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Joseph Trimble is currently appointed to Wesley Chapel in Cincinnati. He is distraught about the behavior of Rev. Sehon (Edmund W.) and Rev. Maley (George W.), both of whom have transferred to the newly formed Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Sehon has purchased the old Baptist church building on Sycamore between 5th and 6th, planning to organize an MECS congregation. In fact, both men expect to be stationed by the Kentucky MECS Conference in Cincinnati. Sehon has been boasting that Wesley Chapel (Trimble's appointment) "must go down." Her doors must be closed and the congregation taken for the southern church. "If falsehood & slander & deceit can make a good cause they have it." Trimble has lost all confidence in George Maley as an honest man, declaring that the MEC is "well rid of him." Abstract Number - 243

Abstract Number

243

Publication Date

11-12-1845

City

Cincinnati

Keywords

Slavery Letters; Church Divison; Church South (MECS); Kentucky Conference (MECS); E.W. Sehon; George W. Maley; Wesley Chapel (Cincinati, OH); Recruiting

Letter from Joseph M. Trimble to James B. Finley


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