Letter from John Christian Keener (New Orleans, Louisiana) to Robert Paine (Aberdeen, Mississippi) - October 24, 1881
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A letter from John Christian Keener to Robert Paine confirming that he will organize the Mississippi Conference for Paine, sharing his reflections on the 1881 Ecumenical Conference held in London, and expressing his thoughts on a candidate for Presiding Elder in the Louisville Conference. Keener includes five comments on the Ecumenical Conference, including: 1) a dismissive commentary on the inclusion and consideration of Black and African American Methodists and an insistence that the church should strive to maintain racial segregation, 2) a positive review of an essay read on the influence of Methodism on other churches with the hope that it will influence the British Methodists to break more cleanly with the Church of England, 3) a suspicious and cautious warning against the desires of the Methodist Episcopal Church to encourage more frequent Ecumenical Conferences, 4) a supportive note on Bishop McTyeire's conduct and a claim that the Methodists showed themselves to be "superior", and 5) an expression of concern over a candidate for Bishop.
Keener, John Christian, 1819-1906
Paine, Robert, 1799-1882
English
Bishops
Methodist conferences
Methodists
Racism
Christian leadership
Kavanaugh, H. H. (Hubbard Hinde), 1802-1884
McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Church
Œcumenical Methodist Conference (1st : 1881 : London, England)
Ecumenical Methodist Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mississippi Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Louisville Conference
Southern States
Nashville (Tenn.)
London (England)
Nineteenth century
16.3 x 9.9 cm
4 pages, envelope
Text
letters (correspondence)
Letter from John Christian Keener (New Orleans, Louisiana) to Robert Paine (Aberdeen, Mississippi) - October 24, 1881 (Emory Digital Collections)
Robert Paine papers
Box 1, Folder 12
MSS 404
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