Negro ministers, restrictions upon, 131; the authority of, 278-279; unique position of, 281-282; still numerous, 304-305; in conflict with southern white ministers, 305-306; a redeeming force, 301 Negro schools established after the Civil War, 203-219 Negroes, the religious point of view of, 146-147 New England Missionary Convention, the, 200 New England, missionary work of, among Negroes, 15-17; Negro churches in, 121 New Haven, Connecticut, Negro Congregational Church in, 99 New Jersey, the conversion of Negroes in, 12 New York, the instruction of Negroes in, 12-15 New York City, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in, organized, 88-89 Newman, Rev. Mr., preaching of, to Negroes in North Carolina, 9-10 Norman, M. W. D., a preacher of power, 282 North, Negro Baptists in, 120, 122 North Carolina, the instruction of Negroes in, 9-10; the work of the Quakers in, 18; Negro Baptists of, organized the first State Convention, 199-200 Northern philanthropy, change in, 263-264 Northwestern Baptist Convention, 200 Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission, the work of, 207 Ohio, Negro Baptists in, 122 Olivet Baptist Church, the success of, 278-279 Olmsted, F. L., comment of, on religious instruction, 149-151; interest of, in the freedmen, 212 O'Neal, J. B., ideas of, as to Negro uplift, 164 Opinions, differences of, a difficulty, 19-20 Osborne, Justice Henry, favorable to Andrew Bryan, 49 Paine, Bishop Robert, interest of, in Colored Methodists, 195-196 Paine College, the establishment of, 205 Palmer, founder of the Church at Silver Bluff, 41-42 Pamphlet, Gowan, a preacher of the Negro race in Virginia, 53 Panama, de Luna Victoria, a bishop in, 4 Parsippany, Presbyterian School at, 152 Patterson, Robert, an elder in Kentucky, 38 Paul, Thomas, a pioneer Negro Baptist preacher in New England, 88-91; work of, in Boston, 88; efforts of, in New York, 89-90; missionary efforts of, 90-91 Payne, Bishop Daniel A., early work of, 171-172 Payne, C. H., religious work of, 230; in politics, 230-231 Penn, William, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Pennington, J. W. C., the achievements of, 178-179 Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association, the efforts of, 207 Pennsylvania, the missionary movement in, 11-12 Perkins, R. J., a pioneer preacher of West Virginia, 240 Perry, Rufus L., religious and educational work of, 242-244 Peru, a Negro bishop in, 4 Peter, Jesse, the work of, in reviving the Silver Bluff Church, 42 Petersburgh, Virginia, Baptist Church in, 53, 85