David Reed

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Reed writes to discuss the formation of the new Western Virginia Conference. He has been reappointed to the Kanawha District as presiding elder and has just begun his quarterly meeting travel. Reed is not pleased with the makeup of the new conference, believing that the city of Wheeling and the Virginia valley should have been included within its borders. At this time, border societies and interior societies are making decisions about their denominational allegiance -- MEC or MECS. Both denominations have appointed preachers in the same towns, etc. Reed bemoans the fact that the conference is "without churches" because the southerners have swayed societies to leave the MEC and align with the MECS. The people in his district are generally pleased with the decisions of General Conference regarding the property question and the rejection of Dr. Lovick Pierce (delegate from MECS who attempts to "establish fraternal relations" with the MEC). Abstract Number - 664

Abstract Number

664

Publication Date

8-16-1848

City

Guyandotte, VA

Keywords

David Reed Letters; Finley Family Letters -- Nephew; Western Virginia Conference; Church South (MECS); Border Controversy; Border Societies; Interior Societies; General Conference of 1848; Conference Realignment

Letter from David Reed to James B. Finley


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