| Show ELDER WEBBS THEORY I A A DISPATCH from gattle Wash Was my Elder ider J i M K Webb of the I Church of God Is telling his hearers bearers I that Jems Cia Chi is t was a negro n claims that Christ g born out oat of th t tle II tribe of Judah a To trace his 1 he goes back to Abraham and his wife Keturah Webb declares Keturah was wasa a Just Juit where he be gets his h au is Sa not apparent t for the Bible does doea not say Keturah wee was colored But Webb Web is n not t wI k utah male ing log Christ Chri t a negro ro He Be e says a great t many of the Bible characters married ne ll Is and aad that Solomon Jd himself a was a negro MId and nd then Webb quotes Solomon as telling the daughters of Je Jerusalem Jeru Jerusalem ru alem not t to look upon pon Mm him because he M i Is black is Ii 1 all an right except tic ept far the fact tact that say my anything of t f the kind kIDd In the tAe Songs of ot it is the woman wom brought from fr m her vineyard vl yard yards to Solo Seto moes s urt who says I r am ant black blat but comer O 0 ye daughter of o Jerusalem as the teats of Kedar as the curtains of qt Solomon SolomonI I Look ook not upon me because e I 1 am AIR black IK cause the th sun n has looked lct ed upon M MAnd me And it must mud be remembered too that lat lathe be zhe Shulamite declined to fall full in love with nith Solomon and aDd eventually returned to o her vineyards and the rustic lever leverI 1 W I i had left there when she was sum summoned mon to the court Elder Webbs contribution to scriptural Jt history torY will not be bs received with the be seriousness S with which it was waa made He has na no namore Demore nomore I more foundation nor nor as much for tor his I claim that Christ Clari was a negro than he De Dehas behas has for tor his statement with reference to Solomon True Tr one of the sons eons of Ketwrah was named and that is a word we often otten hear bear from the tile lips Up of our colored friends when wilen they are invited Itel to sto something they the very m much ch want sit to t do ao but we wo shall decline to regard re d it as is a tangible testimony Besides if it should d be demonstrated that Christ wad as a ag agro ae gro g m a lot of people pt p pIe south of Mason KaS Ma n fl a Dixons line Une will wUl apostatise immediate T i y Finally Finall It is l proper to say saT that El Eli Eld Eldr d dr i i i Webb Web is himself hi a negro which may account for some cern of his vagaries sl |
