The Afro-American. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1892-1899, 1895-09-07
rs AND HIS NEGRO
WIFE.
Treat LaWgiVer was Ostracis-
on account Of his Marrying
an Ethiopian.
OBSERVATIONS RESPECTING
RACE PREJUDICE.

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tive: Sand Miriam and Aaron
spake against Moses because Of
the Ethiopian woman he had mar
ried; for he had married an ETH
opian woman" The spirit Of
caste Of race prejudice IS nothing
new under the sun. Nearly all
Of the races Of mankind have felt
and experienced the inconyenien-
cles caused thereby.
Nor should we suffer anybody
to throw dust into orr eyes and
thereby attempt to dissuade us
from fixed belief inftlle ultimate
triumph Of the idea realized in the
person Of JESUS CHRIST. 1t IS to
be regretted that men, holy men,
otherwise, are yet il bondage aid
slow Of heart to see and believe
The good purposes of God, AL
mighty and aIl-go6d, and who
latest nothing that tie has made.
Strange it may seem that such
an honorable and wonderfully
phrophetic character as Miriam,
and such an eloquent and faithful
companion to Moses as was Aaron,
the Father Of tie Aaronic Priest
hood, should rise mp, as it were,
in his own household and speak
against Moses, because he was such
an outrageous patron of Social
Equality as to take tor his wife a
negro woman! What a great sin
this was III their estimation? That
he who had communed With the
Almighty, face to face, who had
lead the Lords host through AT
the trying period Of the wilderness,
who amid clouds and darkness had
received on Sinai's rugged peaks
the greatest Moral Law ever youch-
safed to mankind, that he who was
learned III all the statutes Of Egg
BIT, a mighty man, a godly man,
Tia anaoeFost Uf tho 1rrUol<, should
81 fat forget himself as to degrade
the Israelitish people BY marrying
negro woman. Awful thing,
it must have been to them! Ready
were they to doubt whether or not
the Lord had made him their
leader and master. They seemed
to have come to the conclusions
that Moses, by his outrageous act
had FALLEN FROM GRACE and was
al outcast from God. And they
said, sSHath the Lord indeed spok
ca only BY Moses! Hath
he not spoken also by RS. And the
Lord heard it.
(Now the man Moses was very
meek, above all the men which
were upon the face of the earth. }
And the Lord spake suddenly I'M
to Moses, and unto Aaron and
Miriam: Come out We three unto
the Tabernacle Of the Congrega-
ton. And they three came out.
And the Lord same down in the
pillar of the cloud, and stood in
the door of the Tabernacle, and
called Aaron and Miriam: and they
came forth.
And He said hear nowmy word.
If there be 4 prophet among you,
[ the Lord willmake myself known
unto him il \ vision, and VIII
speak unto him in a dream.
Ny servant Moses is not 50,
who is faithful in all my house,
with him will ] speak mouth to
mouth, even apparently, and not
in Clark speeches and the similitude
Of tine Lord Shall We behold:
Wherefore then we're We not afraid
TO SDGAh dS lllAcI IL SET d1l MUSES..
And the anger Of the Lord was
kindled against them, ana AZ de-
parted, And the cloud departed
from off the tabernacle, and behold |
Miriam became leporous, white as
sAow, and Aaron looked upon Mir
Ind behold she was lepQgohs"
ere was little 1'clique 81
, stir up the people 81
lines, appealing to th As
nd lower animal inst ets, I
intiame them against one ofg
gliest Of men simply be- |
he had married a NEGRO wo-
And God Almighty saw fit |
PINE down from heaven in
to yindicate his servant and
sc who would dare To
ice founded neither
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