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Glanton-Grant Brethren

Brethren · 1923 · Britain; North America

A few Glanton and Grant meetings merged from about 1912, and by 1923 the two groups recognized full fellowship. The merged company divided in 1927–28 over the teaching of James Boyd and the Grant-Mory matter.

Glanton-Grant Brethren were formed in 1923. It ended as a separate body in 1928, entering Booth-Glanton Brethren. Glanton-Grant Brethren's institutional line runs back through Glanton Brethren, Raven–Taylor Brethren (PBCC), The Brethren movement, Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Glanton-Grant Brethren stand 5 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1923
Family
Brethren
Region
Britain; North America
Ended
It ended as a separate body in 1928, entering Booth-Glanton Brethren.
Cause tags
Governance

Are the Glanton-Grant Brethren Biblical?

Left divine ground.

1923. A few Glanton and Grant meetings merged from about 1912, and both groups recognized full fellowship from 1923.

A statement signed by eleven brethren says "that full organic fellowship has existed between us {Grants and Glantons} since 1923". Huebner's heading for this merger reads: "In 1923, Glanton's Leaven Leavened the Grant Group with Which They Merged." "A meeting to consider merger is unscriptural. Restoration to divine ground is God's principle."

“A moral stream cannot rise above its source.”

R. A. Huebner, How the Leaven of Evil Mergers by the KLCs Came About (PTP, 2nd ed., 2007), ii

Sources: R. A. Huebner, How the Leaven of Evil Mergers by the KLCs Came About (PTP, 2nd ed., 2007), pp. 4, 24, 37, 39 n. 90.

This verdict concerns the ground of gathering, not the salvation of any individual. Whoever truly believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is a member of the one body, wherever they gather; ‘[The] Lord knows those that are his’ (2 Timothy 2:19).

What it was organized out of

Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: Booth-Glanton Brethren.

On the tree

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Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion or branches of one family; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.

Sources

  • R. A. Huebner, How the Leaven of Evil Mergers by the KLCs Came About (PTP, 2007), pp. 4, 24, 37 — courtesy of Present Truth Publishers

Brethren division and merger chronology: R. A. Huebner, courtesy of Present Truth Publishers (free PDF).

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.