4. JERUSALEM CHURCH
•Account starts here in November
1844, shortly after John Thomas
returned from Illinois and reignited
his followers
5. ENTER JOHN TOMLINE WALSH
•In 1844, he was refused
permission to speak at the
Jerusalem Church
•So 16 followers of John Thomas
split off and formed their own
ecclesia
•One of them was Lemuel
Edwards, who built the Zion
church
6. ZION CHURCH
• This was built around 1845
for the followers of Dr.
Thomas
• It was demolished in 1945,
but was the first
“Christadelphian” hall ever
built
• Zion was in use through
1872, and Dr. Thomas visited
it. When Roberts came in
1871, it was too small, so the
7. BAPTISM OF DR. THOMAS IN 1847
• He was baptized in 1846
after realizing the
importance of the “Hope of
Israel”
• He was baptized by John
Walsh, according to a
report in The Millennial
Harbinger
• This almost certainly took
place in Richmond
John Tomline Walsh, 1816 - 1886
8. ECLECTIC MEDICINE
• All three people we are
talking about were medical
doctors, and practicers of
“Eclectic Medicine”
• Eclectic medicine was a
branch of American
medicine that made use of
botanical remedies along
with other substances and
physical therapy practices,
but not chemicals like
mercury
9. • During the Civil War, Dr.
Thomas advised his
followers “not to fight”
• Communications
between the North and
the South were soon cut
off
• The brethren in the
South petitioned to
obtain Conscientious
Objection, and achieved
it in 1862
Act of Continental Congress 1862
Nazarine
s
THE CIVIL WAR The Confederate Congress passed an
act, exempting them from military
service, under the name of
Nazarenes,* on payment of 500
dollars. All are exempted who were
members at the time of passing the
act; but all who join them since, are
liable to military conscription (Per
John Thomas in the Christadelphian,
1865)
*Nazarene or Nazarine is
interchangeable
10. Names of five 'Nazarines' granted exemptions appear in the 1864-65
ledger of Lieutenant George P. Haw, Confederate Enrollment officer
for King William. They were James Johnson, Larkin S. Garrett, Warren
Lipscomb (Jr.), J. Stanley Neale, and Jas. F. (Jimmy) Edwards.
Note three of these occur in later Christadelphian Records
NAZARINES GRANTED EXEMPTION
11. LEMUEL EDWARDS
•He was a prolific writer to
Robert Roberts
•According to local records,
he built (or help build)
Jerusalem, Zion, and
Lanesville
•Lanesville was built in
1875: Dr. Thomas never
visited it
Lemuel Edwards: 1817-
1907
12. LANESVILLE
• Built 1875
• Still stands: now unused
• On register of VA
historic buildings
• Christadelphians last
used it in 1964
• Were Unamended, but
part of tiny Faith/Zilmer
group
