In the middle of 1930, a man named Ruthford D. Griffith, aged 78, began to attend the mission with his wife. He claimed that he had been a missionary in Africa, and that he had pastored several African American congregations. Before long, he offered his services to Jennie Seymour. In exchange for some preaching, she provided the couple with temporary housing adjacent to her apartment upstairs in the mission. Before long, Griffith had decided that he could replace her as the pastor. He began by recruiting people who would vote for him. He argued that the mission was in violation of its
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