The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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MAIW AXD THE KEGRO,
The atheistic theory of
man's descent from the ape,
which seeks to establish a blood relationship between
man and the lowest orders of animal life, though no more
anti- scriptural, is really as irrational, and as unscientific
as that of the church, that the Negro is the son of Ham.
However, a comparison of its teachings with those of the
Bible enables us to realize that it was not through the
scriptural teaching that man is a distinct creation in the
image of God, that the Negro obtained his present unnatural
position in the family of man : but through the
pernicious influence of this atheistic tlieoiy, that man is
merely a highly developed "species'' of ape — the
"human species"
— of which the Negro is the lowest
race lience, our social, political, and religious relations
with the Negro are
not based upon scripture, but
upon atheism. But modern Christians should pause to
consider that in their vain, criminal
attempt to establish
a blood relationship between the flesh of man and that
of the ape, they have, to all intents and purposes, repudiated
the declaration of Paul, that the flesh of man is
a different kind of fiesh from that of the beast, and have
accepted this atheist theory, that all flesh is akin ;
that
they have repudiated the
scriptural teaching that man is
a distinct creation, in the image of God, to accept this
atheistic theory that man is a highly developed species
of ape — the "human species''
— of which the White is
the highest, and the Negro
the lowest race, vvith the
browns, reds and yellows as intermediate races, in diferent
stages of development.
They should bear in mind