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were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.” The 
echoes of these statements were heard on Mars' Hill more than 
2,000 years afterward by the philosophers who boasted them- 
selves autochthons, whilst the Apostle proclaimed that “ G-od, 
who made the world and all things therein, hath made of one 
blood all nations of men for to dwell on ail the face of the earth” 
(Acts xvii. 24-26). This truth, however, not only stands out 
prominently in the pages of Revelation — it underlies the whole 
structure. Because men are of one blood, the nature which 
Jesus took and the blood which He shed can save and cleanse 
wherever men are found, — “ As in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive.” But the headship and federal 
character of the two Adams can have no existence unless this 
truth be received. The brotherhood of men and the universal 
redemption of Christ are bound up with it as social ethics and 
as Scripture truths. Had there not been a common source, 
there had not been a common sin and a common salvation. 
Those who have read a deeply suggestive sermon of Bishop 
Ellicott on “ The Restitution ” (in his little book on The 
Destiny of the 'Creature) will never forget how, having argued 
from the Mosaic statement that, whilst in creation the earth 
brought forth abundantly and the waters teemed with life, 
man, the lord and sovereign of all, came forth from the hands 
of his Maker the single representative of his race (single, I 
say, for the helpmeet is subsequently furnished, and that out 
of his own body), the Bishop goes on to speak of unities more 
mysterious and more comprehensive. In the fact of man 
being a personal being, in contradistinction to the collective 
races of lower animals, the Bishop finds the basis whereby he 
argues from the oneness of the race in creation and in the sin 
of one, that is Adam, to the oneness of the redemption and the 
restoration by the one, that is Christ Jesus. “ The descent 
of all mankind from one pair,” says the Bishop of Lincoln, 
“ what is it but a foreshadowing of the union of Christ with 
His Church, and of the spiritual derivation of all the faithful 
in every age and nation from that mystical union which is 
betwixt Christ and His Church ? ” If we would rightly 
divide the Word of Truth in reference to its central doctrinal 
teachings, we cannot but hold fast to its historical statements 
as to “the common origin of man.” 
If, however, the question as to the common origin of the 
human race be proposed to some men of science, the reply will 
be far different. With Yoltaire, some would say, “None but 
blind men can doubt that the whites, negroes, Albinos, Hot- 
tentots, Laplanders, Chinese, and Americans are entirely dis- ! 
tinct races.” Some would adopt the language of Dr. Morton, I 
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