, New York, in 1879. He was the youngest
member of that body. Upon his motion fraternal representatives were
sent to the various Colored denominations of Methodists. He was
appointed in 1881 as a delegate from the M. E. Church to the
Ecumenical Conference at London, England. He was the caucus nominee of
the Colored delegates to the General Conference in Cincinnati in 1880
for bishop. He was always opposed to caste discriminations in Church,
State, or society. He has opposed Colored conferences and a Colored
bishop as tending to perpetuate discriminations. He does not oppose
the election of Colored men, but wishes that every honor may fall upon
them because of merit and not on account of their color. He has become
famous as an eloquent preacher, safe teacher, ready speaker, and
earnest worker; always aiming to do the greatest good to the greatest
number. Certainly the Methodist Episcopal Church has reason to be
proud of Marshall W. Taylor.

In this Church there are many other worthy and able Colored preachers.
The relations they sustain to the eloquent, scholarly, and pious white
clergymen of the denomination are pleasant and beneficial. It is an
education. And the fact that the best pulpits of white men are opened
to the Colored preachers is a prophecy that race antagonisms in the
Christian Church, so tenacious and harmful, are to perish speedily.

FOOTNOTES:

[130] Stevens's Hist. of M. E. Church, pp. 174, 175; also Lednum, p.
282.

[131] And there was not a single State where this rule could be
applied. Slavery ruled the land.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE COLORED BAPTISTS OF AMERICA.

THE COLORED BAPTISTS AN INTELLIGENT AND USEFUL PEOPLE.--THEIR
LEADING MINISTERS IN MISSOURI, OHIO, AND IN NEW ENGLAND.--THE
BIRTH, EARLY LIFE, AND EDUCATION OF DUKE WILLIAM ANDERSON.--AS
FARMER, TEACHER, PREACHER, AND MISSIONARY.--HIS INFLUENCE IN THE
WEST.--GOES SOUTH AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR.--TEACHES IN A
THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.--CALLED TO
WASHINGTON.--PASTOR OF 19TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.--HE OCCUPIES
VARIOUS POSITIONS OF TRUST.--BUILDS A NEW CHURCH.--HIS LAST
REVIVAL.--HIS SICKNESS AND DEATH.--HIS FUNERAL AND THE GENERAL
SORROW AT HIS LOSS.--LEONARD ANDREW GRIMES, OF BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS.--HIS PIETY, FAITHFULNESS AND PUBLIC INFLUENCE FOR
GOOD.--THE COMPLETION OF HIS CHURCH.--HIS LAST DAYS AND SUDDEN
DEATH.--GENERAL SORROW.--RESOLUTIONS B