Clearing the debt - 1922
Miles Memorial College, Booker City, Alabama.
Introduction
Christian organizations are like others. They need financing to survive. Bishop Phillips became a hero for the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (renamed the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 1954) when he helped finance the Alabama organization and clear its debt. In an article in the Christian Index of this date 28 September 1922, Professor Knox applauded Bishop Phillips’ work in Alabama:
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“Bishop Charles Henry Phillips came to the State of Alabama in May, 1918, and took charge of the work of the three Conferences. Being a school man himself he made a careful survey of the educational work in general, and it was not long before he discovered the most imperative needs of the school and began planning to meet them. The culmination of his plans resulted in the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Church in 1920, when more than $70,000 were raised for education and missions.
“From the proceeds of this effort every dollar of indebtedness on the school was paid off and Miles Memorial College swung clear of debt for the first time in its history. Greatly has he wrought for Miles Memorial College. As long as the sun shall feed the stars [sic]; as long as the rivers shall flow into the sea, so long will Bishop Phillips live in the hearts of the people of Alabama.”
Phillips, C. H. The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.