Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1911-11-09

! In estimating that the colored con-
ferences reported at least one seventh |
Of this amount.
l made every possible effort bv writ
ing 10 Bishops Turner and Salter of
the African Methodist EPISCOPAL
church, and Bishops Holsey and Will
Jams of the Colored Methodist Epis-
copal church and Bishops Hood and
/ Z inton of the African Methodist
episcopal Zion church, to obtain data
on the foregoing items for their
churches but the information was
not sufficiently ample and accurate to
enable me to use it in this article,
Notwithstanding all this showing on
our parL 1t is fact that our colored
membership, has not increased equally
with that OF the distinctively Negro
Methodist churches either in the North
or the South; and 1t is natural that |
We thy to find The causes or reasons
therefor.
Before undertaking this, and to pre-
vent any criticism o. miscontruction of |
my motive. 1 wish 70 add few words
= 9s5A9nala dhess9seie ess4eiyed more IF 5ffd RI
o, pastors. college professors and bishop,
OF the Methodist Episcopal ohnrcl
tn South than from the bishops and tn,
th white pastors of my own denomina
q ton. Bishop Duncan once spent prac
a6 ideally an entire Sunday with US
lr preaching twice consecutively, anG
al also IN my absence officiated at 8
- funeral service for me, and was m,
,: friend and counselor Doctors A. Coke
I'd Smith and J. C. Kilgo, both OF whom
n were afterwards consecrated bishops
IN found it pleasure to preach for me
,r Inc late sainted DR.. James H. Carslile
IN more than once gave my people one OF
n MS inimitable lay sermons, and was
Tor years. and until his death nv
,e friend and counselor and spiritual
- advisor. I doubt if there are many
10 II any pastors of our church, who
hS'" had plesanter relations with
the ministers of our several colored
Methodist families or been more high
:, ly honored by them. 1t has been. my
% privilege and pleasure to have re-
. ceived from and extended courtesies
70 Bishops Holsey and Williams, and
. Tor time to have been for two weeks
- closely and pleasantly ASSOCIATED with
= with Bishop Phillips. The same is
true with reference to Bishop Walters.
ta1. in
g Petty and have been entertained by
v botd tie Bishops Clinton, the younger
4 wEon! las been = friend OF many years
StanGlng and one time school !aa:e.
, Bishop Saitcr, my fathers friend and
:. ny own friend, once bestowed upon
, me the unusual honor of having me
g preside temporarily over one of his
o annual conferences, and participate
in the funeral obsequies of my dear
q father; and president Chappelle OF
0 Allen University some years ago
g placed me under lasting obligations
to him by voluntarily using his good
, Offices to have an academic degree
S conferred upon ME by their leading
! university.
: No one can, therefore, accuse me of
5 bias prejudice or sectarianism. The
, first and greatest of our heroes in the
South since Emancipation were the
Cody men and women who came
: South Immediately and SOON after
the Civil war, some from the best
Northern homes; serving, some of
them, in the Union army as nurses
and chaplains, and later ocming a
mong us to welcome back into the fold
OF the old church both her white and
colored members. Most of these he