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Source:
20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio
by Joseph B. Doyle -
Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago -
1910
Chapter XXIII.
Central and Western Townships
Mount Pleasant, Smithfield, Wayne, Salem, Springfield, Ross and Brush
Creek, A String of Enterprising Towns - Interesting Quaker Episodes - First Silk
Factory in the United States - Higher Institutions of Learning - Early Salt
Industry - Oldest Postmasters - The "Old Log Schoolhouse."
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Another division was made by
Elisha BATES. The followers of FOX did
not believe in baptism by water, but of the Holy Ghost.
BATES, while on a visit to the Holy Land, submitted
to baptism in the River Jordan, and was taken to task for
this lapse from the doctrine as promulgated by the father of
the meeting; but he held to the ordinance of baptism as a
saving means, on which subject he wrote a book. This
he afterwards renounced and the copies of the book in the
hands of the Mt. Pleasant Friends were burned with ceremony;
but he again recanted and in 1844 left eh Friends to become
a Methodist Episcopal minister, readopting the tenets he had
set forth in the book, the copies of which had been burned
at his request. He had followers in each of the
several movements, and of course took with him into the
Methodist communion a number of Friends. While
addressing a large camp meeting near Mt. Pleasant in 1844.
BATES was interrupted by persons he had offended by
his various changes; boys even pelting him with buckeyes.
He grew angry and declared that he had left the most
tranquil church in the land and now found himself in the
noisiest, extremes that he could not reconcile. He
then left the Methodist Church.
MORE TO COME AS NEEDED.
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