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wholly cut you off from the communion of the church,
with a view to your repentance and its purification." If
a white member should by force or intimidation, day after
day, deprive another white member of his property, the
authorities of the churches would expel him from their
body, should he refuse to malie restitution or reparation,
although it could not be enforced except through the
tribunals, over which they have no control.  There is,
then, notbing to prevent these authorities from saying to
the slave-holder, " Cease being a slaveholder and remain.
in the church, or continue a slaveholder and go out of it.
You heave your choice."
   X. The slave states make it penal to teach the slaves
to read. So also some of them to teach thefree colored
peopIle to, read. Thus a free colored parent may suffer the
penalty for teaching his own children to read even the
Scriptures. None of the slave-holding churches, or re-
ligious bodies, so far as is known, have, at any time,
remonstrated with the legislatures against this iniquitous
legislation, or petitioned for its repeal or modification.
Nor have they reproved or questioned such of their mem-
bers, as, being also members of the legislatures, sanctioned
such legislation by their votes.
  XI. There is no systematic instruction of the slave-
members of churches, either orally or in any other way.
  XII. Uniting with a church makes no change in the
condition of slaves at home. They are thrown back just
as before, among their old associates, and subjected to
their corrupting influences.
  XIII. But little pains are taken to secure their attend-
ance at public worship on Sundays.
  XIV. The " house-servants " are rarely present at
f amily worship ; the "field-hands," never.
  XV. It is only one here and there who seems to have
any intelligent views of the nature of Christianity, or of
a future life.
  XVI. In the AMethodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and
Episcopal churches, the colored people, during service,
sit in a particular part of the house, now generally known
as the negro pew. They are not permitted to sit in any
other, nor to hire or purchase pews as other people, nor
would they be permitted to sit, even if invited, in the pews
of white persons. 'TIis applies to all colored persons,