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Title: Shadow and light; an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: Washington, D. C.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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is no one circumstance like it, ex-cept circumcision, and that is w^ell knownto those learned in ancient history to havebeen common to some Eastern nationeven before the Jews had it, and wherethere is no reason to think the name of theJews was ever heard, and we have morereason to think that the Jews derived agreat deal from them instead of tliey fromthe Jews: that their religion is more an-cient is evident for several obvious rr^a-sons. First, by their regarding dreams and divining hj them, which so early as tlieMosaic law the Children of Israel werewarned against. Secondly, these people shave their hairall off in mourning for the dead. ThisMoses expressly commands the Israelitesnot to do, and the Jews do superstitiouslyobserve this last and suffer their hair togrow in their mourning. Thirdly, Moses commanded none butmales to be sacrificed. On the contrary,these sacrifice cow^s for the most part. Th(whave no burnt offerings but near their se-pulchers, which with gum, burnt likewise.
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BISHOP ABRAHAM GRANT. Joined Church at an Early Age—Advanced Until he Was Elected Bishop of theA. M. E. Church—An Able Pulpit Orator, and Among the Bishops Heis Known as the Politician of his Churcli^—Having a Com-petency, He is Devoting His Closing Years to Be-nevolence and the Promotion of His Race. SHADOW AND LIGHT. 253 may only arise from a defense of cadaver-ous scents. Fourthly, but the most remarkable in-stance of all is, that the ^^owley/ whiclithese Madagascar people divine by andprocure most extraordinary dreams, is evi-dently the Ephod and Teraphin which theLevites used who lived in Micahs house(see Judges 17) and which the Israelitescould never be wholly brought off from,though contrary to their law. Some havetaken these Teraphin for images like aman, and there seems a show of reason init from Michah, SauPs daughter putting-one in Davids bed to deceive her fathersmessenger, while he escaped. This, it ispossible, alludes to some divination by theTeraphin which she use

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