a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and removed to Virginia in 1799, and from thence, a year later, to Mississippi. In 1812 he joined the Mississippi Conference. He filled several prominent positions within the limits of his Conference, and was for a time presiding elder. The Memphis Conference being formed out of a part of the Mississippi, he was invited to join the latter, which he did; but his health declining, he became a superannuate. He died March 18,1869. Peter James possessed but limited literary attainments; but, by gift of application, he became an able minister of the Gospel. In all the relations of life he maintained his integrity as a Christian, and exemplified the virtues and graces of our holy religion.– Min. Ann. Cof M.E. Ch. S. 3:340.<\/p>\n
James, Peter a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and removed to Virginia in 1799, and from thence, a year later, to Mississippi. In 1812 he joined the Mississippi Conference. He filled several prominent positions within the limits of his Conference, and was for a time presiding elder. … Continue reading “James, Peter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}