God told Adam and Eve to multiply and replenish the earth. Then it is plain, God could have no objection to their taking themselves wives of whom they chose, of their own race, in obeying this injunction; for they could not do otherwise in obeying it. But God _did_ object to their taking wives of _these daughters of men_. Then it is plain that these daughters of _men_, whatever else they may have been, _could not be the daughters_ of Adam and Eve; for, had they been, God would certainly not have objected, as they would have been exactly fulfilling his command, to take them wives and multiply. But our Saviour settles these points beyond any doubt, when he taught his disciples how to pray--to say, _Our Father_, who art in heaven. His disciples were white, and the lineal and pure descendants of Adam and Eve. This being so, then, when he told such to say, "Our Father, who art in heaven," equally and at the same time told them that, as God was their father, _they were the sons of God_; and as God did object to the "sons of God" taking them wives of these daughters of _men_, that it is _ipso facto_ God's testimony that these daughters of _men_ were negroes, and _not his children_. This settles the question that it was Adam's pure descendants who are here called the _sons of God_, and that these daughters of men were negroes. By this logic of facts we see, then, who these sons of God were, and who these daughters of _men_ were; and that the crime they were committing, could not be, or ever will be, _propitiated_; for God neither _could_ or _would forgive it_, as we shall see. He determined to destroy them, and with them the world, by a flood, and for the crime of _amalgamation_ or _miscegenation_ of _the white race_ with that of _the black--mere beasts of the earth_. We can now form an opinion of the awful nature of this crime, in the _eyes of God_, when we know that he destroyed the world by a flood, on account of its perpetration. But it is probable that we should not, in this our day, have been so long in the dark in regard to the sin, the _particular_ sin, that brought the flood upon the earth, had not our translators rejected the rendering of some of the oldest manuscripts--the Chaldean, Ethiopic, Arabic, _et al._--of the Jewish or Hebrew scriptures, in which _that sin_ is plainly set forth; our translators believing it _impossible_ that brute beasts could corrupt themselves with mankind, and then, not thinking, or regarding, that the _negro_ was the _very beast_ referred to. But even after this rejection, such were the number and authenticity of manuscripts in which that _idea_ was still presented, that they felt constrained to admit it, covertly as it were, as may be seen on reading Gen. vi: 12-13, in our common version.