This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cain, Pollard Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XOH.2ACIB/2178 Message Board Post: In the meantime, I attended for the first time the Diocesan Council of Virginia, held in the Old Christ Church, Norfolk, in May, 1882. The two other Negro clergymen in the diocese, the Rev. J. H. Pollard and the Rev. Thomas W. Cain, were also present. (Mr. Pollard later became Archdeacon of North Carolina and Mr. Cain lost his life in the Galveston, Texas floods of 1900.) The three of us were asked to speak on the colored work of the Church and to preach Sunday afternoon in Christ Church. We were presented in order of our ages, and I, being the youngest, was called upon last. I was somewhat frightened and lost when my turn came to tell of the colored work, as I had only been on the field about ninety days, but when the talk was concluded, the audience was kind enough to applaud. >From James S. Russell's Book An Adventure in Faith Published 1936 Morehouse