t that was thus preached by such men? We speak with
entire reverence when we say that the logic of facts shows but little of
morality--but it does show, as it _was intended to be shown by God_,
that, though frail and sinful in a _moral sense_ as they were, yet,
being _perfect_ in their genealogies from Adam and Eve, _they_ could
still be _his_ preachers of righteousness, they themselves being
_right_ in keeping from beastly alliances.

But the Bible evidence to the truth of these views does not stop here.
God appeared unto Abraham at another time, while sojourning in the land
of Canaan, and told him that all _that_ land he would give to him and to
his seed after him forever. But the land was already inhabited and owned
by these _ites_. If they were the natural descendants of Adam and Eve,
would they not have been as much entitled to hold, occupy and enjoy it
as Abraham or any other? Most certainly. If these _ites_ were God's
children by Adam and Eve, it is impossible to suppose that God would
turn one child out of house and land and give them to another, without
right and without justice; and which he would be doing, were he to act
so. Nay! but the Lord of the whole earth will do right. But God did make
such a promise to Abraham, and he made it in righteousness, truth and
justice. When the time came for Abraham's seed to enter upon it and to
possess it, God sent Moses and Aaron to bring them up out of Egypt,
where they had long been in bondage, and they did so. But now mark what
follows: God explicitly enjoins upon them, (1.) that they _shall not_
take, of the daughters of the land, wives for their sons; nor give their
daughters in marriage to them. Strange conflict of God with himself, if
indeed these Canaanites were _his_ children! To multiply and replenish
the earth, is God's _command_ to Adam; but his command to Moses is, that
Israel, known to be the children of Adam, shall not take wives of these
Canaanites for their sons--nor shall they give their daughters to them.
Why this conflict of the one great lawgiver, if these Canaanites were
God's children through Adam? It could not be to identify the Messiah,
for that required only the lineage of one family. But mark, (2.) "But of
the _cities_ and _people_ of the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee
for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive _nothing that breathes_, but
thou shalt _utterly destroy_ them, namely the Hittites, Canaanites,"
etc., naming all the _ites_--th