Excerpt from The First Negro Priest on Southern SoilSome of us believe that God's Church was ordained and sent in order that it might build up in men such a character as would enable them to be good citizens. Every man holding such opinion must be anxious that the colored people in this country should have every pos sible help that the Church can give them in their courageous efforts to learn how to meet their obligations as American citizens.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.