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Pertaining to the four evangelists designed or fitted to evangelize evangelical as evangelistic efforts...
evangelist
A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines...
Gospeler
One of the four evangelists...
Harmonist
One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors as of the four evangelists...
Monotessaron
A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists a gospel harmony...
Salvationist
An evangelist a member or a recruit of the Salvation Army...
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
Sanctus Bell
Sanctus Bell, a bell tolled in the Communion Service at the moment of the elevation of the sacred elements. The rite is illegal in the Church of England, Re St. John the Evangelist, 1909, P. 6....
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