The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 201
*'*"Then," said David to the Philistine, "This day
will the Lord deliver thee into my hand. ^ ^ *
^nd
I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines
this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts
of the earth." [l. Sam. xvii. :45-46.J
This indicates that there were ''wild beasts of the
earth*' in that region in that day. They had doubtless
been emancipated. And it is significant that every on€
of the great nations of that region, with the exception of
a scattered remnant of the Israelites, are destroyed from
off the earth and their civilizations are in ruins. Later
on, we shall have occasion to refer to the Philistine's
challenge to David, with its accompanying threat.
the Bib^e plainly teaches that there is a
that is a man eater.
Thus,
"beast," or ape,
Yet, not one of the recognized apes
of to-day, are man eaters. What became of this great
man-eating ape? When we appeal to science to solve
this problem, she promptl}^ invades the so-called "human
species," and points us to the Negro, as the highest grade
of ape, and the only ape that is a man eater. The
Negro is not only a man eater, but he feeds upon the
flesh of his own kindred, and -even upon his own offspring,
as v/ell as upon that of otlier apes. Tliough the
Negro made his appearance upon the earth as the ''beast
of the earth," and is sometimes referred to by that name,
it is not the only name, nor the one most frequentl}^ applied
to him in scripture. This was simply the name
which God applied to the Negro previous to the creation
of man. The task of naming the animals devolved upon