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and the whole Church was divided into four educational districts.
The District Secretaries were as follows: 1st District, Rev. John
G. Mitchell, D.D.; 2d District, Rev. W. J. Gaines, D.D.; 3d
District, Rev. Bedford Green, P.E.; 4th District, Rev. I. M.
Burgan, D.D.
  Rev. Wm. D. Johnson, D.D., was elected Secretary of Educa-
tion, and, having been ably supported by the Bishops and educa-
tional authorities, reached the General Conference at Indianapo-
lis, Ind., in 1888, with the first general report on education. It
showed an  aggregate of nineteen schools, with $123,466.30
raised by the Church for education, during the Quadrennium,
against $77,040.24, the previous four years.  He was re-elected
and allowed a full support.
  The present organization is as follows: Bishop B. W. Arnett,
D.D., President of the Board; Rev. D. P. Roberts, M.D., Secre-
tary; Rev. Wm. D. Johnson, D.D., Secretary of Education; 1st
District Secretary, Rev. S. T. Mitchell, LL.D.; 2d District,
Rev. S.H. Robertson, D.D.; 3d District, Rev. Bedford Green;
4th District, Rev. H. Wilhite. The members of the Board of
Education are: Rev. Theodore Gould, Rev. W. H. Hunter, D.D.,
Rev. S. T. Mitchell, LL.D., Rev. D. P. Roberts, M.D., Rev. G.
W. Gaines, Rev. R. M. Cheeks, B.D., Rev. S. H. Coleman, D.D.,
Rev. A. J. Miller, of Arkansas, Rev. G. H. Burks, Rev. A. M.
Green, D.D., and Hon. Delos R. Davis, of Canada.
  The general report to the Board for the year ending June 1,
1891, was as follows: Number of schools, 28; number of teach-
ers, 133; number of students, 4,156; graduates, first and last,
281; value of school property, $453,350; debts on same,
$32,319.83; collections for the year, $79,606.76.
                          

                             V.
         DRUMMOND'S "GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD."
                  BY MARY LOUISA MOSSELL.

  AMONG the many good things one is apt to come across when
reading, especially when an effort has been made to select the
best class of literature for reading, now and then there is some-
thing that will strike one as having especial merit, something that
we feel benefited from having read. So true is this that, simul-
taneously with the grateful feelings toward the author that fill our
heart, and with still greater sense of thanks to the Heavenly
Father who gave impetus to such ennobling thoughts, we feel that
we would proclaim something of the same message to the world.
Indeed, it always seems to us a matter of duty to tell, at least,
some one else.




			

African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, [Vol.08, Num. 4]

Drummond's "Greatest Thing in the World."

Louisa

Volume:  08
Issue Number:  04
Page Number:  399
Date:  04/1892