You doubtless are fully acquainted with the attitude of the Church regarding colored people. As you know, the Church has already drawn the line against the mixture of the colored with the white in marriage. [T]he colored people cannot hold the priesthood. . . No special effort has been made to proselytize among the Negro race, and social intercourse between the Whites and the Negroes should certainly not be encouraged beca[u]se of leading to intermarriage, which the Lord has forbidden