LETTER OF
The GOSPEL TRUTH CHARLES G. FINNEY
1853
To Hamilton Hill
7 May 1853
[MS in Oberlin College Archives, 7/1/5]
Oberlin 7. May 1853.
Dear Br. Hill.
I have not yet gotten
my certificates of scholarships.
I intended that Joseph Adams
should have had the benefit of
one of them. & to have given
the use of the other to some one
Will you please to make them
out & let Joseph have the benefit
of one of them from the beginning
of the Spring term if you can
so manage it & send the other
to me as my wife wishes to give
the use of it to some one.
Your Brother,
C. G. Finney
Footnote:
Joseph Adams was a student in the Preparatory Department of Oberlin College. He was from London, England, where he had been converted by Finney in 1850. He had come to Oberlin in 1852 to study, and was living in the Finneys' home. He subsequently became a Methodist evangelist in Britain, but returned to America in 1873 and became a Congregational minister. He served in churches in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California, but in 1886 he became a Christian Science teacher. He was eventually involved in mind cure. He died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. (See "Remarks of Rev. Joseph Adams" in Reminiscences of Rev. Charles G. Finney [Oberlin, Ohio: E. J Goodrich, 1876], pp. 53-56; "Rev. Joseph Adams" in Christian Science Journal, Volume 4 [May 1886], p.49; Stephen Gottschalk, The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life [Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1973], p.201; and "Joseph Adams" File, in Oberlin College Archives.)