Christadelphians (so called because they believe that all who are in Christ are his brethren), a small sect founded about 1860 by John Thomas, M. D., who had been connected with the Disciples of Christ. They have a few congregations, which they designate as "ecclesias," in the United States and Great Britain. They reject the Trinity, and hold that Jesus Christ is the manifestation of the eternal spirit of God; and that there is only immortality in Christ. Immersion is essential to salvation, and only those who hold the faith as taught by the Christadelphians will have part in the resurrection, and enjoy immortality, all others being annihilated. See A Declaration of the First Principles of the Oracles of Deity (Washington, D. C.)

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      The electronic version of Elias Benjamin Sanford's "Christadelphians" was first published in A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, ed. Elias Benjamin Sanford (Hartford, CT: S S. Scranton Company, 1902), p. 172.

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