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He rented a house in the city of L. and being of a fair complexion I suppose the lessee rented to him without having a suspicion of his race connection . When it was ascertained that he and his family were colored , he was ordered to leave , and this man , holding among the ministers of that city the position of ambassador for Christ , was ordered out of the house on account of the complexion of his family . Was there not a screw loose in the religious sentiment of that city which made such an act possible ? A friend of mine who does mission work in your city , some time since , found a young woman in the slums and applied at the door of a midnight mission for fallen women , and asked if colored girls could be received , and was curtly answered , ` no . ' For her in that mission there was no room . The love of Christ constrained no hand to strive to rescue her from the depths of degradation . The poor thing went from bad to worse till at last , wrecked and blighted , she went down to an early grave the victim of strong drink .