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AT the Broadway Baptist church, Louis
VILE, Sunday, Rev. Dr. j. T.. Burrows
preached sermon from the text: Il as5
ss And he said cursed be Canaan. ser
want OF servants shall he be to his brethren;
and he said, blessed be the Lord God OF
Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.
God shall. enlarge Japheth, and he shalt
dwell in the tents of Shem. and Canaan
shall be his servant. "-G Genesis, tx, 25-27s
= In opening the discourse he said lt
would be monstrot1s to suppose that y race
OF men through all generations should be
cursed with degradation and seryitnde be-
cause OF its progenitor's guilt. y
ii To teach that all the descendants OF "a
naan or OF Ham had been foreordained TO
slavery becadse Ham was guilty Of mocking
idisrespect to his father n oah) will be to
contradict the whole tenor OF Gods word.
This whole subject is elucidateds and Coos
methods OF dealing with races vindicated in
the 18th chapter Of Ezekiel. The principle
Is clearly laid down In the 18th and 10th
verses !: :" The soul that sinneth It shall die.
The son shall not bear the iniquity OF the
father, neither shall the father bear the tni-
auity OF the son; the righteousness OF the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wick
edness of the wicked shall be upon him.
"Yetye say, Why? Doth not the SON bear
the iniquity OF the father? When the SON
has done that which Is lawful and right,
and hath kept all my statutes and hath done
them, he shall surely live, saith the Lord" !"
Yet that heredity does transmit moral
character as we'll as mental and physical
traits is not to be doubted. 1t is thus, by
this transmission of characteristics, that
"the iniquities Of the fathers are visited
upon the children to the third and fourth
generations"
In concluding DR.. Burrows said:
1t is true that all races Of mankind have
furnished slaves to conquerors. But it has
been found impossible to hold the Japhetic
races permanently in personal servitude.
There seems to be inherent in the very ma.
ture Of the races passion for personal lib
erty and stubborn resistance OF oppression
that always sooner or later broke the letters
that bound them. Spartacus, Thracan
(Japhetic) slave and gladiator in Rome,
seventy-three years before Christ, or
ganized and led rebellion Of the
slaves that kept the field for two
wears, defeated the Roman armies in
pitched battles. and brought the power
full republic to the very verge OF ruin. At
tempts were made to make slaves OF the
Indians in the early history OF this nation
by our New England fathers, but it was
found impossible. They simply would not
serve, and the design had to be abandoned.
But the children of Ham have always been
more submissive and docile, and from
among them the most extensive and perma-
ment slaveries of the world have been per-
petuated. The prophecy of 1000 years
ago may now be read as the history OF the
race. They have been servants of Japheth,
servants of Shem, servants Of servants.
Now, suppose that the names in the pre-
diction had been transposed-an il it was
mere conjecture they might just as we'll
have been transposed-and it had read that
Japhet should be the father of the servant
races, and that Ham should be the progeni-
tor OF the aggressive tribes, and that Shem's
descendants should be the restless and sue
cessful invaders Of Japhetic lands, skepti-
cism might with reason have questioned the
inspiration OF the prophecy. si s,
But Gods word makes no such mistakes.
Here is something more accurate and sure
than shrewd guessing. And if 1t bemore
it is omniscience. .n.-&l l-a:.: 4