CHAPTER XXVI.. The Colored Baptists of America.

THE COLORED BAPTISTS OF AMERICA.

The Colored Baptists an Intelligent and Useful People.--Their Leading Ministers in Missouri, Ohio, and in New England.--The Birth, Early Life, and Education of Duke William Anderson.--As Farmer, Teacher, Preacher, and Missionary.--His Influence in the West.--Goes South at the Close of the War.--Teaches in a Theological Institute at Nashville, Tennessee.--Called to Washington.--Pastor of 19th Street Baptist Church.--He occupies Various Positions of Trust.--Builds a New Church.--His Last Revival.--His Sickness and Death.--His Funeral and the General Sorrow at his Loss.--Leonard Andrew Grimes, of Boston, Massachusetts.--His Piety, Faithfulness, and Public Influence for Good.--The Completion of his Church.--His Last Days and Sudden Death.--General Sorrow.--Resolutions by the Baptist Ministers of Boston.--A Great and Good Man Gone 475