The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

98 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
designed as the victim of divine whim. But how was
man to subdue the earth, and not personally
till the
ground? How was he to develop
all the resources
of this globe and not eat bread in the sweat of his
face? Upon the impulse of the moment, we would
naturally decide that no amount of reasoning could
possibly reconcile these apparently irreconcilable propositions.
But when we pause to reflect that each
of these are divine propositions; that they had
a common origin in the fountain of all truth,
then our reverence for God — if we have any
reverence for God— forbids the thought
that there
can by possibility be the slightest contradiction
between them; for we know that just as harmou}^ perlades
all of God's works, so does consistency characterize
his ever}' utterance. Thus, when we turn
upon the Narrative of the Fall, the inspired light of
the Narrative of Creation, the fact becomes plain that
it was not the original design of the Creator that
man, the son of God, should be the subject of physical
toil, beyond such as is inseparable from mental toil.
Hence, we have no alternative than to decide that
there must be among the animals some creature upon
which God bestowed mental ability and physical form
in such near approach to man, as would enable him,
in the capacity of servant, to perform the manual
labor necessary
to subdue the earth under man's control.
When wi a^^eal to
science to identify this creature,
she prbmptly invades the so-called *
'human