The Pulpit in Relation to Race Elevation

Grimke urges ministers to use the pulpit’s unique influence to elevate newly freed Black people, teaching moral and religious basics. He condemns self-serving clergy who hinder progress.

Francis James Grimké was an American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and long-serving pastor of Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., known for his powerful preaching and nearly fifty years of faithful gospel ministry. Over the course of his ministry, Grimké exercised broad influence through preaching, writing, denominational participation, and the mentoring of younger ministers, leaving a lasting mark on American Presbyterian life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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