The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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modern world because of its antiquity,
and the fact
that the church g-ave it to us; no inquiry as to its
orig-in or its nature has ever been made, thoug'h its
demoralizing, degrading- results confront us on every
hand. The universal acceptance of this atheism insured
it from assault. Hence, no effort has ever been
made to eradicate it from the church. On the contrary,
it is assiduously taught in every relation in life
from the cradle to the grave. Hence, the man who
would attempt to prove that this teaching
of the
church is all wrong would be denounced as a fit subject
for the **fool-kiiler," a traitor to his "species," a
disgrace to his "race."
In this work, the theory that man is a "species"
which is divisible
into "races" is assailed for the first
time in ages; its origin is investigated and laid bare;
its opposition to the teachings of Scripture is-exposed
and its destructive results to Christianity clearly
shown.
While the church has been active in disseminating
this theory from generation to generation for
ages, Paul's terrific assault upon atheism, of which
this theory is an inseparable part, has, as might have
been expected, lain as silent in the Bible as the remains
of its great author have lain in the grave.
In this work, for the first time in ages, an investigation
is made as to the cause of which Paul's teaching
was but the effect. He was battling with some opposing
teaching, and we find that he was assailing* the
theory of atheism which threatened in his day to de-