The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-05-19
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"BLACK" PLAEESIitM. WASH
SOCNDLY REBUKED AT THE
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Good will for Whites /
One or the notable features 1of& the, |.
work as WAS shown by -approprias-4 s.
ton of 100000 by NJ. F.. Church, h
South, for Negro education. 80 ~ y
(Horace D. Slater. J

augusta, Ge., May 1S.-The >gen-
eral conference Of the Colored Meth
odlst Episcopal Church which is in
session at this place elected two%
bishops, all the general officers, and
transacted a, large amount of bust.
ness OF interest to the church AT /
large. One noticeable feature ( os !.
the work was the very close relations 4
Rew existing between this body OF
Negro Methodism and the Methodist
Episcopal church, South. i This was Il
particularly brought out in the fra
ternal address of DR.. Walter r. I,ar11.a
huth, senior secretary of missions.
who besides uttering noble sent6-
ments or common brotherhood, sex,
pressed the deter mination OF the
southern white church to co-operatei Is
with the Colored Methodist Episco-r
pal Church in it's foreign mission
work in Africa .'-- 7-r--g'- y
Resides, through the efforts Of
Prof. John w. Gilbert, who is an
assistant to secretary of. education
DR.. John D. Hammond, and commits.
sioner of education for the Colored I
Methodist Episcopal Church, the &
white church in the last four years 4.
has contributed $4,000 which asygilA 4
used% tn ereetffrrg r. sftssM fdfMps
for girls at Paine College in this cifys
Nor is thfs the only evidences Isl Z
good will expressed in a tangibles
way by the Southern Methodist ;,
Church towards its Negro brethren. !
$2O,OOO annually has been appro-
prlated for education, the same be-
ing distributed among the various
schools in the South. under NJ. 81
auspices, and an appropriation of :,
200 during the quadrehnium for.
church extension work. ,. .l-T-7
At the writing Of this letter, plan
Is now on the calendar for separat-
ing the tfnactal departm ent from the
publishing interest, thus making an,
other general officer necessary, who
will be known as the finacial secre-
tary. ... -,
The most interesting feature of
course was the election of the bish- :.
ops and general officers. Contrary
TO all pre-co conference conjecturing.z
DR.. X. II. Brown, recently editor Of :.
the Christian index the official organ :
or the church, did net winsS out, inf
the race for the episcopacy, having
been beaten by a combination formed >
by DR.. NJ. f. Jamison, of Texas and :
DR.. e. W. Stewart, formerly .Epworth, I
League secretary from Salem, Ala
Dama. Only one ballot was peces-
sary to determine the election of .
bishops, there being necessary to a !
cholce 12l votes. DR.. NJ. f. Jam7s6Hfs
received ! 30; DR.. VIC. Stewart / 26.
while Dr.. r. T. Brown received tfo9,
Bishop NJ. F, Jamison and .Bishap-
G. w. Stewart were consecrated Sun.
day, May 18th, Bishop Charles H. r.
Phillips, A. NJ, D. D., M. D., OF Nash-i
Vile, Tenn, preaching the ordina-
tion sermon ~ =
Each Of the successful candidates
has been minister of the gospel for
long time. Bishop Jamison, living
at present at Leigh, Texas, was boTn
in Rome, Ga, in 1850 He was,rof- -.
course a slave and received his ed
ucation mainly by his own exertions.!
He has been in the church since 1853
and has been preaching nearly forty
years, all Of the time in Texas He
was church extension secretary four
years, and thus became prominently 4
known to the leaders in the church. -
His elevation is the result of faith
full service ~'
Bishop G. w. Stewart, while ten
years the junior of Bishop Jamison,
has done equally valuable work for
his church and has been in the min
tstry nearly thirty years. He he's
served seven years as secretary of
the EDworth League, and has placed
the department on self-supporting
basis. He was born in Auburn couY,@
ty, Virginia, and is a graduate of
Walden University, Nashville, Tenn.
He was the leader of the Alabama
conference delegation, and has been
a presiding elder in the state of Ala.
bama ten years prior to his eleva-
tion to the seCfetaryship Of the Epr
worth League. .ta.a gs
DR.. A. J. Cobb, from BaSnesvilles .
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