Eureka Classis
On June 7, 1911, seven ministers and sixteen congregations organized to form the Eureka Classis. The name of the Classis came from the Greek word ‘eureka’ which means ‘I found it’ and not on the town Eureka, South Dakota, where the second meeting of the Classis would be held. The name was designed to mean that they had found a solution to their doctrinal problems with the rest of the denomination.
Birch
"Betula" species are organised into five subgenera.
"Note: many American texts have "B. pendula" and "B. pubescens" confused, though they are distinct species with different chromosome numbers."The common name "birch" comes from Old English "birce", "bierce", from Proto-Germanic *"berk-jōn" (cf. German "Birke", West Frisian "bjirk"), an adjectival formation from *"berkōn" (cf. Dutch "berk", Low German "Bark", Danish "birk", Norwegian "bjørk"), itself from the Proto-Indo-European root *"bʰerHǵ-" ~ "bʰrHǵ"-, which also gave Lithuanian "béržas", Latvian "Bērzs", Russian "beréza", Ukrainian "beréza", Albanian "bredh" ‘fir’, Ossetian "bærz(æ)", Sanskrit "bhurja", Polish "brzoza", Latin "fraxinus" ‘ash (tree)’. This root is presumably derived from *"bʰreh₁ǵ-" ‘to shine’, in reference to the birch's white bark. The Proto-Germanic rune "berkanan" is named after the birch.