Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Had a White Congregation. [ARTICLE]

Had a White Congregation.

“I saw in the little town of Corydon, Henderson County, the other day, a most unusual sight,” said a gentleman Just from the Pennyrile district. “It was nothing more nor less than a negro minister delivering an eloquent sermon to a congregation composed entirely of whites. It was a thing I had never seen In the South, and I remarked on it at the time. The minister was an itinerant prsacher, a tall mulatto, dressed in a black suit, and with an earnestness of manner I have seldom seen in the colored men of the cloth. The traveling servant of the Lord had announced his intention of speaking on the public square, and he preached to a good-sized crowd'of respectful white listeners.”—Louisville Tost.