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38 a girlhood friend of mine; both of us sang together in Mt. Zion choir, Charleston, S. C., our native home. Flagler is a feeder for Allen.

The next oldest school after Allen in the South is Morris Brown University at Atlanta, Ga., 1885. Among the leaders were Revs. J. W. Gaines, Scipio H. Robinson, Elias P. Holmes, Andrew W. Love and Richard Green. Rev. J. W. Gaines, afterwards Bishop Gaines, offered a resolution at conference in session in Atlanta, 1881, to found Morris Brown College, which was approved and a committee comprising J. W. Goins, Scipio H. Robinson, Elias Holmes, Andrew Love and Richard Green to apply for a charter, and the state granted it and the school system of Georgia was started. There are several schools in Georgia, Payne College at Cuthbert, Ga., and Central Park Industrial School at Savannah, while the Theological Seminary named for Bishop H. M. Turner who had so much to do with the rise and progress of Georgia’s work. Bishop Flipper, the presiding Bishop of the district, was once the president of the college was elevated from its head at Norfolk, 1908. Bishop W. A. Fountain of the Ninth District