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Rh 1900. Rev. B. W. Arnett, Jr., was elected secretary, next Rev. E. J. Gregg, J. C. Caldwell and S. S. Morris; only Secretary Gregg has died all the rest are active elders.

The press is an undisputed power for good or evil; it molds sentiment for or against anything. The Christian Recorder the mother Negro organ came out of the spirit of Richard Allen and spoke for 4,500,000 Negroes when they were not able to speak for themselves; she has been upon the wall since 1852 proclaiming the truth against error, condemning wrong and crying for a square deal for the oppressed, while she has rightly divided the word of God in homiletical exactness and spiritual beauty. The editors were as follows: Rev. M. R. Delany, M. M. Clarke, J. P. Campbell, Elisha Weaver, A. L. Stanford, James Lynch, B. T. Tanner, B. F. Lee, H. T. Johnson, R. R. Wright present incumbent. Of these editors three became Bishops, viz: Campbell, Tanner and Lee: all are dead but Bishop Lee, now Senior Bishop, and Editor Wright who has served since 1911.

The Southern Christian Recorder was the private property of Bishop H. M. Turner