created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every other living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Gen. 1: 16-29.)

From an analysis of this paragraph we find:

1. That these men were made in the image of God,

2. That there were more than one of them.

3. That they were to have dominion over everything else.

4. That they were created in pairs, male and female.

5. That God commanded them to be fruitful and multiply.

As they were in the image of God it was natural that God would call them "the sons of God," as they are called in the sixth chapter previously mentioned.

As they were more than one, as indicated by God's references to them by the use of the pronoun "them."

there could have been several pairs as well as one pair.

As they were to have dominion over everything else, they were a superior creation.

As they were created in pairs from the first they differed from the Adamic creation, who were created male and female, but not without a lapse of time between.

The second chapter of Genesis begins with a reference. to the work already done, and the sanctification and ordination of the Sabbath. Beginning with the fourth verse we have this language:

"And these are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." (Genesis 2: 4, 5.)

Here reference is made to the fact that the preceding history of creation began before the growth of vegetation, and the creation of man.

The seventh verse is often, in fact generally, supposed to begin a reiteration of the creation of man; but

this is not the case, for the reason that the statements differ in the following points:

1. The first creation were in pairs from the first, while in that related in the seventh verse of the second chapter man was created alone, and it was not until some time afterward that his mate was formed.

2. The latter was called Adam (or red man) while the first are called nothing but man until the sixth chapter, where they were called the "sons of God." Adam was as much a son of God as those mentioned in the first chapter; but God saw fit to call the latter Adam. Now God placed this latter, special creation in the garden of Eden as a representative of all the races before him, and that were to follow, and the test of temptation was made; and in his fall all mankind suffered alike and lost their pure spirituality which affected every one of them likewise, physically and mentally.

Geology teaches that the vegetation of previous ages was gigantic as compared with that of the present age; fern one hundred and twenty feet high; palms with similar proportions; the big trees of California being not yet extinct, really belong to that age. The animals and reptiles were likewise giants; the

elephant and rhinoceros, etc., belonged also to that age, although not yet extinct. How reasonable then, and how much in harmony is it, that these preadamites mentioned in the sixth chapter of Genesis should be giants.

As God called His latter human creation Adam, and as we proved in a preceding chapter, this word meant red or red man, it is reasonable to suppose that the first men created were not red. And as we now have, besides the red, the black race and the white race, we conclude that those men who preceded Adam were the black and the white, and as they were created in pairs and commanded to multiply we find them spoken of as amalgamating with the red race.

But the flood put a stop to this, as all were destroyed except Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives, who, it is reasonable to suppose, had married according to their color as intimated before in this chapter; Japheth marrying a white wife, and Ham a black one, while Shem kept to his own color and married a red wife. If this is not a fair deduction, let the objector reconcile the first part of the sixth chapter of Genesis with the first and second chapters.

CHAPTER VIII.

The Hamitic theory-Ham born black-Ham's name proves this-Countries settled by the descendants of Ham— Proofs that these descendants were black-Who developed the early civilization of these countries?

We will now present the Hamitic theory as argued by Josiah Priest, giving his arguments intact but using our own or his language as choice may dictate. We have said these arguments, proving Ham the progenitor of the present negro race, are incontrovertible, and we think the reader will agree with us when he shall have weighed them well. Mr. Priest argues :—

"God, who made all things and endowed all animated nature with the strange and unexplained power of propagation, superintended the formation of two of the sons of Noah, in the womb of their mother, in an extraordinary and supernatural manner, giving to these two children such forms of bodies, constitutions of natures, and complexions of skin as suited His will. Those two sons were Japheth and