God’s Dealings with the Negro
A survey of the American Negro condition. By Richard Mayers. Several chapters are long fictionalized dialogue. Printed in 1919.
“...The promise made 60 years ago by the slaves, that if freed they would serve God, has not been kept much. A woman whose congregation greatly admired their last pastor was asked whether it was not that they went to church to please the pastor, because the pastor pleased them. She said, “Yes!” I said then, “You do not go to serve Jesus Christ, but to please yourself and the pastor.” She answered, “Yes.”