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Some who desire to decry us as a class church, say we have forever seperated ourselves into a race group; they are mistaken; we have no objections of any person who is regenerated becoming members of our persuasion, with all its rights and privileges. When our fathers left St. George Church, they left not so much to be seperated as a race from other people, but as a protest against the cruel and unjust treatment they received at the hands of their white brethren. They came out of the gallery not because they hated anybody, but because they loved everybody and did not want to be separated from sitting with them in the congregation of the people, or to take the crumbs of the sacrament after everybody else was through eating. Allen’s spirit is the best solution of the race problem; get something for yourself, be independent so that should the other man not want you in his house you may have one of