The great mass of Negro Christians in the United States will continue to prefer churches made up of their own race. This is natural and on the whole the best for many reasons. On the other hand, the door of every church of Christ should be open for all. At present in twenty-nine white Protestant churches in the United States with a total membership of over 4,000,000, there are 579,690 Negro members. Nearly three-fourths of that membership are in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The total Negro Methodist Church membership in the United States is 1,756,714. Of that number 1,330,409 are in the African Methodist Episcopal, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches; 385,444 in the Methodist Episcopal Church and 41,961 in seven smaller African bodies. If we multiply the total membership by 2-1/2 we have 4,557,117, which represents, approximately, the enrolled membership and constituency of Negro Methodism in the United States. JOSEPH C. HARTZELL. FOOTNOTES: [1] The fact that John Wesley organized a Sunday-school in Savannah, Ga., in 1736, is recorded on a bronze tablet seen near the entrance of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Savannah. [2] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference._ [3] Matlack, _Slavery and Methodism_, 29. Coke's _Journal_, 12, 13-14. [4] One celebrated Negro, known as "Black Harry," was Bishop Asbury's travelling companion. When for any reason the Bishop could not fill an appointment the people were pleased to hear him. Matlack, _Methodism_, 29. [5] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1832._ [6] _Ibid._ [7] Arnett, _Budget_; Woodson, _History of the Negro Church_, chapter IV. [8] Wightman, _Life of William Capers_, 295-296. [9] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1844._ [10] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1784_; McTyeire, _History of Methodism_, 28. [11] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1844._ [12] Tanner, _African Methodism_, 72. [13] _Special Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Education_, 1871, pp. 372-373. [14] _Minutes of the Methodist Conference._ [15] The A. M. E. Church has Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio, with enrollment of 1,070 and an annual income of $145,000. This church has ten other schools with an enrollment of 4,448, several of which have college classes. The total annual income of all these schools is $309,820.00. There are also theological classes at several centers with total enrollment of 156. The A. M. E. Z. Church has seven schools with an attendance of 2,128 and an annual income of $43,331.00. The leading school of this church is Livingstone College in North Carolina, with an attendance of 504 students and an annual income of $13,633.