Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1860-07-12
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De sanctioned by Apostolic teaching and prac.
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GENERAL Conference approaches, to replunps
the enurch into controversy, or 10 make further
entertainments upon the provisions of the Dis.
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Inasmuch as the subject Of Lay Representa-.
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JOHN MCCLINTOCK, D. D.,
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