Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-10
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
international Lesson for January "a
isos-Adsm's sin and Gods cr.c.-c.n
Ssl-15.


Especially Arranged from Peloubot's No,es1
GOLDEN TENr For rs in Adam all die. ever
so Ia Christ shall all be made alive
REviEw.-in our last lesson we studied m,
creation Of the world and of man rna.i, In IN,
image OF God Tho family was founded and
' ,hc SAeoath ordained through which insti,u
lions, rightly used. man would tccomc like IN,
angels In Character and hlcsscSlncss and IN,
paradise garden bccomc tho city OF God
CONTINUATION PROM TuE EARLY TRApI
rioNs or ANCIENT NATIONS. Almost every
nation. except the African, of which too l,ttlc a.
known TO be certain. has carly Traditions q, n
golden asc, Edeuic blcsscdncss and iunoeerr,
OF the serpent the tree and dcgeneracy There
arc chinese. Thibctan, Monaghan and Hindu
traditions, the Zoroastriaa story OF Mashva ana
Nasty ana, the Egyptian tradition OF tho reign OF
ha the Greek Pandora. the Scandinavian
Asssru- tho sacred plant guarded by CO.
lcstal genu on the AsSyrian as-rrliefS
These traditions must have come from
some common source before tho dis.
persion OF men and point TO some actual
Tact IN ;hc carly history OF tho race And since
IL Il acknowledged that the Bible account ~ the
siihpcst, most natural, most Instructive free
rom MI that Is grotcsque. there IS every reason
Tor believing that the Bible story Is the true his
tory OF carly man. from which tho others di.
vergcd
LESSON NOTES
How Old Is the Human Race?-The
exact date il unknown. No one now
would attempt To fix the time with as
cheerful confidence rs the great chron-
DIGGER determined by his system that
the world was created on certain
day in September, at six o'clock in the
afternoon" The most conservative
scholars, such as Prof. William IA.
Green, of Princeton. are inclined To
lengthcn the dates given on the mar-
gins of our Bibles. On the other hand
science is greatly shortening the time
since the first appearance N man in
the glacial period, from the wild cal
culations OF many former biologists.
The Garden of Eden, Mans First
llomc.-(D The garden OF Eden was
but n small portion of the .cpion
called Eden. The garden or paradise
Is place fenced round; hence park,
pleasure-ground with trees streams,
flowers and fruits.
(2) IL is impossible To tell precisely
where Eden was situated. Dclitzsch
says that Paradise is lost" We only
know that il must bc somewhere on the
EuphratcS.
(3) The most probable site is on the
lower Euphrates, near where the Tipris
(HiddeleD unites with It, Into the
united stream flows the KerlSha OGi-
hon), and the Karun (Pison) Sir VIII
liam Lotus, OF the Turco- Persian from
tier commission, equally distinguished
as "A ReoloRist and an archmoloRist. has
shown by his explorations that this re-
gion eminently fits the description I'm
Genesis LOTUS geological map. pre-.
pared from personal surveys, says Sir
William Dawson, shows that the top
ographical geology of Genesis is more
accurate than most of the maps In our
modern aliases"
The Condition OF Man i'm Paradise
Two opposite errors are frequently
held in regard to the Bible account OF
the first man. One, that he was "A typ
zeal savage, a cave-dweller, lower than
the inhabitants of darkest Africa, Zen
pertaining the most gross and anthro-
pomorphic conceptions of Deity"
The other, that "he was the most
splendid specimen of the race the world
ever saw, fair as an angel, holy as n
seraph;" that IAN Aristotle was but
the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens
but the rudiments Of Paradise" He
simply was perfect "a Il man complete
with all the possibilities of manhood.
He was innocent but inexperienced.
He was happy, at peace, and living in
communion with God.
He was not cultured and did not
possess the arts and outward appli
ances of civilization. The skins for
clothing and stone implements do not
prove that the first man was a savage
at heart. Plato and Socrates and
Paul are as great In the humblest hut
and meanest attire as they would
have been living like Solomon In all
his glory.
The Tree OF Life.-The tree Of life
in the midst OF the garden was proba-
bly, tree which, by Divine endow-
ment with medicinal qualities, would
keep their bodies from decaying with
age, and would heal any accidental
injuries Spencer says that
:" From IL flowed, as from a we'll. trickling
stream Of balm.
Life and long health that gracious ointment
gave and deadly wounds could heal"
The Tempter in Paradise.-V. 1.
To the first man, as 20 every man
since, the tempter came at the very
entrance 20 the path Of life and com
PEELED him 20 decide which way lac
would go and whom he would serve.
So Christ at the very beginning Of the
Divine mission was tempted Of the
devil.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
Man persisted i'm Eden even while IL
bad "a tree Of life in it. So men perish
now within sight of the Redccmcr's
cross, because they will not believe
and obey
No place or character Of employment
can free us from the assaults Of temp
tation. The innocent Adam was a..
sailed in Paradise, ard the holy Jesus
IN Che wilderness.
God has done all possible for the
happiness Of man; lie gave him "a para.
die full Of all that could minister g.
his joy and good. God still gives US
the best possible world for such beings
a we are
We arc not responsible for being as
sailed by temptations. but for listenin
% their voices, and yielding 10 Their
attractions. We should pray Lead u,
not into temptation