The Impending Crisis of 1860: Or the Present Connection of the Methodist Episcopal Church with Slavery, and Our Duty in Regard to It
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Hiram Mattison was an American clergyman and reformer.
Background
Hiram Mattison was born on February 8, 1811 at Norway, Herkimer County, N. Y. He was one of the twelve children of Solomon and Lydia W. Mattison. His parents, natives of New England, were poor, high-minded, and devoted Methodists. In his infancy the family removed to a wilderness farm near the site of Oswego, N. Y.
Education
The boy's education was derived chiefly from his mother.
Career
At the age of twenty-four, after a transforming religious experience, he left the farm to become a Methodist minister in the Black River Conference (1836), although the weakness of his lungs several times interrupted his pastoral work. In 1840-41 he represented the American Bible Society in New Jersey, showing notable gifts as a preacher, but soon returned to northern New York, where he preached and edited an outspoken paper, the Primitive Christian (at first called Tracts for the Times, and later The Conservative). From 1846 to 1852 he was again disabled, but found congenial occupation in the study of astronomy, writing lectures and a school textbook, Elementary Astronomy (1847), revised as A High-School Astronomy (1853), which achieved wide popularity. In 1850-51 he taught the subject in Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y. From 1852 to 1858 he served New York City churches (John Street and Trinity) as a supply pastor. As a member of the General Conference in 1848, 1852, and 1856, he displayed power in debate. In the General Conference of 1856 he ardently but unsuccessfully advocated the exclusion of slave-holders from church membership. Transferring to a pastorate in Adams and Syracuse, N. Y. , he continued to agitate the question of slave-holding, and, though defeated for membership in the General Conference of 1860, bombarded that body with petitions signed by 100, 000 Methodists of Central New York and Great Britain praying the church to sever all connection with slavery. This body was denounced as a nest of abolitionists; his house was ransacked and his life threatened by the draft rioters in 1863. In 1864, however, when the Methodist Episcopal Church tardily took the action for which he had fought, he was welcomed back to its ministry, entering as a local preacher in August 1865 and being assigned to a Jersey City pastorate. Later he was admitted to Newark Conference. In Jersey City he became involved in a vigorous controversy with one Father Smarius, a Jesuit missioner, which led to his employment by the American and Foreign Christian Union (1868), to which he devoted the last of his failing energy, speaking, writing, and printing against "Romanism. " His endeavor to rescue Mary Ann Smith, a convert alleged to have been abducted by Catholics to save her from Protestantism, used up his strength, and he died of pneumonia in Jersey City at the age of fifty-seven. Throughout his career he wrote much for publication in books, pamphlets, and church periodicals.
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Views
He vehemently opposed the claims of the Roman Catholic church, and published a tract on the case of Mary Anne Smith, a Methodist, whose father, a Roman Catholic, he alleged, had unjustly caused her arrest and detention in a Magdalen asylum, in New York city.
Personality
Mattison was of a serious and reflective temperament and displayed much mechanical ingenuity. Mattison was by nature controversial, and he fought slavery, intemperance, and pernicious amusements as fiercely as he did "Romish superstitions and idolatries" and doctrines which he believed to be erroneous or heretical.
Connections
He was twice married. His first wife, Melinda Griswold, died young, leaving four children. By his second wife, Elizabeth S. Morrison, who survived him, he had five children.