Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — SECTARIAN NAMES. [ARTICLE]

SECTARIAN NAMES.

The Agnostic is so named because he claims that we can know nothing of the supernatural, of God, or of a future state. The Macedonians, a sect of Christians in the early centuries, were led by Macedoniua, the Patriarch of Constantinople. The Cameronians, a Scottish sect, were called from their loader, Archibald Cameron, who was put to death in 1688. The Lollards, a sect of reformers, were named after Walter Lollard, or I.orillard, who was burned for heresy in 1322. The Folytheist took his name from two Greek words signifying many gods. The Polytheist believed in the plurality of deities. The Sabbatarians were so called from their observing the seventh day as the Sabbath. Their founder was named Braboune. The Trappists were so called from La Trappe, the French district in which their first monastic establishment was founded. The Irvingites had their.name from Edward Irving, a religious teacher and expounder of prophecies; born 1792, died 1834.

The Adamites, a sect of the fourteenth century, were named from one Picard, who called himself Adam, the Son of God. The Baptists had their name from John the Baptist, they claiming to perform the rite of baptism in-.thc manner that he did. The word Atheist comes from two Greek words signifying “n» god.” An Atheist is a disbeliever in tl*> existence of any deity. The , Redemptorist Fatjhers. also known as Liguorians, had their name from St Francis Liguori, wflio fottnded the order in 1732. The Unitarians were thus named because they denied the doctrine of the Trinity. In theory they ace opposed to the Trinitarians. The Arians had their name from Arius, who died A. D. 336. Their main doctrine was a disbelief in the divine nature of Jesus Christ