The Indianapolis journal., 1883-05-19

united states.
The funeral will take place on Monday
next. Bishop Simpson will deliver the adj
dress.
Jesse Truesdell Peck was born in Middle
field, N. Y, Aug. Ii 1911. His parents were
OF Puritan stock, and both of his grand
fathers were revolutionary soldiers. Before
he was yet sixteen years of age he had ex-
perienced religion and united with the
church. He was graduated from the Gaze
novia IN. " Seminary in 1928, and was
licensed as a local preacher in 1929, and in
1882 joined the Oneida conference. From
1887 to 1S41 he was principal of the Gou-
verneur Wesleyan Seminary, and from 1S41
to 1S4s of the Troy Conference Seminary, at
Poultney, VT. From 184S to 1852 be was
the president of Dickinson College, and
then pastor of the Foundry Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Washington D. c., till 1854
when he became secretary of the Tract So
ciety of the M. i. Church and editor of
its publications. Here his powers of endur-
ance were tried to their utmost Each sum
mer twenty-seven conferences had to
be visited, covering an area extending from
Maine to the Mississippi. After serving q
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New York city, he was transferred to Cali
fornia where he labored for eight wears as a
pastor and presiding elder at Sacramento
Santa Clara and San Francisco. He served
for several years as president of the board of
trustees of the University of the Pacific. and
was also president of the California State
Bible Society. He returned East on account
OF his wife's health, and served out pastorares
in Peekskill, Albany and Syracuse until
1872 when he was elected a bishop. He was
| one of the founders of the Syracuse Univer-
sity, and the first president of the board of
trustees. Five times he was member of the
General Conference, and was also frateriisl
delegate to the Canadian and Britisa
conferences. He has published The
Central Idea of Christianity" The True Wo-
man; or, Life and Happiness at Home and
Abroad" What Must Do to Be Saved?
and "The History of the Great Republic
Considered from Christian nd-point" /"
He was president of the Methodist State con-
vention in Syracuse, in 1870. He made
speech on political reform which attracted
much attention throughout the country and
his paper on the subject was widely circu-
lated. At Albany he took prominent part
in the movement against the Tweed ring. As
preacher he was logical. eloquent and pro-
found. In language he was sometimes OBJ
seure, but in an impromptu speech he was
specially happy. He took prominent par
in the anti-slavery movement at the Genertl
Conference in 1874. He actively participated
in the discussions connected with the
great division in the Methodist Episcopal
church. In his labers he was most syste-
matte, and had a great capacity for hard
work He had been in active service for over
fifty years. As a man he was genial and COM
panionable and possessed great deal of
humor. As presiding officer he possessed
remarkable ability. He presided at the Ecu
menical Council IN London, in 1881. His at
tachment to the church grew stronger and
stronger as his age increased. and almost up
to the very day of his death he was able to
labor for its advancement. He possessed a
remarkably strong constitution, which ena-
bled him to overcome numerous physical
affections and to keep his intellect clear and
strong