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The Fundamentals The first is the assertion of the original unity of the lan- guage of the human race. (Gen. 11:1.) Max Muller, a fore- most ethnologist and philologist, declares that all our languages, in spite of their diversities, must have originated in one com- mon source. (See Saphir, “Divine Unity,” p. 206; Dawson, “Origin of the World,” p. 286; Guinness, “Divine Pro- gramme,” p. 75.) I The second is that miracle of ethnological prophecy by Noah in Gen. 9 :26, 27, in which we have foretold in a sublime epit- ome the three great divisions of the human race, and their ultimate historic destinies. The three great divisions, Ha- mitic, Shemitic, and Japhetic, are the three ethnic groups into which modern science has divided the human race. The facts of history have fulfilled what was foretold in Genesis four thousand years ago. The Hamitic nations, including the Chaldean, Babylonic, and Egyptian, have been degraded, pro- fane, and sensual. The Shemitic have been the religious with the line of the coming Messiah. The Japhetic have been the enlarging, and the dominant races, including all the great world monarchies, both of the ancient and modern times, the Grecian, Roman, Gothic, Celtic, Teutonic, British and Ameri- can, and by recent investigation and discovery, the races of India, China, and Japan. Thus Ham lost all empire centuries , Shem and his race acquired it ethically and spiritually through the Prophet, Priest and King, the Messiah; while Japheth, in world-embracing enlargement and imperial su- premacy, has stood for industrial, commercial, and political dominion. The third is the glorious promise given to Abraham, the man to whom the God of glory appeared and in whose seed, personal and incarnate, the whole world was to be blessed. Abraham’s personality is the explanation of the monotheism of the three greatest religions in the world. He stands out in majestic proportion, as Max Muller says, as a figure, second only to One in the whole world’s history. Apart from that
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