on science and on the Bible, and have pricked every bubble he has blown from his toy pipe thus far; and sent up in smoke the pyrites he has been fifteen years in gathering under the delusion that it was gold ore. And yet with these glaring absurdities he presents himself before the reading public, and confidently assails the church of Christ against which we have the promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail.

How man will abuse his frenzied brain,

Distort God's word again and again,

Besmirch fair Science with mud and with mire,

Stirred up in a pool of extremity dire,

To prove the impossible, prove the untrue,
And rob lovely Truth of her right and her due;
When Honesty easily sets all aside.

To these efforts so false, may all ruin betide.

CHAPTER VI.

Jonah at Ninevah-Carroll's argument that the beasts were negroes-The same answered-A summing up of arguments pro and con-God's blundering according to Carroll-Carroll vs. the Bible-Infidelity, concealed and open -What Christianity has done.

The remainder of this wonderful book, "The Negro a Beast," contains nothing that we have not thoroughly refuted, except some matter in Chapter III., relative to the Negro's originating in the family of Noah (which we shall take up in its proper place), and an argument (?) with which the book closes, and which is as follows:

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Ninevah, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose and went unto Ninevah, according to the word of the Lord. And Jonah began to enter the third day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days and Ninevah shall be overthrown. So the people of Ninevah believed God and proclaimed a fast

and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the King of Ninevah, and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Ninevah by the decree of the king, and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? (Jonah 3: 1, 2, 3, etc.)

We observe (1) the broad distinction made between the "herds and flocks" (cattle) and the "beasts." (2) That Jonah never charged the people of Ninevah with any offence whatever. He simply proclaimed the judgment of God, that in forty days Ninevah should be overthrown. (3) The king never questioned the authority of Jonah; neither did he doubt the power of God who sent him. (4) The king expressed no surprise at this threatened visitation of God's wrath; made no inquiry as to the cause of the trouble and

the justice of God's judgment, by proceeding to rectify the evil. Hence, he issued his edict that all business should be suspended, even the feeding and the watering of the herds and flocks; and that all the energies of "man and beast" should be concentrated in an effort to appease Divine wrath, and thus save the city. (5) The king fully realized that it was the criminal relations existing between the men of Ninevah and their beasts, that had brought their city to the verge of destruction under Divine judgment. This is demonstrated by the fact that he had identically the same penalty upon man and beast. Each was required to observe a fast; each was to be covered with sackcloth; each must "cry mightily unto God," each must "turn from his evil way," and "from the violence that is in their hands." Thus it is shown that the beasts were compelled to do identically the same things. which the men of Ninevah did in their efforts to appease the wrath of God and save the city. "And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not.” (Jonah 3: 10.)

This act of God's clearly demonstrates that it was the criminal relations existing between the men of

Ninevah and their beasts which led him to issue his judgment against the city; but when "man and beast turned from their evil way, and from the violence that was in their hands, God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them; and he did not." We are thus taught (1) that there were beasts at Ninevah with which the men of Ninevah held such criminal relations as brought that great city to the verge of destruction under the judgment of God. (2) That these beasts, like the men of Ninevah, could understand the nature of the Divine judgment. (3) That these beasts, like the men of Ninevah, understood and appreciated the full import of the king's edict, and obeyed it. (4) That these beasts, like the men of Ninevah, covered themselves with sackcloth as an evidence of their grief for the crime to which they were parties. (5) That these beasts, like the men of Ninevah, cried mightily unto God, thus demonstrating their possession of articulate speech. (6) That these beasts, like the men of Ninevah, turned "every one from their evil ways," and from the violence that was in their hands. (7) These beasts, like the men of Ninevah, had hands. "The Negro a Beast," pp. 277, 278, 279, 280.