A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer, 1886,
Rprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette, TN. Green
County.

MOSES AKIN, a most singular, and in some respects, a remarkably gifted
man, was, for a short time, quite a popular and successful young preacher,
in Russells Creek Association.  He was raised up to the ministry, in old
Brush Creek church, where he was ordained, in 1840.  He was employed as
missionary within the bounds of the Association, for a time, and soon
became a popular and successful evangelist.  His power over the masses was
very remarkable.  Multitudes of people flocked to hear him preach, and
were fascinated by his crude, but wonderfully magnetic oratory.  But his
career, as an accredited minister of the gospel, was very brief. 
Defective as were his literary attainments, his social education is said
to have been far worse.  Mentally he was illy balanced, and much more so,
morally.  He had not preached long, before suspicions concerning his
morals became common, and after a few years, he was convicted of the sin
of adultery, and promptly excluded from his church.  During the excitement
that prevailed at the beginning of the Civil War, he professed great
penitence for his past sins, and was restored to church fellowship, and to
the functions of the ministry.  He was elected Chaplain in the Southern
Army, and, not long afterwards, entered upon "a term of service" in the
military prison at Camp Chase, Ohio.  Aftr the War, he continued to
preach, for a short time, under the sanction of his church, and the
ostensible approbation of the Association.  But it soon appeared that he
had added to his former vices, other immoralities.  The little church of
which he was a member, being under the control of his influence, refused
to convict him, and was dropped from the fellowship of the Association. 
However, he continued to preach, without the approbation of the
denomination, and succeeded in making many people believe that he was a
good man.  He continued to play the role of an evangelist, not only in his
native State, but also in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and often
with no small degree of success, until age and an excessive corpulence
forced him to desist.  He died at his home in Green county, in 1884.
    
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