The colored American., 1900-02-10
The BISHOPS In SESSION
Eminent PrelateS Of the Races Greatest EG-
cleSlaStiCal Organization Assemble to Dis
CusS Ways and Means for the Extension OF
Church Work.


with us the Bishops and Exc cutlve Of
ficers OF the great African Methodist
Episcopal Church, the strongest race
organization in the world. The meet
ing is what is known as the QuadTen-
nial Session of the Bishops Council.
This session is attended by all Of the
Bishops and by the different officers
and heads of all of the different depart.
ments of the work of this great Church.
The meetings are held once in four
years, usually few months before the
meeting of the Quadrennial Conference,
which will be held this year in Colum-
bus, Ohio. In politics this meeting
would be known as caucus, for here
the Bishops and the leading officers
of the Church meet to discuss all plans,
ways aud means, and outline pro-
gram for the work to be acted upon and
executed at the Quadrennial Confer
ence. All the work of this great Afri'
can Methodist denomination has come
from out of this Council. The heads Of
the acknowledgements make recon-
mendations and suggestions as to the
improvements and changes in the work
Here it is decided how many new BIsh'
ops shall be elected; here it is decided
how many new schools will be estab'
lished; how many new missionaries are
to be sent into the field; " hat increase
of amount shall be given to suE Nrannu'
ated ministers and q thousand and one
things along this line. Heads Of the
different departments are admitted, one
at time, inte the Bishops Council and
make their recommendations. Not
OILY these, but they leave a written re-
port of their recommendations, so that
they can be acted upon afterwards.
For years it has been the custom that
whatever is recommended by the Bish'
ops Council is generally favorably act
ed upon in the Conference; but any
measure that is offered and recommend
ed by an executive officer, if it is not
accepted by the Bishops Council, may
be taken to the Conference and debated
on the floor.
At the great Quadrennial Conference
which is to held in Columbus, O., next
May, Bishop Abram Grant will deliver
an address of the Bishops Council to
that great body and Bishop B. F. Lee
will preach the Quadrennial sermon.
Two Bishops have died since the last
session of the Quadrennial Conference,
namely, Bishop J. O. Embry and Bish'
op ]. II. Armstrong. Since the death
of these two Bishops, Bishops Grant
and Gaines have divided the work of
the 7th Episcopal District, Bishop Grant
taking South Carolina and Bishop Gains
taking Florida. In the tenth district.
made vacant by the death of Bishop
Armstrong, Bishop James H Handy
has had charge Of the work in Louisi'
ana, while Bishop Salter has looked
after Texas, the great Lone Star State.
In q conversation with DR.. NJ. III. Moore,
the Financial Secretary OF the a. M.
E. Church, whose headquarters are IN
this city, he spoke in the most enthu 81
astic terms of the great work the
Church is doing, aad the great increase
in the population of the Church as
Well as IN number OF places of worship,
the increase in the amount Of property
owned and the very, very great increase
In the am ount Of dollar money. In fact