The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 271
curse was pronounced ag-ainst a certain class of Jews,
who desired to mix Judaism with Christianity,
it is
strictly applicable to the modern Christian who mixes
atheism wnth Christianity. The inspired apostle insisted
that the g-ospel of Christ, based squarely on the
Narrative of Divine Creation, should be preached in
its purity. This modern gospel, based squarely on
the Theory of Natural Development, is certainly another
gospel than that of Jesus Christ which Paul
preached.
The most unprecedented effort is being- made by
the professedly Christian world to extend the g'ospel
of Christ to the neg^roes and mixed-bloods of the earth.
Each relig-ious sect wants all of these degraded creatures
in its fold. The most openly avowed effort in
this direction was made by "Bishop Nelson of the
Episcopal diocese of Georgia
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Duty to
St. Paul's church (New Orleans) to a \cry large congregation
on the subject: 'Our Relations and
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the Colored Keice.'
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Bishop Nelson took as
his text Isaieih
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xliii, 6, 7.
Bishop Nelson
announced as his first proposition that Christ was the
Savior of all races. Although
the head of a diocese
containing over 1,000,000 whites he would be
recreant to his duty if
he did not consider himself the
bishop of the blacks as well, and to the extent of his
power as far as limitations permitted, strive for the
welfare of the 900,000 blacks as well as the welfare
of the whites in the state of Georgia.
The race prob-