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Resolution, 12 February 1836

 
2ond— and further resolved that no one  be ordained

The conferral of power and authority; to appoint, decree, or set apart. Church members, primarily adults, were ordained to ecclesiastical offices and other responsibilities by the laying on of hands by those with the proper authority. Ordinations to priesthood...

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 in the branches of said  church abroad unless they are recomm ended by the church voice of that <the> respective  branches of the church to which they belong,  to a general conference

A meeting where ecclesiastical officers and other church members could conduct church business. The “Articles and Covenants” of the church directed the elders to hold conferences to perform “Church business.” The first of these conferences was held on 9 June...

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 appointed by the  heads of the church, and from that conf erence receive their ordination.— [p. 156]

Facts

Editorial Title
Resolution, 12 February 1836
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3144