The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-29
~TRI-oUARTo CELEBRATION.
Fifth Episcopal District st. Louis, Mo.
July SO, inclusive, 1915.

To the Fifth Episcopal District:
Dear Brethren: Seventy-five years
| gao, William Paul Quinn came to the
| shores of the Father of Waters (the
Mississippi River) and stood upon its
eastern bank and preached across its
waters to the Negroes in st. Louis,
who hungered and thirsted for the
bread of life. AS o as he was per-
mitted to do so, he crossed over into
st. Louis and organized the A. NJ. E.
Church, the first Methodist among Ne
| groes in Missouri and the West. AS
the years passed by, Thomas D. Ward
went to the Pacific coast and John NJ.
Brown, to New Orleans and the south
west. These fathers of the church, al
though they suffered bonds and afflic-
lions, yet with unfaltering trust in
God, they stood as the beeaten anvil
to the strike. They passed on to
the heaven of peace and rest by the
quiet waters of life in the everlasting
city of God. Their names and men,
DRY, rich with the holy spoils of peace
full triumph, come to us as a glorious
heritage and as an inspiration to carry
on to a final contamination the work
by them so well and wisely begun.
African Methodism, the one flame of
Negro religious freedom and manhood
is the gift of these men of the west
and to the generations of to-day. Sew,
enty-five years ago, a few trembling
slaves stood Upon the murky bank Of
the sullen Mississippi and listened t.
the message of peace from this grave
ambassador of God, but today,
mighty host of loyal sons and daugh
tiers of Allen with banners outflung
join in one voice to sing:
Glorious things to thee are spoken
He whose word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for his own abode
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded
, Thou mayst smile at all thy foes"
a Se%venty-five years! Two genera
tons of men have come and passe
into the silent vista of yesterda!
v Those of the second that remain, wit
o the mighty host of the third that ha
v entered lions gates, will meet in S
a Louis, July 4, 1915, to celebrate tn
triumphs of the seventy-five years {
our religious existence west of tn
v Father of Waters. Our sons and daugl
tiers fro mthe shores of the pacifi
f from the International line of BIRTHS
America, from the arid wastes of Ar
iona and New Mexico, from beneat
r the shadow of the stately and fran
O ing Rockies, will come back to on
Mecca of Western Methodism, back t
r the shrine of the mother of this Yves
ern Religious Empire, beautiful in he
> robes of righteousness, we gather Jul
4th, to bow at her sacred affairs an
sing together, the praise of God.
Back to the affairs of st. Paul, tn
Queen of u empire! What honor
shall We bring in memory of the illu.
liIOuS ldlutAS VI Lnt past we ID
lieve that every loyal son and daugl
ter of African Methodism in all thi
. vast territory-these twenty-five tho
q sand children Of Father Quinn, wi
each make an offering according t
q their ability. We are trying to rails
means to carry on our Mission wor
I in this territory and ask all who ca
Q possibly do so, give us One Dollar.
you cannot give One Dollar give FIT
4 cents; give twenty-five, give ten cent
: give five, give as God has prospere
. yoa in life. Those who give fifty cent
. or more will have their names printe
! in the records of the celebration.
Report to the pastor or to whom h
may designate to receive it to be ser
to Rev. A. A. Gilbert, 1929 Ferdinan
street, st. Louis, by July 4, 1915. Wit
faith in your love and loyalty for A
rican Methodism.
II. B. PARKS, Bishop.
j. D. BARKSDALE, Gen. SCI