The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-04-26

sohs WIN them INTO The Ark ~ Noah
and his three sons entered into the Ark,
and 1T does not appear that any others
entered in.
In verse 10, "And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth, and all the
high hills that were under the Heaven
were covered" Goth verse, Fifteen cubits
upward did the waters prevail, and the
mountains were covered" 21st verse, "And
all flesh died that moved on the earth and
every man, verse 90, "And all in whose
nostrils was the breath of life, of all that
was of the dry land died; verse 49, and
they were destroyed from the earth, and
Noah only remained alive, and they that
were with him in the Ark"
Have we not now come to the end of all
created living things, except what were
with Noah in the Ark9 l think our most
eminent divines must acknowledge this, or
depart from the word of the Holy Book.
This being admitted; how are we to
account for all the different races of men
now on the eartho
Query, have there not been number of
creations since the flood > We have now
and have had for over 1000 years certain
knowledge the Mongolian and our Indian
races; the Negro and Hottentot are more
obscure, and the Oceanaca and MALAGA
Islanders that live in trees and swamps
like wild beasts. Now pray let me ask
where did those all come fromo Are thew
OF the Caucasian race, were they created
before the flood? Not so, for in the flood
all died, but Noah and his family: and we
know by well authenticated history of
Neah and his family where they finally set
tied after the fall of Babel; and have never
been lost sight ofsince; and we know them
to be the Caucasian race, and all white,
and descended from Noah. And we know
from the Holy Book that in the flood every
living creature died but Noah and his fam
lily. Oh, but some say Ham was cursed,
turned black, and that is the origin of the
Negro race. That cannot be. "Cursed
be Canaan, servant of servants, shall he be
unto his brothers,
Now let us see how this curse was full
filled. When Joshua led the children of
Israel into the Holy Land, it was IN posses
sion of the Canaanites who lived in tribes
or petty kingdoms; and the Gibeonites were
one of them. Now after Joshua had sub
dued Jericho, and was about marching on
other tribes, the Gibeenites came to him to
make treaty with him; their clothes and
shoes were worn out, their bread moldy:
they represented themselves to be of far
country, and Joshua made a treaty with
them, and bound it by an oath. But in a
few days he found that they dwelt in their
midst. Now what did Joshua do? He
could not break the treaty for he had bound
it by an oath. What did he say? "Curs-
ed be We, servant of servants shall ye be
hewers Of wood and drawer of water for
the house of my God forever The curse
was fulfilled, but 1t did not make Negro.
Now | have not noticed your friend
" +. 81 comments in your paper of April
9TH. Neither did intend so to do, but he
says, after speaking of the tower of Babel
they were dispersed and driven part to
all parts of the earth, and the divine rec
ord proceeds with one family only. Pray
how can that be-? We will see.
Further he says, els there ANYTHING
unreasonable or unscientific in supposing,
that in order more fully to carry out His |
great purpose in their dispersion, He should
have exercised His Almighty power so as
to have changed their physical conforma-
tions, and thus adapt them to the different |
sections of His creation He intended they |
should inhabit?''
| say there are two reasonable objections !
to it. The first is, there is nothing in Holy |
Writ expressed or implied to warrant it. |
The second is that we know by the best |
authority to 4 certainty, where the descend |
ants of Noah settled after their dispersion !
from Babel. Historians before mentioned |
have settled that long since, and they have |
not been lost sight of to this day. Did not |
Shem settle in Assyria, and did not Abram |
go out from thence, and did he not found |
the kingdom of Israel? And he is the one |
family | presume that our friend "E."
alludes to. Now it is more than $500 years
since Abraham went out, but we know of |
tie in Egypt, and in the land of Canaan |
Who was Nimrod that mighty hunter, who
builded the city of Babylon? Who was |
Minus that builded the great city of Nine
veh, which Jonah said was three days |
journey. Who was it that settled in Tyre, !
and Sidon? Did not the descendants of |
Ham? and were not the Philistines of the |
same descent Who was Hannibal the !
great Carthagian general, who kept Rome !
in fear all his life? Was he not son of |
Himliker, whom Dido, Queen Of Tyre sent |
to Carthage to build that city? Were they |
not all descendants of Ham and were not |
all above quoted of the family of Noah, and
all white? Now where is this physical |
conformation spoken Of by "E. ?" 1t is |
not found among the descendants from
Noah. | ask again where were all these |
different races of former times? We do |
not find them any where.
AS for the Oceanaca and MALAGA Island
ers, they have only been discovered in the
present century. Have we not good rea-
son to believe that those different races
have all been created since the flood, or
where did they come FROM
| think we have strong reason for believ-
ing that Oceanaca and Africa, or the Congo
or Negro part of it, did not exist 9, 900 |
years ago, but have been by some order of |
nature hove up since that time, and that
God peopled them with inhabitants best |
suited to the country: and this | believe
has been the case with all since the flood.
This, it will be Said is not according to
Scripture; hut we have a little text to refer
to without looking further. See chapter
II, verse 81, Luke: on this text | have no
comment to make, but if Abyssina was |
the utmust end of the earth, the Congo
country did not then exist, and must have |
been made since.
The subject is vast; have only touched |
ON it; and l believe it never will be reach
ed until we are in the same spirit that it |
was written in. r.
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