Bishop Richard Allen and His Spirit
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Florida , and he established Bethel Church at Tallahassee. South Carolina is the mother of African Methodism in the far South, though we will never forget the adventures of Rev. John Brown, afterward Bishop, at New Orleans (1852).
Out from South Carolina, Allen’s spirit went forth, and Georgia, Florida and North Carolina caught on fire, until the whole South became a blaze and thousands were added to the cause. Another peak who caught Allen’s spirit was Henry McNiel Turner; he traveled thousands of miles and planted our work in Africa and the Isles of the sea. Allen’s spirit brought us Bishop Willis Nazrey and the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada.
