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discovered one of his classes on the Meeting street road, hunting conch for demonstration in a class a zoology. He went out, said grandfather, to Brooklyn, N. Y., and from there to Gettysburg College, and the Lord went with him, so that forty three years from the time they ran Morris Brown away, and thirty years from the time they ran him (Payne) away, he returned to replace the banner of African Methodism so cruelly and unjustly snatched from the hand of Morris Brown. Morris Brown was made the second Bishop in the A. M. E. Church , but he never returned to Charleston. A Mr. Lee of the Methodist Church came to Bishop Payne when he was holding the Baltimore Conference in 1863, to intercede about sending missionaries to South Carolina. When Bishop Payne told him of the A. M. E. Church struggles and persecutions in that state he said “The field is yours, go and possess it,” which the Bishop in the spirit of Allen did, and the Baltimore Conference sent James Lynch and J. D. S. Hall as first missionaries to South Carolina. Bishop Payne returned later, taking with him Rev. James Handy, T. G. Steward and James H. A. Johnson. Handy sent W. G. Stewart to