LESSON VIII.
SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.
(SPECIAL LESSON.)
THE LAW OF THE LORD IN ANCIENT AND MODERN REVELATION APPLIED TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO RACE PROBLEM.
| SUBJECT. | REFERENCES. |
| I. The American Negro Race Problem.
1. Advent of the Negro Race in America. 2. Slavery and the Abolition of It. 3. Political Enfranchisement of the Black Race--Its Wisdom or Unwisdom. 4. Present Status of the Negro Race Problem. | History of the United States by Alexander Stephens, pp. 36, 88, 366. Same Author's, "War Between the States. Old Virginia and Her Neighbors (John Fiske), Vol. I, p. 18, 19, Vol. II, pp. 7, 29, 41, 172-222, 228-231, 235-6. Emancipation Proclamation (Abraham Lincoln), War Between the States, Vol. II. Appendix to Papers and Messages of the Presidents' Vol. For Present Status of the question see "The Color Line," Wm. Benjamin Smith, McClure Phillips & Co., N. Y. |
| II. The Law of the Lord as Affecting
the Negro Race Problem.
1. The Progenitor of the Race. 2. The Manner of Its Preservation through the Flood. 3. The Curse Put Upon it by Noah. 4. In what Respects a Forbidden Race. 5. From all the Foregoing Deduce the Law of God in the Question. | Book of Moses--Pearl of Great Price, Chap. v, verses 5-8, 22; Chap. viii: verses 8, 2; Chap. viii: 12-15. Gen. ix: 18-27. Book of Abraham, Chap. i: 9-11, 21-28. Compare Gen. ix: 18-27; also "The Book of Abraham--A Divine and Ancient Record," (Reynolds), p. 6, 7. Smith's Old Testament History, Chap. iii. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "Let not man join together what God hath put asunder."—"THE COLOR LINE," chap. i.