1. Where is the Publication House located?
A. In Varick Memorial Building, Cor. Brevard and Second Streets, Charlotte, N. C.
2. Who is its Business Manager?
A. Rev. S. D. Watkins, D. D.
3. Where is the Sunday School Department located?
A. In Varick Memorial Building.
4. Who is its Superintendent and Editor?
A. Dr. J. Francis Lee.
5. What is the law respecting Sunday School Day?
A. "A collection shall be taken up in all of our Sunday Schools Easter Sabbath for the Publication House, which money shall be sent to the Manager of that Department, Charlotte, N. C."
6. Where is the Star of Zion published?
A. In the Varick Memorial Building.
7. Who is its Editor?
A. Rev. W. J. Walls, D. D.
8. What is the law regarding the Star of Zion?
A. No minister shall receive an appointment who is not at the time a subscriber to the Star of Zion or the Western Star, Quarterly Review and Missionary Seer.
9. What provision has been made by the church for Theological training.
A. The establishment of Hood Theological Seminary, which is a department of Livingstone College.
10. What amount has been appropriated by the General Conference for a building for the use of Hood Theological Seminary?
A. Two thousand dollars a year out of the appropriation to Livingstone College.
11. What building has been purchased by the A. M. E. Zion Church?
A. A valuable three story brick building, located at No. 420 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
12. Who is the President of Livingstone College?
A. Dr. D. C. Suggs.
13. Name the other Connectional Schools.
A. (1) Eastern N. C. Industrial Academy, Newbern, N. C.
(2) Lancaster and Clinton Institutes, in South Carolina.
(3) Edenton Normal and Industrial College.
(4) Lomax-Hannon Normal and Industrial College.
(5) Dinwiddie Normal and Industrial School.
(6) Greeneville College, Greeneville, Tenn.
(7) Atkinson College, Madisonville, Ky.
(8) Walters Institute, Warren, Ark.
14. How are the Connectional Schools supported?
A. The above named schools are supported partly by the General Church. Livingstone College receives an appropriation of $12,000 from the general treasury of the Connection?
15. What arrangements are made for the collection of Children's Day money?
A. The fourth Sunday in June of every year is set apart as Children's Day.
16. Who is General Secretary of Education?
A. Prof. J. W. Martin, Madisonville, Ky., to whom all money collected on educational assessment must be sent.
17. Who are the officers of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Board?
A. Mrs. Daisy Johnson, President; Mrs. S. D. Davis, Vice President; Mrs. Annie W. Blackwell, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Lizzie Evans Pierce, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Ida V. Smith, Treasurer; Mrs. M. L. Clinton, Supt. of Buds of Promise; Miss Victoria Richardson, Secretary of the Young Women's Branch.
18. What Society aside from the Sunday-schools, has the Connection for the benefit of its young people?
A. Varick Christian Endeavor Society, with present headquarters at Pensacola, Fla.
19. Who is its president?
A. Mr. Aaron Brown.
20. What high-class magazine does our Church publish?
A. "The A. M. E. Zion Quarterly Review," established by Rev. Geo. W. Clinton, 1891.
21. Who is its present editor?
A. Rev. C. C. Alleyne.
22. What paper is published in the interest of holiness, by one of our ministers?
A. "The Zion Trumpet," edited and published by Rev. E. George Biddle, B. D., New Haven, Conn.
23. Who is our General Statistician?
A. Bishop G. L. Blackwell.
24. What are our latest statistics as a church?
A. Bishops, 7; General Officers, 24; Annual Conferences, 48; Presiding Elders, 126; Church Organizations, 3, 711; Value of churches, $4,729,567; Ministers and Preachers, 5,748; Members and Probationers, 576,271. Sunday-school Teachers and Scholars, 245,892; Colleges and High Schools, 12.
25. What is the latest book published by Bishop J. W. Hood, D. D., LL. D.?
A. A commentary on the Book of Revelation, entitled, "The Plan of the Apocalypse."
26. What books were published by Bishop J. B. Small, D. D.?
A. "The Code on Discipline," the "Practical Pulpiteer," and the "Human Heart Illustrated."
27. When does the next General Conference meet?
A. On the first Wednesday in May, 1924.
28. Who is our Financial Secretary?
A. Dr. W. H. Goler.
29. Who is our Church Extension Secretary?
A. S. G. Atkins.
30. Who is the General Secretary of our Church?
A. Dr. F. M. Jacobs.
31. Who is the General Missionary Secretary?
A. Rev. W. W. Matthews.
32. Where are the offices of these General Secretaries?
A. At 420 South, Eleventh St., Philadelphia, Pa.,--the Financial Headquarters of the Connection.
33. Where are our foreign missions located?
A. In Liberia and Gold Coast, Africa; in Belize, Honduras, in Hayti, and So. America.
34. What Bishop has charge of these missions?
A. Bishop Geo. C. Clement, A. M., D. D.
35. What is the organ of the Missionary Department of our Church?
A. "The Missionary Seer," edited by the General Missionary Secretary, and issued by the A. M. E. Zion Publication House, Charlotte, N. C.
36. What book has been published by Bishop J. S. Caldwell?
A. A book of sermons.
37. What book has been published by Bishop George W. Clinton.
A. He is the author of "Christianity under the Searchlight," a book of Sermons.
38. What books have been published by Bishop Harris?
A. A Phonetic Sunday-school Primer and a Bible Catechism.
39. What organization was effected in Washington, D. C., in January 1908?
A. The Federation of Bishops.
40. Of what was this organization comprised?
A. Of all the Bishops of the A. M. E. Zion Church, the A. M. E. Zion Church, the A. M. E. Church and the Colored M. E. Church.
41. What is its object?
A. Closer fraternal union of these Churches.
42. How many Bishops were elected at the last General Conference?
A. Two.
43. Who were they?
A. J. W. Wood and P. A. Wallace.
44. What other important Sunday School officer was elected and who?
A. Prof. J. W. Eichelberger, Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday School Union.
45. What protection have the ministers of the A. M. E. Zion Church?
A. The Ministerial Brotherhood.
46. Who is its Secretary?
A. Dr. C. S. Whitted.
47. Where was the General Conference held in 1920?
A. Knoxville, Tenn.
48. How many Bishops were elected?
A. Two.
49. Who were they?
A. Dr. J. W. Wood and Dr. P. A. Wallace.
50. What general officers were elected?
A. Dr. S. D. Watkins, Manager of the A. M. E. Zion Publishing House; Dr. W. J. Walls, Editor of the Star of Zion; Dr. W. W. Matthews, Secretary of Missions; Mrs. Daisy Johnson, President of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society.
51. Who is our present General Secretary?
A. Dr. F. M. Jacobs.
52. What new and great movement was projected at the Knoxville General Conference?
A. The Ter-Centenary Movement.
53. Who were sent as commissioners to South America?
A. Bishop Geo. C. Clement, Dr. J. W. Martin, Secretary of Education, Dr. A. A. Crooke, pastor of Rush A. M. E. Zion Church, New York City.
54. Who was left in South America as a missionary?
A. Dr. A. A. Crooke.
55. Who is our representative in Africa?
A. Dr. Frank Arthur Pinanko who was given power to ordain and superintend African work.
56. With how many Bishops did we leave Knoxville?
A. Eleven.
57. Who were they?
A. Bishops Geo. W. Clinton, (deceased), J. W. Alstork, (deceased), J. S. Caldwell, Geo. L. Blackwell, A. J. Warner, (deceased), L. W. Kyles, R. B. Bruce, (deceased), W. L. Lee, G. C. Clement, J. W. Wood and P. A. Wallace.
58. How many living Bishops has the A. M. E. Zion Church?
A. Seven.
59. How many Bishops died during the first year after the Knoxville General Conference?
A. Four.--Bishops Warner, Bruce, Alstork, Clinton.
60. What Literature has been published in our Zion in the past five years?
A. "Standard Historical Catechism," by R. A. Carroll, "Reminiscence," by W. J. Walls, The Vest Pocket Commentary on the S. S. Lessons for 1922 and "Building The Sermon," a work on Homiletical studies by J. Francis Lee.