Rev. C. W. Mathison Leaves for Meeting

Rev. C. W. Mathison Leaves for Meeting

Rev. C. W. Mathison Leaves for Meeting

Oviedo (Fla.)

West Palm Beach (Fla.)

Methodists--Southern States

Clergy--Southern States

A newspaper article published by The Central Florida Press on June 20, 1930. The article reports that Reverend C. W. Mathison, the pastor of the Oviedo Methodist Church, left on a trip to West Palm Beach, Florida, for the Florida Methodist Conference. which was to be presided over Bishop John Moore of St. Augustine. Mathison was a Methodist pastor from North Alabama who preached in Florida. Mathison passed away on May 3, 1940, in Fernandina.

The First United Methodist Church, located at 300 Ruth Street in Oviedo, Florida. The program covers the events of the day, centennial celebrations, the church history, and a number of hymns and sermons. The Methodist Church has a far-reaching history in the South that goes back to the schism of 1844. Divided by the issue of slavery, Southern churches moved to create their own polity during a conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The Southern church eventually reunited with the elder Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as the Methodist Presbyterian Church in 1939, becoming a single polity. In 1940, more conservative congregations dissented from the merge and formed the Southern Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church was fin ally created on April 23, 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church merged.

Original newspaper article: "Rev. C. W. Mathison Leaves for Meeting." The Central Florida Press, Vol. 1, No. 9, June 20, 1930, page 1: Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.

ca. 1930-06-20

1930-06-20

1930-06-20

Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: "Rev. C. W. Mathison Leaves for Meeting." The Central Florida Press, Vol. 1, No. 9, June 20, 1930, page 1.

"The Central Florida Press, Vol. 1. No. 9, June 20, 1930." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5674.

Oviedo Historical Society, Oviedo, Florida.

Oviedo Historical Society Collection, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Cepero, Laura

"A Time to Keep: History of the First Methodist Church of Oviedo, Florida, 1873-1973." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5262.

Alexander, Gross, James Brown Scouller, R. V. Foster, and Thomas Cary Johnson. A History of the Methodist Church, South: The United Presbyterian Church, The Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church, South, in the United States. New York: Christian Literature Co, 1894.

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