Q. Does not social ostracism show that the white teacher is engaged in a Foreign Mission?

A. Social ostracism is gradually giving way among the more intelligent Christian people.  Nothing, however, dies so hard as prejudice, and nothing is so cruel; but missions do not cease to be Home Missions, because they may be where there is sinful prejudice and dense ignorance.

Q. What would be Foreign Missions in the South?

A. Missions in the South which would treat an entire race as foreigners and aliens because in God’s wisdom he has seen fit to make them black, would be foreign to the spirit of the Gospel:  “For He is our peace who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.  Through Him, we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.  Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the general household of God, and built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord.”  Missions in the South which exclude pastors and delegates from Associations and Conferences, would be foreign to the Gospel.  Missions in the South founded upon an aristocracy of skin, would be foreign to the spirit of the Gospel.  Missions which would preach against caste in India, and perpetuate it in America, would be foreign to the methods of Christ, and to Christian methods in foreign lands.

Q. Does the A.M.A. believe in mixed churches of white and black people?

A. The A.M.A. does not regard it as at all probable that such churches will exist to any great extent.  Race tastes and race affiliations will make for churches essentially white and essentially black.  “But to close the door on any Christian is in so far to make it an unchristian church.  To go into the South and establish white churches from which, whether by a formal law or by an unwritten but self-forcing edict, men are excluded because God made them black, is to deny one of the fundamental tenets of Christ.  There is no need to attempt to corral all men of all races in one enclosure, but for any church, especially a church of the Puritans, to enter upon a missionary work in the South and initiate it by refusing to fellowship a black man because he is black, is to apostatize from the faith in order to get a chance to preach the faith.”  The doors of every Christian church ought to stand wide open to men of every race and color, and in all representative bodies these churches should be one.

Q. Is this the position of the Roman Catholic Church in its Southern work?

A. It is:  The Roman Catholic Church would not for a moment recognize any color-line in its assemblies or priesthood.

Q. Does the A.M.A. believe in the social equality of the races?

A. The A.M.A. has never seen any social equality anywhere, and believes and teaches nothing about it.  It believes in the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.