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Reed is serving as Presiding Elder of the Kanawha District (Ohio Conference, MEC). The Kentucky Conference of the MECS has appointed several preachers within the Kanawha District territory, making for a very undesirable situation. Thankfully, most of the folks in the district are still in favor of the "Old M.E. Church" and will not be recruited by the south. Furthermore, the southern preachers are trying to create prejudice against the Ohio MEC preachers, calling them abolitionists. Finally, Reed discusses the Parkersburgh Station, where faithful MEC members were locked out of their building by southerners and were compelled to erect a new building for themselves, which was dedicated by Rev. Heath. Abstract Number - 660
Abstract Number
660
Publication Date
12-29-1846
City
Parkersburg, VA
Keywords
David Reed Letters; Finley Family Letters -- Nephew; Church South (MECS); Kanawha District; Kentucky Conference (MECS); Church Property Question; Recruitment; Parkersburg M.E.C. (VA)
Recommended Citation
Reed, David, "Letter from David Reed to James B. Finley" (1846). Finley Letters. 755.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/755