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John Morrison Reid was born on May 30, 1820 in New York City, the son of John and Jane (Morrison) Reid, natives of Ireland.
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Missions And Missionary Society Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 1
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John Morrison Reid
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Education
His parents were poor, but by hard work and borrowed money he secured an education, graduating from the University of the City of New York at nineteen, and then, 1839-41, pursuing a course in Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Career
He taught in the Mechanics' Institute School of the City of New York. He had been licensed to preach when he was eighteen, and had carried on religious work in prisons, asylums, and on the docks; now, in 1844, his debts paid, he entered the New York East Conference, in which he was ordained May 15, 1846.
Though not brilliantly endowed, he was a person of diverse gifts and excellent training, a good administrator, a preacher of more than average ability, an effective writer. He had the unselfish devotion, the sound judgment, and the capacity for persevering labor which enabled him to carry forward to greater usefulness what had already been begun. His church employed him in various important offices and he became one of the eminent men of the day in his denomination.
For fourteen years he was engaged in the work of the pastorate, serving churches in Connecticut and New York, among then that in Middletown, Connecticut, the seat of Wesleyan University (1851 - 53), one in New York City (1853 - 55), and one in Brooklyn (1855 - 57).
He was a strong abolitionist, and as such was elected to the General Conference of 1856. For the next thirty-two years he was a member of all its quadrennial sessions.
From the pastorate he was called into the educational field, and for the period 1858 to 1864 was president of Genesee College, Lima, New York, the faculty and students of which, six years later, became the nucleus of Syracuse University. At the completion of his administration at Genesee he was intrusted with the management of denominational papers, the General Conference in 1864 electing him editor of the Western Christian Advocate, and in 1868, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate. The crowning service of his career, however, and in some ways the most valuable, was his work as a corresponding secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society.
He was put into this office by the General Conference of 1872, and, declining an election as bishop of the Methodist Church in Canada in 1874, continued in it for sixteen years. Relieved of its duties at his own request in 1888, he was made honorary secretary.
His labors in behalf of the foreign field were untiring and fruitful. He traveled widely in Europe and the East and in 1879 published a valuable two-volume work setting forth in detail Methodist missionary enterprises, entitled MIssions and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a revised and enlarged edition of which, edited by J. T. Gracey, appeared in 1895.
Another volume, Doomed Religions; A Series of Essays on Great Religions of the World, edited by Reid, was published in 1884.
Achievements
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Possessing ample means in his later life, he contributed liberally to the endowment of Syracuse University, and purchased for it the Leopold Von Ranke Library; he came to the rescue of the Methodist missionary interests in India with a gift of fifteen thousand dollars; established a fund at Clifton Springs Sanitarium that returned missionaries might recuperate there; and educated several young men at his own expense. After his retirement he resided in New York, where he died in his seventy-sixth year.
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Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From the Origin of Each to the End of the Year 1880; With a Map of Each Mission (Classic Reprint)
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Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church
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Doomed Religions
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Missions And Missionary Society Of The Methodist Episcopal Church; Volume 2
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Doomed Religions (Classic Reprint)
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Missions And Missionary Society Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 1
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Missions And Missionary Society Of The Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 3...
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Filial Tribute to the Memory of Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D., 1889 (Classic Reprint)
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Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From the Origin of Each to the End of the Year 1880; With a Map of Each Mission (Classic Reprint)
Connections
He was twice married: first, November 14, 1844, to Anna Mason; and second, May 10, 1848, to Caroline S. Fanton, daughter of Thomas B. Fanton, a prominent citizen of Redding, Connecticut.
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