DEAR SIR:--My woman, Clarissa Hill, has expressed a wish to unite herself in Christian communion with the church of which you are the acting minister. She is a most faithful servant, and one, of whom it affords me pleasure to say, that I believe she endeavors to conform to the great principles of her faith, and I believe she will be an exemplary and honorable member of your church, should you think proper to receive her as such. She has belonged to me for sixteen years, during which time her conduct has been most unexceptionably moral, and therefore, I cheerfully consent to her being baptized and admitted to your communion. Very respectfully, etc., C. S. M.] [Footnote 10: Three years later this convention sent six missionaries to Africa. These were J. H. Pressly, W. W. Cooley together with their wives, J. J. Coles and H. McKinney. The National Convention was organized in 1880, out of a protest against the attitude of certain whites toward the Negroes and they have since continued as a separate body having a publishing house of their own rather than patronize the American Baptist Publication Society.] INDEX Abbott, Lyman, interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Abrams, Joseph, a Negro preacher in Richmond, 163 Adams, Henry, pioneer Negro preacher in Louisville, 119 Adams, J. B., pastor of the Concord Baptist Church, 282 Afflictions, the effect of, 301-302 Africa, missionary work in, impeded, 309-311 African Civilization Society, the, achievements of, 211-212 A. M. E. Church, the establishment of, 72-78; troubles of, with the Zionites, 81-85; schools of, 205; educational program, 212 A. M. E. Zion Church, the beginnings of, 78-85; indecision of, 81-85; struggles of, 82-84; schism in, 106-107; schools of, 206 African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church of America, established, 192 African Union Church organized, 107 Alabama, Negro churches in, 118; reactionary laws of, 132; Presbyterians in, 155, 156-157 Alexander, Dr. A., a friend of John Gloucester, 66 Allen, Richard, the work of, 73-78; recognition of, 73; early efforts, 74-75; elected bishop, 76; death of, 101 Allen University, the establishment of, 205 Allensworth, Allen, religious work of, 229; in politics, 229-230 Ambrose, F., a pioneer C. M. E. worker, 196 American Baptist Home Mission Association, efforts of, 209 American Baptist Home Mission Society, the, achievements of, 203, 209-210; the attack on, 261-264 American Freedmen's Aid Commission, the work of, 212 American Freedmen's Union Commission, the establishment of, 213 American Missionary Association, schools of, 203-204 American Union Commission, the, achievements of, 212-213