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64 faithfully laboring in the Master’s vineyard unto his reward, he would have tried to split the church and become a little Bishop and denomination unto himself. Oh, for more of Allen’s spirit in our church today! Oh, for the same unselfish desire for the good of the church, even when we come to choose its servants from that of the sexton to the Bishop! Allen’s spirit has reared many mighty men and women in and out of the church, but even at that some were drawn closer and higher up into the realm of his own immediate illumination. For, truly he was taken up into the third heaven like Paul, and given special graces and powers.

Elder William Paul Quinn, the western missionary, traveled over the mountains and into the valleys of the wild and wooly West preaching the gospel and spreading Allen’s spirit and J. P. Campbell took up the refrain, until our banner of race pride and self-dependence in Jesus, kissed the breezes of the golden gates, and set up her standard upon the peaceful shores of the Pacific. Allen’s spirit crowned him one of the Bishops. It seemed in those days men were elevated to high offices in the church for what they did for the church. When