The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

?46 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
sexual relations with a beast had rendered him unfit
for the companionship of a pure woman.
Besides, God's
decree bound Cain in the relation of husband all his life
long to this
beast, and forever debarred him from holding
sexual relations with women.
Hence, the beautiful
Adamic woman, who, in all her virgin lovelinessi would
have been the wife of
Cain, would now become the wife
of his brother, Abel. In his jealous rage upon realizing
this, we might find an explanation of why ''Cain rose
up against Abel his brother and slew him. ' '
The correctness of our interpretation of God's sentence
upon Cain and his accomplice in sin— that it
bound them together in the relation of husband and wife
— is fully sustained by the scriptural record, which
shows that subsequent to this event Cain is accredited
with a wife, while prior to this event he is merely accredited
with a paramour of strange flesh, with whom he
committed fornication. The record is as follows:
"And Cain went out from the presence of the I^ord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Kden.
And
Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch."
(Gen. iv, 16-17.)
This scriptural record forms a part of a genealogical
table, which shows the line of descent for five generations,
and gives the name, occupation, etc., of the most
prominent character in each generation of his descendants
during that period of time.
We desire to call special attention to the fact that
there is absolutely nothing in this record which indicates