The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 303
perhaps, lost all knowledge
of the true God and had
doubtless embraced a corrupted form of religious worship.
They would learn of God from the Israelites ; they
would abandon their idolatry and accept the religion
Israel ; they would abandon amalgamation and live in
obedience to the law of God. The Israelites might
"make marriages" with them.
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They were not forbidden
to do this. Thus, in the course of time, these people
would become an inseparable part of
the Jewish empire,
and would "serve" Israel in its efforts to increase the
Adamic fiesh of the earth, and 'exterminate the mixedbloods.
This indicates that the Israelites of that day
were not confined in their marriage alliances to the tribes
of Israel. All that God required of them was that their
marriages be made with pure Adamic stock.
Thus it becomes evident that it was the desire of
God that his ''chosen people" should be * 'peculiar" in
that they would never descend to amalgamation. * But
that Israel should be the leaven that should leaven to
God the whole lump of humanity.
Under their salutary
influence the Adamic family would be brought to a
knowledge of God. Divine worship would supercede
idolatry. The mixed -bloods would be exterminated
and amalgamation made a capital offense throughout the
world. But instead of doing this, we are taught both by
sacred and profane history that the Israelites not only
violated the law of God by descending to amalgamation,
but renounced His worship and embraced idolatry.
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