do justice to the
negro? How shall we keep him still in the One Holy Catholic Church in
the United States of America and bestow on him her priceless blessings;
how shall we keep him close enough to receive the sympathy, the support
and the guidance of the white race; and yet put him far enough apart to
grow and to strengthen, to meet responsibility and to make character, to
develop a manly independence and to cultivate a brave and sober
initiative? We have long given up the point of contact in the one parish
Church, and have made the separation there; we are now giving up the
point of contact in the Diocesan Council, and are making the separation
there. What more shall we do? The true answer to my mind is: make the
point of contact the General Convention, and make the separation, not by
superior and inferior Councils in the same Diocese under the one Bishop;
but by the erection of Missionary Jurisdictions, made up out of the
colored people in different Dioceses under their own Bishop, on equality
with any other Missionary Jurisdiction in the Church. We must have
Missionary Jurisdictions in the South--one, or at most, two to begin
with--composed of the negroes of two or more contiguous Dioceses, which
shall be a part of the General Church, independent of the Bishops and
Councils of those Dioceses, bearing the same relation to the General
Convention that the white Missionary Jurisdictions do. That is to say,
they shall have their representatives to the House of Clerical and Lay
Delegates and their Bishops in the House of Bishops. The negro clergy
and laity would thus meet together in their Missionary Convocation in
numbers great enough to hearten one another and to stir enthusiasm; they
would become responsible for their own success or failure; they would
discuss, resolve and do their own committee work; they would have large
missionary gatherings, which would make a deep impression on the negroes
living in the city where the Convocation meets.

Of what race should be the Bishop of this negro Missionary Jurisdiction?
There are two answers to this question. One answer comes from those in
the Church who still cling to the theory that there must be no race
division whatever in the Church, that there must be under all conditions
conceivable or inconceivable one Bishop in the same territory to all
kinds, classes and races of people. "No," say they, "no negro Bishop.
Whatever be your divisions in Councils or Convocations or Con