Here had lived the peaceable, just, and merciful William Penn; and here many of his adherents still reside.

Here, too, was the place where the Rt.

Rev.Bishop Allen, the first colored American bishop in the United States, had labored so successfully.

When the Methodists sought to crush by cruel prejudice the poor African, he stepped boldly forward in defence of their cause, which he sustained, with a zeal and talent ever to be revered.
Thousands were brought to a knowledge of the truth, and induced "to seek first the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness," through his instrumentality.

Through the benign influence of this good man, friends and means were raised for his poor brethren, to build houses of worship, where they would no more be dragged from their knees when in prayer, and told to seat themselves by the door.