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Show 29 an interest in your faith and prayers for i Determined to go am on and be saved. ,,1 Another method used in disfellowship in church t h e rn , thereby depriving affairs, although Sometimes it was disciplining the wayward still duties as should be, t the He that next confe President council, r ence Kelsey at last in Ma r ch , arose by drunkennes s, dis fellowship believed they that it was that unless the p r-e would in the same majority state now 1Falkirk Branch Historical Record, 2History of the Scottish Mission, see of the by this council, out from their ... that we would were July 8, It was also seconded disfellowshipped 1855. December 30, Dunfermline. he and he would Glasgow Quarterly Conference, also Branch Histories, , From what he could learn, of the members of Da l r y branch 3Report 1849; i d e n.t s etc, move that we disfeUowship the Girvan Branch. by elder Douglas, and unanimousl y carried.3 The Accordingly, resolved come quarrelling, backbiting, the whole branch. were they improved "they 1849 and stated, conference, in their failing were the next conference. ,,2 and members of the Girvan branch, filth, they members of the church and that unless us stated to the Kelsey would have to be done with the Girvan complained cut off from among whole branches. disfellowship One such incident occurred in 1848 when Eli B. Branch" of the church. to in the church. retaining membership something was them of active p a r t i c ipa t io n deemed necessary to G'La s g o w Council that" Saints 1848. March 24-25, |
