ANNUAL CONFERENCE MINUTES SUBJECT INDEX
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Name, Denominational: (see also subcategories) 1836(62), 1871(299), 1888(479), 1891(538), 1904(792), 1908(872), 1912(4), 1913(4), 2004(1255)
Name, Denominational Effects of Change of: 1910(2), 1922(9)
Name, Denominational Use: 1866(255), 1896(633), 1903(782)
National Anthem: 1958(9)
National Association of Evangelicals: 1997(607)
National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America: (see also Federal Council of Churches of Christ) 1957(27), 1960(90, 94), 1963(78), 1964(49), 1968(59), 1981(254), 1983(593), 1987(506)
National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America Representatives: Reports 1946-2004
National Defense Test Day: 1925(14)
Nationalism: 1917(16), 1937(44), 1955(65)
Native Americans: 1957(75), 1993(617), 1994(758)
Neckties: 1899(698), 1914(6), 1915(11), 1917(13), 1920(11)
Necrological Committee: Reports 1937-1956 (see also 2004(1289))
New Testament, The: 1998(769)
Nicaragua, Resolution on: 1983(600)
Nigeria, Church in: 1972(271)
Nigeria, Mission Work in: 1920(12)
Nomination to Denominational Positions: (see also Boards, Denominational Nominations) 1979(567), 2001(466)
Nonconformity: (see also Dress Concerns; Simple Life) 1827(51), 1828(52), 1840(70), 1845(85), 1846(90), 1877(350), 1880(378), 1886(451), 1938(44)
Noncooperation: (see also War Taxes) 1972(248), 1973(339), 1988(692)
Nonmembers: (see also subcategory; Anointing Nonmembers; Love Feast, Nonmembers at; Marriage to Nonmembers; Ministers Spouses)
Nonmembers Other Christians: (see also Ecumenical Concerns; Ministers From Other Denominations; Worship with Members of Other Denominations) 1864(230)
Nonresistance: (see Peace and War)
Nonswearing: (see Oaths)
Nonviolence: (see Peace and War; Violence)
Nuclear Materials: 1981(271)
Nuclear Power Plants: 1979(575)
Nuclear Weapons: 1959(76), 1982(418)
Oath-Bound Organizations, Membership in: 1849(111), 1857(166), 1859(182), 1878(357, 359), 1879(367), 1920(11), 1926(11)
Oaths: (see also Government Positions; Oath-Bound Organizations) 1785(10), 1790(14), 1822(48), 1837(64), 1866(251), 1871(294), 1886(451), 1888(479), 1966(11)
Odd Fellows: 1852(133), 1862(207)
Offerings During Services (also called Public Collections): 1856(156), 1876(342), 1880(374), 1895(616)
Old German Baptist Brethren Church: 1882(409)
On Earth Peace Assembly: 1983(587), 1998(805). Reports 1999-2004
Ordaining Ministers: (see Ministers Ordained)
Ordinances: (see also Anointing; Baptism; Love Feast) 1862(208), 1921(36)
Oregon, Mission Work in: 1860(198), 1861(204)
Organ and Tissue Donation: 1991(331), 1993(608)
Organization, Denominational: (see also Boards; Annual Conference; Districts; Regions; Review and Evaluation Committee) 1921(6), 1928(1), 1945(4), 1946(5), 1951(12), 1953(13, 15), 1958(55), 1989(834), 1991(262), 1994(775)
Organizations Within the Church: 1886(449), 1903(779)
Orphans: (see Homeless Children)
Outreach Ministries, Support of: 1991(340)
Overseas Church: (see Districts, Foreign; Mission International)
Owl Creek Congregation: 1859(187)
Oxford Conference: 1937(43)
Pacifism: (see Peace and War)
Paintings: 1846(90), 1853(138)
Panama Canal Zone: 1976(218)
Parish Loan Fund: 1943(52), 1945(65)
Pastor Installation Services: 1928(4)
Pastoral Compensation and Benefits Advisory Committee: 1993(628). Reports 1986-2004
Pastors: (see also subcategories; Ministers; Ministry, Paid; Ministerial) 1920(15)
Pastors Apprenticeship: 1950(54)
Pastor’s Association: 1931(44)
Pastors Licensing or Ordaining: (see Ministers)
Pastors Placement: (see Ministerial Placement)
Pastors Salary and Support: (see also Pastoral Compensation and Benefits Advisory Committee) 1890(517), 1946(15), 1952(8), 1960(42), 1965(87), 1969(65), 1971(155), 1974(437), 1975(81), 1981(251, 278), 1985(174, 178, 179), 1998(797), 2004(1146)
Patents: 1841(73), 1855(149)
Peace, Actions Working Towards: (see also Peace Tax) 1924(17), 1925(14), 1927(9, 11), 1931(45), 1951(72), 1954(65), 1962(13), 1967(73), 1968(93), 1977(363), 1986(337)
Peace Agencies: (see On Earth Peace Assembly)
Peace and War: (see also subcategories; Conscientious Objectors; Military; Noncooperation; Self-Defense; Violence; War) 1857(167), 1863(221), 1902(767), 1924(18), 1929(37), 1965(84), 1969(8), 1982(440)
Peace and War Main Statements: 1781(6), 1785(9), 1845(85), 1865(235, 237), S1918(3), 1924(9, 15), 1932(47), 1935(40), 1938(39), 1948(62), 1957(17), 1968(87), 1970(63, 73), 1988(683), 1991(284), 2003(1003)
Peace and War Small Statements: 1785(10), 1790(14), 1815(40), 1817(40), 1822(47), 1835(59), 1837(64), 1840(70), 1859(186), 1863(218), 1864(230, 231), 1886(451), 1888(481), 1916(12), 1919(45), 1920(13, 15), 1921(24, 37), 1922(43), 1924(52), 1925(50), 1927(9, 44), 1932(49), 1934(45), 1936(47), 1937(43), 1938(41, 45), 1939(50), 1940(50), 1941(55), 1946(74), 1947(91), 1948(66), 1949(62), 1951(84), 1952(64), 1955(71), 1956(67), 1957(13), 1980(117), 1996(346)
Peace Associations: 1875(325)
Peace Committee, General: 1911(7), 1917(6), 1924(9). Reports 1914-1917, 1919-1924
Peace Conferences, Interdenominational: 1884(432), 1911(7), 1922(10), 1937(43), 1948(66), 1953(59)
Peace Contests, Awarding Medals for: 1930(29)
Peace Department of the National Government: 1954(65), 1958(8)
Peace Education: 1874(315), 1946(71), 1958(7)
Peace Program: 1938(43)
Peace Tax: (see also War Taxes) 1978(470), 1981(272)
Peace Worker: 1925(14)
Pension Board: (see Brethren Benefit Trust)
Pension Fund: (see also Brethren Benefit Trust) 1944(49), 1946(16)
Pension Fund, Supplemental: 1946(70, 71)
Pensions from Before Becoming Brethren: 1870(284)
Photography (also called Taking Likenesses): 1849(107), 1857(164), 1858(178), 1867(261), 1869(282), 1872(303), 1892(557), 1894(597), 1895(617), 1897(656), 1904(792)
Phrenology: 1849(112)
Pictures of Bible Scenes: 1893(581)
Pipe Creek Congregation: 1814(33)
Poland, Mission Work in: 1948(4)
Police at Church Events: 1879(367)
Political Endorsements: 1975(99)
Political Meetings: 1841(73), 1853(137)
Politics: (see also Church and State; Citizenship; Government; Law and Order; Voting) 1835(61), 1837(64), 1849(111)
Polity, Church: 1882(406), 1922(1), 1953(15), 1964(24), 1968(74), 1976(199), 1987(481), 1998(781), 1999(991)
Polygamy: 1902(768), 1928(3)
Pornography: 1966(11), 1985(171)
Postage for Requests for Information Within Brethren: 1851(123)
Poverty: (see also Homeless; Hunger, World) 1968(92), 2000(192)
Power, Valentine: 1785(8), 1790(14)
Prayer: 1805(29), 1850(121), 1851(124), 1862(215), 1926(11), 1933(40), 2002(748)
Prayer Coverings: 1848(98), 1856(159), 1862(208), 1870(289), 1886(449, 451), 1893(582), 1911(5), 1917(12), 1926(9)
Prayer Days, Special: 1909(896)
Prayer, Kneeling during: 1843(78), 1926(11)
Prayer Meetings: (see also Social Meetings) 1843(78), S1846(4), 1851(125), 1853(138), 1859(183, 186), 1862(205)
Prayer, Public: 1858(170)
Preaching (Exhortation): 1858(170)
Preaching Publicly and Privately Should Not Be Contradictory: 1858(168)
Primitive Christian: 1878(363), 1882(412)
Program of the Church: (see also subcategories) 1951(5)
Program of the Church Long-Term Planning: 1957(22)
Program of the Church Theological Implications: 1961(3)
Progressive Brethren: (see Brethren Church)
Progressive Christian: 1879(368), 1881(391)
Prohibition: 1884(431), 1889(497), 1917(16), 1918(10), 1919(43), 1921(37), 1922(43), 1925(52), 1926(47), 1927(44), 1928(38), 1931(45), 1932(47)
Project Equality: 1971(157)
Property, Church: (see also subcategory; Germantown Church Property; St. Louis Church Property; Trustees of the Brotherhood) 1888(484) see also 1887(467), 1921(5), 1922(9), 1945(9), 1947(19), 1987(481), 1997(588)
Property, Church Use: 1891(541)
Public Awareness of the Church of the Brethren: 1962(60)
Publication Board, General: 1921(6)
Publication of Discussions Outside of Conference: 1892(557), 1901(740)
Publications, Advertising in Brethren: 1883(423), 1897(654), 1899(699), 1903(783), 1907(857), 1908(876), 1911(6, 8)
Publications Advocating Brethren Beliefs: 1875(328), 1916(5)
Publications, Brethren: (see also Brethren at Work; Brüderbote; Christian Family Companion; Deacon; Gospel Visitor; Landmark; Messenger; Pilgrim; Primitive Christian; Progressive Christian; Vindicator) 1850(117), 1881(394), 1882(412)
Publications, Revising: 1854(145)
Publications, Rules for Brethren: 1865(243), 1866(249, 252), 1869(277, 279), 1873(308), 1875(328), 1877(346), 1879(368), 1881(391), 1887(477), 1898(671), 1899(700)
Publications, Using False Names in: 1857(162)
Publishing Companies, Ownership and Use of: 1890(515) see also 1888(485), 1892(559)
Publishing House, Brethren: (see Brethren Publishing House)
Puerto Rico, Church in: 1990(145)
Pulpits and Stands: 1847(93), 1848(96), 1851(126), 1863(221), 1866(253), 1868(271), 1874(318), 1875(326)
Queries: (see also subcategory; Annual Conference Business, Managing) 1857(165), 1862(217), 1866(247), 1876(335), 1877(346), 1882(405), 1883(420), 1884(430), 1886(453), 1965(53), 1967(76), 1968(56), 1969(72), 1991(335)
Queries Returning: 1922(6)
Race Relations and Ethnicity Concerns: (see also subcategories; Mission Races, Between the) 1835(58, 60), 1845(85), 1849(110), 1866(254), 1874(320), 1875(327), 1929(37), 1935(43), 1937(43), 1945(70), 1947(91), 1948(67), 1949(63), 1950(58), 1953(59), 1955(65), 1956(68), 1959(65), 1963(78), 1964(84), 1965(59), 1966(12, 80), 1968(92), 1970(55), 1971(157), 1989(862), 1991(312), 2001(512), 2004(1283, 1285)
Race Relations Ministry to African-Americans: 1946(14), 1947(23)
Race Relations Pastors of Varied Races: 1970(53)
Radio Hour, Brethren: 1953(12)
Railway Transportation Agent, General: (see Transportation Agent, General Railway)
Real Estate Agents or Land Appraisers: 1880(374), 1890(517)
Real Estate Speculation: 1854(143), 1862(209)
Reconciliation, Committee on Understanding and: 1955(62)
Records, Church: (see also Standing Committee Records) 1954(16)
Refugees, Aiding: 1948(67), 1949(61, 63), 1956(67), 1957(76), 1979(587), 1982(435), 1983(597)
Regional Conferences: 1924(17), 1933(41)
Regions: 1927(5), 1928(2), 1933(41), 1936(45), 1940(46), 1941(50), 1947(8), 1950(8), 1961(10)
Registering for the Draft: 1948(61, 62)
Registration Bureau of Information and Exchange: 1927(8)
Relief and Reconstruction Committee: S1918(6), 1918(27), 1921(31). Reports 1918-1921
Relief Funds: S1918(7), 1924(51), 1939(49), 1940(48)
Relief Work: (see also subcategories) S1918(5), 1926(11), 1934(41), 1947(92), 1950(62)
Relief Work China and Spain: 1938(42)
Relief Work Government Actions: 1972(274)
Religion, Freedom of: 1989(901)
Repentance, A Call to: 1946(70)
Reports Containing Business Items: 1975(98)
Reports, Public Reading of: 1894(599)
Residences Left Open by Moving Brethren: 1929(32)
Resolutions Committee: (see also Annual Conference Resolutions) 1922(7), 1932(9), 1933(43), 1957(21), 1966(75)
Retirement Homes: 1887(466), 1937(9), 1938(8) see also 1934(43), 1941(51), 1951(11)
Review and Evaluation Committee: 1968(82), 1972(254), 1976(209), 1977(308), 1984(720), 1985(137), 1989(876), 1997(572), 2001(492)
Revival Meetings: 1880(380)
Rewards for Returning Stolen Property: 1866(255), 1867(263)
Rural Issues: (see also Farm Issues) 1938(44), 1943(52), 1952(9), 1954(3), 1970(69), 1985(197)
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