The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-07-22
RELIGION AND PROHIBITION.
Our Govan Correspondent Discusses
These Questions at Some Length.

Whether we accept the plan Of
creation as revealed in the Book OF
Moses or the theory of evolution, we
do know that man is now (and most
tassuredly has always been) entitled
to ''something" higher than this COM
fortress life affords. If he be immor-
tai he is doubtless a counterpart OF
the creator, and hence the inspiring
thought that he is formed-physical-
ly-at the Simpart of Gods WORD
from the pre-existing matter unto
I the likeness or Image" Of himself.
Exalting realization!
| We dare speculate when would
the father so choose to send his son
back to earth again, as he (the
Christi promised that he is coming
again; but we do know from historic
record that his mighty presence has
been through many ages mans gu1d-
ance till the son came. We were
told as the first intimation of the
coming of the Messiah in Gen.: "The
scepter shall not depart from Judeah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come, and unto him
shall the gathering of the people be"
Jesus Christ, the exemplary char
acter and son of God, did come, we
are told by the evangelists in corroD-
Grating statements, and by the spirit
power manifested to him he arose
unto his father.
In consequence he has left it with
lus; with the faith that by his ex-
emplary life we. will be transformed
| like himself. In designating his di-
sciples or followers he said: by
their fruits ye shall know them"
l believe his ministry is given to
all mankind and 1 would particular
lie the different species of man as
subdivided into the five great races
| for what reason would the creator
| have endowed races with articulate
speech? Surely he must have in
| tended for these races to occupy
higher sphere than the inspired lives
of Longfellow would dictate one not
| to be:
"Be not like dumb driven cattle"
It is only through the Bible the
only book of revelation, that man
| has promise of being immortal or
more than inanimate life, but yet
according to Chas. Carroll, in his
| book entitled: "The Negro Beast;
or in the Image of God," he gives
some teaching that I cannot attempt
to refute; but I'll hold fast to my
first statement that Christ's ministry
| is applied to all races Of mankind,
| but to accept this is great conglom-
Grafton. It is here that we meet with
inconsistencies.
To quote from Carroll-a writer,
DR.. Young: "The whole world is
made up of mind or soul and matter.
The term matter is name which we
apply to a certain combination of
properties or to certain substances
(which are solid, extended and divisi-
BILE, and which are known to us only
by these properties. The term mind,
in the same manner is a name which
1--we apply to a certain combination of
functions or to a certain power
which we feel within US, and is
known to US only by these functions.
Matter we know only by our senses.
Mind or soul only by our conscious
ness"
1.-The profoundest philosophers write
iCOuCSl uluS tuO AS62O . 13AA0 90 CASJ
do concerning that of the white man.
The negro has all the intellectual ia
cilities, consciousness, perception,
memory, association, imagination,
comparison and pure reason. He has
all the sensibilities, animal feelings,
rational feelings, aesthetic emotions
and moral emotions. He has a free
will and is governed by motives. He
ldreams, walks in his sleep, and may
become insane. [Ibid.] His i'm
mortality is found in those principles
of his nature by which he feels upon
his soul the awe of God, and looks
forward to the future with anxiety
or with hope by which he knows to
distinguish truth from error and evil
from good, and has forced upon him
the conviction that he is a moral and
responsible being. This is the power
of conscience, that monitor within
which raises it's voice in the breast
lof every mana witness for his Gre
ator. There is thus in the con-
sciousness Of every dark son of Ham,
a deep impression Of continued exist
ence."
Carroll says: I'm the above state