The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

26 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
that lovely helpmeet whom God had made for him.
**This is now bone of mj bones, and flesh of my
flesh ;
she shall be called woman, bec^ause she was
taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother and cleave unto his wife ;
and
they shall be one flesh."
We would vainly search the annals of the world
for a sentiment more chaste, more elevated, and more
devotional than this, to the fair sex of our mother ;
not one of the gallant knights who wielded a lance in
the age of chivalry ever gave expression
to a sentiment
more chivalrous toward the lad}- of
his choice,
whose feelings
and whose honor he stood pledged to
defend with his life.
Man, the male, and woman, the female, are "the
opposite but mutually dependent sides or parts" of
the spiritual life system of the globe ;
and the
presence
of each is essential to the existence and
perpetuation of the system. Hence, "it is not good
that man should be alone."
In addition to this, the presence of woman has
exerted a beneficial influence upon the man throughout
the ages that have passed. All history, sacred
and profane, and all tradition, ancient and modern,
and all observation and experience combine to teach
us:
**That man is the cloud of coming storm,
Darjc as the raven's murky plume,
Save where the sunbeams light and warm
Of woman's soul and woman's form
Gleams brightly o'er the gathering gloom."