3.92 APPENDIX. NOTES. 



1. The Universal Deluge, by the means of which the 

 heavens and the earth of the primeval world were 

 destroyed. 



2. The Egyptian palpable darkness for three days and 

 nights. 



3. The passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea, 

 the waters standing as a wall on either hand. 



4. The sun apparently standing still in the heavens at 

 the command of Joshua, or the earth ceasing to 

 revolve on its axis. 



5. The shadow going back on the dial of Ahaz three 

 degrees, or the earth retrograding. 



6. The supernatural darkness that took place at our 

 Saviour's crucifixion. 



NOTE 16, p. 86. Which will take place in his time 

 and at his word; and by the means and instruments that 

 he empowers and commissions. Ever since the fall of our 

 first parents a copious harvest of evil and sorrow, the fruit 

 of sin, has been reaped by their descendants, amongst 

 others, that of slavery has been one of the bitterest. In 

 the case of Ham it was predicted and decreed by the Deity 

 himself that his son Canaan should be a servant of servants 

 or slave to his brethren, a prediction which, to judge by 

 the event, affected all the descendants of the offending 

 patriarch, for no races have been so much degraded, in 

 all respects, as the African negroes who derived their 

 origin from him. 



Much has of late been done with the view of ame- 

 liorating their condition, and most of the European nations 

 have concurred in the benevolent endeavour. In conse- 

 quence of the exertions of this country, the debasing traffic 

 in slaves, and the miseries and waste of human life that it 

 occasioned, have been very much diminished. But though 



