David Young

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Young [superannuated] writes that the new Presiding Elder of the Zanesville District [James M. Jameson] has made a very favorable first impression on his first round. He is a very strong preacher whose strength is textual exposition. Young has seen Finley's notice to the Commissioners of the Church South. [Finley was one of three from the MEC appointed to work with three members of the MECS concerning the division of Book Concern Funds]. Young asks Finley about the opinions of the other two MEC commissioners, Nathan Bangs and George Peck. Finally, Young discusses the wife of Rev. Joseph J. Hill [Ernestinte Cornelia Soule, daughter of Bishop Soule, who married Hill in 1832]. Young compares Mrs. Hill to Xanthippe [wife of Socrates] who was portrayed over time in literature as a shrew. According to Young, Mrs. Hill had a very bad temper and behaved in a shrewish manner with her husband. Hill left the MEC in 1846 to serve in the Southern church. Young states it is no loss to the Highland Circuit that the Hills "are deposited beyond the Ohio." Abstract Number - 904

Abstract Number

904

Publication Date

11-15-1846

City

Zanesville

Keywords

David Young Letters; Finley Friend; James M. Jameson (Jamison); Zanesville District; Presiding Elder; Church South (MECS); Slavery Letters; Joseph J. Hill; Ernestine C. Soule Hill; Xanthippe; Book Concern; Church Property Question; Nathan Bangs; George Peck

Letter from David Young to James B. Finley


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