He was a Universalist Minister:
Rev. Jason Lewis, died in Keating, Potter county, Pa., June 23, 1862, in his 60th year-after an illness (typhoid fever,) of only nine days-leaving a wife, three sons (two in the army,) and a daughter.
He was born in Middletown, Conn., January 27, 1803 and in childhood was removed to Upper-Lisle, N.Y., where he attained his manhood. His father was and is a Baptist preacher; but Jason became a Universalist some years before he himself knew what Universalism meant, while yet a mere lad.
In 1830, when in such feeble health that he had to sit in a chair, he delivered his first sermon, and soon after commenced itinerating in the bounds of the present Alleghany Association-which he subsequently aided to organize.
In 1831 he received the fellowship of the Chenango Association, in which he bad been reared, and was ordained in 1833. He early attained a high rank as a clear and forcible writer for the "Magazine and Advocate," Utica; and his Letters to Clergymen, inviting their candid examination of Universalism, were several times published in pamphlet form and widely circulated.
His late valuable work on the Resurrection is the only book from his pen, and is the result of many years of thought and research.
Br. Lewis was of very slender and frail frame-health always delicate-voice a feeble treble-hence never a popular preacher; but always acceptable to those who regarded matter before manner; for his sermons not only showed reading and careful study, but original thought, and his style was terse and lucid: his scholarship, beyond a common English education, was self-acquired under many and great disadvantages.
He was remarkably pure in life-modest and rather reserved-but in the family and friendly circle, free and affectionate. His neighbors floored and lined his grave with evergreens, and wreathed it with flowers-fit emblems of immortal life, affection and beauty.
Rev. Jason Lewis, died in Keating, Potter county, Pa., June 23, 1862, in his 60th year-after an illness (typhoid fever,) of only nine days-leaving a wife, three sons (two in the army,) and a daughter.
He was born in Middletown, Conn., January 27, 1803 and in childhood was removed to Upper-Lisle, N.Y., where he attained his manhood. His father was and is a Baptist preacher; but Jason became a Universalist some years before he himself knew what Universalism meant, while yet a mere lad.
In 1830, when in such feeble health that he had to sit in a chair, he delivered his first sermon, and soon after commenced itinerating in the bounds of the present Alleghany Association-which he subsequently aided to organize.
In 1831 he received the fellowship of the Chenango Association, in which he bad been reared, and was ordained in 1833. He early attained a high rank as a clear and forcible writer for the "Magazine and Advocate," Utica; and his Letters to Clergymen, inviting their candid examination of Universalism, were several times published in pamphlet form and widely circulated.
His late valuable work on the Resurrection is the only book from his pen, and is the result of many years of thought and research.
Br. Lewis was of very slender and frail frame-health always delicate-voice a feeble treble-hence never a popular preacher; but always acceptable to those who regarded matter before manner; for his sermons not only showed reading and careful study, but original thought, and his style was terse and lucid: his scholarship, beyond a common English education, was self-acquired under many and great disadvantages.
He was remarkably pure in life-modest and rather reserved-but in the family and friendly circle, free and affectionate. His neighbors floored and lined his grave with evergreens, and wreathed it with flowers-fit emblems of immortal life, affection and beauty.
He was a Universalist Minister:
Rev. Jason Lewis, died in Keating, Potter county, Pa., June 23, 1862, in his 60th year-after an illness (typhoid fever,) of only nine days-leaving a wife, three sons (two in the army,) and a daughter.
He was born in Middletown, Conn., January 27, 1803 and in childhood was removed to Upper-Lisle, N.Y., where he attained his manhood. His father was and is a Baptist preacher; but Jason became a Universalist some years before he himself knew what Universalism meant, while yet a mere lad.
In 1830, when in such feeble health that he had to sit in a chair, he delivered his first sermon, and soon after commenced itinerating in the bounds of the present Alleghany Association-which he subsequently aided to organize.
In 1831 he received the fellowship of the Chenango Association, in which he bad been reared, and was ordained in 1833. He early attained a high rank as a clear and forcible writer for the "Magazine and Advocate," Utica; and his Letters to Clergymen, inviting their candid examination of Universalism, were several times published in pamphlet form and widely circulated.
His late valuable work on the Resurrection is the only book from his pen, and is the result of many years of thought and research.
Br. Lewis was of very slender and frail frame-health always delicate-voice a feeble treble-hence never a popular preacher; but always acceptable to those who regarded matter before manner; for his sermons not only showed reading and careful study, but original thought, and his style was terse and lucid: his scholarship, beyond a common English education, was self-acquired under many and great disadvantages.
He was remarkably pure in life-modest and rather reserved-but in the family and friendly circle, free and affectionate. His neighbors floored and lined his grave with evergreens, and wreathed it with flowers-fit emblems of immortal life, affection and beauty.
Rev. Jason Lewis, died in Keating, Potter county, Pa., June 23, 1862, in his 60th year-after an illness (typhoid fever,) of only nine days-leaving a wife, three sons (two in the army,) and a daughter.
He was born in Middletown, Conn., January 27, 1803 and in childhood was removed to Upper-Lisle, N.Y., where he attained his manhood. His father was and is a Baptist preacher; but Jason became a Universalist some years before he himself knew what Universalism meant, while yet a mere lad.
In 1830, when in such feeble health that he had to sit in a chair, he delivered his first sermon, and soon after commenced itinerating in the bounds of the present Alleghany Association-which he subsequently aided to organize.
In 1831 he received the fellowship of the Chenango Association, in which he bad been reared, and was ordained in 1833. He early attained a high rank as a clear and forcible writer for the "Magazine and Advocate," Utica; and his Letters to Clergymen, inviting their candid examination of Universalism, were several times published in pamphlet form and widely circulated.
His late valuable work on the Resurrection is the only book from his pen, and is the result of many years of thought and research.
Br. Lewis was of very slender and frail frame-health always delicate-voice a feeble treble-hence never a popular preacher; but always acceptable to those who regarded matter before manner; for his sermons not only showed reading and careful study, but original thought, and his style was terse and lucid: his scholarship, beyond a common English education, was self-acquired under many and great disadvantages.
He was remarkably pure in life-modest and rather reserved-but in the family and friendly circle, free and affectionate. His neighbors floored and lined his grave with evergreens, and wreathed it with flowers-fit emblems of immortal life, affection and beauty.
