having made choice of his colleagues, recommends them for See also:appointment. (See the See also:separate articles on the various offices. For the judiciary See also:system, see COURT; APPEAL; &c.) .
The table at the See also:foot of this See also:column shows the imperial revenue and See also:expenditure, with the amount of revenue per See also:head of See also:population of the United See also:Kingdom for various years. The See also:financial See also:year now ends on the 31st of See also:March of the year following that quoted. The figures before 1907 did not include the revenue assigned to See also:local purposes. The deficit in 1909 was due to delay in passing the See also:Finance Act.
Year ending March 31st.
1891. 1896. 1901. 1906. 1910.
£ £ £ £ £
Funded See also:debt 579,472,082 589,146,878 551,182,153 634,047,429 614,868,547
Terminable annuities 66,550,579 49,183,748 60,154,800 43,459,548 35,876,861
Unfunded debt 36,140,079 9,975,800 78,133,000 65,7,3,000 62,500,000
Other See also:capital liabilities* 1,317,719 3,979,940 14,464,396 45,770,210 49,218,217
See also:Total See also:gross liabilities of the state 683,480,459 652,286,366 703,934,349 788,990,187 762,463,625
See also:Assets 3,532,040t 22,627,000$ 25,806,000$ 31,080,oO0$ 35,295,000
See also:Suez See also:Canal shares
Other assets . . . . 1,740,397 939,354 712,760 2,586,799 4,118,352
See also:Exchequer balances at See also:banks of England and Ireland 6,370,897 8,975,201 5,596,918 10,451,487 2,831,248
* These are in respect of sums borrowed under certain acts.
$ Estimated See also:market value on the 31st of March each year.
t Nominal value.
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