The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

330 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
ig-nores the needs of its home people, and expresses
itself on distant continents so far from covering- "a
multitude of sins" can never cast the sligfhtest shadow
upon
the most trivial offense.
From the Southern Presbyterian of Feb. 12th,
1898, we learn that in the previous year (1897), ''The
total income of British foreign missionary and kindred
societies was $8,054,196.
In the United States, a total
of $4,333,611. And the contributions of Canada,
$283,706. Making- a g-rand total of $12,671,513.
Thus, by the authority of these so-called Evangelical
churches, the people of Europe and America are
begged, cajoled and bullied out of more than twelve
and a half millions of dollars annually for foreign
missions, while in many sections of our country the
people for whom the gospel was intended are left
without it. And what does it all amount to? It does
these miserable products of God's violated law no
good and brings down upon us the curses of God.
Millions have been wasted in Africa and elsewhere,
and many misguided men and women have been killed
and eaten by these degraded creatures.
China presents a
fair specimen;
for centuries the
Chinese have been associated with the people of Europe
and America, and today they are as treacherous and
savage as the Indian. They have recently violated
the for-
every principle of national honor by assailing
eign legations and murdering the representatives of
friendly powers; they tortured the soldiers who were