THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
delegates in the general conference of 1868. From 1872 to the present there has been an ungranted demand for a Negro bishop, but Negro general officers have been elected and a third Negro bishop to Africa. From this church there have been two secessions on account of color discrimination.
African Methodist Episcopal Church (see Methodists, IV., 6) : Certain Negroes seceded from the Methodist Church in Philadelphia in 1787 and eventually formed the church which has grown as follows :
Members
Ministers
1787 -
6,778
9,888
7,937
7,594
16,190
19,914
73,000
206,331
403,550
452,782
452,725
494,777
1818 .. . 1S22 ... .
1836 . . . 1846 ... . 1856 . .
1866 . . . 1876 ... . 1886 ... . 1888 . . 1890 ... . 1906 ... .
1,418
2,857 3,569 3,809 6,000 (?)
It had in 1903, nine and a half million dollars ; worth of property and thirteen bishops. It raises $1,000,000 a year.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (see Methodists, IV., 7) : A second secession from the Methodists took place in New York in 1796. The growth of the Zion Methodists has been as follows:
Ministers
Members
2,473 2,602
1,500 13,340 349,788 409,441 551,591 184,542
and associations of their own. Their growth is shown thus:
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (see Methodists, IV., 8): This church, consisting of Negro members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, set aside in 1866, has grown as follows:
Ministers
Members
635' 1,400 2,000
80,000
67,889
129,383
172,996
Its property was reported in 1906 as $1,715,566.
b. Baptists (see Baptists, II., 3, § 10) : Most of the early colored Baptist churches were identified with white churches, and in churches of mixed membership the whites were often in the minority. In the mixed churches of this period, the colored members had no voice in affairs except in the reception and discipline of members of their own race. After the emancipation of slaves, the Negro Baptists of the Southern States very generally separated from the white churches, and organized churches
Ministers
Churches
Members
1850 .
150,000
4,590
9,097
1,071,902
8,637
12,856
1,367,151
10,119
13,138
1,604,310
14,861
15,654
1,975,538
16,080
16,440
2,038,427
19,582
2,311,172
Between 1890 and 1906 the value of property increased from $9,173,176 to $24,733,811.
The growth of the other denominations can fee seen in the tables given above. The Roman Catholics, whose efforts were checked a while by the racial question, have been making especial effort in the last two decades and have doubled their membership in sixteen years. The Episcopalians show a large increase due to recently renewed efforts, while the Presbyterians and Congregationalists have grown more slowly. W- E. B. DuBois.
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