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Charles Elliott was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and died in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, United States.
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editor historian Methodist clergyman
Charles Elliott was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and died in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, United States.
Fie came to America in 1814, with two years’ experience as a preacher, soon afterwards affiliated with the Ohio Methodist Conference, and in 1819 was appointed to the Zanesville circuit.
From 1827 to 1831 he taught languages in Madison Coltege, operated under Methodist control at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and toward the beginning of 1834 he was made editor of the Pittsburgh Conference Journal.
In 1836 he was appointed editor of the Western Christian Advocate, but returned to the ministry in 1849 and in 1850-51 was presiding elder of the Dayton District.
During the long debate within his church as to whether or not slavery was scripturaliy defensible, he was an ardent contender for the negative, and in 1848 he was appointed by the General Conference of the Northern group of Methodists to write a history of their organization since the withdrawal of the Southern group four years earlier.
This appointment resulted in the publication of three works: The Sinfulness of American Slavery, Proved from its Evil Sources, its Injustice, its Wrongs.
He yearned to go to Italy as a missionary, and he is indeed, it is said, more than anyone else, responsible for the Methodist activities inaugurated in Rome shortly after his death.
In 1852 he again became editor of the Western Christian Advocate.
There, in 1859, by countenancing the graduation of a woman, he opened the way for coeducation.
In 1860 he was requisitioned from Iowa by the Methodist Conference to displace the editor of the Central Christian Advocate in St. Louis, who in his pronouncements at that moment was not quite definitely enough anti-southern.
There was no trouble on that score with Elliott, but when in 1863 he was summoned back to his college he determined to go.
He was president there again 1863-66.
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His experience during this time taught him, he said, that Christianity was “suited to every nation of every description, whether barbarous or civil” (Reminiscences, p. 186), and convinced him that it was wise to convert first and civilize later.
Northern group of Methodists
president of Iowa Wesleyan University
He has been spoken of as “a man of genial character and tireless energy” (Barker, Ohio Methodism, p. 160), but in much of his writing he appears to be the fanatic rather than the philosopher.
In 1822 he was made a missionary to the Wyandot Indians, and with his wife proceeded into their reservations, under the patronage of a Christianized chief named Between-the-Logs.