Mann, Joel. Letter from Rev. Joel Mann. [New York]: (1850). An offprint from the New York Independent. [12363]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 4 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
The Rev. Joel Mann had been accused of breaking up and abandoning his church at Salem, in an article printed in the New York Independent, under the title, The Salem Case Again.
Rev. Mann objects that this is not at all the case, and that he had endeavored to remain and build up the congregation.
The problems arose over a portion of his people adopting "ultra-Abolitionism, Second Adventism, Millerism, and Perfectionism...The pleasant harmony with which we had been favored vanished, and with it our encouraging prosperity. One hundred dollars was deducted from my salary, and then one-third of the whole, so that it then paid about one-half of my current expenses. Grieved and worn out with the difficulties, and seeing no prospect of a favorable change, I requested a dissolution of the pastoral relation, though I should have been willing to have remained with them, making great pecuniary sacrifices, if they had been united." - p. 1.
Rev. Joel Mann (1789-1884), b. Grafton, New Hampshire; d. New Haven, Connecticut. He was educated at Dartmouth College, studied divinity with Rev. William Ellery Channing, and was ordained a Congregational minister. Mann was co-pastor or pastor of churches in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
