...literal obeying of the puritan and ascetic standard of morals which Methodism imposed on the freedmen; but condition and temperament have modified these....work is done and special meetings held to aid special projects. The race problem in all its phases is continually being discussed, and, indeed, from this...

...Negro church has become a centre of social intercourse to a degree unknown in white churches. . . . Consequently all movements for social betterment are apt to centre in the churches." 2 Almost 100 years later, in their 1990 The Black Church in the African-Ametican Expetience, Eric Lincoln...

...first, and religious afterwards." Because of its centrality as a black institution, Du Bois concluded "all movements for social betterment are apt to centre in the churches" where the "race problem in all its phases is continually being discussed." Yet his praise of the church...

...church was poised to become "a centre of social intercourse to a degree unknown in white churches. . . . Consequently all movements for social betterment are apt to centre in the churches." Almost 100 years later, in their ground-breaking 1990 book, The Black Church in the African-American...

...church because of it potent agency (Morris 1984). Engaging in prediction, DuBois declared in 1899 that "all movements for social betterment are apt to centre in the churches. The race problem in all its phases is continually being discussed, and, indeed, from this forum many...