In some cases there is a paucity of information and in some, as will be seen, no information available at this time. It is the purpose of this writer to be as brief as possible with each author, but give enough of the history to assess the spiritual path of the said author. This was about the year 1826 and while they did not at first see the need for entire reliance on the Spirit (they appointed certain ones to break the bread or to expound on the Scriptures at readings), they were led on to see things clearly as they acted on the light God’s Word gave them.
Many of them were clergymen and saw that this was not according to Scripture.
They met also for prayer and reading of the Scriptures and learned that the Holy Spirit led and taught in the assembly entirely apart from a one-man ministry. One of the first things was that they net to break bread in remembrance of the Savior as instituted by Him (Luke 22:14-20 and 1 Cor. 13:12-16), that is from the systems men had set up, to the precious Name of Christ (Matt. The result was that under the Lord’s guiding hand many were gathered outside the religious camp (Heb. Between 18 there was a great concern as to the worldly formalism in the professing church by companies in New York, Great Britain and elsewhere. The Lord had graciously restored to exercised believers the scriptural ground of gathering to the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, based on the truth that the Church is one and is the body of Christ on earth (1 Cor.
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