The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
*'And God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented
the lyord that he had made inan on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of the earth; both
man and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of
the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.''
(Gen. vi, 5-6-7.)
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But just at this critical juncture, the most critical
that man has ever known, when the hand of Almighty
God was raised in his just wrath to destroy from the
earth which their shameless crime had corrupted the last
vestige of the seed of man, ''Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord.'' (Gen. vi, 8.) Why? "Noah was
a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God." (Gen. vi, 9.)
It will be observed that there are
three characteristics
here recorded of Noah, which are assigned as so
many reasons why "Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord:" (l) "Noah was a just man;'' (2) he was
''perfect in his generations;" (3) "Noah walked with
God." The first and third characteristics are happily
not uncommon, for in
sacred history various individuals
are accredited with similar characteristics. The second
characteristic is common to every pure-blooded descendant
of Adam. But the record of it, unlike the choracistic
itself, is peculiar to Noah. It is not significant that
in all sacred history there is just this one individual of