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38 HISTORY OF THE VA CONFERENCE, E.U.B. CHURCH—D.F. GLOVIER
ference, and led by Bishop Milton Wright, who was an ardent opponent of
secret orders, met in a separate meeting, claiming to be the legal or real
Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From 1889, the time of the General
Conference which met in York, Pennsylvania, the two groups were engaged in
litigation over who were the legal owners of the publishing house and other
church property everywhere. Court proceedings dragged through at least two
quadrenniums to final conclusions. The minority group under Bishop Milton
Wright organized under the name “The Church of the United Brethren in Christ,
Old Constitution.” The decisions in the cases of litigations, covering both
local and general church property, were, with two exceptions, namely
Michigan and Oregon, adverse to the claims of that branch of the Church
referred to as the Old Order or Old Constitution United Brethren. The Home
and Foreign Missionary, Church Erection, Sabbath School, Publication and
Educational Funds, the main educational institutions, and the greater portion
of church houses and church property, were awarded by the courts to the
Liberal or New Constitution branch of the divided Church.
ference, and led by Bishop Milton Wright, who was an ardent opponent of
secret orders, met in a separate meeting, claiming to be the legal or real
Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From 1889, the time of the General
Conference which met in York, Pennsylvania, the two groups were engaged in
litigation over who were the legal owners of the publishing house and other
church property everywhere. Court proceedings dragged through at least two
quadrenniums to final conclusions. The minority group under Bishop Milton
Wright organized under the name “The Church of the United Brethren in Christ,
Old Constitution.” The decisions in the cases of litigations, covering both
local and general church property, were, with two exceptions, namely
Michigan and Oregon, adverse to the claims of that branch of the Church
referred to as the Old Order or Old Constitution United Brethren. The Home
and Foreign Missionary, Church Erection, Sabbath School, Publication and
Educational Funds, the main educational institutions, and the greater portion
of church houses and church property, were awarded by the courts to the
Liberal or New Constitution branch of the divided Church.
