"Why?" "All the cullud people is gwine down de river; and I must go
too." And so for pride and fear of race, though her heart was breaking
for us, she went away. I am happy to tell you that in a few months she
came back, and was, just as before, my loving and beloved mammy, until
the day of her death. The negroes left the white churches in like
manner, and most of them stayed away in their own negro churches. The
Baptists and Methodists separated entirely from the whites, becoming
completely independent. After working together for many years the
colored Presbyterians have become an independent organization. We in the
Church tried to keep them with us just as before in the days of slavery;
but we only partially succeeded. We began to train colored men for the
ministry; we built Churches for them; we admitted them to our Diocesan
Councils on equal terms; and we strove manfully to cling to the Catholic
idea: one Church for all peoples and races.

What are we doing now? First here is our educational work. In some
parishes of every diocese we have parochial schools, teaching the
children mentally and morally, hoping to get hold of the next
generation, feeling the importance of a moral and religious training
which cannot be given by the public schools. We have now in all our
dioceses nearly a hundred of these parochial schools. In North Carolina
and Virginia we have a group of institutions well worth mentioning, with
which I am in close personal touch, on which we are building great hope
for the future: St. Augustine Normal and Industrial School, Raleigh,
N. C.; St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Va., and
the Bishop Payne Divinity School, Petersburg, Va. In these schools we
are educating for our part of the South workmen, teachers, business and
professional men, and clergymen. We are combining in them education for
the hand, for the head, for the heart, and for the spirit of man; we are
giving these negroes the education that trains for life in all its
phases, fitting them to be workers and leaders among their people. You
have heard of the "Church Institute for the Negro." I beg you will give
it your hearty sympathy and cordial co-operation. The good purpose of
the Institute is to raise money first for these three Institutions, to
lift them forward and to so increase the area of their influence that
they will do in the Church a work similar to that done outside the
Church by Hampton and Tuskegee. After pl