Ministerial credentials, 1850–1851
On March 17, 1850, just three weeks after his eighteenth birthday, John H. Vincent became an exhorter (lay speaker) in the Methodist Episcopal Church. At its June 15, 1850 Quarterly Conference, the Lewistown Circuit, Huntingdon District, Baltimore Conference, authorized Vincent to serve as a Local Preacher, “so long as his doctrines accord with the Gospel of God our Savior, and he is obedient to the order and discipline of said church.” He retired from the ministry fifty-four years later in 1904.
