For G. Campbell Morgan, who directed the Northfield Bible Conference upon Moody’s death, the rapture would take white people only. “Should He come soon,” Morgan wrote in 1907, “I do not think any of His angels would go into the interior of China. I do not think they would go into the heart of Africa. I think these angels would be in the great centres, all about the parts where white men congregate.” This echoed an observation by Moody more than twenty years earlier that heaven’s diverse inhabitants would not be “the Scotchman or the Englishman only,” but also “the Frenchman, the German, the
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