New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
COLORED PEOPLE AROUSED
CLERGYMAN ASSERTS THAT THEY
HAVE NO SOULS.
THE REV. MR. HASSKARL DECLARES THAT
THE NEGRO IS A BEAST. AND AT
TEMPTs TO PROVE HIS sURPRIs-
ING STATEMENTS FROM
THE BIBLE.

THE BIBLE
Colored people in Pennsylvania are grea,iy
stirred up over a book called The Missing LINK
or. the Negros chronological Status, Dy the
Rev. G. c. II. Hasskarl. pastor of the Seconu
Lutheran Church OF Chambersburg. Penn anu
the feeling is re-echoed here by those who have
seen the book
The Rev. Mr. Hasskarl denies that the negro
Is descended from Adam and Eve, and seeks 10
prove that he is Darwins missing link Inc
author produces arguments intended to show
that Shem. Ham and Japheth were white, and
that their descendants the same.
Look into your Bible" Mr.. Hasskarl says
look into contemporaneous and concurrent MS
tory-look at existing facts outside OF the Bloie'
and running from the Flood down to the pres
ent day, and hear the prophet OF God denantiy
ask Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the
leopard his spots?' der Kill, 23)-the Ethi-
opan black both beasts; and when you nave
so looked you will be forced to exclam, True
every word true!"
I'm THE ARK AS BEAST"
Answering his own question as TO how the
negro got into the ark. Mr. Hasskar says that
"by the logic OF facts-deductve historical rea-
soning-he could only enter It as beast ana
along with the beast" Mr. Hasskarl CONTENDS
that the negro was created before Adam ana
Eve because they were the last beings OF Gods
creation on earth, and being the last, that the
negro must have existed before they were Gre
ated; for he is here now. and not being their on
spring It follows from this logic of facts that
he was on the earth before them. and II on lhe
earth before Adam. that he is inevitably beast
and as a beast entered the ark. Let US
see IL it is in philosophic harmony with Gods
opfp lie In oil
We take the monkey and trace him likewise
through the upward and advancing orders
baboon. orang-outang and gorilla, up to the
negro, another noble animal the noblest OF the
beast creation-the negro by Arel-the scleh-
lists long-sought-for Missing Link
',The difference between the higher orders OF
the monkey and the negro is very slight and
consists mainly in one thing; The negro can
utter sounds that be initiated; hence ne
could talk with Adam and Eve, for they could
initiate his sounds. This is the foundation OF
language.
'The difference between the monkey species
and the negro tribes is one OF natural variety
and gradation according to environment only;
and not Of a kind Even the Greek word
for man-anthropos. a being that can look up
ward-indicates the difference between the white
man immortal and the negro soulless wanting
in personality.
WHAT HE THINKS CAUSED THE FLOOD.
The Rev Mr. Hasskarl seriously asserts that
intermarriage between the whites and the ne
groes was the sin which resulted in the Flood
He says that later on. Nmrod was addicted to
mscegenation, and that he directed and man
aged the great multitude that undertook to build
the tower Of Babel. This multitude" he AL
leges. were mostly negroes" and their object
was TO put up a building whereby they should
reach Heaven and escape second flood for the
Game sin
Mr. Basskarl kives az his reason for writing
the book desire to stop the loss Of life In mis-
sionary efforts in Africa, which he refers to as
Natures death trap to heroic Christian mis-
sionaries. and the dungeon of a species of race
of men without souls"