shortly thereafter, feeling it his duty to enter the ministry, matthew was licensed to preach in the m.e. church, and was received on-trial in the pittsburgh annual conference in 1833. he was ordained by bishop robert richford roberts. matthew was appointed pastor of the liberty street methodist church in pittsburgh in 1835, and of a church at monongahela, pennsylvania, in 1836. he was ordained elder in 1837.