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Church constitutes about one half of
its membership in the South, and one
tenth of its entire membership. It
constitutes one lifth of the entire colored
or Negro Methodists membership
of the world. I believe that more
Negroes have been directly benefited
and vp lifted by this church than j
by any ot:.. . and that more men and
women of eminence and distinction'
have been sent forth from its profes-1
I Is and seminaries and from I
and universities than from !
1 the other colored Methoitions
combined,
ur colored membership we
leges and universities val,420,500;
valued of equip00;
total endowment $165,productlve
and endowment
in all and exclusive or j
acumberances, to $1,700,000
al number in facualty of
iout that number of college
b five proffesional schools
lings valued at $160,000;
~!A&etft of $$25,666; with 8
rs and 773 students. 13 <
IH Vke women.
V ^Le 17 Becondury schools wit
ft JP valued at $488,992; wit
B valued at $18,810; and
^ wlowment of $45,715; with 24
J and 614 scholars. Ou
Th?ons for total minister!*
Jt amounted last year to $785
WWor foreign missions $18,265.62
flie board of home missions an
SlWi extension, $20,698.13, whic]
L ^ s to be a little more than a
jsc of six cents a member fo
' " 'nfluenq tlft*11 m*8sl?n8 an(* a little less tha
If i f? cents for home missions an
"1 v #Jch extension.
T 'Tis true that the contributions o
our entire membership for thes
causes arc less than the contribution
of one of our Southern white con
feronces?the Baltimore confereno
but we believe than this is partly ac
counted for by the fact that the tota
wealth of the entire membership o
the Baltimore conference exceed!
that of the entire membership of out
colored conference. Still, ours is i
very poor showing, and should b<
greatly improved. The total amount
raised by the entire church for Freedman's
Aid Society last year was $">30,000.
The twenty colored conferences
reported $20,785..70 which is nearb
one dollar for every four compared
with what was received from the entire
church. Ami it is especially
gratifying to me to state that m.
own conference?the South
conferece?has for the last six yea**s
stood at (he head of not only all the
colored conferences, but ofr.li the c?n?
fercnres in the t'ntire church, in the
\ amounts raised for this cause. T?
accompli8ih this has (axed our pastors
to their utmost and the accomplishment
will stand to their credit through
all the years. The. foregoing on this
subject is Incomplete without special
mention being made of the ceaseless
toil, tireless energy and heoric efforts
of president h. M. Dnton of Claflin
University and his faithful and tal
ented wife and co-worker.
< Hesidcs, these 20 colored conferences
raised approximately $12,000 for
the cause of education, making a totol
in round numbers of $33,0000 raised
by the colored conferences of our
church. The total amount
received by the board of education
last year from the entire
church was $82,2r>4.5t?. 1 feel safe
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; in estimating that the colored con-|]
J fercnces reported at least one seventh j
' of this amount.
I made every possibe effort by writ- j
I ing to Bishops Turner and Salter of l
the African Methodist Episcopal!;
church, and Bishops Holsey and Will|
iams of the Colored Methodist Epis- t
copal church and Bishops Hood and \
I C'inton of the African Methodist j
I Episcopal Zion church, to obtain data :
| on the foregoing items for their
| ch.urch.-e3 but the information was i
J not sufficiently ample and accurate to i
enable me to use it in this article. ;
! Notwithstanding all this showing on 1
our pari it is a fact that our colored i
j membership has not increased equally ]
| with that ol the distinctively Negro i
1 Methodist churches either in the No> th j
or the South; and it is natural that
we" thy to find the causes or reasons
therefor.
Before undertaking this, and to prevent
any criticsm or mlscontruction of
toy motive, I wish to add a few words
pastors, colege profasors and bishopi
of the Methodist .Episcopal church
h South than from the bishops and the
h white pastors of my own denominaa
tion. Bishop Duncan once spent prac"
6 tiaally an entire Sunday with us,
r preaching twice consecutively, and
also in my absence officiated at a
funeral service for me, and was my
. friend and counselor. Doctors A. Coke
^ Smith and J. C. Kllgo, both of whom
k were afterwards consecrated bishops,
found it a pleasure to preach for me
The late sainted Dr. James H. Carslile
more'than once eavp mw nonni?
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his inimitable lay sermons, and was
for years, and until his death my
friend and counselor and spiritual
advisor. I doubt if there are many
e if rny, pastors of our church, who
s 'h.^.- > (had plesantcr relations with
the ministers of our several colored
p Methodist families or been more highly
honored by them. It has been my
1 privelege and pleaseure to have re.
^Iceived from and extended courtesies
i' to Bishops Holsey and Williams, and
r 'for a time to have been for two weeks
11?losely and pleasantly aassoeiated with;
[with Bishop Phillips. The same is
I true with referenee to Bishop Walters.
I have entertained the late Bishop
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, I both the Uis'oops Clinton, the younger
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, who:a Pas !,,i-u : .ru nd o! nu.uy years
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| standing awl a. uiio time school mate, j
jIMshop Salter, my father's friend and
.; my own friend, once bestowed upon
; me the unusual honor of having me
; preside tompororily over one of hisj
{annual conferences, and participate
(in the funeral obsequies of my dear
, father; and president Chappellc of
I Allen University some years ago
'placed nie under lasting obligations
to him by voluntarily using his good
' olllccs to have an academic degree1
confered upon me by their leading
! university.
No one can, therefore, accuse me of
bias prcdjudice or sectarianism. The
lirst and greatest of our heroes in the
South since Emancipation were the
i Godly men and wometo who came
I South InuiKKliately and soom after
; the Civil war. sonio from the best
i Northern homes; serving, some of
them, in the Union army as nurses
and chaplains, and later ocming among
us to welcome back into the fold
I of the old church both her white and
colored members. Most of these heroes
and heorines are gone to their
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[ abide with us still. Many of them suffered
ostracism, abuse and persecution.
Thank God some of them lived
to help mold a sentiment that eventually
resulted in twin ?'
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and welcomed into some of the homes
of the best white people of the South.
There were colored heroes also? the
Wilsons, Westons, Middletons, Sasportases,
Smiths, Eulkley and Rosemond
and Philips, and many others?men
who bore the brunt of battle, some
of whom chose rather to be humble
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
church than general officers or even
bishops in some distinctively. Negro
church. I shall now proceed to assign
some causes for our slow growth
First. The intense opposition to the
mother church on the part of our
Southern white people particularly
those of the Methodist Episcopol
church. Conditions prior to the civil
war rendered this unavoidable.
The southern white people felt, and
rightly so, that the M. E. church
was more largely responsible for the
Civil War and Bent more soldiers into
the field and more nurses into the hospitals
of the Union army than any
other denomination. As n roc?u ? >_
tense fee]lng was manifested against
any white P' .3on who undertook to
organize among the colored1 people
1 Methodist Episcopal church. Later
the fraternal spirit manifested by our
fc'hite leaders caused reciprocation on
the part of such men as Bishops Hagood,
Duncan, Smith and Galloway,
Dr. Jams H. Carslile and men of their
tamp, and allayed this prejudice in
a remarkable degree, and provoked
3uch a fraternal spirit that for several
years we have had a common church
hymnal and church catechism, and in
some localities the pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church is the best
friend our or any colored pastor has
In the community.
But for years the attitude of the
Southern \qhite people toward the
colored members as well as the white
members of our church in the South
was in marked contrast to their attitude
toward the colored people of die>
Secondly. The liberal approprla
i tion by our missionary societies o
> rnorfey toward the Bupport of ou:
- pastors and particularly our presid
ins elders, where the changes eoufc
> have given them adequate support
,TJhe ministers of the dlstincitvelj
negro churches having no such aid
were forced from necessity to get foi
the most part, their entire suppor
out of their people, and were mor<
aggressive, and in labors_niore abund
nt. They found that succest
lay more in the heel than the head
and were ever present among the peo
pie.
Third. The bitter opposition anc
prejudice our people had to encounter
on the part of the members ant
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PEE DEE IR
A VISION OF A
METROPOLIS
By MADGE ELLSWORTH
Copyright by American Preea Association,
1911.
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There is In New York what 1a called
the Riverside drive, on which stands
General Grant's tomb. A long strip
of park overlooks the Hudson river
and the heights, or Pally das. on the
"T* OiWSTfjzf? .J'-gul tinhorn
. evenliig^drrair sat on IT bench in thii
f Riverside park. He had been dnrint
r the evening?well, perhaps it la bettei
MWV w ??/ TT ucic uo uau UCVU?
I York is an artificial city and possess
es many attractions for those inclinec
r to gayety and at night is an illnmlnat
ed pleasure ground. In its streets, soiru
'r of them bright almost as day witl
t electric lights, one may see a mixture
, of every degree, from the highest tx
the lowest.
This young man, a student in Colum
5 bia college, had been spending the
evening to suit himself and before
- going to his room near by wished U
get the air in the park. It was desert
I ed except by himself, and he fount)
the change from the bewildering
crowds in the streets refreshing. II<
sat some time without a single per
son passing.
Extremely drowsy, he was fallinj
into a doze when he suddenly became
conscious that there was some one sitting
on the other end of the bench.
Ilubbiug his eyes, he looked and saw
n young girl, her head resting on tin?
back of the bench, her face, which
was very pule, turned upward toward
the stars. She was flashily dressed,
and the student had but little doubt
as to the class to which she belonged.
He was about to rise and leave the
park when the girl said in a faint
voice:
"Tako me to my room."
"Are you ill?" he asked.
"Unto death."
"Where is your room?"
"Not far. Come. I will show you."
She put out her hand for him to help
her to rise, and he noticed that it was
cold. In assisting her he did not need
to evert any strength, for she was
light as a leather. Indeed, it did not
seem to him that tlicrr was any weight
at a'! in her. She put her arm through
his am! loaned on him. but stili there
was no weight.
JTave yog r.o home?" lie asked.
She shuddered. "I>on't speak to me
of home. When a girl comes from the
eountry to New York home is a tiling
of the past."
"Not ail girls."
They walked on In silence. The arm
resting on his was not only cold. like
her hand, but there was a dampness
about it that seemed to chill him to
the very marrow. Moreover, he fanha
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running water. The route to her room
lay through lonely streets, and the
student would have been glad to he
free from her. Rut he feared that if
he disengaged himself she would fall.
So he walked on. constantly yielding
to the chill of her presence as if a
woman of ice were walking beside
him.
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the heights from the Riverside drive,
and into this the two descended. Passing
a bench, the girl sank down Into
it, saying:
"I can't go any farther."
Seeing that she was falling from the
bench, he held her up, and, believing
she had lost consciousness, he laid her
out upon it. He chafed her hands aud
fanned her with his hat, striving to
revive her. Finding that she still remained
unconscious, he put his face
down to hers to learn if he could detect
warm breath. He could not.
Placing his hand\ on her heart, he
could nob feel its heating.
The student felt\roubled. He wa*4^9^H0HfcM
she came to consciousness V A\
s herself alone might turn the Vale
1 against her. And yet be was not
r sure that she was dead. Suppose he
r were found in such a situation with a
- dead girl. His whole life would be
1 blighted. Ho knew not what to do.
- He tried once more to revive his comj
panion and, failing, resolved to go for
j assistance. It would be fnr better for
, him to go. find some one to help and
y tell a straight story than to be found
at dead of night with a dead woman.
The park is narrow, and the student,
4 crossing it, entered one of the streets
' near by. Catching sight of a pollce)
man, h? called to him and told him
thprp wns n \rnmon lr? 4l?o
?. w?u cut; & n. wuu
I needed assistance. But a few minutes
, were required to pro to her, and ou the
way the student frave the cop a bare
outline of what had happened. As
they approached their destination the
, student was surprised to find the
. bench empty.
Thinking he had mistaken another
for the one on 'which he had left the
girl, he went to the nest on either
. side. Both were vacant._ Then he
looked up at the cop and said in a starI
1 tied voice:
"She's gone.'*
"I thought you said she was dead or
* dying."
"She was."
The policeman went hack to his beat,
and the student went home. The next
morning the latter saw an account of
im? kuiciup py drowning or a girl *a'
the Hudson river off Riverside park.
The body had not been recovered.
The student gave up liis college
' course. It paid that lie liad studied
1 too hard. Re this as it may, he went
1 into a sanitarium, where he remained
1 u long while.
Our hirst steam wars nip.
The Fulton, which at the time of her
construction in the early thirties wag.
classed as a "steam battery," was the
first United States warship that was
propelled by steam. She was built under
the superintendence of Commodore
Matthew Galbralth Perry and nt the
time of her completion in 1837 was regarded
as one of the world's wonders
by way of naval architecture and pow|
or at sea. The Fulton was the cause
of no little speculation on tlio part
of European powers, for at that time
she was looked upon by other nations
ns all but invincible. When this wonder
of the sen was put in commission
Commodore Perry, then holding tho
rank of commander, was put in command
of her. and he presently came to
he called the "father of the steam
navy." The Fullon -v^ns built primarily
for defense of New York har1
bor, but sh^served as well to demonstrate
the practical utility of steam
power for warships.?New York T'TTgOMM J