Resolved, "That the people of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and all other places who should unite with them, should become one body under the name and style of the African Methodist Church."

We believe that it was the design of a gracious Providence in thus uniting to mark out a way by which the despised African race might have an opportunity to receive from their own brethren that religious instruction from which they had been kept by persons claiming to be their superiors, and thereby privileged to sit under their own vine and fig tree. Though opposed by the prejudices of the times, persecuted by the tongue of calumny, and buffeted by the great adversary of God and man, we have had the happiness of seeing the pleasure of the Lord prospering in our hands, to whom we appeal for our good conscience in Jesus Christ. The work of God has spread, through our instrumentality, from Philadelphia throughout the entire United States and into Canada, the West Indies, South America, and Africa.

We esteem it our duty and privilege most earnestly to recommend to our Church our form of Discipline, revised and improved, which has been founded on the experiences of a long series of years.

We wish to see this little publication in the houses of all our members and the more so as it contains the Articles of Religion more or less maintained, in part or in whole, by every Reformed Church in the world.

Far from wishing you to be ignorant of our doctrines, or any part of our Discipline, we desire you to read, mark and inwardly digest the whole. You ought, next to the Word of God, to procure the canons of the Church to which you belong.

We remain your affectionate brethren and pastors who labor night and day both in public and private for your good.