Introduction
human prejudice which directly violated the teachings of the Redeemer of Man.
The Historical Preface of the A. M. E. Discipline, in its first paragraph, relates the movement in 1787 out of which, in 1816, the African Methodist Episcopal Church came into being.
Any man anywhere in the wide world who is noble enough within his own mind to think of himself as the brother of all other men and who has faith enough in Almighty God to take his place and live his life as a man among men is true to the Richard Allen idea.
Is it possible for any individual man or any organization of men to actually put in practice the Allen idea? The best possible answer must consist of facts, facts. The time has come for such an Answer and Providence has produced the man.
The Rev. Daniel Minort Baxter, D.D., who, as head of the A. M. E. Book Concern, holds the office that is closest to the heart of pristine African Methodism, seems to have been, in a modern sense, inspired and in this book, entitled “Bishop Richard Allen and His Spirit,” has presented such graphic tracings of the working out of the Richard Allen idea for
