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MIRIAM R. HILL

Have you ever, upon hearing of local violence and destruction caused by racial tensions, wanted to pack up and move? Do you long to leave behind the threat of business disruption or economic oppression caused by these pressures? But if you could move, have you ever stopped to consider how and where you would dispense with the beliefs that accompany racial strife?

Would you, for example, continue to seek new forms of superiority or new reasons for oppression? Or expect to prove that purity of thought would protect you from unenlightened beliefs?

"Race" is generally defined as referring to a major division of mankind having distinctive physical characteristics and a common ancestry. Immediately, we see that this concept is confined to human belief, for mankind must be divided before it can be racially classified. Further, according to this concept, race is recognized primarily by physical characteristics—that is, perceived by the corporeal senses. Neither of the aforementioned aspects relates to the spiritual, immortal man, created by Spirit, God, in His image.

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