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sit beside his coachman, or valet, and the woman to sit beside her baby's
nurse. The difficulty is the unwillingness to permit a former subject class
to come up and stand, in life, beside the former master class. White and
black will work to gether in the field, and drink together in the saloon,
but, the more the black man developes his higher powers, the more does the
white man resent it and seek to shut him off by himself in the use of those
powers, ar altogether prevent him from using them. Can any one doubt what
our Lord would say to that? And must we not soon face him and this record!
It is precisely what our missionaries face in India.

I know the heart of the Negro, and I know tht it is deeply cut and
pained by this new and latest blow. I wonder if God will make separate
places in heaven for them and us. I wonder how the menory of this segrega-
tion will appear to us then. Not as a citizen to the President, but as
one follower of Jesus to another, may I entreat you to permit nothing which,
as you see it, Christ in your place would not permit. While I have strong
convictions on the subject, I would not presume to mark out your path, but
I am sure that our Lord will make known his will and give you courage to
follow it, and I am praying that you may so handle the question that the
final "Inasmuch" may be one of divine approval.

Yours sincerely,
A. Eugene Thomsen

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