Charles Elliott

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Elliott is currently appointed to the Pittsburgh Station. He tells Finley that they have just finished their third quarterly meeting. He asks Finley if he can stop at their church for a few days on his way to General Conference in Philadelphia with a number of other ministers, for his help is greatly needed. The Radicals have made things difficult for members of his flock. His congregation has lived through the dust and noise of "tyranny, episcopacy, popery" etc. etc. His folks are not deeply pious, he tells Finley, "But how could you expect them to thrive when instead of the "sincere milk of the Word", their shepherds fed them with speculative theories and metaphysical disquisitions on church government; and then the wolves of reform pouring upon them to scatter, tear and slay." Abstract Number - 126

Abstract Number

126

Publication Date

3-1-1832

City

Pittsburgh

Keywords

General Ministry; Radicals; Methodist Protestant Church; Pittsburgh M.E.C.; General Conference of 1832

Letter from Charles Elliott to James B. Finley


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