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Jesus. "We do not think of Him as a Jew or a Greek, but as a
man. Race Methodism would involve separation in official
ecclesiastical recognition cf race distinction on ground of color.
Such result would intensify and perpetuate the spirit of caste
among Christians. Caste would be enthroned in the Church of
Christ. The Negro would be set apart as an alien race, inferior
and servile to the white man. It would put into the ecclesias¬
tical law and polity of a great church the idea of separation and
discrimination on the ground of color. God will never be honored
by man if the above is to be the manner in which it is to come-
We are sick and tired of so much emphasis being put upon our
being Negroes. This question of Race Methodism involves not
merely the church relations of the Negro, but all of his relations.
It erects a wall impenetrable, insurmountable, and to be eternal.
Race Methodism will never assist the colored man to ascend the
plane of civilization and Christianization of this or any other
country. It would not lighten the burdens of imposition and
discrimination the race man labors under, nor obliterate color
prejudice, nor cause other people to see that it merits more than
it gets, politically, morally, socially or religiously ; it would not
have the tendency to remove from the young of to-d;iy and the
future the servile fear of the white man engendered during
slavery in the minds of the race. Race Methodism would
fatten, as it were, color prejudice to such an extent that its eyes
would so swell that it would not even concede recognition to the
greatest men of the race. Furthermore, the Northern and
Eastern Colleges that now admit colored students would close
to the race never to open again. Every state in the union would
be tempted to pass a seperate car law; restrict the ministry, the
professions, the mechanic and the wage-worker to seek his
flock, his patients and his employers among his own color-
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