As showing their faith demonstrated by good works, the Colored Americans
are supporting 34,689 schools, and contributing 1,750,000 children to
the cause of religion and education. They have donated in money more
than sixty million dollars to church property.
The shepherds guiding this enormous flock, consist of Bishops of the
highest attainments as scholars, teachers, and pious divines.
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church has seven Bishops with an able
executive corps of ten members.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church is under the guidance of fourteen
wise shepherd Bishops, with an executive staff of eleven eminently
qualified divines.
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has nine Bishops, devoted
men all of them, aided by a staff of workers numbering sixteen divines,
lawyers, editors, missionaries and financiers.
The Afro-American Presbyterian council consists of three presidents and
a secretary. The National Baptist Convention is guided by Rev. E. C.
Morris, D. D., President, of Helena, Ark., aided by Rev. W. G. Parks,
Vice-President at Large, of Philadelphia, Pa., and eleven secretaries.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has one Colored Bishop, Isaiah B. Scott,
D. D., LL.D., Missionary Bishop to Liberia and West Africa, Monrovia,
Liberia.
The general offices and officers, however, are in the United States, and
consist of eleven clergymen and other distinguished men who attend to
missionary work and executive duties generally.
There are numerous Roman Catholic priests among our Colored Americans,
some of whom occupy high positions as educators. Rev. Charles Randolph
Uncles is a professor in the Epiphany Apostolic College, Walbrook,
Baltimore, Maryland. Rev. John H. Dorsey is a teacher and Assistant
Principal in the St. Joseph College for Negro Catechists, Montgomery,
Alabama. Rev. Joseph Burgess is a professor in the Apostolic College, at
Cornwells, Pennsylvania.