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The colored American., 1900-05-19
Fayette from the French Colony in
Africa. His grandfather Joined the

Fayette from the French Colony in
Africa. His grandfather joined the
Revolutionary war under Gen. George
Washington and General Lafayette,
and fought valiantly ito the close of the
war to secure the independence of
America.
Bishop Lomax Joined the M. E.
Church, South, in 1913; was converted
made a class leader in 1850. He being
brick mason, with the assistance of
others, built at Fayetteville the first
brick church in the South for the A.
NJ. e. Zion Connection now known as
Metropolitan Evans Chapel, and he
says he hired and paid Bishop j. w.
Hood to pastor it. He was licensed to
preach in 1867 by Bishop Hood; was
ordained a deacon by Bishop J. J.
Clinton, and an elder by Bishop J. j.
Moore
AS a founder and builder of churches
and annual conferences he ranks next
to our great missionary hero Bishop J.
w. Hood. While pastor Bishop LOmaX
built churches at Whitesville, Flem-
ingtOh, Swamp and Christian Plains,
re-organized at Shady Grove, Browns
Chapel, Goose Creek, and Laurinburg.
organized five churches in Malboro dis
trict, S. c., and organized Little Rock
Church in Charlotte. He served Clin-
ton Chapel three years and added near
ly 1000 members to it.
Because of his marvellous work for
his denomination he was elected to
the bishOpric by the general confer
ence which met at Louisville. KY, in
1876. He was sent to missionary
field and organized the Michigan and
Canada Conference; ordained % dea-
cons and elders at this conference,
brought in % churches valued at $15,-
600, and had the conference chartered
in the name of the Queen of Eng
land. He organized the Texas Con-
ference in which he ordained IS dea-
cons and elders and brought to Zion
$4,000 worth of property.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP CHARLES CALVIN
pFTTEY

Bishop Charles Calvin Pettey, A. NJ,
d. D., was born in Wilkes County, n.
c.. December 3, 1S49; was q slave till
16 years of age. Commenced the study
Of letters after 16: worked on a farm
and taught school till %; entered Bid
die University. Charlotte, n. c.. 1872.
joined the conference the same year
ordained deacon in 1878. graduated
from the college department of that
institution in 1878 and at once be-
came principal of the city schools of
Charlotte. The following year he Or
sanized the Pettey High School at Ian
caster. s. c.. where he preached and
taught for three years. He was a
member Of the general conference
which met in Montgomery. Ala. in
1880, and was elected recording secre-
tary of same. In 1881 he was trans
ferred to the Alabama conference.
where he remained in charge of the
Zion Church there for three years.
after which he spent two years in
Tennessee pasto1'ing ait Chattanooga
and Knoxville In 1885, he was trans
ferred TO California. He was pastor
at San Francisco two years. and at the
same time presiding elder of the coast.
He was elected general secretary of
the church at New York in 1884. and
Bishop at general conference at New
burn. 1883. Bishop Pettey is one of
the strongest men in his church, of fine
appearance. a great preacher, and an
independent thinker. He has Travelled
extensively. and preached and lectured
in the principle churches and halls of
England and Ireland!
The colored American., 1900-05-19

of that great linguist, profound theO-
lOgian, and noted author, Bishop John
Bryan Small, A. NJ, d. D., who was
born March IA, 1853, in st. Joseph's
Parish, Barbados, British West Indies.
He can trace his ancestry back to 1920
by authenticated record.
After careful home instruction from
his half sister, he became a pupil of
Mr.. j. w. Hewett. Entering st. John
Lodge upon the recommendation of
Bishop Berry of the Established
Church of England, he completed its
course in four years, and graduated at
the head of his class of fifty-six
white and colore0 young men, deliv-
ering the valedictOry. He afterwards
performed similar service when four
years later he was honor man at the
commencement of Codrington College
on the island of his birth.
In 1862 at his own request his father
sent him on an extended tour Upon
this tour he went to the West Coast Of
Africa, and during his three years
residence he learned to speak the
Fanti language. Visiting Sierra Leone,
Cape Coast, Elmeno, Gambia, etc., he
was able to learn enough of the vari-
Gus dialects of Western Africa to make
himself understood and to learn from
native lips the needs and ambitions of
Africa. After returning from Africa
he held high clerkship in the govern
ment at Belize, British Honduras.
Notwithstanding that he had been
educated for the ministry of the Epis-
copal Church, upon being converted he
Joined the Wesley Methodist Church
and entered its ministry.
In his election as Bishop, Zion
Church elevated to the highest place
in the church a man of profound learn
ing, deep and superb judgment, firm,
just, and merciful. With becoming
dignity and modesty he exercises the
functions of his office.
Bishop Small is an author of wide
repute; his four volumes, viz: ''Prac-
teal and EXegetical Pulpiteer." "Code
On Discipline" ''The Human Heart IL
lusrated," and "Predestination-
Scriptural Import" being highly spok-
en- of by excellent judges of good 1itera-
ture.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS

Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D.,
was born at Bardstown, KY, in the
year 1858. At u years of age he
joined the church. He was licensed to
preach May, 1877, and joined the Ken
lucky Annual Conference September,
1878. Ordained deacon at st. Louis in
1879. In 1882 was elected secretary of
his conference and treasurer of Zion's
Banner. After successfully pastoring
several large churches in Louisville,
San Francisco, Chattanooga, and
Knoxville, he was transferred to the
New York Conference in 1888, where
he pastored for four years, adding
nearly 100 members to the church dur
ing that time, and raising over $4,000.
In 1889 he was appointed to represent
the A. M. e. Zion Church and the
Sunday School Union at the Worlds
Sunday School Convention in London,
England, where he preached in some
of the wealthiest churches and reflect
ed great credit upon his church and
race. While abroad he visited the
principal countries and the Holy Land.
In April. 1891, the degree of D. D. was
conferred upon him by Livingston Col
lege. At the General Conference in
Pittsbrrg, 1892 he was elected Bishop
by large majority. In 1895 he was
made a trustee of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor. In 1898, at
n. Y, he was unanimously
elected President of the National Afro
American Council. of which he is the
founder. He is an enthusiastic lover of
his church and race.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
THE ZION CONFERENCE.

u,o Second Strongest Afro-American
Church Organization holds its Quad
ronniaI Conference at the Nations
ranitaI-A New Bishop Elected
Statistics Showing the AamouHt of
property Owned, the Membership
and Facts Covering Every Depart
mnnt of Work-Sketches of the
Bishop.
Tho African Methodist Episcopal
ZION conference has been in session in
+hfs city nearly three weeks today.
II has accomplished great good and
II has shown the people not only of this
community but of the world its
strength. its power, and its influence
az = powerful and great church organ
izariOn The daily sessions from the
very beginning have been noted for
tbp harmony, for the great amount of
work done, and for the amount of in
formation impaired to thessSOO dele
gates present. @sSe
One new bishop was elected and the
selection has been voted a good one,
since he halls from Alabama, one of
the pillar States of the Zion. To give
a full report of the many very excel
lent reports made by Prof. Howard S.
Day, Secretary, and many others,
would consume too much space. Brief
". the work is as follows:
There were 1902 ordained minis
tcrS. an increase for the quadrennium
of 429; the number of churches, 3,S41,
an increase of 800; number of mem
bcrs, 52S,4 ,461, an increase of 119,020.
The church property is valued at $4,
SciJ.372, on which there is an indebted
ness of $75S, ,462; raised in preachers
salaries, $3,l77,OO0. The current eX
penses of the denomination have been
S614SOO; for church Indebtedness, $3,-
763. 1886 There have been sixty deaths
in the ranks of the ministers since 1896.
A vote of thanks was rendered the sec
rctary.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP G. W. CLINTON.

Bishop George W. Clinton. A. NJ, D.
D., was born in Lancaster County, S.
c.. March %, 1859. He entered the
public schools at the age of seven and
attended private schools until the age
of fifteen. when he entered the South
Carolina University. and graduating
afterwards from Brainard Seminary.
Studied theology one year at Livings-
tone College, Salisbury. n. G.
. He also completed the four years
course Of the worldwide Chautaqua
Scientific Literary Circle, founded by
Bishop John III. Vincent. He served
appointments in South Carolina. Penn
sylvania. and North Carolina: founded
the Quarterly Review. which he edited
for two years. While serving as pastor
at Pittsbr1rg, in 1892. he was elected
editor of the Star of Zion, the organ
of the A. M. r. Zion Church. which
he edited for four years. He also sug-
gested the plan of establishing the
publishing house and removed the Star
of Zion to this house, where he acted
as assistant editor and publisher of
Sunday school literature with the late
DR.. r. r. Morris. He was elected
Bishop at Mobile. Ala. in 1896. receiv-
ing the highest number of votes ever
cast for any candidate up to that time.
Has served UP that time. He was
chosen one of the lecturers for the
Bible training school of the Tuskegee
Institute. presided over by Principal
Booker T. Washington, and served
six years.
Bishop G. W. Clinton is the young
est bishop in America and is regarded
as one of the best educated men of his
church and one of the most polished
orators of his race.
He has been a member of four gen
eral conferences. the Ecumenical Con-
ference which assembled in this city
In 1891. and is a delegate to the Ecum-
pnical Conference which meets in Eng
land in 1901. He received his A NJ
from Livingston College. and his D. D.
degree from Wilberforce University.
Bishop Clinton now has 4 book ready
for the press which is scheduled to
appear during the coming winter.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP J. w. HOOD.

Bishop J. w. Hood, ID. d., LII. d.,
was born in Kennel Township, Chester
County, Pa, May 80, 1881; was licensed
in nreach in 1886; received into the
annual conference June, 1859; ordained
deacon, 1860; ordained elder June,
1862; ordained Bishop July 3, 1872.
His first appointment in the itinerant
work was as missionary to the Kent
vile Mission in Nova Scotia. -Four
years later he was appointed to the
pastoral charge of the church at
Bridgeport, Conn. After serting that
church for six months he was appoint
ed as missionary to the freedmen at
Newberne, n. c. During his first year
he received church at Newberne and
one at Beaufort, two circuits, num-
bering in all about 5000 members. The
following year he organized in VII
mingtOn and licensed preachers who or
ganized churches in all of that part
Of the State. He also organized in
KnstOn and serlt out men to organize
in all the surrounding counties. He
went to EdentOn and Elizabeth City
and licensed the men who extended the
work into Virginia and formed the
Virginia conference. AT the end of the
second year he had quite 1000 in the
eastern part of the State, and had eX-
tended the work as far west as Char
lotte. At the end of the third year
Zion occupied nearly every section of
the State. Besides his missionary
work for the three years he had also
the pastoral charge of the church at
Newberne, to which he added more
than 800 by conversion, besides Or
ganizing other churches in the immedi-
ate vicinity. In 1867 he was appointed
To the pastoral charge of the church at
Fayetteville, presiding elder over four
counties and superintendent of missions
for the State. During his two years a
Fayetteville there were 500 conversions
besides large number at the quarter
ly meetings ON his district. In 1869 he
took charge at Charlotte, holding at
the same time the position of assistant
superintendent of the public institu
ton, Us well as superintendent of mis-
SionS. In 1870 he was ordained Bishop
and has had the oversight of confer
enceS in nearly every section of the
country. His Improvement of the
Work TO which he has been assigned
has never fallen below fifty per cent.
IN grand reunion, and has reached as
nigh as 500 per cent.
The colored American., 1900-05-19

the then preacher, I. G. Clinton, ready
to take hold of the work. The then
Bishop Clinton said he regarded Isam
as one of the strongest and most power
full men he had met in the South. He
received holy orders at that time and
entered upon his great missionary
work. He was made presiding elder
IN 1857, and continued in that office un-
til he was elected to the Bishopric. He
is self-educated, but Like many of the
graduates Of the university of adver-
slty, his education is broad and of
that practical kind. AS a pulpit orator
he has full equals. His head is
large storehouse of Scriptural knowl-
edge and as an organizer, as leader,
and as worker in Zion he is a power
indeed.
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP 7. G. CLINTON.

Bishop 7. G. Clinton, D. D., was born
in Lancaster County. s. c.. May 90.
1895. Received only such education as
was given through the kindness of his
master. but by great diligence and per-
severence has become very well in
formed. He was a pioneer in the es
tablishment of the A! NJ. f. Zion
Church in South Carolina and has been
one of its foremost ministers for nearly
thirty-five years. He was appointed
treasurer of Lancaster County under
both Democratic and Republican adj
miniStra tions. and did the work so well
that General Wade Hampton compli-
mented him. He has filled the offices
of Annual Conference Steward. and
was elected and conSecrated Bishop in
1892. In 1866 he'organiZed the Mount
Carmel Church about eight miles from
Lancaster. s. c.. at which nlace he es-
tablished a public school. When Rish-
op J. J. Clinton went to South Caro-
lima to organize a conference he found
The colored American., 1900-05-19
BISHOP II. II. LOMAX.

Bishop LOmaX was born in 1886 in
cumberland County, North Carolina.
lie is the son of Enoch LomaX.
and grandson of William Lomax, who
came to America with General La
The colored American., 1900-05-19

BISHOP G. R. HARRIS, D. D.
Bishop G. r. Harris, d. D., was
born in Fayetteville, n. c., August 25,
1914. In 1850 his family moved to
Ohio, where he was educated in the
public schools of the State. Leaving
The colored American., 1900-05-19

BISHOP 7. r. SMALL, D. D.
This sketch because of its brevity
shall very inadequately tell of the life
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17
Pointed Paragraphs.

Wealth changes some men more
than age.
A mans faults attract more atten-
ton than his virtues.
Money talks, but one cannot always
exchange talk for currency.
There is no place like home when
it comes to drawing q small salary.
Sometimes man has his own way
according to the diagram furnished
by his wife.
A genius is man who does things
that other people say it is impossible
to do.
Many man doesn't care what C
taller charges for clothes-just SO he
charges it.
A mans gallantry crops out when
he is entertaining a woman who is not
related to him.
The individual who climbs to fame
and fortune over the shoulders of
others must look down on their
hatred.
Don't overwork yourself. Just
imagine how miserable you would be
if you finished all your work to day
and had nothing to do the rest of your
life. Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17
WISE WORDS.

The dew of compassion is tear
Byron.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Emerson.
Silence is one great art of converse.
ton. -Hazlitt.
Contentment gives a crown where
fortune hath denied it.
Good company and good discourse
arc the very sinews Of virtue. Wal.
ton.
He who can conceal his joys is great.
er than he who can hide his griefs. -
Lavatef.
Without constancy there is neither
love, friendship nor virtue in the
world. Addison.
To endeavor to domineer over con-
science is to invade the citadel OF
heaven. V.
The age of chivalry is never past so
long as there is wrong left unre-
dressed on earth. CHARLES Kingsley.
The habit of looking on the best
side of every event is worth more than
thousand pounds year.-Johnson
Every one of us, whatever our specu.
ative opinions, knows better than he
practices, and recognizes better law
than he obeys. -Froude.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17

Tt takes more to win the badge of
bravery in some countries than in
others. The Ethiopian who is deemed
worthy to wear in battle the lions
skin that King Menelik of Abyssinia
gives to the bravest Of his men must
be one who can go three days without
food, fighting the while, or journeying
over the deserts and mountains; one,
moreover, who cares nothing for pain
or death. In an article on "Menelik
and his people" IN the Windsor Mag
azine, Mr.. Cleveland Moffat refers to
custom that prevails among these
men after n battle OF after warlike
manmuyres.
1t is their habit on such occasions
to squat on the ground In long line
and fire their rifles into the air, bar
rels up, butts between the knees.
There arc no blank cartridges, but
balls that wound or kill whomsoeyer
they strike in the descent.
A cannon-saot gives the signal, and
forthwith the firing starts far down
the line, rolling nearer and nearer till
it swells into a roar of musketry about
the emperor himself, then dies away
at the farther side; and the bullets
come down on soldiers or citizens as
may be, for this firing is as likely as
not to take place in a crowded city.
"Would it not be wiser, your majes-
ty," asked French traveller, aghast
at this reckless procedure. "to use
blank cartridges?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17
HUMOR OF THE DAY,

Bigss-"The Joslyns' home life is
one grand song" Higgs $50
lappy?" Digs Don't know. There
are triplets to be lulled to sleep"
He stood within the foremost rank
And moved with those OF highest station,
Then lost his balance ut the bank
| And fell in public estimation.
-Chicago Record.
Sandy Pixies -"What did yer feel
ike when de farmer pulled yer out of
le well?" Billy Coalgate felt
ike wuz brought up on farm
Chicago News.
'They say he 10 very careful, con-
,cientious husband" "He is. When
ever he is going to his home t. dinner
,e always lets his wife know before.
land. Puck.
doesn't it hurt your conscience to
wear those pretty birdwings on your
1at?" "It does little, because they
ire not genuine wings-they are only
,lever limitations"
Boer Child Father, il I wore car.
'ying the Bible in one hand and gun
IL the other and an enemy approached,
which should L drop frst?" Boer
Father-"The enemy. my son!"-
Puck.
"These Shirts" remarked the sales
man, as he exhibited some startling
patterns, "speak for them selves"
'"They do, eh?" returned the custom.
sr. "Well, why don't yon put them
on to the fact that people are not all
deaf"
"Mrs. Wiggins," remarked the min
lister, "we wish you would let your
daughter join the choir" "Oh, I
couldn't think af i'll" was the reply.
"Minnie has sach a sweet disposition
and don't want TO spoil her. ohio
State journal.
Lady of the Eouse-"Gc on away
rom here. We have no old clothes,
40 cold victuals, 10" Hopeless
Harry-'I didn't want nothin' to eat
1or wear. iist called to SEQ if you
aad an old automobile to give away"
indianapolis Journal.
| Mrs. Nextdore-' 'Does your hus.
oand like music?" Mrs Pepprey-
Eyes; he's quite fond of it." Mrs.
Nextdore-"I suppose he has heard
my daughter piaying?" Mrs. Pep.
prey-"Yes, and he just raves over
her playing. philadelphia Press.
"What vas the highest prlce ever
paid you for n story?" asked the IN.
terviewer. Zone million dollars, re.
piled the fashionable novelist. 'It
was spoken story-I love YOU
told it to the lady who is now my
wife. philadelphia North-American.
Teacher-"H How many of my scholars
can remember the longest sentence
they ever read?" Billy" Please,
mum, can" Teacher-"What! Is
there only one? Well, William, you
can tell the rest of the scholars the
longest sentence you ever read
Billy-'Imprisonmentf for life. FIT
Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17
HER EVERLASTING MINUTE.

When he went courti1g her she'd say;
'In Just a uiinute!'
And then she'd stay
Upstairs and crimp
Her hair and pin 1t,
And fuss and prilnp,
And let
Him fret
While half an hour passed,
And come, at last,
All radiant and gay,
And smile
As il she'd kept him waiting while
Ten seconds only passed away.
Since she is his she cries:
"In just II minutel"
While, downstairs, he with many sighs,
Waits while she tries
10 hook her waist or pin It,,
And SO
Tho moments gol
The car they thought to catch, too, comes
and goes,
And still she fools with frils and furbe-
lowsl
II earths best treasure were laid out
Where She by being there on time, could
still she would stand before her glass and
shout:
SIN Just minute!"
On that great day
When earth shall pass away,
When the graves all open, and we shall
stand
70 be judged-both the wicked and the
just,
The exalted and the low
When Gabriel, faithful TO his trust,
81 all take up his trump and blow
In 1t,
They will hear, up in the sky,
Some one who is missing cry:
"Just a minute!"
Chicago Times Herald,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17

To be married on shipboard and to
go on wedding journey through II
lonely African forest were the roman
tic experiences of Miss Anna Thome
Mclaughlin, of Chicago, the bride of
DIR. Wilmer Sanford Lehman, of Africa.
For the last year DR.. Lehman has
been engaged in medical work at Lolo-
dorf, West Africa, and as it was i'm
possible for him to return to America
Tor his bride she journeyed out alone
to meet him.
When the steamship Niger, on which
she was passenger, reached Great
Balance DR.. Lehman came out in a
small boat. Captain Davis, of the
Niger. steamed ont beyond the three
mile limit to avoid the exacting Ger
man marriage laws, aud the wedding
ceremony was performed.
Dr. and Mrs. Lehman went ashore
and began their ninety-mile journey
to Lolodorf, followed by thirty native
carriers bearing their luggage. DR..
Lehman walked the entire distance
and Mrs. Lehman went for the most
part afoot. more than fifty miles, be-
ing carried in hammock when weary.
They are now living in native house
of bark with thatched roof.
Miss Mclaughlin is n graduate of
Ann Arbor, where sue met DR.. Lehman,
of the class of '9S. The doctor has
made number of notable African ex-
plorations, having at one time pene-
trated the country of dwarfs.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-17

The hackmen about town are all
laughing heartily over an escapade
that one of their number sprung upon
the community. A call came from one
of the leading hotels for closed car.
riage. The driver i'll question re.
sponded to the call, and was told that
he was to drive an invalid through the
east and west parks, and to lose no
time in doing so. While getting his
instructions nurse came to the car.
riage with three pillows and deposited
them inside, returning to the hotel
for the invalid. The driver, bent
upon giving his patrons satisfactory
drive, started out with the three pill.
lows as passengers. For nearly three
hours the faithful hackman followed
his instructions and drove over the al
lotted route. 1t is easy to imagine
the scene that followed when he re,
turned to the hotel and discovered
what he had unconscl usly done.
Philadelphia Record.