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The history of Christianity concerns the...)
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The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, with its various denominations, from the life of Jesus Christ in the 1st century to the present. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity spread to all of Europe in the Middle Ages, and since the Renaissance, has expanded throughout the world and become the world's largest religion (with over 2 billion faithful). At first persecuted, but later embraced by the Roman Empire, the East-West Schism, or Great Schism of 1054, separated the Church into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, i.e., Western Catholicism (based on Rome) and Eastern Orthodoxy (based on Constantinople). The rise of Islam resulted in a number of Crusades fought by Christian Armies from Europe, whose aim was to re-capture and hold Jerusalem. In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire, and Christianity was almost completely removed from the territory that now comprises Turkey. The three most important traditions that emerged from the Protestant Reformation (1521-1610) were the Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist, Presbyterian, etc.), and Anglican traditions.
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Mary of Nazareth and her family: A Scripture study
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Sanctification: Right Views and Other Views (Classic Reprint)
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IN presenting the following thoughts on sanctification I wish to say that it is not my purpose to set forth views differing from the current belief of the Church, but rather to make that belief clear to the understand ing of ordinary inquirers, and to free it somewhat from the mists that have gath ered about it by reason of partisan and inadequate representations.
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An Oral Discussion on Justification, the Action of Baptism, Infant Baptism and the Design of Baptism: Between Rev. S. M. Merrill and Elder Benj; ... Closing April 11th, 1857 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Oral Discussion on Justification, the Action of Baptism, Infant Baptism and the Design of Baptism: Between Rev. S. M. Merrill and Elder Benj; Franklin, Commencing April 5th, Continuing Six Hours Each Day, and Closing April 11th, 1857
It is my custom to expound the subject of Baptism in my congregation each year, and now-as soon as I re cover from an attack of hoarseness - I propose to exam ine the subject in my church, as you have done in yours. If you desire to hear me, and will indicate when you can attend, I will consult your convenience as to time. I shall be gratified to have you present.
Most respectfully, S. M. Merrill. Pastor of M. E. Church, Spencer Chapel.
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A Digest Of Methodist Law: Or, Helps In The Administration Of The Discipline Of The Methodist Episcopal Church / By S. M. Merrill
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The Second Coming of Christ: Considered in Its Relation to the Millennium, the Resurrection, and the Judgement (Classic Reprint)
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There are many reasons why it should be kept prominently before the people. It is within itself intensely interesting as well as important, and its relation to the doctrines of probation and future judgment and eter nal retributions invests it with a grandeur and solemnity of transcendent impressiveness.
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Stephen Mason Merrill was born on 16 September 1825, near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio. He was the fifth in a family of eleven children. His father, Joshua, was a farmer and shoemaker of New Hampshire birth and Revolutionary ancestry, descended from Nathaniel Merrill who settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635; his mother, Rhoda (Crosson), was the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier of Bedford, Pennsylvania. Both were plain pioneers, with small school-learning, but characterized by sturdy moral fiber and strict Methodist piety.
Education
Stephen grew up in Clermont County, Ohio. His schooling ceased after a term or two in the rural academy at South Salem. He learned his father's trade of shoemaker, but did not stick to his last, for having "experienced religion, " after the thorough Methodist manner, he joined the Methodist Society at Greenfield, Ohio, in 1842, and resolutely set about preparing himself to preach the gospel, working at his bench by day and toiling over his books far into the night.
Career
In his twentieth year, when he was teaching school, Merrill was licensed to preach. Two weeks before he was twenty-one he was admitted to Ohio Conference on trial and appointed to Georgetown, a "hardscrabble" circuit of twenty-two preaching places. Ordained deacon in 1849 and elder in 1851, Merrill rode hard circuits, read hard books, and meditated for eleven years. His salary was $216 and "table exercises. " Then he was advanced to be pastor of a church, and from that position rose to the captaincy of a district, as presiding elder. In 1859 he was transferred to Kentucky Conference, but in 1863 returned to Ohio Conference. During these years he conquered a tendency to pulmonary disease and acquired rugged health. He also developed unusual gifts as a close student of the doctrines and especially the discipline of his denomination, and won recognition for power of lucid and logical statement in the public forum and in the church press. Nor was he solely concerned with defending Arminian theology and Methodist polity against polemic Calvinists, Universalists, and others. In that seething antebellum period, his sound judgment, deep conviction, and knowledge of constitutional law were thrown into the discussions that sprang up wherever men gathered. The General Conference was so impressed with his ability, "mental equipoise, mastery of constitutional principle and clearness of expression" that it elected him, though a new-comer, to the editorship of the Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati). After four years in the editorial chair, where he gave ample demonstration of his intellectual resources, he was elected a bishop (1872). For eight years he resided in St. Paul, Minn. He was then assigned to Chicago, where he made his headquarters thereafter. In 1904 he retired from active duty at his own request and died suddenly the following year while on a visit in Keyport, New Jersey. In 1888 Merrill wrote the Episcopal Address to the General Conference, out of which came in substance those sections of the present constitution of the Methodist Episcopal Church which treat of the composition, powers, and limitations of the General Conference.
Achievements
Bishop Merrill was an acknowledged authority on Methodist law. One might say he was pre-eminently the jurist of the Episcopal college.
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Religion
In his first General Conference (1868) he made his reputation as a Methodist leader, when his unanswerable argument defeated the popular project for admitting laymen to the Methodist legislature without duly amending the constitution.
Politics
Merrill, though not a radical agitator, was against slavery and for the Union.
Personality
Merrill's talents were rather solid than showy, and he had not the imaginative qualities essential to popularity as a preacher or occasional orator. He was no revivalist or stump speaker, but his power of massive argument, which his admirers likened to that of Daniel Webster, bore down all opposition. His knowledge of Methodist law was encyclopedic, and all his resources were at instant call. Physically he was tall and gaunt, with head of unusual size and the features of a Roman senator. He had a voice whose heavy tones were under complete control, and he pursued the course of his thought to its conclusion unruffled by contrary argument. As a bishop his calm judgment and dispassionate attachment to known principles of law made him a useful counselor. Only one man, Joshua Soule, is rated his superior as an expounder of the Methodist constitution. He shone as a parliamentarian and was a model presiding officer. In his handling of men in the appointive function of the episcopacy he was wise, sympathetic, and just. His quiet humor eased many difficult situations.
Connections
On July 18, 1848, Merrill married Anna Bellmire, who survived him by only a few days. They had one son.
