til 1886, when Rev. J. C. Embry purchased it for the A. M. E. Church. Revs. M. E. Bryant, C. L. Bradwell, A. M. Green, R. M. Cheeks, C. E. Taylor, G. W. Allen, the present editor who has held the place since 1904. All of these servants are dead but Editor Allen.
The Western Christian Recorder, the private property of Rev. J. F. McDonald in 1891. The General Conference adopted it in 1904. Rev. McDonald carried on the Western Recorder until his death (1918), then it suspended action for a time but at the General Conference of 1920 it was revived and the Rev. J. D. Barksdale was elected managing editor. These weeklies were created to furnish news for the section where they are published but the Allen spirit is a connectional spirit and every part of the church has an interest in the other part, hence the people of all sections buy the papers regardless to what section of the church they are published.
Bishop B. T. Tanner in 1884 conceived the idea through Allen’s spirit that we should have a medium through which to express classical thoughts, aside from our newspapers. There fore he proposed the A. M. E. Review, a quar-
