Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1898 — SECTARKAN NAMES. [ARTICLE]

SECTARKAN NAMES.

The Agnostic is so named because -so claims that we can know nothing of -he supernatural, of Qod, or of a future aate. The Macedonians, a sect of Christian n in the early centuries, wore led by Macedonius, tho Patriarch of Constantinople. The Cameronlana, a Scottish sect, were sailed from their leader, Archibald Cameron, who was put to death In 1888. The Lollards, a sect of reformers, were named after Walter Lollard, or Lonillard, who was burned for heresy in 1822. The Polytheist 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 Trappiets were so called from La Trappe, the French district in which their first monastic establishment was founded. The Irvingitee had their name from Edward Irving, a religious teacher and expounder of prophecies; born 1792. died 1884. The Adamites, a sect es the fourtebfifii ctentury, were named from one Picard, who called himself Adam, the Soil of God. The Baptists had their name from John the Baptist, they claiming to perform the cite of baptism in the manner that he did. JJ?he word Atheist comes from two Gre&c words dignifying “no god.” An Atheist Is a-dWbellever in the existence oi any deity. The icedemptorist Fathers, also known as Liguorians, had their name from St. Francis Liguori, who founded the order in 1732. The U; Uarians were thus named because th y denied the doctrine of the Trinity. Iu theory they are opposed to the Triii -.arians. The Arians had their name from who died A. D.. 336. Their main doctrine was a disbelief in the divinfl nature of ,Jesus Christ.