Mississionary Baptist Minister Defends Segregation as Biblical

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Mississionary Baptist Minister Defends Segregation as Biblical
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1958-04-09
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: letters (correspondence)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Personal letter from R.A. Raney to Herbert L. Thomas providing biblical justification and constitutional authority in support of continued racial segregation.
Racism -- Segregation -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock Central High School -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Carthage (Ark.) -- Missionary Baptist Church -- Communism -- Carthage -- Dallas
As a Missionary Baptist Minister; I wish to offer my objection to the Thomas, because it like all the plans that have been offered, leaves both God and the Constitution out, and substitute mand wisdom indirect to God's wisdom. Here is the way God , speaks of the racia l affair: I note "When the most high divided nations their inheritance, When he SEPARATED THE SONS OF ADAM, HE SET THE BOUNDS OF THE PEOPLE according to the number of the children of Israel." (Deuteronomy 32,8) Again I quote: "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the Land whither thou go est to possess it, and hath cst out many nations before thee, the HITTITES, and the GIR GASHITES, and the AMORITES, and th Cannanites, and the theOERZZITES, and the HIVITES, and JEBUSITES, seven nations greater and mighter than you; And the LOrd thy God shall del- iver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; they daughter shalt not give unto hisson, not his saughter shall thou take unt o thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other God, so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. (Deuteronomy 7, 1 to 4) The Descindants of "Cain" and "Seth" violated this separating lw, by mising the two races, and caused the flood in Noah's day. (See Genesis 6th and 7th chapters.), The violat- ion of Gods separating, Segregational law, cost Israel 24000 deaths in the wilderness." (See Numbers, 1 to 9 verses. The violation of Gods Segregation law, wuined the great man Solomon, and caused him to turn completely away from God, into gross Idolarty. (See I Kings 11th chapter.), This same Separating, segregatinal law is repeated in the New Testament: I quote: "And hath made one blodd all the nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the e earth, and hath DETERMINED THE TIMES BEFORE APPOINTED AND THE BOUNDS OF THEIR; HABITATION ; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, thoug h he be not far from everyone of us, for in him we live, move, and have out being; as c certain also for your own poets have said, for we are his offspring." (Acts 17, 26, 27, 28)., But though God setup a separating law, and fixed a penalty of death for its violation, He made ample provision for all nations. We read: "Who in times past suffered all nations to walk after their own ways. Never the less he left not himself without witness, in tha t he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filing our hearts
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