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| | John Jamison Moore, 1818-1893. History of the A. M. E. Zion Church in America. Founded in 1796, in the City of New York. |
 | | After the elder, William M. Stillwell, had given satisfactory explanation of the purpose for which the members of the society were detained, Abraham Thompson was offered for election, and he was most solemnly elected by a large majority (if not by the whole body). |
 | | Elders, or presbyters, regulated in the primitive Christian Church or churches their ecclesiastical interests, as do the executives that we now set apart and entitle Bishops, who are our general overseers. |
 | | It is composed of all the local preachers, exhorters, travelling preachers on trial, local deacons, Elders, class leaders, Trustees, Stewards and Superintendents of the Sabbath school; and the Pastor of a church, or local society, or several societies of a circuit or station, is the president. |
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