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
3 that at the time of Jesus second coming, and in the resurection, ALL THINGS WILL BE RESTORED TO THEIR PRISTINE STATE, AND THE CURSE PLACED UPON ALL THINGS, INCLUDING THE CREATION OF DIFFRENT RACES, WILL PASSAWAY. This will be especially true of the saved. The Bible plainly teaches this doctrine. I note: "Marvel not at his: for the hour is com- ming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto he resurrection of life; and they have done evil unto th e resurrection of damnation." (John 5, 28)., Again we read: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he sahll appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM: FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS." (I John, 3,2)., Now, if we are to be like him, and that is the plain statement of the Bible? There will be no marks of discriminations, for we read: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashiones like unto this glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able TO SUBDUE ALL THINGS UNTO HIMSELF." (Pkilipians, 3, 21)., So Mr Thomas: Your plan is a simple plan for a weak man, versus God's plan. Hence we rea d: "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed it, why hst thou made me thus? Hath not the potter over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour, What if God, willing to shew his wrath , and to make his poer known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted the distruction. And that he might make known the riches of this glory on the vess- els of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. (Rom 9, 20-23)., In this 9th chapt er we have two cases of persons who were made vessels of Dishonour, namely Easua and Pha- toah, 13 and 17)., Tere are many other cases in the Bible. But sin is to blame with all God's curses placed on all things, which he cursed. This is just a very small of what I can produce from the Bible. I dont considder that I or any other man or men have any right to settle the Integration question by majority vote of the people. Such a vote only tends to take Gods arangements into the hands of man. Integration is condemned all throug h the Bible, but not justified any where in the Bible. But since God established Segre- gation in Creation, as setforth in the very first chapter of Genesis, where we are told nine time that God made everything "AFTER HIS OR THEIR KIND." It follows that Segregatio- n is a Bible teaching or doctrine: Therefore a matter of religion, and is in the same cata- gory with the Chruch, and since we have the separation of Church and State, no Court has
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