Elijah Hedding
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Elijah Hedding (1780-1852) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1824.
He was born on 7 June 1780 near Pine Plains, New York to parents of English origin. He was trained in prayer by his mother, who was brought into the church under circuit preacher Benjamin Abbot. Elijah was converted at the age of eighteen by the influence of a devoted woman, Mrs. Bushnell.
Hedding united with the New York Annual Conference in 1801. He was ordained, both Deacon and Elder, by Bishop Richard Whatcoat. He served as a pioneer Circuit Preacher, a city Pastor, and a Presiding Elder. He suffered in his early years from violent attacks of inflammatory rheumatism. "Father Taylor," the famous sailor preacher, was converted under Hedding at the Bromfield Street M.E. Church in Boston.
He became seriously ill in 1848, but continued to work. He said, "I hope for, and expect to receive, salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." After a protracted illness, he died 9 April 1852 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was buried in a rural cemetery on the east side of the Hudson, below Poughkeepsie.
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[edit] Selected writings
- Sermon: The Supreme Deity of Christ, New England Conference, Bath, Maine, 1822. (also as a 20 pp. pamphlet in 1829, and later published by the New York Conference, as well).
- Sermon in The Methodist Preacher, Ebenezer Ireson, Editor, 1831.
- Sermon: Self-Government, in The Methodist Preacher, S.W. Willson and Ebenezer Ireson, Editors, 1832. (previously publsihed as a pamphlet in 1831).
- Address at Oneida and Genesee Conferences on the Duty of the President of an Annual Conference; on the Rights and Powers of Such a Conference and on the Principles and History of Said Church, on the Act of Holding Slaves; also Thoughts on Evil Speaking and a Report on Slavery of the Genesee Annual Conference, pamphlet, 28 pp., 1837; (also in Elliott, C., History of the Great Secession, Document 27, 1855.
- Discourse on the Administration of the Discipline, delivered in 1841 at Philadelphia, Newark, Providence, and Maine Conferences, and published in miniature book form by request of these bodies, 1842 and 1845.
- Sermon: Christ the Theme of the Prophets, in Clark, D.W., The Methodist Pulpit, 1848.
- Special Salvation, pamphlet, 29 pp., 1850.
- Sermon: Self-Government, in Sermons on Miscellaneous Subjects, Cincinnati, 1847; also in The Methodist Preacher, Augurn, 1852.
[edit] Biographies
- Stevens, A., Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into the Eastern States, 1848.
- McClintock, John, Biographical Sketches, 1853.
- Clark, D.W., Life and Times of Rev. Elijah Hedding, D.D., (introd. by E.S. Janes), 1855.
- Hibbard, R.F., Startling Discosures Concerning the Death of John N. Maffitt, a Review of Bishop Hedding's Decision, pamphlet, 1856.
- Ludlow, H.G. and Kilbourn, David, a sketch (with letters of Tobias Spicer) in Annals of the American Pulpit, W.B. Sprague, 1861.
- Pierce, B.K., a sketch in Lives of Methodist Bishops, Flood and Hamilton, 1882.
[edit] References
- Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, Tenn., The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
- Short, Roy Hunter, Chosen to be Consecrated: The Bishops of The Methodist Church, 1784-1968, Lake Junaluska, N.C., General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, 1976.
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