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(RELIGION—AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.)
Drill
Corps, Salome Temple No 93, S. M. T., Aug 8, 1926.
Gelatin silver print photo-
graph, 11 x 14 inches, stamps of Harry C. Jackson on the reverse.
Detroit, 1926
[600/800]
This very militant group is posed in front of Detroit’s A. M. E. Bethel Church, one of the
city’s earliest black congregations. In 1839 a group of 50 black citizens of Detroit formed
together as the Colored Methodist Society. After a period of growth and discussion, the mem-
bers of the Society decided to associate themselves with African Methodism. On May 10,
1841, the congregation organized itself as Bethel African Methodist Church. Some years later,
on July 30, 1849, the church was formally incorporated.
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(RELIGION.) DIVINE, REV-
EREND M. J. “FATHER.”
Typed
Letter Signed.
Single page on U.S. A.
North-Eastern Churches and Connections
stationary to Mrs.R.L.Guttman,October 11,
1945 A.D.F.D.
New York, 1945
[800/1,200]
The Reverend “Father” writes to acknowledge
the appreciation of aid given to Mrs. Gutmann
by one of Father Divine’s “angels” Ms. Angel
Love. He adds “May I hope for your complete
recovery and renewed strength, that you may be
as this leaves ME, as I AM well, Healthy,
Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful,
Prosperous, and Happy in Spirit, Body and
Mind and in every organ, Muscle, sinew, joint,
limb, vein, and bone, and even in every atom,
fibre and cell of MY bodily Form, Reverend
M. J. Divine.”
RELIGION
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