Letter from Asa Rand, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Aug. 20, 1832
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Asa Rand gives the reason that he voted against Phelps as a new pastor of Pine Street Church: he says Phelps’s preaching style is overly “metaphysical or intellectual, while it is deficient in solemnity, unction, & direct ... application to the conscience and the heart.” He says some of the 8 people who voted against Phelps (as opposed to the 23 who voted for him) share a similar view.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. Amos Phelps, Hopkinton, Mass." It was postmarked on Aug. 31 in [Boston?].
