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Rh Quinn was elected Bishop he had traveled extensively and taken into the church great numbers. He went foot sore, half clad, many times hungry, and often persecuted and oppressed. But Allen’s spirit comforted him and gave him courage and perseverance in all his discouragement and afflictions. Allen’s spirit caused Daniel Payne to leave his native home, Charleston, S. C., and to come North where he could breathe a freer air. It caused him to attempt to rear an educational institution at Wilberforce, out of which has come the great Educational Department, and our long list of schools and colleges all over the earth. He, like Bishop Morris Brown, was sent away from Charleston for doing what the whites thought was taking too greater step for racial uplift for his people. But thank God the Allen spirit followed him North, and through his zealous work the church elected him a Bishop. Thirty years after his banishment he returned to his native state, taking Revs. Jas. Handy, J. H. A. Johnson and T. G. Steward with him, and replanted the banner of religious liberty, which slavery and hatred had snatched from the hands of Bishop Morris Brown forty-three