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FACTS FOR YOUR HOME MISSION SERMON:
WEAVE THEM IN.
JESUS SAYS: "GO YE THEREFORE AND TEACH; * * *
TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER
I HAVE COMMANDED YOU." - MATT. 28: 19 AND 20.

One person in every eight in the United States is of African descent.
No denomination has so much at stake in these people as we have. Already since their emancipation they begin to vote and hold office; already they are selecting untaught preachers and teachers from their own ranks, and the results in some places are alarming.

Above all things they need truly pious and educated Pastors, Deacons,
Superintendents, and Teachers trained up from their own Churches.

The Baptists have had under instruction during the past year about 2000 of them, who give promise of becoming wise leaders. Some of them are scholarly and able men. But what are these among four millions!

The Home Mission Society and the Theological Institute are now one;
and the united voice of the denomination is, that this work is urgent beyond all others.

Rev. Dr. J. W. Parker, speaking in Tremont Temple, Boston, of the
present opportunity at the South, said: "Within five months, there should be $50,000 in our Home Mission Treasury for the establishment and support of schools, and," he exclaimed with thrilling emphasis, "I know, I KNOW there never was, since Christ hung on the cross of Calvary, such an opportunity. THERE HAS BEEN NO SUCH DAY."
 
Rev. P. P. Bishop, our General Missionary for Florida, says: "The education of colored preachers is the one great and crying need of the Freedmen! Their preachers have unbounded influence over them; and it is a deplorable truth that most of these preachers are exceedingly ignorant, while some of them are really bad men."
 
I am thoroughly convinced that there is no hope for the race unless we can elevate the character of their ministry. The children now being educated will soon come to despise those who set themselves up as religious teachers, and the next step will be to despise the religion which they pretend to teach. THAT STEP TAKEN - AND THEY ARE GONE!!!" 

Send offerings to EBENEZER CAULDWELL, Esq: (Treasurer of the American Baptist Home Mission Society.) 
Room 12, No. 39 PARK ROW, New York City. 

Be sure to state IF FOR FREEDMAN'S FUND.

[[stamp]] BUREAU R.F. & A.L. WASHINGTON. REC'D JUL 14 1870 [[/stamp]]

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