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# The Church Manual (Church of the Brethren)/Chapter 13

CHAPTER XIII.
RULES FOR MEMBERS IN CASE OF OFFENSES.
Our rules are modeled after those given in the 18th chapter of Matthew, and are as follows:
1. When an offence is given to a member, in language or conduct, if the offense relates only to himself, the offended shall, without consulting any one, go to the offender with an honest purpose to be reconciled, if possible. If satisfaction is given, he shall forgive and no more be said about it.
2. If satisfaction be not given, it shall be the duty of the offended to select one or two to go with him, choosing such as he may deem best adapted to effect a reconciliation, with whom he shall again converse with the offending brother. If satisfaction then be given, the matter shall be forgiven and no further complaint be made.
​3. If these efforts both fail to secure a reconciliation, it shall be the duty of the offended to lay the matter before the church, and submit to her action in the case.
4. If any member of the church shall be publicly guilty of any crime or gross impropriety, it shall be the duty of the member, knowing the transgression, to inform the elder, who shall see or write to the offender, and inform him that the matter will be laid before the church, that he may appear in his own defense.
5. When common report charges a crime against a member, it shall be the duty of the one hearing it to report it to the elder, who shall have the member visited or informed of the report, and if there is reason to believe that it is true, to have the most judicious steps taken to ascertain its correctness, and then lay the report and its evidence before the church for action in the case.
6. When circumstances are impracticable to have a member who is reported to have been guilty of crime visited, it shall be the duty of the elder, hearing of such crime, to take the most judicious measures to ascertain the truth in regard to the report, and lay the matter before the church.
​7. If a member, having erred, shall voluntarily confess it to the church, and manifests satisfactory repentance, no further proceedings shall be taken against him except in cases of public scandal or gross immoralities.
8. Every member against whom any charge is preferred, shall have the privilege of speaking in his own defense.
9. Written testimony of individuals who are not members, and have good moral characters, may be admitted as confirmatory evidence in cases of discipline.
10. If members fail to give satisfaction to the church in relation to charges preferred against them, or persistently refuse to appear before the church when called to do so, they shall, by a majority vote, be expelled.
# The Church Manual (Church of the Brethren)/Chapter 12

CHAPTER XII.
HOW TO CONDUCT CHURCH MEETINGS.
1. The Elder of the church shall be the Moderator in all meetings for the transaction of business. In his absence, or by his ​consent, any other minister present may act in the position.
2. It shall be the duty of the Moderator to keep order, and state and explain propositions. He shall cause the meetings to be opened and closed with prayer, and shall call for the business of the meeting in the following order:
(1) The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting.
(2) Receive letters from members coming from other congregations.
(3) Give letters of dismissal to those requesting them.
(4) Hear reports of committees, and other unfinished business.
(5) New business.
(6) The Moderator shall entertain no second motion until the one under consideration has been disposed of, except motions to amend, postpone, adjourn, or put the main question.
(7) He shall not allow any one speaking to introduce any subject foreign to the one under discussion.
(8) He shall call to order any member who may use uncourteous or personal language that may injure the reputation or wound the feelings of any brother or sister.
(9) He may speak on any subject under discussion by inviting a brother to take the chair in his place.
(10) Every one who wishes to speak should rise and respectfully address the Moderator.
​(11) Every proposition intended for the action of the church should be introduced by the motion of one member and seconded by another.
(12) All questions shall be decided by a majority vote of the members present.
# The Church Hymnary/The Lord's Prayer

The Lords Prayer
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
# The Church Manual (Church of the Brethren)

Published for the advice of the Church of the Brethren
THE
CHURCH MANUAL
CONTAINING
The Declaration of Faith, Rules of Order, how to conduct Religious Meetings, Etc.
By Eld. H. B. BRUMBAUGH.
"Let all things be done decently and in order"
I Cor. 14:40.
REVISED EDITION.
Elgin, Ill.:
THE BRETHREN'S PUBLISHING HOUSE
1916
CONTENTS.
PREFACE
This little work that we now present to the Brotherhood has grown out of an often-repeated want, on the part of many, for some kind of a form or guide for the proper performance of the many duties that are incumbent upon the members of the Christian Church. To meet all these wants in a small volume that would be low in price, convenient to carry, and ever ready for reference, has been our study for several years.
Since in the publishing business, we have had numbers of calls for forms for baptism, installations, ordinations, marriages, burials, how to organize Sunday-schools, etc., etc. As a result of these many inquiries we now offer this small volume. In its compilation we give the forms as sanctioned by our Annual Conference upon all the subjects upon which it has given expression, and on others, such forms as have been accepted by common consent, and seemed to be most in ​harmony with the faith and practice of the church.
The whole work has been submitted to the careful supervision of Eld. James Quinter, whose knowledge of the faith, practice, and general order of the church, is sufficiently complete to make him a safe counsellor.
Hoping that the work will tend to a greater unanimity of order and practice throughout the Brotherhood, and that it may receive the patronage of the church, we now send it forth, praying God's blessing on every effort made to promote the cause of religion in the world.
The Author.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Church Hymnary/The Apostles' Creed

The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God the father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into Hell; The third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almigthy; From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost: The Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, The forgiveness of sins: The resurrection of the body: And the life everlasting. Amen.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, William Chisholm

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​Wilson, William Chisholm, was one of the fathers of New Zealand journalism. He was a practical printer by trade, and entered into partnership with Mr. John Williamson in the publication of the New Zealander newspaper, which first saw the light at Auckland in 1845. Mr. Wilson introduced the first Caxton printing machine into New Zealand, and also established the first gasworks, having purchased a small plant to light his own offices. Differences with his partner over the policy of the paper led to a dissolution in 1863, and a few months later Mr. Wilson started the New Zealand Herald, which soon extinguished its predecessor. In connection with this journal Mr. Wilson started a weekly issue. Although unwilling to enter public life, Mr. Wilson actively assisted in founding many Auckland institutions, among the most noteworthy being the Bank of New Zealand and the New Zealand Insurance Company, of which he remained a director till his death on July 10th, 1876. The Herald under his management became the leading morning paper in the colony. After his demise the business was carried on by his sons, Messrs. W. S. and J. L. Wilson, who had previously assisted in its management. They entered into partnership with Mr. A. G. Horton, who had purchased the Southern Cross, the other morning journal, from Sir Julius Vogel, and the two papers were amalgamated, the Southern Cross ​becoming merged into the Herald and the weekly issue of the latter paper losing its identity in the Weekly News, an older journal published in connection with the Southern Cross.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Rev. Ambrose John

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​Wilson, Rev. Ambrose John, D.D., is the son of Joseph Wm. Wilson of Slenley, Surrey, and was born at Birmingham in 1853. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in London, and having secured a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, he took a second-class in Classical Moderations in 1873, and a first-class in Litteræ Humaniores in 1875. He graduated B.A. in 1876, and was elected a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, an appointment which he retained till 1881. In the same year he became lecturer of Queen's and St. John's Colleges simultaneously, and in December was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford. In 1877 he was appointed tutor of St. John's, which position he resigned, and the next year became classical tutor at the Diocesan College at Rondesbosch, in Cape Colony, and head master of St. Mark's Grammar School, George. In March of this year he was ordained priest by the Bishop of Capetown, and took his degree of M.A. at Oxford in absence. In 1879 he was appointed Classical Examiner in the University of Capetown, which conferred on him the hon. degree of M.A. In 1880 Dr. Wilson returned to England, and accepted the head-mastership of the Carlisle Grammar School, a post which he held till 1885, when he was appointed to his present position as head master of the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. In 1882 he took the Oxford degree of B.D., and in 1885 had that of D.D. conferred on him. Dr. Wilson was married at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover, on Sept. 3rd, 1880, to Miss Julia Mary Lawrence.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Sir Samuel

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​Wilson, Sir Samuel, is the sixth son of the late Samuel Wilson, farmer and landowner, of Antrim, Ireland. He was born at Ballycloughan in 1832, and educated at Ballymena, in the same county. After leaving school, he had three years' experience in linen manufacture with his brother-in-law, and then went into that business conjointly with farming on his own account. On the advice of a brother, he went to Melbourne in 1852, and worked as a miner on the Ballarat, Fryer's Creek, Ovens, and Bendigo diggings, with some success. Leaving mining pursuits, he took the management of the Kewell station with twenty thousand sheep for his brother, and having practically learned station work there, he sold a small property he had in Ireland, and joined his brother in the purchase of the Longerenong station on the Wimmera, the investment turning out a highly successful one, owing in a great measure to his having developed large tracts of unwatered country by the construction of dams and water-channels. The brothers also bought a number of other stations, notably the Yanko station on the Murrumbidgee, N.S.W., which they improved in a similar manner. In 1869 Mr. Wilson became the purchaser of the whole of the property of the firm, and, after a few years of almost unprecedented success, he sold Longerenong, Coree, and Goongambla, and invested in Mount Bute, Marathon, and Corangamite estates, after which, being tempted with the offer of Ercildoune, near Burrumbeet, a station noted for its breed of merino sheep, he bought that beautiful estate, and made it his colonial home. He also went into squatting ventures in New South Wales and Queensland. Sir Samuel Wilson formerly represented the Wimmera district in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, and sat in the Legislative Council for the Western Province from 1875 to 1880. He also took great interest in acclimatisation, and devoted time and money toward the introduction of English salmon into Victorian waters. He gave £30,000, or with accrued interest £37,000, for the erection of the Wilson Hall in connection with Melbourne University, the first stone being laid in Oct. 1879. In 1861 Sir (then Mr.) Samuel Wilson married Jeannie, daughter of the Hon. W. Campbell. In 1875 he was knighted by patent. For a number of years past Sir Samuel has resided in England, where he has rented the estate of Hughenden Manor, formerly the residence of the late Lord Beaconsfield. Sir Samuel unsuccessfully contested the division of Buckinghamshire in which the property is situated in 1885, but was elected to the House of Commons for Portsmouth in 1886. He did not seek re-election in 1892.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Hon. John Bowie

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​Wilson, Hon. John Bowie, third son of the Rev. John Wilson, D.D., was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, on June 17th, 1820, and educated at Irvine and at the Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities. He arrived in Australia in June 1840, and in 1859 was elected to the New South Wales Parliament for the Southern Goldfields, being afterwards returned for Patrick's Plains and East Sydney. Mr. Wilson was Secretary for Lands in the Martin Ministry from Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865, and under the same premier from Jan. 1866 to Oct. 1868, and Dec. 1870 to May 1872. Mr. Wilson distinguished himself by his efforts to secure parks and recreation grounds for the people of Sydney. He died April 30th, 1883.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Hon. John Nathaniel

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​Wilson, Hon. John Nathaniel, M.L.C., has been a member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand since Nov. 1877. He was a member of the Grey Ministry without portfolio from Nov. 1878 to Oct. 1879, when Sir George Grey resigned.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Sir John Cracroft

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​Wilson, Sir John Cracroft, K.C.S.I., C.B., was born at Onamore, in the Madras Presidency, on May 21st, 1808, and sent to England for his education. He returned to India in 1828, having been appointed to a subordinate position in the Indian Civil Service, but he was soon promoted to be assistant commissioner to Sir William Sleeman, with whom he greatly distinguished himself by his success in suppressing Thuggism. He was shortly afterwards made a magistrate of Cawnpore. In 1841 he was transferred to Moradabad, where he acted as magistrate and collector until 1853, He was then ordered a change of climate on medical grounds, and, obtaining leave of ​absence, sailed for Melbourne, on his way to Canterbury, N.Z., where he became a settler. In May 1855, his leave of absence expiring, he returned to Calcutta and resumed his office of judge at Moradabad. Of his services during the Mutiny Lord Canning, the Governor-General of India, wrote under date July 2nd, 1859, that he had "the enviable distinction of having, by his obstinate energy and perseverance, saved more Christian lives than any man in India. He did this," Lord Canning added, "at the repeatedly imminent risk of his own life." In recognition of his services he was made C.B. in 1860, and K.C.S.I. in 1872. He also received the Indian Mutiny medal. After the suppression of the Mutiny, Sir John Cracroft Wilson returned to New Zealand, where he resided in the Canterbury district and was many years a member of the Provincial Council. He also represented a Canterbury constituency in the Lower House of the General Assembly of New Zealand. He died at Cashmere, Canterbury, on May 2nd, 1881. He married in 1844, as his second wife, Jane Lorrie, daughter of James Greig, who still survives.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Hon. Sir James Milne

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​Wilson, Hon. Sir James Milne, Knt., M.L.C., sometime Premier of Tasmania, third son of John Wilson, of Banff, N.B., was born on March 9th, 1812, and emigrated to Tasmania in 1829. He was elected to the Legislative Council for Hobart Town in 1859. He was a member of the Whyte Ministry without portfolio from Jan. 1863, when he was sworn of the Executive Council, until Nov. 1866. Three years later he became Premier, and held office as Colonial Secretary from August 1869 to Nov. 1872, when he became President of the Legislative Council, a post which he held till Feb. 1880. Sir James, who married in 1847 Deborah Hope, third daughter of Peter Degraves, of Cascade, Hobart Town, was field officer in command of the Tasmanian Volunteers in 1860, received the Queen's permission to bear the title of Honourable within the colony in 1866, and was knighted in 1873. He died at Hobart on March 9th, 1880, the 68th anniversary of his birthday.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Hon. Walter Horatio

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​Wilson, Hon. Walter Horatio, M.L.C., was born at Rhos-y-Medre, Ruabon, Denbighshire, on July 15th, 1839, and arrived in Victoria in 1853. In 1865 he was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court in Queensland, and practises in Brisbane. Having been called to the Legislative Council in July 1885, he succeeded Mr. T. M. Patterson as Postmaster-General in the Griffith Government in August 1887, retiring with his colleagues in June 1888.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wilson, Hon. William

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​Wilson, Hon. William, was born on Feb. 16th, 1834, at Renton, two miles from Dumbarton. He emigrated to Australia in Oct. 1852, in the ship Sir William Molesworth—a joint stock concern—all the passengers having an interest in her. The captain and crew went out on 1s. per month wages, in order to get their discharge on landing. Shortly after his arrival, in 1853, Mr. Wilson commenced business in the timber trade at Geelong as a member of the firm of Tate, Wilson & Wright. After they had straggled through the commercial crisis of 1854, the partnership was dissolved, whereupon Mr. Wilson went into the New Zealand trade, bringing oats, etc., to the Fiery Creek rush. He afterwards bought a business there, and on the opening of the Canton lead at Ararat opened a wholesale store there. Three years later he sold his business, and turned his attention, with a fair measure of success, to pastoral pursuits, first on the Lower Goulburn and then in the Lower Wimmera. He then joined the firm of Boyd, MᶜNaught & Boyd, which was subsequently known as Wilson, Crosbie & Co. He had been one of the earliest town councillors of Ararat; and was about the time just mentioned returned to the Legislative Assembly for the district. Mr. Wilson was Commissioner of Railways in the MᶜCulloch Government from Sept. 2nd to 20th, 1869, and again under the same Premier from April 9th, 1870, to June 19th, 1871. At the following election he was defeated by Mr. Carroll, but was soon afterwards returned to the Legislative Council as a representative of the eastern province. He afterwards retired and paid a somewhat lengthened visit to Europe. He re-entered the political arena for a short time in 1881, when he opposed the re-election of Mr. David Gaunson at Ararat, on his appointment as Commissioner of Crown Lands, and succeeded in defeating him by a considerable majority. He did not, however, again offer himself at the general election in 1883. Mr. Wilson was in England from 1885 to 1886, when he returned to the colony. In 1873 he became a director of the National Bank of Australasia, and was chairman of the board in 1876. Mr. Wilson was largely interested in pastoral pursuits in Victoria and New South Wales, and was also chairman of the Evening Standard Newspaper Company of Melbourne. He died on Nov. 16th, 1891.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/O'Malley, Michael

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​O'Malley, Michael, J.P., was appointed to the Queensland Civil Service by the late Mr. A. Macalister in June 1869, and was a police magistrate for several years, and also Northern Sheriff. In Dec. 1889 he was appointed a member of the Civil Service Board, and also of the Civil Service Investment Board.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/O'Reilly, Hon. Christopher

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​O'Reilly, Hon. Christopher, K.S.G., was Minister of Lands and Works in Tasmania from August 1876 to August 1877, in the Reibey Ministry, and was sworn of the Executive Council on the former date. He held the same portfolio in the Crowther and Giblin Ministries from Dec. 1878 to Dec. 1882, when he resigned and accepted the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate at Scottsdale. Mr. O'Reilly was created a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Officer, Sir Robert

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​Officer, Sir Robert, M.A., son of Robert Officer, was born in Scotland in 1800, and graduated B.A., and subsequently M.A., at St. Andrews University. Having obtained his diploma as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, he emigrated to Tasmania, where he was appointed Government medical officer for New Norfolk, and also acquired considerable private practice in partnership with Dr. Agnew, who has since been Premier of the colony. Sir Robert paid a brief visit to Victoria whilst the gold fever was at its height; but ultimately returned to Tasmania, where, after filling the post of Assistant Colonial Surgeon, he retired from the medical profession, resigning his practice to Dr. Agnew. In 1853 he was returned to the old Legislative Council, then the only Chamber, for Buckingham. In the following year the new Constitution Act was passed, and when the first election under the bi-cameral system took place, in Sept. 1856, Sir Robert Officer was returned to the House of Assembly for the district of Glenorchy. He was at once chosen Chairman of Committees, and on the retirement of Mr. Fenton in August 1861 became Speaker of the House. This position he held uninterruptedly until April 1877, having been four times re-elected in the interval, and having throughout the whole term of his Speakership been returned unopposed for Glenorchy. Sir Robert was knighted in 1869; and after his resignation of the Speakership, on which occasion he received the thanks of the House for his long and valuable services, he retired to live at Hall Green, his residence near New Norfolk, where to the last he occupied himself in hop cultivation and salmon acclimatisation, industries in which he was greatly interested, and of which he was one of the leading pioneers. He died on July 8th, 1879.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Okeden, William Edward Parry

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​Okeden, William Edward Parry, Under-Colonial Secretary, Queensland, son of David Parry Okeden, was born at Maranumbela, his father's station, in the Manaro District of New South Wales, on May 13th, 1841. Having served three years as an articled clerk to a solicitor in Melbourne, he relinquished the law and joined his father in squatting pursuits in Queensland in 1861. Nine years later he was appointed to initiate the Border Customs, and entered the Civil Service as Inspector of the Border Patrol in Dec. 1870. Having been employed as a police magistrate from 1872 to 1886, Mr. Okeden acted for the next three years as Immigration Agent at Brisbane, receiving the appointment of Under-Colonial Secretary in July 1889. In 1887 he acted with Mr. Kinnaird Rose on an inquiry into gaol management in Queensland.