EV. JACOB CALLAHAN was a minister of the Georgia and Alabama Christian Conference, who lived in Walton county, Georgia, in the pioneer days of the Christian Church in that State. He was compelled to withdraw, in 1888, from those of his brethren, who embraced the views of the Rev. Alexander Campbell.

      There was almost a complete dissolution of the Christian Church as then established in Georgia.

      He attended the re-organization of the Georgia Christian Conference at a church near Milledgeville about 1847, of which Rev. L. J. Smith was pastor. In 1853, the Conference met at Elder Callahan's church and was reorganized under the name of the Georgia and Alabama Conference. The next session was held at New Hope, in Chambers county, Georgia, and Elder Callahan preached the annual sermon from 1 Pet. 1:2. He continued his [201] work and the Church regained its former strength in a measure, and became more firmly established according to its original foundation.

      When the call for the holding of a convention in 1856, was being agitated, he favored Raleigh, North Carolina, as the most central place. But the result was the organization of the Southern Christian Convention at Union chapel, in Alamance county, North Carolina. In his correspondence he gave his age as sixty-eight, having been born February 10, 1788.

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