. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. historic churches had chosen what ap-peared to be eligible positions, and were competing for as-cendency. I doubt if the Bible was ever more used for de-bating purposes than in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illi-nois during this period. The traveller on horseback mightoften stop on a Saturday, at a log school-house, and findthe rustic combatants battling with each other on thefive points, the divinity of Christ, or baptism, with allthe energy of Luther and Eck at Leipsic. Into the midst of such a community Bishop Simps
. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. historic churches had chosen what ap-peared to be eligible positions, and were competing for as-cendency. I doubt if the Bible was ever more used for de-bating purposes than in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illi-nois during this period. The traveller on horseback mightoften stop on a Saturday, at a log school-house, and findthe rustic combatants battling with each other on thefive points, the divinity of Christ, or baptism, with allthe energy of Luther and Eck at Leipsic. Into the midst of such a community Bishop Simpson wasborn, in the early part of this century. It was a virtuouscommunity; religious feeling was intense, and religious zealactive. The public-school system of Ohio did not then ex-ist, and the schools taught by his uncle Matthew, of whichwe shall hear, were maintained by subscriptions. The housein which the bishop was born is no longer standing; its siteis now occupied by a hotel and other business buildings. * Life of B. F. Wade, pp. 75, 76. LIFE OF MATTHEW THE SIMPSON HOME IN CADIZ, OHIO. The house in which the family lived, for some years afterhis fathers death, is still to be found, though now removedfrom its original place. It Avas a plain one story and a halfstructure, and most likely of the style of the majority of thehomes of his native town. It was, says Professor JosephTingiey, the bishops cousin, a small, unpainted plain framehouse, of four or live rooms, one of which was used for aschoolroom by Uncle Matthew. This last was an addition,probably built for the purpose. Born and reared underthese conditions. Bishop Simpson, laying hold of such helpsas he could find, acquired as much knowledge of the Latinand Greek classics as was attainable in Ohio in that gen-eration, studied and practised medicine, became a collegeprofessor and then a college president, administered theoffice of a bishop for thirty-two years, was, during the civilwar, a recognized power in
Size: 1958px × 1276px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbishops, bookyear1890
