Shem has subdued Japheth, and Japheth has subdued Shem; but Ham has never subdued either.”  The doctor is either falsifying the facts of history, or is ignorant of history.  The Hebrews were in bondage in Egypt for centuries.  Egypt was peopled by Misraim, the second son of Ham.  Who were the Shemites?  They were Hebrews!  The Shemites were in slavery to the Hamites.  Melchizedek, whose name was expressive of his character,—­king of righteousness (or a righteous king), was a worthy priest of the most high God; and Abimelech, whose name imports parental king, pleaded the integrity of his heart and the righteousness of his nation before God, and his plea was admitted.  Yet both these personages appear to have been Canaanites."[22] Melchizedek and Abimelech were Canaanites, and the most sacred and honorable characters in Old-Testament history.  It was Abraham, a Shemite, who, meeting Melchizedek, a Canaanite, gave him a tenth of all his spoils.  It was Nimrod, a Cushite, who “went to Asher, and built Nineveh,” after subduing the Shemites, So it seems very plain that Noah’s prophecy did not come true in every respect, and that it was not the word of God.  “And God blessed Noah and his sons."[23] God pronounces his blessing upon this entire family, and enjoins upon them to “be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.”  Afterwards Noah seeks to abrogate the blessing of God by his “cursed be Canaan.”  But this was only the bitter expression of a drunken and humiliated parent lacking divine authority.  No doubt he and his other two sons conformed their conduct to the spirit of the curse pronounced, and treated the Hamites accordingly.  The scholarly Dr. William Jones[24] says that Ham was the youngest son of Noah; that he had four sons, Cush, Misraim, Phut, and Canaan; and that they peopled Africa and part of Asia.[25] The Hamites were the offspring of Noah, and one of the three great families that have peopled the earth.[26]

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] Gen. i. 27.

[2] Gen. ii. 7.

[3] Gen. ii. 15.

[4] Gen. i. 28.

[5] Gen. vi. 5_sq._

[6] Encycl. of Geo., p. 255.

[7] If the Apostle Paul had asserted that all men resembled each other in the color of their skin and the texture of their hair, or even in their physiological make-up, he would have been at war with observation and critical investigation.  But, having announced a wonderful truth in reference to the unity of the human race as based upon one blood, science comes to his support, and through the microscope reveals the corpuscles of the blood, and shows that the globule is the same in all human blood.

[8] Deut. xxxii. 8, 9:  “When the Most High divided to the 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.  For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.”