Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-18
HANDLES Church FUNDS
A. M. E. FINANCIAL DEPART
MENT MEETS THIS WEEK.
Expected That Dollar Collections toe
Year Will Reach
100000.
LONDON, ENGLAND.

The financial board of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its
thirty-eighth annual meeting at the head
quarters of the financial department. 1541
18th street, next Wednesday, at which
time the financial secretary, Rev. DIR.
John Hurst. will make his report for
the fiscal year ended April I.
1t Is expected that the receipts during
the past year will total nearly s2O0OoO,
with each Episcopal district reporting
an increase over last year. This money
is raised by contributions of 81 each
from members of the denomination, and
is known as dollar money
Eight per cent of the money thus raised
is used IN the educational work of the
denomination; 10 per cent is turned over
to the board of church extension; rs per
cent Is retained by the various annual
conferences for the support of superan-
orphans. etc, and the remainder, 10
per cent, used for the payment of the
salaries of the bishops, general officers
and other general UNCONVENTIONAL needs.
The financial department was created
at the African Methodist Episcopal Gen
eral Conference, which met in Nashville,
Tenn, in 1872, and it provides a medium
for centering and distributing general
church funds. For the first eight years
1t was located in Nashville. and was then
removed to Wilberforce, Ohio, where IL
remained until it's location in this city In
1888
The following ministers have served as
secretary Of the department: j. II. w. Bur
Arnett. 1sSO-SS: James A. Handy s-92:
L. HI. Armstrong, 1926; NJ. NJ. Moore,
1S96-1900: p A. Hubbard, May 1900, to
his death in January. 1902. when G. W..
hampton succeeded him: DR.. Hampton
filled the position until his election to the
bishopric in May. 1908. The present IN
cumbent. DR.. Hurst, is a graduate of
Wherefore University and is one of the
most prominent members of the Balti-
more conference
Up to the time DR.. Hurst took charge
Of the department s2.s25. O67 60 had passed
through it. The collections for the last
fiscal year amounted to $16I,3G.14, with
several annual conferences to be heard
from
In 1891 the property at 1875 18th street
northwest, now used by the board of
church extension, was purchased at q
cost of $4,000 for the use Of the depart
nnent. 1t soon outgrew this building and
in 1900 a commission. consisting of
Bishop James A Handy, now living in
retirement in Baltimore: the late Bishop
B. w. Arnett, the late Bishop NJ. NJ
Moore, the late P. A. Hubbard, then sec
rotary Of the department, and Bishop ].
South African work of the A. NJ. e.
Church, purchased for $4,000 the present
headquarters at, 1541 18th street north
west, corner of Q.
Bishop A. Grant Of Kansas City, Kan,
one Of the ablest colored prelates In the
country, Is serving his second term OF
four years as president of the board. He
is a member of the board Of trustees OF
the Jeanes' Rural School fund, of which
President Taft Is chairman
The other members of the board ara
Rev. A. j. Kershaw, Tallahassee. Fla,
vice chairman; Rev. A. J. Carey. Chicago.
secretary: Rev. A. L. Murray. Atlantic
City, N j.: Rev. j. T. Jenifer, Chicago:
Rev Charles Bundy. Cleveland. Ohio:
Rev j. r. Ransom. Topeka, KAN; Rev.
E. st. Lee. Morris Brown College, Atlanta.
Ca; Rev. N. B. Sterrett, Charleston. s..
C.; Rev. J. w. hampton. Vicksburg.
Miss; Rev. J. M. Conner. Little Rock.
Ark; Rev. p. c. Hunt. Palestine. Ter:
c. H. tombstone, Liberia, West Africa; A.
Fortune, Cape Town, South Africa; Rev.
C. H. Shelto. Memphis. Tenn.