APPENDIX II 



RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND OTHER 

 ESTABLISHMENTS IN LIBERIA 



I. The Protestant EpiscorAL Church seems to have begun 

 in America as a branch of the Church of England or of the Church 

 Missionary Society. It started work in Liberia in 1830. A few 

 years later the first Missionary Bishop was elected (Bishop Auer). 

 The second Bishop was the celebrated John Payne, who did such 

 a splendid work amongst the Grebo of Cape Palmas. The present 

 Bishop is a man of colour, the Right Rev. Samuel David Ferguson, 

 D.D., born at Charlestown in the United States, but settled in 

 Liberia since 1848. He was elected Bishop of Liberia in 1884 and 

 consecrated in 1885. He attended the Lambeth Conference in 

 1897 ^"d was one of the Bishops received in audience by Queen 

 Victoria. 



Under the Protestant Episcopal Church, Liberia is divided 

 into four districts, Mesurado, Basa, Sino, and Cape Palmas. These 

 again are divided into a number of sub-districts. Nearly every 

 Americo-Liberian settlement has a church or school belonging to 

 this body, which is also very active as a missionary institution 

 amongst the natives. At Cape Mount the P.E. Church has a fine 

 establishment : the Irving Memorial Church, Langford Memorial 

 Hall,^ St. George's Hall, etc. The residence of the Bishop is at 

 Monrovia. This Church maintains, besides the Bishop, 18 clergy, 

 69 catechists and teachers, 38 day schools, 18 boarding schools, 

 and 31 Sunday schools. It gives instruction to over 3,000 pupils. 



2. The Methodist Episcopal Church.— This, as a missionary 

 body in Liberia, started in 1832. Its work in Liberia is controlled 

 by the American Methodist Bishop of Africa, the Right Rev. 



' Used as a school. 

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