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1941 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 169.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
Q.-Is it right to vote out a member at any ordinary business meeting, by a majority present, ought the vote to be unanimous?
1942 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 169.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… , the vote to exclude should be unanimous, unless the opposition come from those who are themselves subjects of labor, or under the censure of the church.
1943 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 172.4 (John Norton Loughborough)
… have voted requesting the churches to deed their buildings to the corporation.
1944 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 173.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… the vote of that church to fill the said office; but that in the matter of ordination, if he had been faithful to his church covenant, he need not be re-ordained …
1945 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 173.5 (John Norton Loughborough)
A.-If he has been ordained as elder of a church, and has been faithful in his church duties, although removed to another church, it might be proper for him to officiate if requested to do so by vote of the church.
1946 The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline, p. 176.7 (John Norton Loughborough)
… were voted upon by the others, and were then declared a church, ready to receive other members. The others one by one were asked to endorse the questions which …
1947 Conference Address: Decatur, Illinois, p. 2.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… were voted into the Conference, making a total of twelve churches, with a membership of 246, who paid a tithe of $1,560.17. The same officers were re-elected.
1948 Conference Address: Decatur, Illinois, p. 2.4 (John Norton Loughborough)
… was voted in. The tithes were reported as amounting to $1,653.86. Elder R. F. Andrews was again elected as president, B. F. Merritt as secretary, and J. R. Whitham and …
1949 Conference Address: Decatur, Illinois, p. 2.9 (John Norton Loughborough)
… was voted into the Conference. This raised the membership to 500. The tithe was reported as amounting to $2,170.55. Elder Colcord was still retained as president …
1950 Conference Address: Decatur, Illinois, p. 3.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… were voted into the Conference. The membership was reported as 676, and the tithe paid for the year was $3,084.28. Elder R. F. Andrews was again elected president …
1951 Conference Address: Decatur, Illinois, p. 3.7 (John Norton Loughborough)
… were voted in at the time of this Conference, and the tithe was reported as $4,393.27.
1952 Conference Address: Ottowa, Illinois, p. 3.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… . You voted, at the last Conference, to raise by donations $1000 to be used in paying the interest on the mission debt. On this fund there had been paid, up to Aug. 1 …
1953 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 138.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… to vote on the Lord’s side. I then called on all in the congregation who would join me in prayer, and those that wished to be presented to the throne of mercy, that …
1954 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 287.3 (John Norton Loughborough)
… was voted by the brethren in Battle Creek to invite Elder White to move the Review office from Rochester to Battle Creek. Dan Palmer, Cyrenius Smith, J. P. Kellogg …
1955 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 291.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… organization, voted that he should have $6 per week for his services rendered, he only accepted $4 per week.
1956 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 349.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… a vote of the entire assembly.
1957 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 351.1 (John Norton Loughborough)
… was voted unanimously to legally organize a publishing association, and in order that such a corporation might be formed as soon as practicable, a committee …
1958 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 351.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… to vote, only one man voted against it, and he soon afterward withdrew his objection.
1959 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 352.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
… . By vote of the conference, it was recommended that the churches enter into organization, adopting the following as a church covenant:—
1960 The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress, p. 353.2 (John Norton Loughborough)
It was also voted that a committee be selected to prepare an address setting before our people the mode of procedure in organizing churches. This address was published in the Review of Oct. 15, 1861.