Chicago, Dr. Mason was re-elected and made Senior
Corresponding Secretary, receiving the largest vote ever
given to any General Conference Secretary in the history of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. This is all the more
remarkable when it is remembered that there were 14
candidates in a body composed of 701 representatives, of
whom only 73 were colored. It will be remembered also that
the salary paid a General Conference Officer of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is the same as that paid to the
Bishops, and Dr. Mason is no exception to the rule.

The Doctor is quite a success as a money raiser and has
secured hundreds of thousands of dollars during the ten
years he has been connected with this great educational
institution of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational Society has educated
hundreds and thousands of men and women of our race, and has
an average attendance of over seven thousand young men and
women of color in its schools every year. Dr. Mason is thus
brought in contact with more young men and women of the race
than any other Negro in America. And the whole race is very
largely indebted to him for the work which, through this
institution, he is accomplishing.

As an orator the Doctor has no superiors, and few equals. He
is in great demand all over the country, especially in the
North. We are told that he has been offered $6,000 per year
with a guarantee for ten years, if he would resign his
present position and take the lecture platform. This offer
he has constantly refused preferring to remain in the work