---
title: 'Earnest Words from a Colored Missionary'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Francis James Grimké'
date: 1887-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
scriptures:
- 'Ezekiel 3'
- 'Matthew 25'
- 'Galatians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/grimke-1887-earnest-words-from-a-colored-missionary
---

# Earnest Words from a Colored Missionary

Editorial urging the Presbyterian Church to intensify work among freedmen at home—schools, ministers, and funding—warning of moral consequences and citing Ezekiel and Matthew.

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