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Seceder

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Se`ced´er
n.1.One who secedes.
2.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.


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The End Of Slavery letter, October James MacGregor, an Antiburgher Seceder missionary from Scotland, who in 1788 published a pamphlet against another Presbyterian minister in Nova Scotia who held slaves, began the abolitionist movement in Canada.
Donald posits that it is from his "fatalistic" turn of mind that Lincoln "derived his most lovable traits," which enabled him to take a more pragmatic, and thus ultimately, a more successful approach to the nation's problems than abolitionists or seceders (2001, 13).
After 1870, when Pius IX secured the doctrine of infallibility from the First Vatican Council, there were more seceders who tried to create an Italian parallel to the Germanic 'Old Catholics', though their two significant leaders later parted, one returning to Rome and the other, the ecumenical pioneer Ugo Janni, becoming Waldensian.
 
 
 
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