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`` Reverend '', he said, `` I think you don't quite understand the situation here.

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

Tenements, stores, saloons, some gambling, I hope not too much.

The colored people are getting employment at Kent House and other places, and they are near their places of employment.

When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

By that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.