Show methodists ONLY TEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE WHITE methodists the ir 1114 tory atoo 17 96 to tn tle tile aimini tnt time A wi gr growth th fr from it a humble ite it n ing cho a L lies sunday ami calof Cl lof 61 HE story of th 6 rise riseland and of african meth in the united S mittet forms one or of the roll most ente tu ilig chapters rs in ka e 11 american history about aliv year then arrived in maryl ird aril and settled in frederick county lit an englishman named robert straw bridge in ili the alio latter pirl part of lie ho or organized 1 class meeting awl and subsequently builta built a lo 10 log meeting house liou o which it is said stands today anion among ids his little band was a 1 servant known as aunt fannie and site she is ii probably the birst chloi ed berbon ii america to embrace methodism moving to Dalt baltimore imore strawbridge began preaching lit in thi tha streets bis first pulpit being ab 1 block lockin in front ora of i black blacksmiths smiths shop the next sunday lie preached front from a table ct at tile corner of and calvert ind and was moli mobbed bcd undeterred red by opposition however he scion non organized it society cir ty md built a f hui rh eh the first metlo dist meeting house in ill among tile I 1 lie members v vere ere a 1 goodly number of colored persons but I 1 about ab out the year 1781 considerable anc tion was developed between tile two tivo races ind and the colored members began to hold independent prayer meetings from one or of the so grew the colored methodist society it was organized in ili a collar cellar occupied by a 11 near car the corner of baltimore and calvirt streets af afeei berward ward tile bito of peels museum and at present tile the property properly of the baltimore and ohio R railroad ail road company class ind anti prayer meetings were held from house to house until tile alio formal organization on may 0 9 1815 akl i anil tile tho adoption of tha name ti tile african methodist dethel bethel C hurell church society of the city ity of balta moie eaily in the year an invitation was I 1 received asking the lody to bs ba represented in a convention called to meet in phil adelphia of which mare later on in tho the latter city the african methodist movement received its first strong impetus horn richard allen alien who was wa born a slave in the state of delaware but who had i redeemed himself and accumulated property io grew tip while methodism was pushing its way across the sea arid and began lis his itinerant wort when only twenty three years of age going to philadelphia he affiliated with his bri brethren tin en in st georges church on n fourth street but it soon being evident that the white and colored members of the congregation could not a agree r he latter left the church and formed an an as association of their own allen alien who was ft a born bom leader purchased an old blacksmith shop batted fatted it up as a place of worship and named it bethel ethel it was dedicated by bishop asbury june 29 17 9 t tho the congre congregation alio n which compi comprised isell sixty six members adopted as aa a pai paiton t of its platform tho the following we vo consider every child of god a member of the mystical lody body of christ yet in the political bovein ment of our church we prohibit pio hibit fluit our white bi ethren from elco electing ting or being elected into any office among us ua save gave that of a preacher or public speaker Ep eaker nevertheless it remained remi ined under thedis the discipline of the methodist episcopal chinch until esig richard allen alien aclang 0 as the chief pastor aul and bishops asbur y and coke pioneers lio ers in Method jsu frequently ri pi caching iu in the little meat mealing in house tile trouble that had caused tho the wi withdrawal th of the colored people aiom siom st geor georges twenty eig eight lat years existing a convention assembled iassc ambled in Phili dolphia april apil ap il 9 1810 compus edof del delegates cates from froin salem N 3 and other localities and then aid there the african Method iii episcopal Epis coral church ira was after ilis tle most important work of the couff once ence WIS was the clec clention tion of a bishop ail richsrd allen alien bt being ing chosen lie lia wr wik duly dul y consecrated on tho the alth of april by rev kev zones sow and tour four other luther I 1 regularly ord ordained clergymen it it is said ri 0 richard allen that ho he wai trail oneff one of the fit echt st men lit hi the die country to ov mutual aid and as early Z 1 ma ia ar IR M i ir arv w B dinnick as ho he established night in connection with hia its church silica that time tho vitalia vi of tina M 1 I I 1 church has been demonstrated by a progressive gres sive spirit that is represented by doctors lawyers presidents and professors iu in colleges colleg ca e editors and patrons of t thu hu arts and ocic sciences aces it its work bedul in a blacksmith shop by an all humble man who but a little while before was a slave has expanded until it all tile the states and territories of tho the union the islands of the west indies and alio co it of africa in seventy two years tile one bishop of the church increased to clen clem clemn on n tile sixteen prea preachers cheis 91 gave ill place ace to a total of beai neaily ly an lit original of sixty six kix mut mu t now reach nearly WOW ani and tho the value of property is ia not far from froin tl OM truly tile ilio laile ti it i 11 thousand he be cindle of was rocked in new mew york yora li society being it I 1 L street or v tat lut ii now known us as i raco lace in match their were preachers at tile the 1111 liitt t Inc inciting eting i ii was held in the llie hired couo of it 1 dwy tor ter next it rigging loft was ivas illnorse Il lorse and ami cirt cart tiet tie t now wills will strict and thele llie cowl re gation w wi chilled until they built tile ilia chatell john street in 17 70 the first gene ci e of tile the t 9 v is 13 held in 1784 anil and tile the 3 Mo thoin episcopal church of tile unit united ati formally organized among th members bers of the ilio cociol were lit it number of colored colarell co lorell men allent with NV whom was peter william ile he was born lit in Bee beekman lanan and ix ili longed to the P amite family who 0 bruc his parents as clives bior or years I 1 served as bexton in ili the wesley job astl sheet oct chavel but whon it was dete mined by his brethren to sever conno con iw tion avith the mother church lie ono one of the founders of zion church lu lai its coin cornerstone erstone in isol 1801 arid and was appolin ed one ot tile tho trustees of if the society tho the alist meeting place of the boily body of ahn adans was in a cabinet sho i unit that lial formerly been a stable and thi first collection in aid of tho the new heusi of worship amounted to tho the humble still of only eighty dollars ain attended tended it the erection of the elli fice it lizs v bui situated on tho the corner rif church cind and leauard streets and it wa not until july july 0 io o 1820 that tho the first set won was preached pre in ill 1112 new church meanwhile african methodist socie societies tic were springing ngin up lit in various va rions parts ol of the country arid tile tho first confer once cuco was held june 21 among tho the mines connected connect cd with the early hi citory tory of tho the church and which were sig signed aed to its first ninni manifesto festo were choso of Ab abraham thomson james jalue varich and william Wil linn miller these wert were slach succeeded edca by christopher rush alic was ivall consecrated a bi bishop hop in 1823 and died in office after a ivice of twenty eight 3 cars george galbreath gal breath william II aywood george A seywood Spy wood scott tappan talbot brooka 1 alender sou clinton and a lo 10 long ng line of christian woi leers who nie aio famous in the annals of zion church A pe I 1 i V V R ng aua atu RET A alexamder LEXA der waltrus WALTr HS at present there are seven Epis episcopal copil districts presided over by seven bishops and twenty one annual conferences covering the united states ind and extending their jurisdiction into canada the ila lia mas and liberia in africa according to tho the last reports there were itinerant and local preachers 3 chuich ineal member jers church attendants Is Leial well established institutions of kearnin learning and church propel ty valued at the statistics for the corling coding year will doubtless show that all these figu lef fetn ii materially enlarged the foregoing foie going history of taoso two important churches of which a bright abright colored man said it would take a foi doity ty mule power microscope to discover any difference between them is given because unusual interest lias has been manifested lit this years general conferences that cl cs the it e A M I 1 E cl church lurch iu in philadelphia and add that of the A 21 E zion church in pittsburg rev dr derrick of the A M E clini chuich ch is one of the best known cobol ed i orators in the alio united states and is a nici member aber of the new yolk boik republican state committee ile he was born bom on all the island of anti antilia antigua 7 lia in tho british west indies aud and a after following the sea eca rut twenty five fito years began to preach the gospel lie ilo lias has vigorously igors lasly k kept ep t i it t it up p fur for a quarter of a cn century tury lie he is i s i idol d 0 I 1 izod by lis iris congregation and his race generally generall yin in now new york andon and on public aci it ons u when hen citizens gather in ni meeting to encourage or protest his strenuous mice rings out ont with tin an im pres sivi biess ss anat never falls ails to monse the lite of if tile audience rudis nce rev Alexi alexander aider walters of tile the AH af I 1 ivan Method methodic iq Epis episcopal colial zion church it i t a kendill k un born in ia NA hu to hils been preaching pie p aching since lie wv wats inui tecil years old that lie ile is ii nn in worker and aad a man mail of 1 I eat fore orts is h best illustrated by the fact thit that in while at san a iii fi froncisco Fron all isco tisco lie he raised funds anti and baclit a chuich that cost yooko yoO rie to is a brilliant orator audit and a natural and estial leader among the afro frux frlix G w w fo |