The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

88 MAN, AND THE NEGRO,
famous theory, which degrades man to the level of the
brute, do so in ignorance of its infidelity, and of its destructive
results,
Thus, the history of
both in time and eternit}^.
the ancient Jewish church and
its priesthood repeats itself in that of the modern Christian
church and its priesthood, as shown by the following:
God looked down from heaven upon the children
of men, to see if there were 2i\\y that did understand,
that did seek God. Kverj^one of them is gone back ;
they are altogether become filthy; there is none that
doethgood, no, not one." T^s. liii. :2-3.] "Mj^ people
hath been lost sheep their
; shepherds have caused them
to astray; they have turned them away on the mountains;
they have gone from mountain to hill; they have
forgotten their resting place." [Jer. l.:6] "Many
pastors have destroyed my vineyard ; they have trodden
my portion under foot; they have made my pleasant' portion
a desolate wilderness. The whole land is made
desolate because no man laj^eth it to heart." [Jer.
xii.:10-ll.] "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy
the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord." [Jer.
xxiii. :1.)
The scriptures abound with assurances that there
will come a time v*^hen all men shall "w^orship God in
the beauty of holiness.'' But fully appreciating the
strength of
man's blind attachment to the Negro, in disregard
of the most positive evidence of his inferiorit}^
we refrain from speculating upon the course which will
be pursued by the modern Christian priesthood when