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Rev. Roszel (Baltimore Conference) was a visitor at the last session of the Philadelphia Conference, where he learned the intention of the eastern preachers to bring forward the old Presiding Elder Question at the 1832 General Conference. It is our duty as Old Side Methodists, says Roszel, to fight this plan. He wants Finley to make sure Old Side Methodists are elected as delegates from the Ohio Conference to the 1832 General Conference, and to use his influence to discourage this movement. [Presiding Elder Question of 1828 -- unpassed resolution that each annual conference would elect its own presiding elders, who as a group would assist the bishop in appointing preachers to circuits and stations.] Abstract Number - 1210

Abstract Number

1210

Publication Date

1-5-1831

City

Baltimore, MD

Keywords

General Ministry; Presiding Elder Question; Old Side Methodism; General Conference of 1832

Letter from Stephen G. Roszel to James B. Finley


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