them, "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth."
"And Noah began to be a husbandman, planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wind and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem: and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
These predictions have been fulfilled before our own eyes. God has enlarged Japheth, and he is dwelling in the tents of Shem, and Canaan has been his servant. But the mighty, independent, onward-marching Japhethite said, "I don't want Canaan to be my servant any longer. I
