REV. M. J. NAYLOR

Rev. M. J. Naylor is a graduate of the State Normal School of
West Virginia, College Preparatory School of Howard University, A. B.
of Morgan College, Graduate in Divinity of Howard University, which
iiistitution conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr.
Naylor came to this city from Washington. D. C., and has been here
twenty-two years. During this period, he has served as pastor of
Ames and Asbury Churches, a full term as Superintendent of the
Baltimore District and is now serving his eighth year as Pastor of
Sharp Street Memorial, the oldest and most substantial church finan-
cially owned by colored people in this State. He has twice represented
his conference in the law making body of the church and is rated as
one of its very efficient and constructive legislators.

Dr. Naylor's administration at Sharp Street has been eminently
successful; during which $100.000.00 has been raised for all purposes
and a debt of $27.000.00 discharged, leaving the church entirely free
of all indebtedness. He is widely known and enjoys the esteem and
confidence of his great church and the public generally. He is alive
to all public interests and can be depended upon as a safe and pro-
gressive representative of his race.

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