1 When Sunday came, the captain invited me to conduct the religious services, but, not being a minister, I declined.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 2 The plan that we have followed has been for me to speak in the morning to the ministers, teachers, and professional men.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 3 The improvement that has taken place in the character of the teachers is even more marked than in the case of the ministers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 4 The improvement in the character and life of the Negro ministers is one of the most gratifying evidences of the progress of the race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 5 In fact, some time ago I knew a certain church that had a total membership of about two hundred, and eighteen of that number were ministers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 6 What I said soon reached every Negro minister in the country, I think, and the letters of condemnation which I received from them were not few.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 7 What I have said concerning the character of the schoolhouses and teachers will also apply quite accurately as a description of the church buildings and the ministers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 8 In my efforts to get money I have often been surprised at the patience and deep interest of the ministers, who are besieged on every hand and at all hours of the day for help.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 9 When we add the number of wholly ignorant men who preached or "exhorted" to that of those who possessed something of an education, it can be seen at a glance that the supply of ministers was large.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 10 In still another cabin I found nothing but a new jug of cheap, mean whiskey, which the husband and wife were making free use of, notwithstanding the fact that the husband was one of the local ministers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 11 President William McKinley attended this meeting, as did also the members of his Cabinet, many foreign ministers, and a large number of army and navy officers, many of whom had distinguished themselves in the war which had just closed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 12 While this is not yet complete by any means, I think I may say, without egotism, and I have been told by many of our most influential ministers, that my words had much to do with starting a demand for the placing of a higher type of men in the pulpit.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.