Methodists in this country to unite and form _one grand united body of colored Methodists_? This question has been urged by many different parties, with as many different motives at the bottom. Let us notice a few. In “Our Brother in Black” (by Dr. A. G. Haygood, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,) at page 226, we find the following touching the point at issue: “The most remarkable tendency that has so far shown itself in the development of their ecclesiastical life is the strong and, as I think, resistless disposition in those of like faith to come together in their religious organizations. The centripetal is stronger than the centrifugal force. We have already a number of African Churches. Indeed, the great majority of them belong to Churches not only of their own ‘faith and order,’ but of their own ‘race and color.’... This disposition has become very pronounced, and has expressed itself on a very large scale since they were set free.” At page 236 the good Doctor reaches his point when he says: “If every colored Methodist in the United States were to-day in one organization, this would not change the grounds or nature of our obligations to them in any respect, so far as fraternal love, fraternal aid, and co-operation are concerned. It would then, as now, be our duty to help them in all possible ways; and considering their history in this country, and the providential indications of their relation to the salvation of Africa, just as much our duty then as now. If there were not one Negro in the Methodist Episcopal Church the Freedmen’s Aid Society would be as much needed as it is now. ‘The colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America’ that was ‘set up’—I hope not ‘set off’—needs the help of its mother, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, every whit as much as if they were still with us. Nay, all the more, because they are not with us. And we ought, before God, to help them.” We simply add, _it is about time_. In a book written by a layman of our Church, John A. Wright, of Philadelphia, with the title, “People and Preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church,” at pages 262–6, touching the question of separation, he says: