If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christlike work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last thirty-five years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
Washington declares in his autobiography that the extensive philanthropic efforts of American churches toward the advancement of Black people solidified his belief in the Christian way of life.
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