The colored American., 1903-02-28

snail assemble the outcasts of Israel
ana gather together the dispersed OF
Juodh, from the four corners of the
earth. And verse 13 reads: The
envy also CT Ephraim shall depart
and the adVersaries of Judah Shall
| be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy
judah, and Judah shall not vex Eph
RAIN Herodotus says that these
peoples were the descendants of Ham
the Grecian Historians denominated
them blacks, with frizzly or curly
hair.
That portion of the earth which
| was first peOpled after Adam and
Eve had left Paradise, was the land
OF Ethiopia by the Ethiopians, on the
river Gihon, that went out of the
garden of Eden, (which compasseth
the whole land of Ethiopia, 4OO3 B. c.
The children of Ethiopia were from
Adam tC Nvah, through the lineage OF
Seth. Gen. V. The descendants of
these "blameless Ethiopians," are hav.
ing pretty hard time now, but there
is really no occasion for fear as to
the ultimate result of the struggle
through which they are now passing
in this country and in Africa. The
prophecy contained in Isaiah has not
yet found it's fulfillment We are
On II16 6uSG the IuIuro-
future big with promise to all the
oppressed peoples of the earth, and
when that promise materialiZeS-tO
be a Negro will be the proudest title
any man can bear. All this noise
the South, and is re-echoed in the
North in one form or another is born
about the Negro that comes up from
of the intuitive knowledge that a day
of reckoning is coming. Might has
constituted itself Right, in the social
evolution of the races, and so strongly
is it entrenched in power over the
earth that it believes itself invinc
ible and invulnerable at every point
These notions do not square with
Gods notions of right, and justice and
the Righteousness which eXalteth
nation" For the sake of argument
we will admit that the white race
is on top in this country and ID
Europe. Just now it occupies the
centre of the stage, the synosure OF
all ewes. The performance however
will not be continuous The dark
race is the last race. 1t isabsorD1ne
and assimilating and digesting the
lessons which these so-called superior
races are teaching, 'gainst the time
when the command to Ethiopia to
"stretch forth her hands unto Goa
shall be thundered from the Dlue
empyrean-and then all nations snall
how and confess that God is the Loro
and that His mercies endure forever.
To the Negro let me say in the Worus
CT the Poet:
Nanght without can keep you back
Rise above it;
In Yourself is all the luck
Rise above it;
There is nothing that can mar
life for YOU, but what you are
If there's any inward bar
Rise above it!
This world doesn't belong to any
netion it belongs to God, and an VI
Gods children are cltlzehs Vi 80
mighty Republic. There never
and there never will be WhlIe man ::
country. or a black mans country, II
III tha world. In Gods country s..-
ore no distinctions of class OF IaCs os
and the buttonheaded white meh ;ta %
The south. who prate about a wiz
anan,s country and white DONNA ti'lt
a-Id not. have such a thing II Chey
+tjor because IN nearly all OF Che oiu
eInUe states of the South, the Will l,te
nan has ming gled his blood WIN u.e
Negro and there's scarcely IT, ~.
White man in that section anu