was governed without scattering influence, Adam had an ideal habitation. Moses plainly speaks of the time in Gen. VI., 1st to 9th verses, when the sons of Noah feared the law of scattering. These early people tried to resist the operation of this law, but it scattered them abroad on the earth, and caused them to even speak different languages. This process was absolutely necessary in order to create dissimilarities in the human family, essential to perpetuate the race.

It is evident that had the race continued to live in the same place the ultimate plan of human growth would have been defeated, and man would have early become extinct. That an oak tree, for example, should spring up spontaneously over the entire earth at the same time, without first a seed being planted, is beyond an ordinary mind to comprehend. It seems far more rational to believe that the first oak and man existed in a specific place, for a specific purpose, until the law of scattering became operative.

WOULD EXPERIENCE A CALAMITY. -Should the law for the perpetuation of the species be dropped from the category of natural laws, and the law of dissemination alone remain in operation, this world would experience even a greater calamity than that just described. A

The Law of Species Forbids Mixing.

The new lot of chickens in his barnyard would quack like a duck, yet not look like one, while a strange lot of ducks might cackle like hens and crow like cocks.

farmer would sow a certain kind of grain, but would invariably reap strange combinations of other grains and weeds he never knew or sowed before. The new lot of chickens in his barnyard would quack like a duck, yet not look like one, while a strange lot of ducks might cackle like hens and crow like cocks. Strange beings would be born, undreamed of monstrosities, living, crawling, creeping things, unnamed and unnameable; beautiful, poetic, symmetrical dreams of perfection; winged and unwinged angels would fly and run swifter than the wind, then disappear to give rise to yet other beings, other freaks for still others to play with, until all would be a loathsome, unspeakable confusion. Man could not long survive.

GROWING

DISSEMINATION STRONGER. We believe that the law of dissemination is growing stronger and more active as the world grows older. We see evidences of this in the animal and vegetable world. Strange plants and animals have been distributed and successfully raised in many parts formerly unknown. And the same fact is true of man. Birds who carry seeds of plants from one country to another unconsciously obey this law, so also did the slavers who brought the Negro here and throughout the world. Phillis Wheatley, the inspired Negro girl poet, undoubtedly re

ceived a true impression of this fact when she

wrote:

"'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan Land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God-that there's a Saviour too;
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew."

and

In the workings of Almighty God there is no thread broken, save by erring man, in the great plan of human redemption-of the final reunion of all nations and races into one people, one government, one tongue. The world is getting smaller rapidly. Every thinking man woman knows that, at the present rate of progress, the day will soon arrive when the entire map of the world will be changed. This will come about in a peaceful manner, accompanied by wonderful progress, or else war and extermination will bring it about, just as man may will it in the final process of growth and decay.

THERE IS A DIVINE PURPOSE IN MIXING. In the mixing of the Negro and Caucasian in the South we see a divine purpose. Let us be frank with ourselves. Had this mixing not taken place to the extent it has, or not at all, what would today become of the pureblood African in our midst? We expect a strong contradiction here, but the fact remains true; were it not for the millions of mixed blood, the hope in the heart of the pure-blooded black man would be faint indeed; not because he is destitute

of ability to rise, for he is not, but because of the evidence that would then exist that he belonged to another race of beings with which human beings could not mix. We contend that the evidence of his extensive mixing with the white and other races, puts him in the front rank of future human progress, and on an equal footing with all people. Our friend, Rev. John H. White, D. D., (see Resume) is right when he says: "The Negro has always figured in the history of the world. His blood has entered strongly into that of the dominant and conquering Roman, into the Latin races of Europe-France, Spain, Italy."

Moses, the greatest lawgiver and moral reformer the world has ever known, would not have married an Ethiopian woman, had that race then been considered of an inferior and unmixable kind, as it is considered in these States today, in spite of all mixing that is now taking place; and has there ever been more than now?

IS OUTRAGEOUS, YET DIVINE. This is outrageous! A divine purpose in the most glaring sin committed? If it is, then the immutable laws of God are outrageous, yet they are just.

When a fierce storm sweeps over a portion of our country and leaves wreck and ruin, death and destruction in its path, the superstitious say