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t r,- HorN God brought good out of the evils',of rsc! m
pability.
The 4 Africans" who st rted
the A .E. Church were very
poor and mo of them could
not re d or write. Yet, under
the leadership 0 f Richard Allen,
they managed to buy an 0 d
blacksmith shop, and to mo
it "to a lot t the comer of Sixth
and Lombard Streets in Phil -
delphia, here they organized
Bethel A .E. Church which
ands tod y one of the
hi toric shrine of Phil delphia.
In time, other 'frican'
Churches w·ere arted in Balti-
more, yland; Salem, e
Jer y; Attlesboro, Penn ylvani ;
ilmington, Delaware and oth r
pi ces in the United State.
In the ye 1816 the churche
came together and formed the
A .E. Church. Richard Allen
e cted to rve t firs
cti bishop.
Today, t A .E .' Church
has clive bi op and more than
a million members scattered
throughout the SO te in the
U.s. in Can da, South Americ ,
Africa, South Africa and
t Indi .
In
The Citiz n
B Purcha
At Th
active bishop Richard Allen,
felt that no religiou ct or
denomination ould uit the
capacity of his peop well
did ethodism with it
emp is upon the plain and
simple gospel which the un
learned could understand, and
its orderly sy tern of rule nd
. regulations hich the under-
developed needed. He felt that
ethodism h d h t the Afri
cans needed to encourage them
to make progre ,to or hip
God freely, and to fill every
office for w . h he h d the
hwnan bein , and the me
through hich a group of
people started in program
hich gave them a growing n
of dignity and telf-respect.
To foster program Rich-
ard Allen cO' dered it
important to conduct night
hool cl in hich hi
people could learn ho to help
themtelves. Out of the night
hool cl com th
church's philo hy of educa-
tion ith it tong emp
on If-help. The general em-
. p not been ·gnifi-
cantly changed until thi day.
In ddition to the educational
program of the local church,
which folio s closely the gui
dance of the ational Council
of Churc ,Division of Chris
ti n Education, the A.M.E.
C urch oper tea eleven Institut
i<f of higher education.
religiou groups had
th ir origin in some theological,
doctrinAl or ideological dispute
or concern. But the A £.
Church orip: eel a P(O test
. t the inIiWnan treatment
hich the help people of
African descent re forced to
accept from the' white people
belonging to the St. George
.E. Church in Philadelphia.
This f ct ys ttl us that the
organization of teA .E.
Church the result of racial
disc . than 'Of
Following is the story of
Rev. Richard Allen.
Th frican ethodi t Epis ..
cop Church was tarted in
1787 in Philadelphi , Pennsyl
vania, by a group of disinherited
American whose forefather
came from Africa." The leader
of this group a 27-year
old "African", Richard ADen.
At that time the word African
d "to d -pate th
bom e no call
egroe or colored
mo ment to orpniz.e
church u arted in respci
to the African' need for
opportunitie for If
exp 'on and fuller involve
ment in the service of the or-
. p of God, and in society
hole. It as the ans er to
czy for social recognition "
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