David Young

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Finley is attending the MEC General Conference in Pittsburgh (May 1 - June 1, 1848). Young writes to Finley in the middle of the Conference to express his views on the division of church property now that the seceders have withdrawn from the MEC to form the MECS. He is adamant that the MEC should not forfeit any property to the MECS, believing that the 1844 Plan of Separation may not have forfeited legal title to churches and parsonages in the South. Young is also concerned about the funds of the Book Concern, worrying that an appropriation of funds to the seceding South will be used to pay for ineffective bishops, adversarial newspaper editors, etc. Abstract Number - 908

Abstract Number

908

Publication Date

5-17-1848

City

Zanesville

Keywords

David Young Letters; Finley Friend; Church South (MECS); Slavery Letters; Church Property Question; Plan of Separation; General Conference of 1848; Schism; Book Concern

Letter from David Young to James B. Finley


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