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The Committee on Supply of Union Chapel (Cincinnati) write to Finley making their case for entry into the Ohio Conference with an appointed pastor. [Note: The congregation was established in 1849 as a "pewed church" in Cincinnati, purchasing the former Grace Church building. The Ohio Conference refuses to allow the Union Chapel congregation entry into the conference and denies them a ministerial appointment. ] They have a neat and comfortable church. They have met the claim of Ohio Wesleyan University by the purchase of fifteen scholarships, and of the American Bible Society by the contribution of $100. There is still before them contributions to the Missionary Society and the Superannuated Preachers Fund. The members invite Finley to preach on a Sunday morning and help them talk through issues related to their exclusion, as a church with explicit pewed seating and promiscuous seating (men and women sitting together). Abstract Number - 466

Abstract Number

466

Publication Date

5-23-1850

City

Cincinnati

Keywords

Union Chapel (Cincinnati); Ohio Conference Letters; Pewed Seating; Promiscuous Seating

Letter from J.W. Messick and Edgar Conkling to James B. Finley


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