LESSON IX.—The unchangeableness of God, and human misery caused by a general rebellion against his laws, 417 to 420. LESSON X.—Christianity incompatible with savage life, 420, 421. LESSON XI.—Gradation in intellect and condition no impediment to Christianity, 421. LESSON XII.—Christianity and slavery not antagonistic, 422. LESSON XIII.—Christian humility inculcated, 423. LESSON XIV.—The radiance of Christian hope equalizes all variety of condition, 423, 424; sketch of the slave’s prospect of immortal happiness, 426 to 428. LESSON XV.—The feebleness of finite conceptions of infinity, 428, 429; hope for the submissive, 430, 431; the requirement of God that the strong should protect the weak, 432. STUDY VI. LESSON I.—Nature of sin; the primal transgression, 433, 434. LESSON II.—The occupation and doom of Cain, 435, 436. LESSON III.—The mark upon Cain, Mohammedan traditions, 437, 438; proof-texts from Scripture, 439, 440. LESSON IV.—The punishment of Cain did not lead him to reformation, 440; Asiatic hyperbole in description, 441, 442. LESSON V.—The cause of Cain’s degradation renewed upon Canaan, and his masters named, 442, 443. LESSON VI.—Proofs that the descendants of Ham inherited the curse of Cain, and were black, as also were the Canaanites whom God’s chosen people either exterminated or enslaved, 443 to 447. LESSON VII.—The negro lineage of Ham established, 447 to 451. LESSON VIII.—Signification of the name “Naamah” in Hebrew and Arabic, 451 to 455. LESSON IX.—Variations in different languages of the names of Cain and Naamah, also of other remarkable words, 456 to 458. LESSON X.—The names and derivatives of the words Cain and Naamah found only among the descendants of Ham, 459 to 464. LESSON XI.—Proofs scriptural and historical that the descendants of Ham were black, 464 to 470. LESSON XII.—Biblical proofs that the Canaanites were black, 471 to 473. LESSON XIII.—Scriptural testimony respecting the colour of the races of the human family, 473 to 477. LESSON XIV.—Jewish wars against the Ethiopian race; the Philistines black, 478, 479; the origin of these wars the animosity between the Shemitic and Hamitic races, 480; difference in the structure of the bones and the hair between the antagonist races, 481; intermarriage with the Hamitic by the Shemitic race a cause of God’s anger, 482; the dispersion of the Canaanites by the Jewish conquest of Palestine, 482. LESSON XV.—Derivation and train of thought connected with the word Ham in the Shemitic languages, 483 to 487; the Hebrew personal pronoun, 488 to 491; origin of the word Ethiopian, 493 to 495. LESSON XVI.—Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic derivations of the word Ham, 495 to 502.