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two modes of enabling them to go to Church. There are many reasons to persuade you to adopt the first. It would cost less money. The Freedmen would have the benefit of the instructions of an educated Ministry, instead of the illiterate Pastors of their own color, who would, in all probability, occupy the pulpits in the Churches you would build.

Their regular association in religious worship with the White people, would improve their sense of propriety & decorum, just as white children would, in the same way, be improved.

It will prevent the formation of an antagonism between the races, which might grow up, under the teachings of bad men of their color, or even white men of unscrupulous character.

It would create a bond of attachment between the white & colored members of the Congregation; and here permit me to say, that you must look to their former