July 5, 1815 — to Nelson Reed
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The Chartered Fund was the basis of the pension plan of the church. Asbury was not satisfied with what the Baltimore Conference was doing.
MARTIN BOEHM’S, PENNSYLVANIA1
July 5, 18152
[TO NELSON REED]3
My dear Brother:
As Senior Presbyter we send the inclosed papers to use, or not as you please. But I think it is time, after 40 years, to decide whether the people in the charge of Baltimore Conference can support their preachers, whether they will have to be on the sickly fund 3 or 400 dollars annually. If you hand these mite subscriptions, they will be located to Baltimore Conference, and then if you as conference are supplied the draft of funds will go forward to other conferences. As to our Book Concern and Charter4 [Fund] may like —— if the Presbyterian party gained ground. But if God Almighty and his Eternal raise me up again I shall shew how they have already taken my right, that of judging what was proper to come before annual and General Conference. Ah I move, and I move, there it began,
I am unalterably thine
F. ASBURY
Drew University Library
Notes (4)
- Martin Boehm was a Mennonite preacher, father of Henry. Martin, with Philip William Otterbein and Christian Newcomer, started the United Brethren Church. ↩
- According to the Journal, Asbury was at Boehm’s on July 27 and 28. He went from there to Hollingsworth’s and was there working on his Journal on July 5. (See Journal.) ↩
- Presiding elder, Baltimore Conference, Baltimore District. ↩
- Sometimes called Chartered Fund. ↩