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Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missions was a training school in Chicago for missionaries associated with the Methodist Church.It was founded by Lucy Rider Meyer and her husband Josiah in 1885 and was described as "the largest training school of its kind in the country" [1] and awarded the degree of Bachelor of Religious Service (BRS).
In 1923 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South adopted the name Cokesbury for its own publishing concern, with headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] When the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church reunified in 1939, the name Abingdon-Cokesbury was chosen as the name of publishing house of the unitary Methodist ...
David C Cook acquired Kingsway in 1993, Scripture Press/Victor Books in 1995, [9] and Integrity Music in 2011. [10] [11]In 2015, David C Cook acquired assets from Gospel Light and Standard Publishing, including the Gospel Light Curriculum line, the Standard Lesson Commentary, HeartShaper, and Route 52 Curriculum from Standard, among other products.
The Chicago Temple Building is a 173-metre (568 ft) tall skyscraper church located at 77 W. Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the congregation of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. It was completed in 1924 and has 23 floors dedicated to religious and office use. It is by one measure the tallest ...
[8] And since the Methodist Episcopal Church officially owned the Methodist Book Concern, there existed significant tensions concerning publications and finances. Eventually, in 1854 the Supreme Court ruled that the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had as much right to the funds of the Methodist Book Concern as the Northern states did. [9]
In May the 1 million-member United Methodist church in the Ivory Coast quit the old denomination. In June, Nigeria Episcopal Area, with reportedly 600,000 members, ...
And in 1908, she founded the Methodist Deaconess Association. Meyer resigned as principal of the Chicago Training School in 1917 and died in 1922. [2] In 1930, the Chicago Training School merged with the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois (later known as the Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary).
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