The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11

parts with the human and inferior ami
mails 1ndestroyed ? 1t was Adam.
race who were the transgressors, anC
whom God had determined to punish
and this theory would leave the non
offending races TO avoid the catastro-
phe as they would have inferior ami
mails to do.
But let us see what the Bible says in
reference to the creation o fman. Let
us make man in our own image and
likeness, and let him have dominion"
etc. This does not necessarily imply
that there were no human animals Gre
ated before that time. The most that
can be learned from that declaration is
that was going to create a man in his
own image, to have q dominion over
all other created things, including all
other previous creations of men, if
such were-not he their equals, no
more than with the horse or other ami
mails created with him. Then perhaps
the first question would be, which one
of the races was created at that time,
which the descendants of Adam, since
it was these that were to have domin-
ion. We take it hat it was the Cauca-
sian, since whenever you find that race
in contact with another it subjugates
it. Again, Adam was placed on proba-
ton, and we know nothing of the orig
inals of any other race being so placed.
He transgressed the rule prescribed
for him, and incurred the penalty of
his transgression. But God, in His
mercy, made provision for restoring
him and his posterity again to the po-
sition he occupied in creation. That
was to be through Christ. Now Christ
was only provided for Adams race
The other races did not fall in Adam,
and consequently can never rise in
Christ. Hence we see hat all efforts of
Christian friends have never been able,
though at immense expense and suff-
ering, to plant Christianity permanent
ly in Africa, China, or even upon the
aborigines of this continent, or am
ongst any races of men but the white.
We may overpower and subjugate the
inferior races, and while under the in
iuence of the superior race they may
be induced to adopt our religion but
remove them from that influence, and
they Immediately abandon the faith
Why is this, unless that not having
fallen in Adam, they cannot rise in
Christ
And the promise of the whole world
being given in Christ, must mean the
world of Adam race. The teachingit
means tha' all races of men were to be-
come Christians, only serve to discred-
i: the Bible, because We see the efforts
to make ~proselytes are vain, except a
mong the Caucasian race. Therefore,
for the sake of the Bible, we should see
if the construction put on it by many
is not an error. If it proves SO, let US
adopt the truth, though il seem count
er to the views of some of our theolo-
gians for these views are not only in
juring Christianity, but destroying
man. Look at the history of any coun,
try where there has been a comming-
ling of races. Take Mexico, where
each and every race, and the hybrid
races resulting from their mixture,
have equal rights. We see they have
not prospered in the same ratio as we,
in this country, where the law of God
has been observed in the matter, and
one race had dominion. And if Adj
ans race was to have dominion by a
decree of God, is it not vain for man to
strive against the law This is the eff
fort now being made in this country (;
but it will fail, since man never has,
and never can successful ly contend
with his Maker.
But the advocates of a unity Of race
origin cite the declare ion of It. Paul
on Mars Hill, in Athens-Acts xvii,
26-when he said, ."and hath made of
one blood all nations of men for 10
dwell on all the face of the earth.-
Now, DR.. Adam Clarke says that in for
ty of the most authentic MSS. exam
ined by him, the word blood is omit
ted, and in Haydock's Bible it's not al
lowed a place. But does the text. if
admitted, prove the unity of the race ?
We must consider where and when it
was uttered, whom the speaker was adj
dressing, the subject of the address,
and what doctrines and principles he
was ~endeavoring to bring to their at
tention. The address was deliveredin
Athens. before the Supreme Court of
the nation, in the iftieth or fifty-frst
year of the Christian era and we may
well suppose he was addressing the
most learned and intelligent men of
the nation, if not the world. He was
speaking to his own race-at least we
have no evidence that any other was
there. He was q Roman citizen of
Hebrew birth, addressing q Greek au-
dience. The Romans, the Hebrews,
and the Greeks were alike descend
ants of Adam. He had been through
the city, and discovered that the peo-
pie were very religious, and had many
affairs. He commenced by abiding to
their habits of devotion, and told them
he had found an altar with the in
scription, ITO the Unknown Cod
This he said was the God he was pro-
claiming-for he had been arraigned
before the court on the charge Offset
ting up a new deity-that lie was the
author OF ali things, even of man
that He was Lord of heaven and earth;
that he should be worshipped as the