interest, but after some
successes he died at Wolfenbuettel on the 16th of June 1626. Christian,
who loved to figure as "the friend of God, the enemy of the priests," is
sometimes called "the mad bishop," and was a merciless, coarse, and
blasphemous man.

CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, the name assumed by a religious organization
founded at Zion City near Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., in 1896, by John
Alexander Dowie (q.v.). Its members added to the usual tenets of
Christianity a special belief in faith-healing, and laid much stress on
united consecration services and the threefold immersion of believers.
To assist Dowie, assistant overseers were appointed, and the operations
of the community included religious, educational and commercial
departments. Small branches sprang up in other parts of the United
States, Mexico, Canada, Europe and Australasia. At the end of 1901 there
were nearly 12,000 baptized believers. After 1903 considerable
dissension arose among Dowie's followers: he was deposed in 1906; and
after his death (1907) the city gradually became a community of normal
type.

CHRISTIAN CONNECTION, a denomination of Christians in North America
formed by secession, under James O'Kelly (1735-1826), of members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in North Carolina in 1793. The movement
resembled those under the Campbells and Stone in Kentucky in 1801-1804,
and in Lyndon, Vermont, among the Baptists in 1800. The predisposing
cause in each case was the desire to be free from the "bondage of
creed." Some of O'Kelly's followers joined the Disciples of Christ
(q.v.). Their form of church government is Congregational; they take the
Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice, and while adopting
immersion as the proper mode of baptism, freely welcome Christians of
every sect to their communion. They number about 100,000 members, mainly
in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The original seceders in
Virginia and North Carolina bore for a time the name "Republican
Methodists," and then called themselves simply "Christians," a
designation which with the pronunciation "Christ-yans" is still often
applied to them. Their position is curiously akin to that outlined by
William Chillingworth (q.v.) in his famous work _The Religion of
Protestants_ (1637-1638).

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR SOCIETIES, organizations formed for the purpose of
promoting spiritual life among young people. They date from 1881, in
which year Dr Fr