Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

elders. The local preachers wanted to
participate in the conferences. and the
membership asked to be represented by
delegates A paper was published In
Philadelphia in the interests of these
reforms and in 1924 paper was es-
tablfshed in Baltimore in the same In,
terests This was called the Mutual
Rights. and DR.. Gamaliel Bailey. VINO
afterward was the editor OF the Ma
tional Era. an anti slavery organ OF
this city. was the editor. convention
OF the reformers was called by a union
society of Baltimore to meet in NoTen- .
Der. 1928. This society was composed
of expelled and suspended members OF
Associated Methodist Church. con-
vention of ministers and laymen was
held in Baltimore in 1880. when the
name Methodist Protestant was adopted.
Expelled for Favoring Reform.
Before the adoption of this name,
however, several members were read
out of the Georgetown NJ. r. Church
for taking part in the reform move
ment, and December 3 1923. they
formed the Montgomery Street Church.
At the close Of 1922 some members of
the EbeneZer Church were expelled,
and they with their friends organized
the first NJ +. congregation in W ash
ington. They built "A church OF frame
on the west side of 4th street below
q street southeast and called 1t Mount
olivet. The building. cottage. Is
used a residence. There were
about forty members originally, among
them II. NJ. Pearson, William Wheat,
John b. Fergeson, j. Radcliffe and
Henry Awkward. subsequently they
built a larger church on Virginia ave-
nue. and 9th street. which was sold
some years ago to another denomina-
ton, when they bought the Fourth
Street NJ. E. Church.
The reform members of Foundry
Church, who were disciplined in 1882,
formed the Tabernacle NJ F. Church,
on 18th street near II street north
west. In 1894 they erected a brick
church on 9th street between E and
streets. which they occupied until
1888 then going to 18th and NJ streets
for a few years. and the congregation
is now in fine building on Rhode
Island avenue and 1st street north
west There are now eight Methodis [
Protestant churches.
Foundry Church In 1928 started wes-
ley, and the following year the build
ing was erected at 5th and r streets.
Ten years afterward the colored mem
bers of the Foundry. who had worship
ed in the galleries. were provided with
a chapel at 18th and X streets, now
known as Asbury. and early in the
forties the Fourth Street Methodist
Church provided its colored members
with a chapel at 5th and F streets
southeast. called Little Ebenezer"
Another Congregation Formed.
Soon after the organization of the
Methodist Church South, in 1s45, which
followed the dsciplining of a bishop
and minister on account Of slavery.
there were some Withdrawals here.
About the year 1S47 Rev. Charles A.
Davis gathered a number of the mem
bers who had withdrawn. and. obtain
ing church on Sth street between H
and streets organized a congregation.
This was occupied to war times. when
1T became a hospital but subsequently.
after meeting on p street near 14th
street. a frame church building was
erected on NJ street, and afterward the
Mount Vernon Place Church was built.
There are seven Methodist South
churches here now.
To the parent church-the Methodist
Episcopal-were added. before the war.
Ryland. 10th and d streets southwest,
1S45; McKendree, Massachusetts, avenue
between 9th and 10th streets northwest.
and Union, Goth street near Pennsyl-
vania avenue. 1916; Gorsuch. Az and L
streets southwest, 1880; Waugh. Sd and
streets northeast, and Fletcher, 4th
street and New York avenue, 1853.
There are many which will be direct
ly affected by the union OF Methodism
as well as six colored churches. and
indirectly about forty other colored
congregations.