Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-08-02

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| hie h>aYfng It NJ. sinai The mirss-
ulous Lessons God gave them whsn hs
overthrow Pharaoh Ia the Red sea, ~
toxicatsd with his wealth and chaTiots
Of gold. he refused from time TO time
TO accept Gods messenger. who tffed
TO teach thsm revealed religion Thsy
were stiRnscksd and believed only IN
natural cansations and that there was
no God.
II the Negro. altar reviewing his
conduct In ancient days, can catch Q
my Of hope. In which he 10 justified In
drawing the tnference from the mem
orsbls statement. THAT before the
end OF time Ethiopia shall stretch forth
her hands unto God" to mean that
special favoys are TO be granted unto
him. without special efforts upon MS
part to merit them. there Ia no possi
biiity for him In attaining them. II
We can properly sum up his deeds %
We have shown In his most active part
played In building the Tower OF Babel;
his attempt to be rsvenSed upon Goa
his maker. and his gross and beasuy
immortality: his utter and total neg
lect and forgstfulness OF God; nis
highhandsd and most wicked state
ment that tAere b nc God. that AZ
things exist nom natural laws That
spring up spontaneously without ?
God to govern and direct thsm Ms
rstection or Abraham. when God sent
him among them to teach these world
y and most prosperous people the
most skilled and the most powerinI
forces OF men. who had demonstrates
In every respect all that human IN
genuity. backed BY Its most potent
factor. wealth. revealed religion!
He marshaled all his forces both in
Africa and Asia Minor and fought
daily against the God of Israel; God
overthrow the Negro king and drown
ed him with his host within the Red
sea. He made David to kill the
brazen and stubborn Negro Philistine,
Goliath. God ordered every Negro
killed who was found in the Promised
Land. And those in Africa he over.
threw and drove them from power;
from all their beautiful cities, their
wonderful pyramids. into the jungle
OF Africa and gave his inventions,
skilled acts into the hands OF others
who at least acknowledged the exis-
tence Of God. The real, certain and
comprehensive meaning Of Ethiopia
stretching forth her hands unto God
may be summed up after this manner;
I have tried you and you have abso-
lutely rejected me, ! shall sell you
into strange, lands, shall heap bur
dens upon you and sting you with the
lash OF persecution until you can see
the fror OF your wickedness and call
u1on mo. When you do this ! will
harken unto you and try you once
more. The Spanish. the Dutch and
Portuguese, in fact every civilized ma
ton upon the earth. were given .
large bunch Of the Negroes Of Africa,
and history shows the most cruel
treatment given unto them until they
submitted and cried unto God. In
proportion to their moving into the
glorious sunlight Of Christianity their
yoke was taken from their necks.
Though they had been working the
soil. fountains OF knowledge were
opened and the streams thereof were
sent by every Negro's door. The coun.
try was stocked with preachers and
teachers Of the Negro race. An in
dustrial wave has swept over the race
and has created the deepest interest.
He n truly becoming skilled In al the
arts and sciences that his ancient an
cestors handed down in their early su-
premacy through 0rsscs and Rome to
the world. In order that the Negro
might learn and imbibs the elements
Of self-sacrifics and the missionary
working spirit, God raised up in his
midst such characters al Abraham
Lincoln, Love1oy, Harriet Beecher
Stowe and Frederick Douglas, who
wore used AZ instruments of God to
ire tho heart and mind Of all nations
against over-enslsvement. We have
been given marching orders according
to the light and reason of Christian
obligations to carry the gospel train
ing. together with our knowledge man.
ipulating the soil, over which we had
roamed and more than two hundred
million are now roaming, stumbling
over gold and diamonds and plucking
berries and other natural products
from tho bushes Of the forest like so
many wild beasts without knowing
their value Arc We SO blind to rea.
son that we cannot see that history
repeats itself? Let US at this mo.
ment compare Gods dealing with the
Jews, q people who have more than