The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-01-08

tuO ucdNcu ouu IilO cdIIu SOS Adi CAouSh
along in his plan of creation to see the
necessity of some still more intelligent
creature than had yet been created, to
hold dominion over the beasts of the field,
the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the
sea, He proceeded with some degree of
caution, and put off this form of creation
until the last. And many people have
doubtless been led to wonder if it would
not really have been better had he put it
off altogether. The great Father chose
as the highest ideal for this creation, His
own image, yet after the work had been
completed as to the physical structure,
there was yet to be test of the moral
structure, in order to develop the imper-
fections, if such there might be. 1t seems
that the Divine Father made what is
called a mistake when made by mortals
of this day and generation-He gave Ad-
am woman, to help him keep secret.
This woman was taken from the side of
Adam, while asleep. but she is no sleepy
side-show, for all that. The Lord in Civ
ing Adam ease, and peace, and plenty.
knew that all the wants of this creature
had been attended to, and it was perfect
ly fair that he should exact some little
favorable consideration from Adam. He
therefore told Adam that he might
have the whole plantation for his own,
with the exception of just one tree. "Of
the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil" said the Lord, 'thou shalt not eat !;
for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou
shalt surely die" Adam, great, lazy fell
low, would not have found out, for two
reasons, what the fruit of that forbidden
tree tasted like. had it not been for the
creation of Eve. One of the first things
that woman did, after viewing the beau
tiful surroundings, was to make Adam
ashamed because he had been such great
BOBBY as not to have found out what that
fruit was like. So they went and plucked
a big apple, and had picnic. And there
was snake mixed up in it. When the
Lord discovered what they had done, He
came around for a friendly call on His
children. But they were so much ashamed
that they put on aprons of fig-leaves and
hid in the garden shrubbery they did
not wear "Grand Duchesse" trails, mol
"Father Hubbard" suits, in those days.
Thus the Lord found that His trust in
man was betrayed-and He has had
trouble with the perverse creature evel
since. The same scenes and experiences
are being enacted in this beautiful world
to-day. The Lord creates man and places
him in busy world, filled with all kinds
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so planted that it ever lifts up its warn
ing branches to the vision of man. TIL,
Lord tells them that this tree bears fata
fruit, but that he, man, is free mora
agent-that if he tastes of this fruit, an(
persists in eating it, he will die. Yet th'
| same old scene of Eden is constantly re
peated. Man will go to the forbidden
| tree, take the forbidden apple, and eat i
swallowing the juice of the fruit unit
he sees the snake as plainly as Eve saw i
when plucking the apple in Eden. Th'
same horrible old snake is there still
Yet the Adam of the present day has inn
proved a little upon the costume wor1
for the reception of the Master; has add
ed new feature. What do you suppos
the Creator would have thought had h,
| found Adam hid in the bushes of Eden
clad in a fig-leaf apron, and having hi
nose painted red? Yet this is the attrac
tion added by the Adam of the presen
day-and painted by the forbidden fruit
1t is not remarkable that when man rum
a course of his own choosing, and is a
last overtaken and crushed by the weigh
of his own transgressions, he is quick tt
cry out for mercy, and to seek to hide hi!
| guilty head from the Divine Father.
What does the history of Adams trans
gression teach? Simply this that i
man. from his first creation, had trusted
| the Lord and attended to his own busi
ness, he never would have had any trou
| BILE in the world