IN THE DAYS OF NOAH the enemy was successful in preventing nearly the entire people from receiving Noah's testimony, and all were destroyed except Noah and his family; and from these sprang the future races of the earth. Ham, however became wicked; perhaps through the corrupting influence of one of the race of Cain whom he had married, and his seed was cursed as pertaining to the Priesthood. In fact, the rights of the Priesthood were perpetuated through Shem exclusively, for Japheth, the other son of Noah, received no part thereof in his own right.