Baptist Councils in America a Historical Study of Their Origin And the Principl
Baptist Councils in America a Historical Study of Their Origin And the Principl
William Henry Allison
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If the case lies between two churches, it is within the province of either to call a council of its sister churches to advise it in the premises, so no special principle is involved other than that in every council. It is obvious, however, that in such cases of controversy between churches, a mutual council will carry greater weight with the churches at large. In a narrower sense, the term C. V parte has been applied to a council which is called by a minority of a church, presumably because it ...believes that it has been deprived of its just rights by the action of the majority. The right of such a council to exist has been called in question, and for that reason, if for no other, it demands some special consideration in our study of the status of the council as an institution. Just when the first ex parte council, in this narrower meaning, was held among American Baptists, the researches of the present writer have been, unable to discover; the theory of the ex parte council found expression relatively early, and the Congregational churches had found this species serviceable as early as 1669.^* The earliest date of a Baptist ex parte council for which the writer has found definite evidence is 1821, when one was held in connection with troubles in the church at Ovid, N.
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