He had almost reached the end of it when a person whose name was called last rose from his seat near the front, where all the newly received members were in the habit of sitting together, and, turning partly around so as to face the congregation and still address Philip, he said: "Mr.Strong, I do not feel as if after what has taken place here this morning that I could unite with this church.

This man who has been excluded from church membership is the son of a woman born into slavery on the estate of one of my relatives.

That slave woman once nursed her master through a terrible illness and saved his life.

This man, her son, was then a little child.

But in the strange changes that have gone on since the war, the son of the old master has been reduced to poverty and obliged to work for a living.