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Rh ciently, and resulted in so much real alleviation of suffering and benefit to the city of Philadelphia, that Mayor Clarkson sent the Negroes the following commendatory letter: “Having, during the prevalence of the late malignant disorders, had almost daily opportunity of seeing the conduct of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen and the people employed by them to bury the dead, etc. Approbation of their proceedings, diligence, attention and decency of deportment as far as the same came under my notice, affords me much satisfaction.—Signed, Matthew Clarkson, Mayor of Philadelphia, June 23, 1794.”

I am sure the A. M. E. Church founder was a loyal American who took a hand in every thing whether civil or religious, for the good of the country, the city and his race.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, and Mr. Robert Ralston were very kind to father Allen when he, with his little band, was struggling to get a home, a place to worship during the period from 1786 to 1794. Dear young Allenites, here in Philadelphia sleeping at the shrine of mother