as an assistant teacher and
a pupil at the same time. It was a Baptist institution, and some of
those who afterward became the most able Baptist preachers in the city
attended that school. Some of them were Rev. John D. Brooks, Rev.
James Jefferson, Rev. Edward Willis, Rev. M. J. Laws, Rev. J. M.
Johnson, Rev. Henry Lee, and many others who did great good for God's
church and for suffering humanity.

I will return to my church and Sunday School work in the District of
Columbia and its vicinity. I was the Church Clerk for Union Wesley A.
M. E. Z. Church for twenty-five years, and the superintendent of its
Sunday School for thirty years.

I have been acquainted with all the bishops of that Church and a great
many of its leading elders since I joined the church in 1853,
sixty-five years ago. Some of the worthy prelates and leaders who have
been my warm personal friends are: Bishops J. J. Clinton, J. J. Moore,
C. C. Petty, C. R. Harris, J. W. Hood, J. W. Smith, J. Logan, J. W.
Small, and Elders J. Harvey Anderson, Geo. W. Adams, Thos. Betters, R.
J. Daniels, R. S. G. Dyson, and many others who have gone from my mind
at this writing. I have had much of joy and happiness in my church
life.

I am still in the Master's service. I am at present District Sunday
School Superintendent of the Washington District of the Philadelphia
and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Z. Church. On August 12,
1918, I was eighty years old.

MARY L. MASON.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Semmes, John H. B. Latrobe, pp. 140-142.

[2] _The African Repository_, X, 104, and XII, 18.

[3] Coffin, _Reminiscences_, pp. 139-144.

[4] This personal narrative was secured from B.F. Grant, of
Washington, D. C., by Miss Mary L. Mason.

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