Notes

Wealth. Impressive were the figures released last week for in- ternational property and endowment holdings of the Y. M. C. A.-- $225,210,910. This was an increase of $38,220,000 over a year ago. U. S. holdings total $185,033,300, so that although the "Y" covers 52 countries its chief activities are still preponderantly here.

Negroes have heard the call to brotherhood. Last week, in Washington, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church met in joint session, preambled: "It is evident that the time is at hand," united as an organic whole. National membership affected numbers 1,100,000, it was stated, 10,- 000 of whom are in Washington. The "Colored Methodist Church," a third: body, sent no representatives to the convention, but was invited to join the merger.

--There are five other U. S. Colored Methodist Church organizations. Those mentioned above are the larger, and of them the first, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is oldest, having taken origin in 1787, in Philadelphia, where in 1793 a house of worship was dedicated for it by famed Bishop Francis Asbury (white itinerant U. S. Methodist evangelist, 1745-1816, for whom Asbury Park, N. J., is named).