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1927
J. O. Garst
1930
J. C. Flora
1929
Edward Miller
1928
1928
I. J. Blocher
1931
J. O. Garst 1930
J. C. Flora 1929
1929
G. E. Yoder
1932
I. G. Blocher
1931
J. O. Garst 1930
1930
E. S. Coffman
1933
G. E. Yoder 1932
I. G. Blocher
1932
Marley Karns
1932
John Kneisly
1932
1931
J. O. Glick 1934
E. S. Coffman 1933
G. E. Yoder 1932
Marley Karns
1932
John Kneisly
1932
1932
G. E. Yoder 1935
J. O. Glick 1934
E. S. Coffman 1933
Marley Karns
1933
John Kneisly
1933
1933
Marley Karns 1938
John H. Good 1937
Harold Stoner 1936
G. E. Yoder 1935
J. O. Glick
1934
1934
Roy Honeyman
1939
Marley Karns
1938
John H. Good
1937
Harold Stoner
1936
J. Perry Prather
1935
1935
J. Perry Prather
1940
Roy Honeyman
1939
Marley Karns
1938
John H. Good
1937
Harold Stoner
1936
1936
Paul W. Kinsel 1943
J. Perry Prather
1940
Roy Honeyman
1939
Marley Karns
1938
John H. Good
1937
1937
John H. Good 1942
Paul W. Kinsel 1941
J. Perry Prather
1940
Roy Honeyman
1939
Marley Karns
1938
1938
Marley Karns 1943
John H. Good 1942
Paul W. Kinsel 1941
J. Perry Prather
1940
Roy Honeyman
1939
1939
E. R. Fisher 1944
Marley Karns 1943
John H. Good 1942
Paul W. Kinsel 1941
J. Perry Prather
1939
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1940
J. Perry Prather 1945
E. R. Fisher 1944
Marley Karns 1943 E. R. Fisher 1949
John H. Good 1942 Emerson Brumbaugh 1948
Paul W. Kinsel 1941
Paul W. Kinsel
1947
1941
Lester Studebaker 1946
J. Perry Prather 1945
E. R. Fisher
1944
Marley Karns 1943
John H. Good
1942
1947
Dean Frantz 1952
Lowell Erbaugh 1951
W. Glenn McFadden 1950
E. R. Fisher 1949
Emerson Brumbaugh
1948
1942
Paul W. Kinsel 1947
Lester Studebaker 1946
J. Perry Prather 1945
E. R. Fisher 1944
J. L. Baker
1943
1943
Emerson Brumbaugh 1948
Paul W. Kinsel 1947
Lester Studebaker 1946
J. Perry Prather 1945
E. R. Fisher 1944
1944
E. R. Fisher 1949
Emerson Brumbaugh 1948
Paul W. Kinsel
1947
Emerson Brumbaugh 1953
Dean L. Frantz 1952
Ruth Funderburg
1951
1945
W. Glenn McFadden 1950
E. R. Fisher 1949
Emerson Brumbaugh 1948
Paul W. Kinsel 1947
Lester Studebaker 1946
1948
Emerson Brumbaugh . 1953
Dean Frantz 1952
Lowell Erbaugh 1951
W. Glenn McFadden 1950
E. R. Fisher
1949
1949
James H. Beahm 1954
Emerson Brumbaugh 1953
Dean L. Frantz 1952
Ruth Funderburg 1951
W. Glenn McFadden
1950
1950
Kenneth Long 1955
James H. Beahm 1954
Lester Studebaker 1946
J. Perry Prather 1945
1951
Carl Noffsinger 1956
Ruth Funderburg 1955
Kenneth G. Long 1954
J. Clyde Forney 1953
Emerson Brumbaugh 1952
1946
Lowell Erbaugh 1951
W. Glenn McFadden 1950
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN IN SOUTHERN OHIO
DISTRICT CONFERENCES AND OFFICERS
Place and
Moderator
Reader and Secretary 1920
Delegates to Annual Conference
Salem
S. A. Blessing
S. A. Blessing
D. M. Garver
S. Z. Smith
L. A. Bookwalter
1921
Eversole
L. A. Bookwalter
J. W. Fidler
J. W. Fidler
C. L. Flory
D. M. Garver
S. Z. Smith
1922
Painter Creek
J. A. Robinson
S. A. Blessing
S. A. Blessing
D. G. Berkebile
J. A. Robinson
1923
Bear Creek
J. W. Fidler
J. W. Fidler
D. M. Garver
C. L. Flory
D. G. Berkebile
1924
New Carlisle
D. G. Berkebile
J. A. Robinson
J. A. Robinson
R. N. Leatherman
D. G. Berkebile
1925
Poplar Grove
C. L. Flory
J. W. Fidler
J. W. Fidler
D. R. Murray
D. M. Garver
L. A. Bookwalter
1926
Prices Creek
R. N. Leatherman
L. A. Bookwalter
L. A. Bookwalter Ray O. Shank
D. M. Garver
R. N. Leatherman
1927
Trotwood
D. G. Berkebile
C. L. Flory
C. L. Flory
J. H. Eidemiller
D. G. Berkebile
J. W. Fidler
1928
West Alexandria R. N. Leatherman
J. A. Robinson J. W. Fidler
J. A. Robinson
R. N. Leatherman
J. H. Eidemiller
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1929
Donnels Creek D. G. Berkebile
J. H. Eidemiller
Van B. Wright
J. H. Eidemiller D. G. Berkebile Van B. Wright
1930
Eversole
E. S. Coffman
J. W. Fidler
G. E. Yoder
J. W. Fidler
L. A. Bookwalter
1931
Salem C. L. Flory
L. A. Bookwalter Van B. Wright
1932
Covington
E. S. Coffman
D. G. Berkebile
G. E. Yoder
1933
Brookville
J. O. Glick
C. L. Flory
J. H. Eidemiller
1934
Castine
D. G. Berkebile
J. W. Fidler
J. H. Good
C. L. Flory
J. H. Eidemiller
1935
Oakland J. Perry Prather
R. N. Leatherman H. H. Helman
1936
Georgetown D. G. Berkebile
G. O. Stutsman
J. H. Good
J. H. Good
C. L. Flory
1937
Pitsburg C. L. Flory
H. H. Helman J. H. Good
L. A. Bookwalter C. L. Flory Van B. Wright
D. G. Berkebile
J. W. Fidler
G. E. Yoder
J. H. Eidemiller
C. L. Flory
J. O. Glick
D. G. Berkebile
J. Perry Prather J. W. Fidler
H. H. Helman
G. O. Stutsman
D. G. Berkebile J. W. Fidler H. M. Coppock
G. E. Yoder
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1938
West Milton G. O. Stutsman
J. H. Good
J. H. Eidemiller
J. H. Good
G. O. Stutsman
J. H. Eidemiller
1939
Trotwood
J. W. Fidler
Ray O. Shank J. H. Good
Ray O. Shank Hugh Cloppert D. G. Berkebile
1940
Happy Corner
J. Perry Prather
D. G. Berkebile
H. H. Helman
1941
New Carlisle
Roy B. Teach
Hugh Cloppert
H. H. Helman
1942
Salem
E. R. Fisher
J. Perry Prather H. H. Helman
E. R. Fisher Roy B. Teach H. M. Coppock
1943
Prices Creek
John H. Good
Ray O. Shank
H. H. Helman
H. M. Coppock John H. Good G. L. Wine
1944
West Dayton
Fred Hollingshead
J. W. Fidler
H. H. Helman
1945
Bear Creek W. Glenn McFadden Roy B. Teach
Roy B. Teach
H. H. Helman
J. H. Good W. Glenn McFadden
1946
Donnels Creek Glenn C. Rust
Paul W. Kinsel J. H. Good
Paul W. Kinsel E. R. Fisher W. Glenn McFadden
G. L. Wine H. H. Helman
J. Perry Prather
E. R. Fisher Ray O. Shank J. W. Fidler
Ray O. Shank Fred Hollingshead J. W. Fidler
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1947
Oakland W. Glenn
McFadden
1948
Pleasant Hill
John Weaver
John H. Good
Lester E. Fike J. H. Good Moyne Landis
1949
Pitsburg Moyne Landis
Dean L. Frantz
Philip H. Lauver
Dean L. Frantz John D. Long Glenn C. Rust
Ass't., John D. Long
1950
Ross Noffsinger Philip H. Lauver
Dean L. Frantz John D. Long Ray O. Shank
1951
New Carlisle Paul W. Kinsel
Kenneth G. Long Philip H. Lauver
Paul W. Kinsel Moyne Landis L. John Weaver
Ass't., Moyne Landis
1952
East Dayton Moyne Landis
J. Oliver Dearing Philip H. Lauver
Nevin Coppock Kenneth G. Long George W. Phillips
Covington J. Clyde Forney Ass't., George W. Phillips
Edward T. Angeny Philip H. Lauver
J. Oliver Dearing Joseph B. Flora J. H. Good
1954
Allen Weldy Roy B. Teach
Foster Bittinger C. G. Erbaugh Homer Royer
West Milton Kenneth Long Ass't., Foster Bittinger
Robert Sherfy J. H. Good
Ray O. Shank Moyne Landis E. R. Fisher
E. R. Fisher
West Milton John D. Long Ass't., Dean L. Frantz
Ass't., L. John Weaver
1953
3. THE ELDERS' BODY
The Elders' Body is the district organization which includes all the ordained elders. Except for some special cause, they are called together once each year, usually in connection with district meeting.
The early practice was to ordain a minister who had first served in the "first degree" and the "second degree" of the ministry. So far as can be determined, no one was ever ordained an elder who had not previously served in the elected or ordained ministry.
The ordination of an elder was, in the earliest practice, to qualify the minister to be the overseer of any church which should choose him as its elder. There seemed to be no noted relation between his ability in the pulpit and his election to the eldership. There seemed to be no attempt to keep the ratio of congregations and elders equal. The number of elders has consistently been greater than the number of congregations. Records of the elders' meetings show that in 1917 sixty-four elders were present and twenty-one absent- nearly double the number of churches. In 1927 fifty-eight were reported present and forty-two absent-again double the number of churches. The practice of recording the number of elders present and absent was discontinued in the early thirties. In 1923 a motion was passed that the wives of elders be invited to be present at the elders' meeting.
The local church had authority to ordain or refuse to ordain a minister to be an elder. The church, through the official board, could suggest the ordination. There has been a growing conviction in the church that there should be demonstration of able leadership before ordination takes place.
At first the elder had, by common consent, very unusual powers. As overseer of a church he had authority which exceeded that of any other member or officer. Yet the inherent
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democracy of the church caused her to provide safeguards against unwarranted exercise of authority. For instance, in 1873 Annual Meeting provided that an elder could not expel a member or prevent full fellowship of a member in a church without the counsel of the church. In 1896 it also pointed out that no elder could assume oversight of a church except by the choice of the church.
On the other hand, the elder presiding over a church was understood to be responsible for the spiritual condition of the church. If he needed help in difficult situations he could ask it of the adjoining elders, and/or appeal to the Elders' Body. Conflicts between elders in a local church were resolved by the Elders' Body. Annual Meeting has exercised authority over an elder or elders in a local church but never over the Elders' Body of a district.
An elder in a local church seems to have been subject to discipline by the adjoining elders, if out of order. Later this function was exercised by the Elders' Body only, though charges could be brought by the adjoining elders.
In 1865 (Article 41) the Annual Meeting defined procedure in electing an elder. The request is first to be made by the local church and the elders present. Then each member votes individually and secretly. If there is no "serious objection" the ordination is to take place. In 1890 Annual Meeting pro- vided that ordinations should be by authority of the Elders' Body of the district.
With the election of a ministerial board by the district the placing before the Elders' Body of names for ordination came to be the duty of this board. In 1917 Annual Meeting defined both the duties and the qualifications of elders and the duties of the ministerial boards with reference to the ordinations.
Article III. Instruction
3. The duties of the elder, in addition to the foregoing duties of the minister, are to feed the flock, to preside over council meetings, es- pecially when official members are on trial, to anoint the sick, to have the oversight and general management of the church; train- ing the young ministers in his charge and apportioning the work among them according to their experience and ability-in brief, to be a faithful shepherd to the flock, guarding their souls as one
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who must give an account and be willing to serve in any capacity authorized by the church (Acts 20:28; I Tim. 5:17; Titus 1:5; James 5:14).
4. When the minister proves himself faithful and efficient in his of- fice, he shall be ordained elder; and when ordained he shall pledge himself to live and labor in harmony with the accepted standards of the church in faith, doctrine, and practice (I Tim. 5:22; Titus 1:5; I Peter 5:3).
5. The duties of the minister to the church and in general also the duties of the church to the minister, shall be clearly set forth in a special sermon at the time of installation and ordination.
Article V. Management. (Duties of Ministerial Board)
5. To co-operate with churches in securing elders and pastors, and in severing these relations; also with elders, ministers and pastors in changing location. The Ministerial Boards, however, shall not be intrusive, acting with arbitrary authority; they shall be helpful.
6. To keep a record of the churches that desire elders and pastors, and also the names of elders, ministers, and pastors who desire change of location and work.
In this district requests for ordination were regulated by the report of a committee, appointed in 1923, to study the matter and report the next year. The report is contained in the minutes of the 1924 elders' meeting:
The Committee appointed by Elders' Meeting of 1923 beg to sub- mit the following report on initial steps for ordination of elders:
We recommend, that in organized churches, the official board be consulted; if a majority favor the actions, then with the approval of the adjoining elders and the Ministerial Board of the District, the re- quest may be presented to the annual Elders' Meeting.
The report was accepted.
In 1931 the elders' meeting decided that calls for ordina- tions should be in the hands of the District Ministerial Board by April 1 preceding the elders' meeting. (The elders' meeting is now held in the fall.) The Ministerial Board is replaced by that part of the District Board known as the Commission on Ministry, Missions and Church Extension.
The Elders' Body was apparently a development of the Standing Committee idea. The first district meetings held in Southern Ohio composed a standing committee from the elders present. Later when stated delegates represented the churches at the district meetings the function of the elders became that of pre-examining and advising on the queries
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presented. The practice of churches sending elected delegates to district meetings was provided by an Annual Meeting decision of 1866: "These meetings shall be formed by one or two representatives from each organized church." So the elders then came to have an organization of their own. The date of the beginning of this practice in Southern Ohio is not known. The Elders' Body was recognized by Annual Meeting in 1890 when it decided that the majority of the elders in the elders' meeting should concur in the ordination of an elder. Thus the elders came to control the character and members of their body.
Besides acting in the capacity of a standing committee the Elders' Body also acted as the nominating committee for officers of district meeting and members of boards and com- mittees. Vacancies on boards occurring between district meetings were also filled by the elders. The elders also received, reviewed, and acted upon matters presented by a district board. In 1915 the Southern Ohio Mission Board took a problem to the elders which was answered by action of the Elders' Body. In that same year an Annual Meeting committee, sent to deal with a problem arising in a local church in the district, asked the elders of Southern Ohio to appoint two from their body to assist in the problem. The district elders also referred local church problems to Standing Committee if conditions seemed to warrant it. The district elders could and did also refer difficulties to a district board, particularly to the Mission Board or the Ministerial Board, and also to the adjoining elders.
An unusual action of the Elders' Body in 1916 was the recommendation to the General Mission Board of a member (Elizabeth Weybright Oberholtzer) living in the district as a missionary to the China field.
It is noted also that the Elders' Body acted upon the dissolution of churches no longer active.
In 1920 the elders' meeting decided that the retiring moderator "continue to deliver an address to the elders." Later the guest speaker for district conference did this. Then the moderator-elect as at present. The record of the elders' meeting of 1930 shows that "the annual sermon to the elders
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was brought by Elder Edward Frantz, editor of the Gospel Messenger."
For many years it was the responsibility of the elders' meeting to appoint the members of the credential committee.
In 1930 the elders' meeting decided to permit delegates to district meeting to be seated if the churches they represented had not paid their full apportionments to the district.
The Elders' Body acts to relieve men of the ministry upon cause.
It has decided when a matter may be proper business for a district meeting.
In 1947 the district conference asked the Elders' Body to nominate persons for district officers and Standing Com- mitteemen. In 1948 the elders' meeting approved the budget to be presented to district meeting.
In 1951 the Elders' Body appointed one of its members to represent it in a study of the administration and organiza- tion of the district. The report of this committee brought about the organization of the present District Board, and provides that "the composition and function of the Elders' Body are those defined by decisions of Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren." (See the full report elsewhere.)
A church having difficulties with a pastor, a pastor having difficulties with a church, or a minority group within a church, may appeal their case to the Elders' Body.
The recent change which provides that an overseer (moderator) of a local church may be an able layman or an ordained minister has put these in the same status as an ordained elder, so far as this function is concerned-the function which at first called for ordination of elders. While this recent decision of Annual Meeting does not prevent an ordained elder from functioning as an overseer, it does raise the question now as to the real purpose of his ordination as an elder. This means that there is no difference now in the privilege and function of an ordained elder and an ordained minister except that the latter is not a member of the Elders' Body. However, a lay member who is the moderator of a church may be a member of the Elders' Body. The confusion
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is indicated in a query to Annual Conference of 1952 asking that the functions of an elder be defined. Annual Conference has not yet given a definition.
There are no lay moderators in this district as of now, but at least one church has a layman as assistant moderator.
There is nothing to prevent a pastor being also the elder of his church, or one elder being moderator of more than one church.
The elder is considered a member of the official board of the local church whether he resides in the congregation or not.
A report on trends in the eldership in Southern Ohio made to the elders' meeting in 1953 by Elder Moyne Landis reveals:
1. The moderatorship of our churches is concentrated in a small per- centage of the elders. 35%
2. Many elders have no assigned duties. 65%
3. The moderating of churches is falling into the hands of experienced pastors. 38% full-time; 28% part-time; total 68%.
4. Most of the moderators of Southern Ohio churches are not resident in the churches of which they are moderators.
42 churches, or 78% have non-resident elders.
8 churches, or 13% have resident moderators.
4 churches, or 7% have their pastor as moderator.
There are ninety-three elders in Southern Ohio as of record as this is written. The largest number in one church is five. Eight churches have no resident elders in their membership.
4. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Christian education was considered a duty of parents and the home by the early Brethren. Some rather bitterly opposed the establishment of Sunday schools when they were first proposed. The proponents of schools pointed to the large number of Brethren children being lost to the church.
It was perhaps Pleasant Hill (the Newton church then) that organized the first Sunday school in the district soon after 1856. Harris Creek followed a bit later. Covington was reported to have started a school there in 1867. These churches were really pioneers in the Sunday-school movement among the Brethren west of the Ohio River. It soon became popular, and schools were established in most of the churches by the 1900's. The dates of the earlier organization of Sunday schools where available are given:
Church
Date
Superintendent
Pleasant Hill
1857
Covington
1867
Samuel Murray
Lower Miami
1879
John Murray
Oakland
1883
Henry Longanacker
Harris Creek
1885
Jonas Miller
New Carlisle
1886
B. F. Filbrun
Donnels Creek
1886
Wolf Creek
1886 to 1910, then became Brookville and Eversole
Salem
1887
John H. Brumbaugh
Prices Creek
1888
Joseph Longanacker
Union City
1888
Elam Forror
The record book of one of these schools shows that on July 14, 1889, the attendance was nine and the offering eight cents. The offerings for three months of that year totaled $3.82. This is now one of the district's larger Sunday schools. Typical of the methods by which a school was organized
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is the experience of the Ludlow congregation, recorded in the history of the Painter Creek church published in 1941:
In 1887 the pressure to organize a Sunday School in our Ludlow congregation was brought before the council meeting and discussed pro and con. Elder Wm. Boogs of Covington, Ohio was present and encouraged the movement. When a vote was taken it was found that a majority favored organizing a Sunday School for the summer months at the Pitsburg house. Silas Gilbert and E. B. Bagwell were elected superintendents. There was no equipment and the selection of teach- ers was a big task. No one had any experience as a Bible teacher or Sunday School officer. From the best talent available in the Pitsburg and Painter Creek areas the teachers were selected. The lessons were to be taken from the new testament beginning with the first chap- ter of Matthew and taken in consecutive order. The publication of the Brethren's Quarterly was begun two years previous in 1885. Some of the older Brethren advised against the use of international lessons and printed lesson helps fearing some questionable doctrine might be presented. No public offering was to be taken as it was considered wrong to handle money in God's house. For a while Sunday Schools were held only in the afternoon. Later permission was given to have the school in the morning before the preaching service. The enrollment the first summer was 300, average attendance 119. On September 25th, the Sunday School was closed for the winter months. Roads were usually bad during the winter and closed buggies were not in general use. In the spring of 1888 and again in the spring of 1889 the Sunday School was reorganized each year with an increased attendance with practically the same teaching force. John Neher was elected as Superintendent. While the school grew in attendance and efficiency it was closed when winter came.
The schools were soon moving toward teacher training. Weekly teachers' meetings were held between Sundays and someone proceeded to lead the group on how to teach the lessons. From considering the current lessons it became a kind of normal class, discussing teaching methods and materials in general.
Then someone conceived the idea of a district-wide training program, and the Sidney church asked district meeting of 1899 "to grant the holding of a Sunday School meeting somewhere in the district; and appoint a committee of five members, (Sunday School workers) to arrange for a program of said Sunday School meeting." The meeting granted the request and in the appointment of a committee of five designated one to serve as Sunday-school secretary for five
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years. Appointed was Levi Minnich, who thus began a long period of service to the Sunday schools of Southern Ohio. The next year the district meeting decided that the meetings should be continued and also that a ministerial meeting should be held in connection with the Sunday-school meeting. In 1902 the Sunday-school meeting was held at the Salem church. Here Catherine Hollinger and Charles A. Bame discussed The Normal Class. This stimulated the idea that the Sunday- school meeting should be patterned after the teachers' institutes in the public schools. So in 1903 it was decided to have semiannual teachers' institutes, give instruction in the lesson materials and in methods of teaching, in normal work and textbooks which were recommended. However, after one year it was returned to an annual affair with more sessions. It came to be held quite generally in August. A sample program, that of 1909, will enable the reader to understand the import of these institutes:
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL MEETING To be held at Trotwood, Tuesday and Wednesday August 24 and 25, 1909
Tuesday evening, business session, followed by a sermon, "The Fundamental Needs of the Hour in Sunday-
School Work." D. S. Filbrun
Wednesday, August 25-Forenoon Session, 8 o'clock Devotional Exercises
1. Teacher Training
(a) The Need O. P. Haines
(b) How? Earl Neff
2. The Primary and Intermediate Classes
(a) Their Needs Martha Guenther
(b) Methods Anna Eby
3. How Can the Sunday-School Implant into the Hearts
of our Young People the Bible Doctrines of
(a) Christian Living Herbert Richards
(b) Christian Adornment Fern Morningstar
4. Personal Work in Sunday-School Allen Weimer
5 Is It Nothing to You? Carl Patten
OFFERING-11:30 A.M.
Afternoon Session
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SHORT TALKS FROM OUR MISSIONARY SISTERS
Ida Erbaugh Mina Hollinger Ada Eby
6. Sunday-School as a Missionary Factor-the Relation of the Sunday-School to the Mission Work of the Church John W. Fidler
J. Franklin Brubaker
ROUND TABLE
1. Shall We Affiliate with Township, County and State Sunday- School Associations? Why?
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