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that the inferior races like the negroes and others could have been made in 
God’s image, though the Caucasian race may have been. Now, I hardly 
know in what the author considers the fact of a man being made in the 
image of God consists, or what, in his opinion, it means. I do not suppose 
it means the mere outward perfection of the human body — that one race was 
made more beautiful than another ; though, if mere bodily perfection was 
meant, it might be that only the Caucasian race would have been made in 
the image of God. But I think Dr. McCausland’s theory is shown to be 
fallacious in this, that if you give these men, whatever race they may 
belong to, the remedy which is provided by God in the Gospel for 
the raising of man from his fallen state, you will find that whatever 
their race — whether Negro, Caucasian, Mongol, or any other — they will 
all be brought up to the same level in all the nobler parts of human 
nature ; and in that I conceive lies the image of God. You will find 
no difference whatever in the rest, from the Caucasian race under 
similar circumstances. Separate them from their present influences, and 
place them in circumstances where they would be likely to fall back into 
barbarism, which is easy, and they whose superiority is so much vaunted 
will soon fall below even some of the degraded and despised races. I 
remember reading, some time ago, an account of the frightful enormities 
committed in some of the border states of America, in a savage warfare 
between the Indians and white men who were living almost in the wilder- 
ness ; and the description given of the acts of some of the white men was 
so revolting that you could only feel that any one who could so act must 
have been degraded to our very lowest idea of savage life. At the same time 
I read a letter from one of the missionaries of the Church Missionary 
Society in North-west America, a man who was originally a red Indian, but 
who was taken when a boy in his wild state, and brought under civilizing 
influences and under the elevating power of the Gospel. I read a letter 
from him written after he was grown up and settled as a missionary. He 
described the great affliction through which he had passed in the death of a 
beloved child, and I would defy any Englishman or any one to have written 
more beautifully or in a way which would better assure us that the writer 
was in every respect a perfect equal with the highest forms of humanity. 
Taking the two cases together, you have in one a man originally civilized, 
who has been degraded almost to the condition of a brute ; and you have in 
the other a man, originally a savage, who has been elevated, and who is in 
the highest sense a man in God’s own image. And that is also true of other 
races. Take the records of missionary societies, and read the accounts, not 
made up by missionaries, but the writings of men themselves who have been 
savage and who have received the Gospel — such men as negroes and others ; 
and it will, I think, be evident that any theory which says one race is less 
in the image of God than another will not hold water for an instant 
The Chairman. — And these changes which you speak of are not produced 
by successive generations, but in one generation. 
Mr. White. — With regard to the question of language, I do not think 
