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OUR RACE AND ITS ORIGIN. 
sends him forth to the uttermost bounds of the earth, to teach 
his benighted brethren ; he thus fulfils the prophecy of Noah, 
and dwells in the tents of Shem as his friend and teacher. 
God makes him his agent in giving freedom, spiritual as 
well as temporal, to the children of Ham. Japhet attains 
a deeper knowledge of nature and its laws, with a loftier 
view of God and His attributes, a more correct estimate 
of man’s mission on earth; and thus, with the highest de- 
gree of civilization and its humanizing tendency, arising 
from the knowledge of the Creator, he becomes admirably 
adapted for the office of the world’s teacher, the great 
dispenser of God’s will, and the pioneer of that perfec- 
tion which man is destined to reach when all the glorious 
designs of Providence shall receive their full consummation ; 
and the three sons of Noah shall again be united as the 
members of one family, ever more to live in peace and 
harmony together. 
A GREEN JADE MERE, OR PATU POUNAMU, PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN. 
