ankles of the oppressed, whether from the cruel hands of slavery and ignorance or the benighted curse of heathendom. This department has done splendid work for if the spirit of Allen had not been in it we would have pulled down our flag long since in father’s land Africa and the Isles of the Sea. The following were the secretary Treasurers: Revs. John M. Brown, James A Handy, Geo. A. Brody, R. H. Cain, J. M. Townsend, W. B. Derrick, H. B. Parks, W. W. Beckett and J. W. Rarkin.
The department was supported by Easter Day and the help of the Women Missionary Societies until 1912 when the dollar money distribution was being revised, Rev. D. M. Baxter moved that 6 per cent be taken from the Financial Department and 2 per cent taken from the Church Extension Department and the 8 per cent thus voted be given to the Missionary Department, which gave it a footing from the dollar money equal to the Educational and Church Extension Departments. Six of these secretaries became Bishops, viz: John M. Brown, James A. Handy, R. H. Cain, W. B. Derrick, H. B. Parks, W. W. Beckett. All of them are dead but Bishops Parks and Beckett and Dr. Rankin who was taken sick
