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CHURCH AND SCHOOL.
Reconstruction in the state was closely related to reconstruction in the churches and the schools.

Here also were to be found the same hostile elements: Negro and white, Unionist and Confederate, victor and vanquished.

The church was at that time an important institution in the South, more so than in the North, and in both sections more important than it is today.

It was inevitable, therefore, that ecclesiastical reconstruction should give rise to bitter feelings.
Something should be said of conditions in the churches when the Federal armies occupied the land.