See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

CATHOLIC See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

CHURCH  , the name assumed by a religious organization founded at See also:

• ZION, or SION (Heb. iiag, perhaps from runs " to be dry," nqs " to set up," or is " to protect "; Arabic analogies favour the meaning " hump," " summit of a ridge," and so " citadel ")

Zion See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City near See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago, IIlinois, U.S.A., in 1896, by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• DOWIE, JOHN ALEXANDER (1848-1907)

Dowie (q.v.) . Its members added to the usual tenets of See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity a See also:

• SPECIAL

special belief in faith-healing, and laid much stress on See also:

• UNITED

united See also:

• CONSECRATION (Lat. consecrallo, from con and sacrare, " to make sacred ")

consecration services and the threefold See also:

• IMMERSION (Lat. immersio, dipping),

immersion of believers . To assist Dowie, assistant overseers were appointed, and the operations of the community included religious, educational and commercial departments . Small branches sprang up in other parts of the United States, See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico, See also:

• CANADA

Canada, See also:

• EUROPE

Europe and See also:

• AUSTRALASIA

Australasia . At the end of 1901 there were nearly 12,000 baptized believers . After 1903 considerable dissension arose among Dowie's followers: he was deposed in 1906; and after his See also:

• DEATH

death (1907) the city gradually became a community of normal type .