The next way of dealing with those of a weaker race is to _use them_, subordinate them to your own service, make bondsmen of them, let them be your hewers of wood and drawers of water, command their labor and their persons, control even their instruction and their religion, and make them absolutely yours. The third way in which a superior race may deal with a weaker race is by the gentler, but perhaps no less harmful, process of _letting them alone_,—withdraw from them, hands off! Shut them out, keep them away, make the barrier between yourself and them impassable. There is one way more in which a race higher in circumstance and condition and endowment may treat those who for the time are weaker than they, and that is to _lift them up_ to its own plane just so fast and just so far as God shall make it possible. If we read in the Old Testament, as many are increasingly disposed to do, a progress of development which recognizes the training of mankind from its lowest possible basis up to its highest possible attainment, we may find illustrations of these four methods of treatment in that record. The first conviction of their duty, and with Divine consent, toward the races which occupied Canaan, was to exterminate the people of the land. At a little later stage, when Joshua had entered the country, he made his league with the Gibeonites and the people of the central confederacy, by which they became his hewers of wood and drawers of water. As we read on still further in the story, we find the Jews shutting themselves out from all mankind, and shutting all men off from them, having no dealings even with the Samaritans. But, when the Lord Jesus Christ came, bringing the light of the gospel and the character of God and heavenly opportunities on to the soil of our earth, his last command is, “Share my gifts in every land with every creature,” and the last word he promises that some of us shall hear before we enter into the lasting joy of heaven, is, “Because ye have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”