dples and usages are. The volumes of the Cbngrega- ^onal Quarterly (Boston) also contain careful discus- sions on the several points of polity as well as history, and furnish full statistics. The English Fsor-ioai fhr- mishes such statistics as are collected in Great Britahi. Congregatloiiiats, or Apostolical Congre- gation, a designation of the Ultramontane party in France, which, under the reign of Napoleon I, re-> sumed the direction of primary instruction, and estab- lished religious associations. After the restoration of the Bourbons, the power of the Congregationists in- creased rapidly, and they made extraordinary efforts to bring back the Church of France under the domin- ion of Rome. They usurped the control of public in- struction, established colleges and seminaries, con- nected themselves with the Jesuits, and even gained the control of the police of Paris. Their leaders held the highest stations at court. The material means of the Congregation were to a large extent furnished by the laboring classes (in 1826 there were 600,000 persons contributing each one cent a week). The celebrated Lamennais belonged to this party. At last their usur- pation of power gave rise to the formation of a counter- party, which gradually gained strength and influenec. In 1826 count Montlosier proved the existence of the Congregation to be illegal. A large number of bishops appealed to the king against the abuse of the Galilean liberties. The Congregation endeavored to excite the fiinaticism of the people by sermons and tracts, but in
1827 the Higher Chamber resolved to interfere active- ly in putting down all Jesuitic associations, and in
1828 the control of the primary schools was given to the minister of Public Instruction. It was then de- cided that every teacher should declare in writing that he was not a member of any fdrbidden religious asso- ciation, or be suspended. A large number of Congre- gationists left France in consequence, but their influ- ence, which made itself felt even after their departure, was not enUrely lost until the Bevolution of 1880.— Pierer, Umverscd-Leaakon, iv, 368.
Congmlty. See CoxDioNrrr.
Coni^'ah (Heb. in the prolonged form Konya'hu^ !|h^33, a contracted form of Jeconiah; Sept 'Icxovm^), another mode of writing (Jer. xxii, 24, 28; xxxvii,l) the name of king JsHOiACHni (q. v.).
Conists. See Cokonitbs.
Conjtiratioii, the form of words or ceremony by which dsmons are supposed to be expelled in the Church of Rome. See Exorcism.
Connell, Zechariah, a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was bom in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., September 11, 1794. In 1801 his father removed to the West, and settled in Adams County, Ohio. His early education was such as could be obtained in the West at that day, which he diligently improved. He was a faithful student and became a wise man. He entered the itinerant ministry in 1818, and filled vari- ous stations, as minister and presiding elder, with uni- form fidelity and success, up to the year of his death. Methodism in Ohio is largely indebted to him, not only fbr its extent, but for its character. By his zeal as a preacher, and his skill as an administrator, he gained and kept the confidence of the Church during his long career of service. He was five times elected to the Genesal Conference. He died December 13, 1868.— 3/inttt« of Conferences, 1864, p. 148.
Conon, bishop of Rome. He was a native of Tem- eevar, in Mysia (now Hungary), educated in Sicily, and was elected bishop of Rome, Oct. 21, 686. He sent the Irish missionary Kilian to Germany to preach to the pagan Thnringians. He died Sept. 21, 687.
Conoiii'^ah (2 Chron. xxxi, 12, 13). See Coma-
lOAH.
Con<Miites, foUowen of Conon, bishop of Tarsus, in CUida, in the 6th century, a disciple of Johannes
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Philoponus (q. y.)* Conon differed from Phfloponiu in the doctrine of the reanrrection, maintaining that the disaolation of the body after death affocted only the form, not the matter of the body, and that at the resoirection the Mml was reunited with the same, though transformed body. — ^Wetzer u. Welte, Kircken- Lex. ii, 798. See Johaknbs Philopoktts ; Tbithb-
I8M.
Conrad of Marburg. See Kok bad yoir Hab-
BUBO.
Conrad, William, a highly nsefhl minister in the German Reformed Chnrch, bom Aog. 11, 1808. He pursued his classical and preparatory studies in the Re- formed Academy and Theological Seminary, then loca- ted at York, Pa. He was licensed to preach by the Westmoreland Classis, Pa., in May, 1885, and labored the whole of his subsequent life as a pioneer in West Pennsylvania. His death occurred Feb. 16, 1865. He was an earnest student. As a writer he often appear- ed in the Church papers. He is also the author of a volume on Baptism, published 1847, and of several un- published works on different sul^ects — one on the Hei- delberg Catechism. For thirty years he gathered ge- ological specimens, the entire collection of which he presented to Westmoreland College, one of whose founders and best fk'iends he was.
Conring (Connngiui), HEBSiAH, one of the most learned men of his time, was bom at Norden, in East Friesland, Nov. 9th, 1606 ; became professor of Pliilos- ophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence at Helmstadt, and in 1660 privy counsellor of the duke of Brunswick. He died Dec. 12, 1681. Public law is greatly indebted to him, and he may be said to have first brought it to a scientific form. He was also among the first to adopt Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood. His complete works, embracing a number of treatises on ecclesiastical subjects, particularly on the rights of Protestantism as opposed to the Romish Church, were published by G5bel (Brunsw. 1780, 7 vols, fol.).— Pierer, UntverBol-Lesakon^ s. v.