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from The Century Dictionary.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called
Brethren ,Christian Brethren ,Plymouthists , etc. TheDarbyites are a division of the Brethren.
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It was a preschool sponsored by the Plymouth Brethren was the denomination and the name of the church was Gospel Hall.
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I attached myself to a small group of pietists called Plymouth Brethren, orthodox theologians, literalists in interpretation of the Scriptures and exceedingly straight-laced in their morality.
From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910
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My father, William K. Jephson, was a preacher of the sect called Plymouth Brethren, and was one of the most respected citizens of Lowell.
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"Plymouth Brethren," resemblance of Milton's views to, 133
Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870
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The '' 'Plymouth Brethren' '' is a spiritual movement which arose in the 1820s in which a return to [[New Testament]] church beliefs and practices were its aim.
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'the Brethren', simply; a title enlarged by the world outside into 'Plymouth Brethren'.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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My father was a mechanical engineer by training and a rising young executive at Edison, but his real love was his role as a lay pastor at Dunning Park Chapel, in Redford Township, an “assembly” in the evangelical Plymouth Brethren tradition.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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My father was a mechanical engineer by training and a rising young executive at Edison, but his real love was his role as a lay pastor at Dunning Park Chapel, in Redford Township, an “assembly” in the evangelical Plymouth Brethren tradition.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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My father was a mechanical engineer by training and a rising young executive at Edison, but his real love was his role as a lay pastor at Dunning Park Chapel, in Redford Township, an “assembly” in the evangelical Plymouth Brethren tradition.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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Just before Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species in 1859, the Plymouth Brethren naturalist Philip Gosse hypothesized that God created organisms miraculously with the marks of evolutionary origins.
Michael Ruse: Intelligent Design: Did God Create Through Law or Miracle? Michael Ruse 2010
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