The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
MISSING LINK.
DR.. HasSkarl StirS Colored
People i'm the East.
Declares 1t is Only a Waste of
Time and Money
TO EDUCATE NEGROES
Says They Lived Long Before
Adam and Eve Did,
And They Cannot Inherit the
Kingdom of Heaven.

Chambersburg, May 30.-Whether or
not the negro has a soul, and whether
he is really the missing link, are the two
questions stirring the negro population
of southern Pennsylvania. Rev. DR..
Gottleib c. H. Hasskarl, who came here
from Frederick, Md, about 16 months
ago, to assume the pastorate of the
Second Lutheran church, and his book,
The Missing Link; or, the Negroes
chronological Status" are the causes of
the perturbed state of the colored
mans mind.
The book has furnished themes for
discussion in the churches of the color
ed people, and their pastors have en-
deavored to refute the statements
therein contained.
The author has met their arguments
and they have failed to convince him at
least that they have substantially con-
troverted his assertions.
Quoting from history and Scripture,
DR.. Hasskarl declares the negro is not
a descendant of Adam and Eve, nor is
he of the progeny of Ham. From sci
entific standpoint he asserts the negro
to be truly the long sought-for missing
link.
He affirms that the negro's main su-
periority over the gorilla, orang-outang
and babOOn is that he utterS sounds
that could be initiated and understood
by Adam; hence conversation enSued
between them that the baboOn is thick
ly clothed with hair and goes erect part
of the time; that the orang outang is
still less thickly covered with hair and
goes erect almost altogether; that the
gorilla has still less hair, is of black
skin and goes erect when moving
about.
CREATED BEFORE ADAM.
'It is thus SEEN" says Dr. Hass-
karl, that the graduation from the
monkey to the negro is in philosophical
juxtapOsition in Gods order of crea-
ton. The step from the negro to Adam
is still progressive, and consists of a
change of color, hair, forehead, nose,
lips and Immortality" In a word, the
writer says, the negro was created be
fore Adam and Eve; that he was a de-
scendant, pure and simple, of Canaan's
progeny, and belonged to the Bibleites.
Furthermore, he says that the negro in
the capacity of a beast entered Noah'S
ark, and that, consequently, the negro
being a beast, and not being counted
with the eight souls that entered the
ark, who were Noah and his wife, his
three sons and their wives, the negro
is without a soul; therefore it is Idle
and wrong to sacrifice either life or
money to convert the negro either in
Africa or America into Christianity.
THE gospel is meant for a gospel
people," says DR.. Hasskarl; "a people
| who have capacities and ability to re-
| ceive it and live it. In brief, only the
| descendants of Adam and Eve, in God ;
| image and likeness, are meant to be
| beneficarieS of the Gospel"
The writer says that eminent scien-
| tific authorities plainly show that the
negro for the past 200 years on this
continent has neither improved or
| changed by contact with civilization,
| and that history for 5000 years is made
| to bear witness to this assertion.
y CURSE TO HUMANITY.
The writer says the negro has been
a curse to humanity from the Garden
! of Eden, in which he appeared the
| SERPENT and caused the downfall of
| Adam and Eve, to the present. The
Of al he or Of
| Adam and Eve, was pronounced as
! curse.
Yea says the author, 'the first at
| tempt at social equality with Adams
! race brought the flood upon the world;
| the second brought confusion and dis
! persion at the Tower of Babel; the third
! the fire of Gods wrath upon the cities
| of SOdom and GOmOrrah, of which the
| negroes were the chief and only inhab
| itants and builders; the fourth the
command from God to eXterminate the
nations of the Canaanites under Moses;
| the fifth the inhibition and exclusion
| by the law of God of the f1at-nOsed,
| prOdigious-j awed, thick-Hpped, curly
| headed negro from his altar"
DR.. HasskarI takes a decidedly radi-
! cal stand with reference to the negro's
chances of getting to heaven, seeming
| to believe that he has as little chance
| of entering paradise as has the devil,
| claiming with Bishop Turner, of the A.
| NJ. E. church, that the negro was crea-
| ted before Adam and Eve, and that,
| having entered the ark as a beast, he
has a beasts fate and is without a
soul.
| More than this" says the writer,
| 'for the negro there is no paradise; for
| him there is no helpmate created; for
| him there was no tree of knowledge, no
| test of obedience; consequently he is
| not a moral being nor morally respon-
| sible, and this in spite of the unfortu-
nate thirteeth commandment, Through
his seed there is no mediator, conSe-
| quentIy no redemption