As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
This part of the subject shows one that we should love one another whether we be Jew or Gentile. The color does not make the man, it is the high morals of righteousness for which he stands.
In order to try to satisfy your minds on the Black Jews, and the wisest men the world ever knew, allow me to direct your thoughts to Prophet Job, Job 30:30. My skin is black upon me and my bones are burnt with heat.
Now Job was a Black Jewish Prophet, a man of God. There is some good in some of us black people that you can trust.
I will now call your attention to one of the greatest Black Jews that ever lived. When Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem, this man was one of the first to go in bondage, Jeremiah 8:21. For the hurt of the daughters of my people am I hurt, I am black—astonishment has taken hold on me.
When this holy black man saw with his own eyes the destruction of the beautiful daughters of Jerusalem by the wicked soldiers, he wept like a child, but the God of Israel suffered it to be so. Now my friends, I will direct your thoughts again to the book of books, that which the civilized world recognizes to be the true holy record.
Songs of Solomon 1:5:6. I am black, but comely; ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar as the curtains of Solomon.
Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun has looked upon me, my mother’s children were angry with me, made me the keeper of their vineyards, but mine own have I not kept.
I draw your attention to these great characters, because we blacks of African descent are from the same stock. You need not be afraid when you have us around you or sit beside you in a car. If you train us in the right way, my people will be your best friends. If we have not got your school education, we have got good common sense and manners, that our old mothers taught us in the cabins. It is not the color that makes the man, it is the high principle for which he stands. Allow me, dear reader, to call your attention to a question that Jesus, that great prophet who faced the world unto death, who was born of the royal family of King David, Solomon’s father, asked in Matthew 16:13. When Jesus came into the coasts at Caesarea Phillipi, he asked his disciples saying, “whom do men say the son of God am.”
And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist! Some, Elias and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. My friends, Jeremiah acknowledged he was black, Job was a prophet, and said he was black, then all the other prophets must have been black, and if Jesus looked like one of them, he must have been black also.