In this respect he was like two of his contemporaries, Rev.Josiah Law[1] of Georgia and Bishop Polk of Louisiana.[2] Denouncing the policy of getting all one could out of the slaves and of giving back as little as possible, Jones undertook to show how their spiritual improvement would exterminate their ignorance, vulgarity, idleness, improvidence, and irreligion; Jones thought that if the circumstances of the Negroes were changed, they would equal, if not excel, the rest of the human family "in majesty of intellect, elegance of manners, purity of morals, and ardor of piety."[3] He feared that white men might cherish a contempt for Negroes that would cause them to sink lower in the scale of intelligence, morality, and religion.

Emphasizing the fact that as one class of society rises so will the other, Jones advocated the mingling of the classes together in churches, to create kindlier feelings among them, increase the tendency of the blacks to subordination, and promote in a higher degree their mental and religious improvement.

He was sure that these benefits could never result from independent church organization.[4] [Footnote 1: Rev.Josiah Law was almost as successful as Jones in carrying the gospel to the neglected Negroes.

His life is a large chapter in the history of Christianity among the slaves of that commonwealth.

See Wright, _Negro Education in Georgia_, p.