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part was that I give bond for the
sum of $20.,000, (twenty thousand dol
lars) to hold the money.
The General Conference did not
define my work. Had it have done so
I might have been able to make some
demands to carry out things for which
I am now being criticised. As I un
derstand we started out for the pur
pose of winning a hnudred thousand
souls for Christ and to raise a million
dollars to function the Church and
other like interests. It was further un
derstood that one half of all the mon
ey should be left in the Annual Con
ference or appropriated for local pur
poses as dictated and that the remain
ing half be kept in the General Treas
ury for various purposes as afore
named.
The amount remaining in the con
ferences has never been reported to
me. The presumption however, is that
the amount coming into the General
Treasury is on ehalf of the whole
amountraised. Now if that will satisfy
the curious I am ready to make my
report. I have been ready so far as
receipts and expenditures are con
cerned. I must regret the fact that
even of the amoupnts coming into the
General Treasury from the several
Episcopal Districts that the annual
conference rarely gets the credit of
its raisings, only as an Episcopla Dis
trict. This is not my fault. The Bish
ops will bear me out in that I have
asked them to give me a statement
of amount raised by each conference
ni his District when remitting the
funds. Wherever this request has been
observed it may be shown in my re
port accordingly.
The greatest amount of receipts are
turned over to me by the Bishops at
their meetings by checks invariably
on the last day and almost the last
hour of that day. The appropriations
and disbursements follows very soon
thereafter. ' t
The treasurer is therefore not re
sponsible for the failure to get the
names of all the conferences who pay
the Tercentenary fund, nothwithstand
ing the Episcopal District does get
the credit.
It will be seen in my report es
pecially at the close of the General
Conference that disbursements and
amounts were only named to the in
dividual to whom paid, but now in
almost every Case it is stated for what
the money is paid as well as to whom
it is paid, all of which is dictated by
the central committee.
I have not assumed any official pre
rogatives. I have simply obeyed or
ders. I was sought from childhood to
obey those who had rule over me,
and it is hard for me to depart from
my raising. When authority is vested
in me to carry out certain regulations
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S.BRATES ORGANIZATION OF OLDEST CONFERENCE.
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1 that I am not a coward.
* no strings tied to me,
C tied to any. not afraid of
id yet I am subject to the
ers.
d reason why I have been
ihat I fail to see the good
2 to derive by publishing
Bishop Geo. L. Blackwell, A. M. S. T. D , Church His
torian, who supervises the historic collection at the Cent
enary of the New York Connferencc, next week. Mother
Zion will be the scene of this mammoth celebration.
I and denouncing- an enterprise that we
are supposed to favor. The Bible tells
us that a house divided ag-ainst itself
cannot stand. Why men who are so
anxious to see a good cause move up
ward will 'sow discord against such a
cause is a mystery to me. Very true
there are many things that we cannot
understand about which we are deeply
concerned and should know about, but
should we not be more discreet and
investigate these matters with less
public criticism?
I think so far as my receipts and
disbursements are concerned we are
prepared to report accurately. If need
be we can in a comparatively short
time reproduce the return checks for
disbursements.
See report. -
perplexing and dangerous. High
spiritual leaders have become involved
in the general finances through a tra
Continued to page 5.
ANNUAL REPORT OF H, L. SIM
MONS, TREASURER.
Receipts of Tercentenary Fund col
lected at the General Conference from
each Episcopal District.
May 24, 1920,
Received of Second Episcopal Dis
trict Bishop G. W. Clinton, $1822.24;
received of Third Episcopal District,
Bishop J. W. Alstork, $241.75; re- j
ceived of Fourth Episcopal District, j
Bishop Caldwell, $3379.86; received of ;
Fifth Episcopal District, Bishop •
Blackwell, $8254.50; received of Sixth
Episcopal District, Bishop Warner,
$1171.80; received of Seventh Epis
copal District, Bishop Kyles, check,
$5,000.00; Figures, $1500.00; received
of Eighth Episcopal District, Bishop
Bruce, no report; received of Ninth
Episcopal District, Bishop Lee,
$1016.66; received of Tenth Episcopal
District, Bishop Clement.
Receipts between May 24, 1920 and
Continued to page 8
LIVE PROBLEMS
YORK AUGUST
NEW
James Edw.
In every government fvhether des
potic or free, various j. and varied
problems have arisen for considera
tion. This has been true throughout
the centuries, and is re-emphasized
today in the full blaze of, the highest
civilization.
We are facing as a
conditions of the gr
and complexity, and a
ienomination
1st delicacy,
tuation alike
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New York Conference Centenary
-and Connectional Council
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In Connection With the Council, in
Mother Zion Chiirch, New York.
The Centenary will be celebrated
in New Mother Zion Church, 153-155
West 136th Street, New York City,
in connection with the Council, Auv
gust 2-7,. 1021. .
The Episcopal Address at ^ie Gen
eral Conference of 1920 at Knoxville,
Tenn., recommended that the Cente
nary of the New York Conference
with the Council of 1921 in Mother
Zion, Church in the City of New
York, where it was organized and the
General Conference approved the
same. The Board of Bishops at their
meeting in Richmond, Va., August
1920, took initiatory steps toward
arranging for the observance of the
Celebration. Bishop G. L. Blackwell
has been appointed by the Board the
Historian for the Connection and also
asked to prepare a historic statement
for the Celebration. Bishops L. W\
Kyles, J. S. Caldwell, G. C. Clement,
P. A. Wallace and Rev. E. D. W,
Jories havg been appointed a Commit
tee of Review to pass upon the man
uscript for History.
At a call meeting of the Bishops
in Washington, D. C., March 4, 1921,
and a special meeting at Livingstone <
College,, May 24, Bishop Blackwell
litted. a tentative Program of
persons to write on those subjects.
The Bishops also decided to call the
Council on Tuesday August 2nd, in
stead of Wednesday, in order to have
time for the Celebration.
In order, therefore, that we might
be able to collaborate and marshal
as much authentic historic data as
possible, not only of the New York
Conference, but of all the Confer
ences, Institutions and characters as
a result of the organization of that
Conference, quite an array of men
and women are asked to accept as
signments of subjects to be written
upon so as to make the historic data
as authentic and as complete as pos
sible for the past one hundred years.
Exhibits.
It is hoped that none to whom sub
jects are assigned will fail to make
an industrious effort to carry out the
wishes of the committee. In addition
to the subjects assigned, the Commit,
tee will welcome a copy of books,
pamphlets, songs and ballads pub
lished by any minister or member of
our Church; also the portraits of any
and all of our present churches,
schools or institutions in America,
Canada, Africa or the West Indies.
These will be returned if so desired.
Other Items of information.
Aside from the subjects assigned,
the Committee will be glad to have
some of our poets to write songs and
poems suitable for the occasion; oth
er important bits of unwritten histo
ry about mpn and women who have
figured conspicuously in the making
of our Church, or some important in
cidents, will be welcomed so as to
help us connect the missing links of
history.
Instruction.
Those who may not be able to attend
the Council and the Centenary might
send their historic contributions to
the Committee. All who wrrite any
thing at all for the Centenary are
asked to search every library and
every home possible for historic da
ta. They may have to write from one
to one hundred letters or travel many
miles to get the facts; even so, make
the sacrifice, so the A. M. E. Zion
Church can be put in the proper light
before the public. Consult all the
books, pamphlets, historic magazines,
newspapers and persons necessary to
get the facts. The historian and the
L.
3. The New England Conference—
Rev. E; George Biddle, D. D.
Conmiittee want only\correet and au
thentic information so that from it
a correct and full history of the
Church may be written.
Address all letters of inquiry up
to July 30th to Bishop G. L. Black
well, 420 S. 11th St., Philadelphia,
Pa. From July 31 to August 6 ad
dress 153 West 136th Street,, New
City, N. Y.
G. L. Blackwell, Historian,
Committee:
L. W. Kyles,
J. S. Caldwell,
G. C. Clement,
P. A. Wallace,
E. D. W. Jones,
SUBJECTS AND THE WRITERS.
1. A Digest of the History of the
A. M. E. Zion Church—Bishop G. t.
Blackwell, D. D., LL. D.
2. The New York Conferehee-7-fc
Rev. M. F. Jacobs, A. M;, D.
D., M. D.
4. The Philadelphia and Balitmore
Conference—Rev. Logan Johnson,
D.
5. The Allegheny and Ohio Con
ferences—Rev. B. F. Combach, B, D,
6. The New Jersey Conference
Rev. J. L. Rodgers, B. D
7. North Carolina Confereni
Bishop G. C. Clement, A.
8. p The Virginia and Al
^f'i5rfer.y"Gre-gofyrD. d.;
H. B. Pettigrew, D. D. ‘
9. The Alabama Conferences—
Rev. W. L. Hamblin, D. D., Rev. L.
D. Workman, D. D.
10. Tennessee, Blue Ridge, E.
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Con
ferences— Bishop P, A. Wallace, A.
M., D. D.
11. The Florida—Rev J. N, Clin-,
ton, Rev. W. W. Blair, D. D
12. The Kentucky, Missouri and
Indiana—Rev. H. C. W7eeden, A. M.,
Rev. E. H. Curry, D, D, ^
13. The Michigan—Rev. H. J. Cal
lis, D. D.
14. The Arkansas and N. Arkan
sas—Rev. C. W. P. Mitchell, D. D.
Rev. D. S. Blackwell.
15. The South Mississippi, Louis
ina, West Tennessee and Mississippi
—Rev. D. J. Adams, D. D.
16. The California. Oregon and
Continued to page 5.
Bishop Geo. C. Clement, A.
M., D. D., who presides over the
historic occasion and Connec
tional Council at Mother Zion,
New York City, August 2-9,
1921.
SLAVERY REPORTED IN PORTU
GUESE AFRICA. NEGROES
FORCED TO WORK FOR 24
CENTS A MONTH.
Slavery is about to be legalized in
Portugese Africa, according to the
| Nation. The Portuguese government
has “granted the Mozambique Com
; pany, a commercial concern, absolute
' power over G5,000 square miles ©f
territory in East Africa....a dis
trict larger than England and Wales
combined with a population of over
300,000.”
The Nation for July 27 publishes
the text of the law for conscription
of labor which will be probably be
enacted among other things soon. It
provides,, that Negroes can be forced
to work at 24 cents a month, and
punished if they do not work, even
if they cannot find employment.
Foreign missioinary work has been
prohibited.
In the same issue of The Nation
appears a review of the thirteenth
session of the League of Nations, by
Robert Ball; a nartiele by Willa
Cather, by Carl Van Doren; and the
fourth installment of Authur WaTner’s
series on the American Legiion. Tfab
Nation is published weekly at 29
Vesey Street, New York, and edited
by Oswald Garrison Villard. '
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