The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

28 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
fowl or beast. Hence we are emphatically taught
that there is no kinship between man and the animals ;
but that the kinship
is between God and man.
We should also note the broad distinction in point
of
numbers and variety which God made in the creation
between the representatives of the spiritual life
of the g-lobe, as presented in man, and the representatives
of mere animal life, and those of plant
life. The plants and the fish and fowl and beast
Avere all made in great numbers and in great variety.
While there are such resemblances between certain
plants, and between certain animals, as justifies the
naturalist in deciding that they are of the same
family or species, there are such dififerences between
certain members of these families or species as justifies
the naturalist in deciding that they are different
races. These, whether of plant or lish or fowl or
beast, were all made after their kind. But not so
with man. Man Avas not made after any kind, but
was created "in the image of God." Neither w^as
man made in great numbers and varieties, but was
created a single pair. Hence, unlike the plants and
fish
and fowl and beast, man was not made in species
and races, but is a distinct creation. Had God desired
man, like the plants and animals, to be a
species, divisible into races, no good reason could be
advanced as to why he did not so create them.
Had there been a plurality of gods, man w^ould
have been created a species, comprising a greater or