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REV. JAMES WARREN.
EV. JAMES WARREN attended the Conference or
General Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October,
1807, with James O'Kelly, John Hayes, Henry
Hayes, Micajah Debruler, and others. At this meeting
the Rev. Joseph Thomas was received as an unordained
minister with several other young men. Young Thomas,
the boy preacher, was assigned to travel with him.
They left the Conference together, and traveled northward
through North Carolina and passed over into [64]
Virginia, making a tour through Mecklenburg, Lunenburg,
Prince George, Prince Edward, Chesterfield, Amelia,
Henrico, and other counties. But as Thomas says, the
People discouraged him,--"One day while speaking I
observed, that I considered myself as a lamb sent out
among wolves." The people became offended, and he
says, "After meeting, the preacher [meaning Warren]
asked me if I did not see plainly that I did more harm
than good and that I ought to quit." "I told him the
man acted the truth of what I said, showed himself a
wolf willing to devour me." Elder Warren was so distasteful
to the boy preacher that the latter sought another
companion. It was through the influence of Elder
Warren that Joshua Livesay was brought into the ministry
of the Christian Church. Thus, we see that the
influence of men with men acts differently. Elder Warren
preached in the middle counties of Virginia, and extended
his labors into North Carolina.
While he labored principally in Virginia so far as any records show, yet he made a wide reputation. And too, he was one of those who attended and took part in the organization of the Eastern Virginia Christian Conference at Cypress Chapel, in 1818. This is the last recorded fact that we have been able to find.
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