The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

38 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
Man alone was created "in the image of God;''
the fish and fowl and beast, like the plants, were
made after their kinds. Man alone is responsible to
God for his acts; the lower animals are responsible to
man, under whose "dominion" they were placed in the
creation, and into whose "hands" God delivered them
after their preservation from the deluge. Man alone
in his * 'first estate" was clothed with Divine authority
to **have dominion" and he alone fell from this high
"estate" by his wanton violation of Divine ,law.
Hence, man alone is the subject of redemption.
Man was created "in the image of God" — male
and female— a single pair
— distinct from the
fish and
fowl and beast, which, like the plants, were made
after their kind. This is the teaching of the scriptural
narrative of Divine creation.
Man is a highly developed species of ape — the
human species— and this human species is divisible
into five races of men— the Negro, the Malay, the Indian,
the Mongolian, and the Caucasian. This is the
teaching of the atheistic theory of Natural Development,
which thrusts God aside and declares that man,
the most complex organism,
is merely a development
from the most simple. Hence, according to this theory,
man traces his pedigree back through
the beast
and fowl and fish to the lowest form of animal.
The absolute conflict between the teachings of
these opposing schools — Divine Creation
Development — is apparent.
and Natural
Hence, if that most com-