The American Missionary Association was organized for a specificwork, broadly and definitely understood to be for the upliftingof the colored races on this continent. To that work they arepledged, for that money is given to them, and they are very wiselyadministering the trust committed to their hands. To criticisethat society because it does not organize what are known as whitechurches is the height of folly, and for it to attempt to forcemixed churches on the South would be equally absurd. The AmericanHome Missionary Society should not go down South with the idea ofstarting white churches. It should be allowed, and must be allowed,to go there and organize churches just as it does in Iowa, Dakota,Missouri and Kansas, saying nothing at all about the race questionor in any way excluding colored people from its membership; givingthem that freedom which is theirs, to come in, and the freedom alsoto stay out, and to have their own churches, and their own socialcircles, just as they please. Any one who undertakes to forcesuch things out of their natural and proper course will only workconfusion and loss.
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