Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-01
&eadiug fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
THE CHANGE.

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THE CHANGE.
The effects of sin, doubtless, fall more heav-
lily upon the human family than upon any
other part of this lower world. Man was
placed at the head of the affairs of this world,
and every thing stood in some way or other
connected with him. God made him prime
minister of the lower world, and when man
sinned, the relation which he originally sus-
tanned to the lower world as its lord, was
broken up. Man rebelled against his Maker,
and the inferior creatures rebelled against
man. The earth itself underwent change.
The sea encroached upon the dry land. The
earth ceased to bring forth spontaneously a
support for man; but on the contrary, it
Yields in luxurious abundance, thorns and
thistles, and man is forced to eat his bread
in the sweat of his face. The physical char
acter and appearance of the earth, as well as
its properties, underwent change. Nothing
on this earth is to-day rs it was when God
finished the work of creation. Then every
thing was very good to-day the whole crea-
tion-every creature, great and small-groans
and travails in pain. The nature of all the
animal creatures underwent change. All,
when created, were subject to man, and all
lived in perfect harmony with each other
The wolf had no disposition to prey upon the
lamb, and the lamb had no fear of the wolf
The lion was not king of beasts. His roar
produced no more dread amongst the other
animals than the bleating of the sheep
The most remarkable change which sue
ceeded the entrance Of sin into the world, aside
from the blighting Of mans soul, was the
change which took place in the nature of the
animals. In the creation, God made three
kingdoms-the mineral, the vegetable, and the
animal In the mineral kingdom is included
the earth and all the inanimate substances
lodged in its bosom. The mineral kingdom,
in point of time and in the order of creation,
preceded the vegetable kingdom. Out of the
earth sprang, by the creative order OF God,
the vegetable kingdom. Then followed the
creation of the various animals which consti-
tute the animal kingdom. The creatures con-
tanned in both the mineral and animal king
dom, were created destitute of feeling. 10
man, and every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth in which is animal
life, God gave the vegetable kingdom for
might be no suffering The earth felt no
pain in bringing forth the grass, and the
grass felt no pain when browsed upon by the
animals. When the lion was created, his
nature led him to feed upon grass like the OK !;
and the COW and bear fed together. When
man sinned, death entered our world. Every
thing animate and inanimate, organic and
inorganic, underwent complete change.
The teeth of the lion, the wolf, and what are
now called fesh-eating animals, were changed.
Those teeth which were designed only to crop
the grass, became adapted to tearing in pieces
the bodies of animals. The reign Of death
commenced the moment that Adam eat the
forbidden fruit. The jaws of the lion, the
wolf, and the bear, and the beaks of the hawk,
the vulture and the eagle, were converted into
implements of death. 1t was an evil and
bitter thing that man sinned. 1t not only
dug the pit of endless woe, but filled this
world with misery and DEATH Sin literally
ruined every thing in any way connected
with this world, over which man was made
lord.
Jesus Christ came into the world to Danish
death from the world, and restore everything
to its original state. This world, which has
been the scene of so much suffering and mis-
cry, of so much carnage and blood, will, in
Gods own good time, be restored to its orgi-
nal condition. Death, in every shape and
form, will ultimately be banished from our
earth. The loveliness of Eden will again be
granted to the earth now Scared and deform-
ed by sin. Sometime in the future, the desert
will blossom like the rose, and the sea will
give back to the dry land what it has plum,
dered. The serpent's fangs will be extracted ;
the wolf will cease to prowl and the lion to roar.
The lamb will cease to fear, for there will be
nothing to hurt from the rising to the setting
sun. Mans dominion over this sin cursed
earth will be restored. "The wolf shall dwell
with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid and the calf and the young lion
and the failing together; and little child
shall lead them. And the COW and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together; and the lion shall eat straw like the
OK. And the sucking child shall play on the
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall
put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full Of the
knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover
the sea-" Isaiah II.
Sin has produced great and heart-rending
change in this world but Jesus Christ will
ultimately restore all things. The thought
that such blessed change awaits this world,
makes one feel like shouting one long and
loud Halleluyah, praise the Lord. When
this world becomes new earth in which
shall dwell righteousness, it will be grand
and glorious place. Sin, the great cause of
misery, will be banished forever.
THE Souls TRUE SUN-Were the sun to
be blotted out of the heavens, every leaf and
flower would wither; life would cease With
out sunshine, earth would be desert.
Jehovah is the sun of the soul. Without
His beams all is not merely darkness, but
death His love is the sunshine that glad