The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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^'inhabited," and so remained for forty years- This
shows that a country which is occupied solely by mixed -
bloods is in the eyes of
God
*
'waste
and desolate" and
not "inhabited." Yet the modern church is expending
millions of dollars annually in the vain, criminal effort
to Christianize these degraded creatures which God has
declared to be only fit for dung on the face of the earth.
The attitude of the modern clergy toward the negro
is in striking contrast to
that of David, who, in discussing
God's creation of man, says: "Thou madest him to
have dominion over the works of thy hands ;
thou has
put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, yea,
and the beasts of the field." (Ps. viii, 6, 7-) David
realized that he had no **brother in black;" on the contrary,
he recognized the negro as a beast,
"the beast of
the field." But then David also realized that man was
a distinct creation **in the image of God" and that he
was not a highly developed species of
ape — the * 'human
species" — of which the White is the highest and the
Negro the lowest race. This, of course, would explain
the dffference.
Further evidence that our views as to the characters
peculiar to man must be materially modified is shown by
the narrative of the Fall, as follows:
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast
of the field which the I^ord God had made. And he said
to the woman. Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto
the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the