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Rh is nearing completion at Wilberforce University under the supervision of Bishop J. H. Jones, and the other Bishops, W. H. Heard, L. J. Coppin and J. M. Conner, who are associated with him in the First Educational District. Shorter Hall will cost $300,000.

Allen University started in 1870 when Rev. Simon Miller submitted the plans to the Columbia District Conference for an A. M. E. School in South Carolina when Bishop W. F. Dickerson went to the state. In 1880 Payne and Allen were made one at Columbia and the school has proved to be one of the most useful of the South. Bishop W. D. Chappelle who now presides over the district is a graduate of Allen and was its first president when he was elevated to the Bishopric, 1912. He with the noble sons and daughters of Allen in South Carolina have built one of the most imposing administration school buildings in the South.

Flagler High School, Marion S. C., is an other one of our schools in South Carolina, founded by Rev. E. J. Gregg; this school has a particular charm for me by the names associated with it. Dr. E. J. Gregg went before me in our pastorate, Mt. Zion, Jacksonville; Miss Mattie E. White, the first teacher, was