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32 the only one of these who attained the Bishopric, Prof. Hawkins, and Jackson are laymen and are both alive.

The Sunday School Union is the next department which came out of Allen’s spirit 1882. Its secretaries have been Rev. Chas. S. Smith, W. D. Chappelle, and Prof. Ira T. Bryant. Two of them became Bishops, viz: C. S. Smith and W. D. Chappelle. Bishop Smith who became church historiographer died at the completion of the second volume of the “History of the A. M. E. Church.” Ira T. Bryant is a layman under whose administration the present Sunday School Union’s magnificent building was built.

The Church Extension, 1892, Revs. C. T. Shaffer and B. F. Watson were the only two that occupied the secretaryship. Rev. C. T. Shaffer became Bishop and is dead. Rev. B. F. Watson remained secretary from 1900 until his death 1923. The department saw the majority of its rise and progress under him. At the Board Meeting in 1923 it showed that the department was in splendid shape. The work is being carried on by Bishop Hurst, president of the Board and Miss Marie Thomas, clerk.

The last department the Allen League