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36 and constant labors and self-sacrifice. He asked God for freedom of his soul from his sins, and God gave him perfect peace. His soul was free in heaven, but the pastor and trustees of St. George Church wanted to keep him and those with him in bondage of spirit where they must not even say “amen” or “hallelujah.” When Martin Luther went to the vatican [sic] his first time, it was the custom for those ascending the throne to go up on their hands and knees, but when he remembered his favorite text, “The just shall live by faith,” and he arose from his hands and knees and ascended the throne and left the vatican [sic] and challenged Tetzel’s indulgence propaganda and burnt the pope’s bull which would excommunicate him, and nailed ninety-five thesis on the door of all saints church at Wittenburg, and then before the emperor he said, “None can forgive sins but God; here I stand and I can do none else God help me.” His courage gave his people religious liberty. Allen said we will never go back in St. George Church, and here he stood and here we stand in his spirit, God helping us.

One of the largest school administration buildings ever undertaken by the Negro race