The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-03


of gold, he refused from time to time
to accept Gods messengers, who tried
to teach them revealed religion. They
were stiff-necked and believed only in
natural causations and that there was
no God.
If the Negro, after reviewing his
conduct in ancient days, can catch a
ray of hope, in which he is justified in
drawing the inference from the men,
orable statement, That before the
end of time Ethiopia shall stretch forth
her hands unto God" to mean that
special favors are to be granted unto
him, without special efforts upon his
part to merit them, there is no possi-
bility for him in attaining them. If
we can properly sum up his deeds as
We have shown in his most active part
played In building the Tower of Babel;
his attempt to be revenged upon God,
his maker, and his gross and beastly
immortality; his utter and total neg
lect and forgetfulness of Cod his
highhanded and most wicked state
ment that there is no God, that all
things exist from natural laws that
spring up spontaneously without a
God to govern and direct them his
rejection of Abraham, when God sent
him among them to teach these world
ly and most prosperous people the
most skilled and the most powerful
forces of men, who had demonstrated
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
overthrew 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;
have tried you and you have abso-
lutely rejected me, l 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 error of your wlckedness and call
u
harken unto you and try you once
more. The Spanish, the Dutch and
Portuguese, in fact every civilized ma
tion 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 Negroes 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 is truly becoming skilled in all the
arts and sciences that his ancient an
cestors handed down in their early SD
premacy through Greece and Rome to
the world. In order that the Negro
might learn and imbibe the elements
of self-sacrifice and the missionary
working spirit, God raised up In his
midst such characters as Abraham
Lincoln, Lovejoy, Harriet Beecher
Stowe and Frederick Douglas, who
were used as instruments of God to
fire the heart and mind of all nations
against over-enslavement. We have
been given marching orders according
to the light and reason CT 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 the bushes of the forest like so
many wild beasts without knowing
their value. Are 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, a people who have more than
any other race been wrapped up in
history since the flood. The world
owes all of its substantial structures
in civic pride and commercial prowess
to the Jew and the Negro. 1t took
the Negroes four hundred years to
educate the Jews in order to teach
them to make brick without straw; to
learn and to become skilled in pottery,
wood and iron. They knew absolutely
nothing of these things, for they were
a nomadic people living in tents be-
fore they were sent to Egypt. The
Negroes had fallen into that same con-
dition before they were taken from