Yesterday's post talked a little about the Lutheran and quite a bit about the LDS background of a number of "cousins" in our Geni Tree.
In addition, a number of our known Millard cousins were Quakers, "dissenters", or Calvinists, and later many embraced the Brethren doctrine. My own father was raised in a Plymouth Brethren or Closed Brethren environment, which impacted his life in many ways, a number of them in a negative way. In his father's home newspapers were not allowed, only books related to the Bible were allowed to be read, and in their church with lay brethren only (no pastor, no women speakers) singing was allowed but without any musical accompaniment.
Today, courtesy of cousin Earl Millard, is this short history of the Exclusive Brethren; There are many Christians known as “brethren” who trace the origins of their movement to John Nelson Darby (see drawing) who lived just over 200 years ago in Dublin. Schism and division has been a consistent feature of the movement almost from the start. The following summary relates to the Taylor-Symington-Hales Branch of the Exclusive Brethren (signified by the more recent leaders of this group); arguably the most radical and perhaps controversial of all the groups in the Brethren movement.
The Brethren trace the origins of the movement to John Nelson Darby who was born in London in 1800 into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. John Darby became a priest and led a group that believed that the existence of an established church and ordained clergy was contrary to scripture. “I can find no such thing as a national church in Scripture”, Darby wrote at the time. In 1832, he had a major disagreement with Archbishop Magee about a requirement for converted Catholics to swear allegiance to King George IV and, in the same year, disagreed with Archbishop Whately about matters of church doctrine. To Darby, separation from evil was the divine principle of faith, and there followed a litany of disagreements with others about doctrine – and an equally swift condemnation and separation from those with whom he could not agree. A major disagreement about discipline at the meeting of Brethren in Plymouth in 1848 resulted in a major fracture of the movement. The congregation split between those who became known as the “open brethren” and the “exclusive brethren” that followed Darby’s stricter lead. This split remains today and further divisions have occurred in both camps.
For more information see - http://peebs.net/a-short-history-of-the-exclusive-brethren/
In addition, a number of our known Millard cousins were Quakers, "dissenters", or Calvinists, and later many embraced the Brethren doctrine. My own father was raised in a Plymouth Brethren or Closed Brethren environment, which impacted his life in many ways, a number of them in a negative way. In his father's home newspapers were not allowed, only books related to the Bible were allowed to be read, and in their church with lay brethren only (no pastor, no women speakers) singing was allowed but without any musical accompaniment.
Today, courtesy of cousin Earl Millard, is this short history of the Exclusive Brethren; There are many Christians known as “brethren” who trace the origins of their movement to John Nelson Darby (see drawing) who lived just over 200 years ago in Dublin. Schism and division has been a consistent feature of the movement almost from the start. The following summary relates to the Taylor-Symington-Hales Branch of the Exclusive Brethren (signified by the more recent leaders of this group); arguably the most radical and perhaps controversial of all the groups in the Brethren movement.
The Brethren trace the origins of the movement to John Nelson Darby who was born in London in 1800 into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. John Darby became a priest and led a group that believed that the existence of an established church and ordained clergy was contrary to scripture. “I can find no such thing as a national church in Scripture”, Darby wrote at the time. In 1832, he had a major disagreement with Archbishop Magee about a requirement for converted Catholics to swear allegiance to King George IV and, in the same year, disagreed with Archbishop Whately about matters of church doctrine. To Darby, separation from evil was the divine principle of faith, and there followed a litany of disagreements with others about doctrine – and an equally swift condemnation and separation from those with whom he could not agree. A major disagreement about discipline at the meeting of Brethren in Plymouth in 1848 resulted in a major fracture of the movement. The congregation split between those who became known as the “open brethren” and the “exclusive brethren” that followed Darby’s stricter lead. This split remains today and further divisions have occurred in both camps.
For more information see - http://peebs.net/a-short-history-of-the-exclusive-brethren/