The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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wives by the first day of the month.'* (Kzra x, 2, 3,
etc.)
Why were these females whom the men of Israel
were compelled to **put away," together with their offspring
by them, termed ''strange wives?" Evidently it
was not because they were not Israelites. The people
of the cities * Very far off" with whom the Israelites
were permitted to marry were not descendants of Abraham.
It was because they were not of pure Adamic
flesh; they were * 'strange wives" because they were of
strange flesh. They were mixed -bloods, resulting from
amalgamation between Man and the Negro. And God
could foresee that if the Israelites continued to take these
"strange wives" and intermarry with their progeny they
would finally absorb and destroy the Adamic flesh of
Israel. This disastrous result accomplished, God's
promise
to Abraham that all the families of the earth
shall be blessed in him could never have been fulfilled.
Thus, not only was God's Plan of Creation involved in
this "matter" but His plighted word was at stake.
Hence, God afiiicted the men of Israel until they made
"confession" of their sin and put away their "strange
wives" and such as "were born of them."
It will be observed
that this crime was confined to the men of
Israel. The women of Israel, be it said to their honor,
had not disgraced their sex by taking strange husbands.
We desire to call special attention to this, as evidence
that the teachings of Scripture upon this subject harmonize
with the teachings of science that amalgamation
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